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>>1167677
Take a look at some statistics
Planes from major first world companies almost never crash

>>1167677
You're 100000x more likely to die on the way to the airport than you ever are in an airplane itself.

Everytime an Airbus crashes it makes headline news. When's the last time you've heard the news?

>>1167677
What a waste of double-1/double-67/double-7.

That's like asking "I'm a vegetarian, so what is it safe to eat lettuce if I don't want to eat meat?" Flying is ridiculously safe, across a surprising number of airlines and aircraft models.

But if you want to think you are safer on a plane with a 0.0000000000000000001% chance of crashing than one with a 0.0000000000000000002% chance, then:

http://www.fearofflying.com/resources/safest-airliners-and-airline-safety.shtml

Probably Sweden

Anywhere. Just don't go to crowded tourist hotspots and don't get a shared dorm. If you're interested in military horses, maybe visit traditional towns in Spain or something? You probably won't see any wearing armour but there's a lot of museums about old war horses etc.

All I'll say is that some towns might have a lot of stray dogs running around.

Sweden and Finland if you like autistic people.

>>1167551
Shut up you little nerd

National Park System is incredible.
Huge country which gives you lots of options.
Glaciers and premafrost to tropical island beaches, deserts to forests, mega-cities to isolated mountain peaks.

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>>1167551

>>1167547

You may have to give proof of where you are staying and proof of finances, if there will be a problem it will be with the fact that you aren't coming over with an offer of employment, so they will be concerned that you are gonna come over and never leave again and stay illegally.

>treated like some paki looking to move

They are customs officials, paid a fair amount of money to make decisions based on facts and evidence with a very strict and fair set of guidelines.

They aren't /pol/acks who will turn you away for being a shitskin you mongoloid.

>will I have a problem because my skin isn't white

30 seconds in London and you will understand why not being white is fine in London.

>I'm taking 10k to live it up big

I hope that's in £ and not $, otherwise you might want to look up the exchange rates and be prepared for a nasty surprise.

>>1167557
But thousands of people from the US visit the UK, why all the hassle? I'm an American citizen who will only be there a few weeks
Am I going to really need to take a bank statement?
10k american, if I take more I have to declare it from what I've been told that's the rule

>>1167563
But im an american i should have special status hurr durr.


Fuck off ahmed skip one country over and join your friends in jungle in calais. And fyi 10k is nothing here good luck living it up big in london.

>>1167484
Depends on your interests.

I think in all cities, skip the wax museum. That's a safe bet. The rest? Enjoyable for history lovers, shoppers, and so forth. Whether you'd think skipping the Tower of London or seeing iconic bridges on the Thames, hey, it's about you. Whether you'd enjoy the food in Harrods or craft stalls in the markets, or drinks in the places they were invented, I dunno. Some of the things to do in London require money to splurge on nice well made items or some interest in literary and historical things, or religious things.

Get a guide. There's nothing overrated (other than Ramsey), just relative to your interests, time and frankly, educational level/class.

>>1167484
>traveling to London for a wee

You probably shouldn't use expressions you don't understand

>>1167504
Perhaps he literally is traveling t London to add to his list of cities where he has taken a wee.

That would only take a moment, hence he has lots of time to do other stuff but no real ideas.

I probably should have mentioned I'm moving from the U.S. - I don't know if that matters.

>>1167460
It's a kind of boring, flat landscape with dark, gloomy architecture and a conservative catholic background. The common greeting for returnees is "Weisste schon wer tot is?" (You know who died?).
The people are actually quite nice and friendly, though.

I'd try to live close to work if I were you, unless you have a massive hardon for formerly industrial urban environments.
You can still be in Düsseldorf or Duisburg fast enough if you want to go there, but you'll spend less time commuting daily.

And do try to speak German. Chances are your coworkers will love correcting your mistakes if you ask them to.
You can still fall back on English if you're not getting the meaning across.

>>1167460
I was born in Krefeld. It's a boring little town but people are friendly, the city is clean and during the last few years we got a lot of new food stores so it could be way worse. It's easy to get from Krefeld to lots of mayor cities though. (Düsseldorf 40 minutes, Cologne about an hour, Netherlands are really close)

I would advise againt living in Düsseldorf, it can be very expensive and you would probably end up traveling 2 hours daily.

May I ask where you are going to work?

You can smell the money when you walk down the street. Downtown is cleaner than a nuns ass. Several large cities a few hours away. Lots of Mexicans, but generally hard working successful.

Tough to say what it's like living there though.

>>1167405
Keep an open mind and you'll like it. I was born and raised there. I live on the east coast now but there isn't a day i don't miss being there.
Its surprisingly clean for the most part. There are unlimited choices on restaurants and different foods to eat. You've probably had your share of good mexican food but in Houston, at least in my experience, most people are from Mexico City or more southern cities like Cuernavaca, Puebla, and Oaxaca. So the food is more in that style. Especially Duranguese style.
Houston Is not a walkable city by any means unluess you're in downtown or midtown or montrose.

