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>>1201154
The first thing is work permits, which are not so easy to get. If you want to get a job in Berlin or anywhere in Europe, it's very difficult without a EU passport.

>>1201167
I'm an EU citizen

>>1201172
Well, then it's about applying for a job in Berlin and being hired.

>>1201092
I'm not sure I grasp the size of the suitcase involved...

>>1201092
Before embarking for a remote area, will you normally have lined up where you ill be staying upon your return to less remote areas? If so, it is possible they would allow you to leave a [LARGE SUITCASE] with them, or even allow you to have it shipped t them if you will exit the remote area to a point different from where you entered into it.

>>1201092
Base yourself out of a city which you will return to. Store your luggage with the front desk for a fee, or keep the rental of your room ongoing while you are away. Make a friend of a single employee, someone important like a concierge at an important hotel, and pay them to take it home til your return.

I'm thinking of going to Oregon, but I don't want to go alone, and my friends don't seem to have the money.... /problems
I'm still going to try and convince them to save up in the next few months.
I saw a full solar eclipse back in 1999 from a mountain that was surrounded by lower ground, it was so freaking cool to see eclipse come and go from there. Also it got so cold for a minute. Want to see this one so bad...

looks like ill be able to see about a .985 magnitude from my home. north of atlanta here. cool.

>>1201064
Sounds fun OP. I just peeked at this website for some zoom in.
http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/maps.htm
Looks like Charleston would be my pick of watching it. It'd probably be a blast downtown what with the ability to walk around with your drinks and party a bit, and with some water views both. Some of the fun of historical and apocalypse events is experiencing the reactions of those around you. You still need eye protection to watch it. You taking a telescope or some homemade shades?

This one I'm not sure I'd travel to go see unless I had vacation that week. In general, it's a great month for travel deals and I used to often take trips the moment most kids are back to school a little later in Aug/early Sept and enjoy some great bargains (great for Europe if you don't mind risking some chance of encountering a rained out city). Eclipses are not that much more bizarre that the midnight sun vs short days at upper latitudes though, which I've done on the short days.

I do like to travel to "dark" places outside my city for Perseid shower peaks, which COINCIDENTALLY will be peaking in 2017 on the exact day when this solar eclipse is happening :o You might see shooting stars in the same day, is that possible? Have fun OP.

The Alabama choice is worse for at least 5 different reasons:
- Troy is a no-name school and not worth a premium
- As a second/third tier public school the students will be unstudious and possibly retarded
- There is a chance of embedded racial segregation among the students with a lower ranked university being blacker and having a poorer backgrounds overall
- Nightlife at such a remote place will depend on culture and administrative permissiveness which can't easily be researched in advance
- Alabama is empirically shitty (as in demographic data) and the Deep South would be a foreign land for many Americans
- It will be time consuming/expensive to get to better/different cities and states

>>1201054
Is there no other US option?
You'd certainly enjoy Alabama for immersion most notably if you get access to a car and can explore on your weekends all over the region, I wouldn't worry about racial nonsense. You're white, you're not racist, and you'd likely be very nice to those around you. It'll be charming actually to experience true hospital in "The South." Quick check on their wikipedia lists some good international programs. You certainly won't have many distractions in your education, since there's little to do in Alabama except the college experience itself, good BBQ and damn good food, bars/music/nightclub, and some quaint old historical stuff.

>>1201054
What degree/career were you aiming to get for yourself?

>>1200932
I think I will suggest 2 Days in Paris and Amsterdam and 3 days in Berlin

>>1200933

What would /you/ do there?

>>1200932
Is this budget supposed to cover transportation, accomodation and food?
If yes, I'd suggest to stick to one destination only.
Find a nicely located airbnb and explore the city, I believe each one is good for a week.

>>1200909
Moving?
>internet service providers
>cell coverage
>amount of scorpions
Fuck scorpions. Phoenix is covered with Google Fiber but the scorpions ruin it for me
I'm afraid of scorpions if you haven't fucking figured it out

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>>1200927
Problem is: how do you even quickly figure out how many ISPs are threre?

>>1200986
Are you retarded? Google it. Jesus fucking christ

>>1200816

she has to marry me

i only take 10/10s though my standards are high

A tourist visa?
>she wont get one

Serious though, he only home is a work and study visa, or a student visa. She will never get a general tourist visa because easyern eruropean women are too much at risk of over staying or other forms of evading leaving. Not that she would.

Its a hard situation, my girlfriend cant come visit me either, so i take trips to her, or we go to a third country.

>>1200842
Could he give her an official invitation? Is there any way to prove she won't overstay and just wants to marry a guy to come to the US?

She has a master's degree, and works.

>>1200791

Bump for interest. I'm doing the same thing in a few weeks. Also will Sofia in January be insanely cold to someone from Britain?

It's pretty crap, avoid the money changers good luck anon

>>1200791
The free tour is alright and it's gonna do the job.

http://www.kanaal.bg/
For beer-related stuff.

http://www.oshipka.bg/
for a casual lunch/dinner, fairly inexpensive

http://www.art-hostel.com/
a degenerate hipster bar/hostel

Climbing Vitosha right now is going to be an uphill battle, you see the snow we got here.
Still though, if you can handle it, go right ahead.

>>1201234
Yup. It's pretty cold senpai. I can tour you around the city a bit, but mostly you can use the free tour linked below.

http://www.freesofiatour.com/

Tell me more what you want to see and do and I can help further.

>>1201344
You're wrong on so many levels.
It's not crap and only avoid shady money-changing places that don't have the exchange rate posted, look for the rate table to have "no comission on it", too.

I think it's pretty dumb to bring such a thing traveling, especially to south asia. Either travel or play your piano. Or buy a more compact piano.

>>1200785
Well, thank you for your contribution, anon, I hadn't considered that it might be "dumb."

Bring a melodica.

Well, dutch people really like it when people try to speak/learn our lanuage. But its really difficult to learn. The thing is why would you learn Dutch when almost all the people speak English (at least a bit). Living here is nice but nothing special. Maybe you can live with your family for a bit. The woman like all people here are pretty direct and sometimes a bit manly in how they handle things. But in the end they are pretty good.

>>1200588
The Netherlands seems like a nice place to live/retire it's either that or Poland or Latvia. Thanks for giving me insight!

>>1200495
>whether i should bother learning the language
I nearly speak it just from watching Dutch crime mysteries x6. I dare say it's an easy language, and that also everyone speaks English. If your goal is really to be bilingual elsewhere, it's considered the rule that 7 years of immersion is what it takes to be at the same level you are with your native language. If I was 25% something, not even that far removed? I'd of course enjoy immersion in part of my heritage like that. Move there permanently? Probably not, unless love life intervened or career opportunities. Europe in general seems to have a few countries kind of suffering from mass immigration. It might be a changed Europe in 10 years, so might even enjoy 1-2 years now versus later in your life.

I don't even know if dengue is in Bali, so can't help assess risk, but I do know that you'll be unhappy if you get it, or any of several tropical horrors.

DEET is your friend.

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>>1200503
There's no risk of dengue or malaria on bali.

>>1200476
Renting motorbikes is a neat idea, it's a great way to get around.

If you'd like to avoid tourist traps, avoid Denpasar, Kuta and the general south area of the coast.

The area around Ubud is touristic as fuck, but it's kinda worth it, as it's basically the cultural center of Bali.
I'd recommend going to see the rice fields around that area, if you're going past Jatiluwih, a really nice and serene place to visit is the Pura Luhur Batukaru temple.

I'd really recommend visiting the central mountainous area around Tamblingan and Buyan lakes if hiking is your thing, you've got nice waterfalls, jungle hikes, fun scenery, etc.
North of the lakes, towards Singaraya and Bubunan is also a neat area without almost any tourists to see some local villages, rice terraces and so on.

As for swimming, I'd say the north coast is better, the pacific is a bit calmer there than the indian ocean, although surfing is much better in the south.

Go for a dive or two, there's some really neat dive areas, like Menjangan for example and there's some to the north-east and so on. Or you could make a trip to the Gili islands.

>>1200578
Dengue fever exists in Bali, i know from personal experience. Bring a mosquito net and repellant. Mount Batur is a nice hike especially if you start at 2 in the morning so that you get to the top in time for the sunrise then you can hike down to one of the outdoor bath resorts.

But be carefull when hiring a bike since the trafic is left lane and that the police is quite corrupt and may give you a ticket if all of your rental/license papers are not 100% in order.

As the guy above me said the Gili islands are really nice but cluttered with tourists, recomend going snorkling with a boat here, plenty of turtles.

Objectively, Mecca probably is.
Define "spiritual", anyway.

>>1200472
>Is India the most spiritual destination in the world to visit?
Italy? Vatican City?

>>1200472
Never been, so I have no opinion. Temple sites in Cambodia and Japan top the list for me, along with the Vatican, as somebody already mentioned.

>After we get a new car, pay back my mom pay back her mom totals around 3k, girlfriend and me have since split took car, shitty subaru
>no insurance payout some out of state bullshit>never going back to California left a note explaining myself, have since paid her 1 year removed found her on FB
>have my cousin pick me up
>late return to work got two no calls no shows
>explain myself not sympathetic, on last straw
>After we get a new car, pay back my mom pay back her mom totals around 3k, girlfriend and me have since split took car, shitty subaru
>no insurance payout some out of state bullshit
>never going back to California

>>1200246
Christ man I mean at least you didn't get physically hurt is all I can say but shit.

missed a bus once

Where are you from? Why not get some real camping gear? And in Nordic countries you're fully allowed to set up camp anywhere you want.

Spain has loads of hippies living in informal communes. Nobody seems to give a fuck about them sleeping in cars or tents.

I'd consider swapping your car for a van and get some ghetto modifications to make it a simple camper van though. Then maybe head on further, to Morocco, or Senegal. Don't get beheaded on the way though.

>>1200112
Why bother with camping gear when I have a car?
I've slept in the backseat before and I'm not too tall to be uncomfortable there.

>>1200114
A van is probably a good idea but fuel economics are important, I really despise hippies but good to know it isn't heavily enforced. I really just want to do this for the landscapes and forests and not having to deal with people at all.

I want to avoid Morocco as I have heard about ruthless and violent extortion practices at the border involving bribes and hash, even if you aren't smuggling, you are, as far as they are concerned.

about three fiddy
over 9000
fuck off with your poorly hidden market research thread

sage

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$ 40,000
$ 2000
About 10 times

I earn $2500 a month with free accommodation from my job.
I save over half my paycheck per month.
I spend ~$1500 per trip i go on. Last week I was in New Zealand. Last summer I was in Japan

I go on trips every summer and winter vacation.