>>1167478
Plenty of good choice for museums and art galleries near downtown. Little Asian is a 15 minute drive from downtown. Little Korea just north of I-10. Don't fear venturing into mexican neighborhoods. Like the previous poster said, most mexicans there are hard working, decent people. Hit up an ice house while you're there for cheap beer and usually a taco truck across the street.
The Alley Theater and Theater Under the Stars is surprisingly good with plenty of broadway shows and musicals if you're into that thing. Good dro is easy to find.
People are polite unless you talk shit about the sports teams, but even then if its obvious you're just kidding around, people don't mind. Houstonians appreciate good banter. Since we know all our teams suck anyway.
We like dry, self-deprecating humor, similar to the Irish. We like to drink. We like to grill. ANd we love BBQ

Food can be very cheap if you buy prepered bento boxes at supermarkets with end-of-the-day discounts.
If you can also WWOOF for a while too, it might even be a nice experience (I've done it there)

google "wikitravel japan"

Around 1500$ for 35 days? That's tight as fuck; I think I spent that much in 3 weeks there.
But I guess you can pull this, you can eat for cheap easily but transport is pretty expensive.

>>1167398
It's definitely not enough. I'd check out lodging first. I'd say that the cheapest hostels are really those capsule kind but at the same time, you won't have the option to cook for yourself at that point. $1500 per month means that your average cost a day has to be less than 50 dollars combined and per person it'll be 25 dollars at most. If you plan to go to Disneyland, then you're spending at least 100 dollars there just for tickets and food.

Using cheap lodging or food won't save you from the initial base cost of living in Japan. The cheapest capsule hotel or airbnb you can find might be around 30 dollars per night for the two of you. Just from that you'll be spending $1050 of the $1500 you have. Then you'll have to survive on 450 dollars worth of food for 35 days.

I'd just cancel the tickets and save yourself the hassle/experience of being homeless and starving.

>>1167374
This looks more southern French/Italian to me than Parisian, to be honest.

Montmartre maybe? Though there's not a lot of flower shops. Might be that they're just the artist's addition to a reference photo.

OP here.

It's titled 'Paris Market' so I was hoping this was a conversion from a photo of somewhere in Paris.

Someone else mentioned 'Rue du le fleur' but my research hasn't returned anything even similar to the photo.

>>1167370
God damn bro how long are your trips I'm lucky to get 2 or 3 weeks somewhere.

More like 8 months. And that's assuming you have the money to stay out of hostels, that shit gets boring fast.

>currently on month 11

>>1167370
I'd say a month the sweet spot. Can't understand people who want to spend 6 months hostelling in SEA, it's pretty much an expensive shithole now that Americans have ruined it with their excessive tipping and the chinks with their peasant manners.

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>>1167225
There are a couple of areas around Kingston, and such, that you'd be wiser to avoid. Most of the Island is fine though. The resorts over-sell that if you set foot outside their limits you will fie, so that you will stay on the property and run up a bar bill.

It's the same as most non white countries, yes it probably is more dangerous than where you came from.

But there's a bigger hassle in that you're always targeted by touts and overcharged.

Get a reputable taxi driver to show you around.

>>1167225
Please watch the weather reports on hurricane Matthew. Possibly hitting Jamaica next week. Cat 4. If it hits Jamaica it will probably be the worst storm since Gilbert.

>>1167179
Nice blog.

>>1167179
Why do you even need pictures of yourself/your group?

>>1167233
Sometimes you are allowed to have things you don't need.

Who the fuck cares how somebody else takes pictures, or what they want to take pictures of?

first for anime is shit

I've never purchased an international plane ticket before, so I'm quite nervous. I've researched the best time to book a flight to Japan and I've gotten conflicting answers (315 days before, 125 days before, etc). At the moment I have 250 days remaining until the date I'd like to fly. So, should I wait a few more months or book now? Am I too late?

>>1167184
If you are from europe then 500 Euro is the cheapest I've ever seen.

If from the US I would guess you should be able to get if for 400USD?

>>1167151
In the DR, they don't let you in. While there, paid $10/guest to swim with me. Sorry, never been to Thailand, but resorts with exclusivity kind of want to control who is on the premises, as it increases guest safety. I'm sure if your guests are well behaved, well dressed, walked in with you, or something like that, you might be okay. But, if there have have every name of every guest, or it's all-inclusive, no money transactions only charges to rooms, you'll need to be on top of that. Your call whether you want to wing it and hope for the best, or if you'll ask upfront about it being okay and agree to pay costs or something if they have a fee established.

>>1167151
Yes you can bring ladyboys to your room op.

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>>1167151
Yeah you will be fine, I bring Thai hookers to my room all the time.

>pic related.

>>1167034
Savannah or Charleston, I think actually. I can't remember which one.

>>1167045
Charleston, there are "ghost tours" everywhere here.

>>1167034
Charleston is a nice place for a 21yr old history buff, for sure. Savannah is close too. For creepy history, there's Salem MA of course, and New Orleans, LA. Baltimore has some fun Edgar Allen Poe items. Philadelphia has a creeptastic medical museum, Mutter and some other historical elements in your alley interest. Not being a drinker/party animal doesn't preclude you from anywhere really, even if it has that reputation. Chicago has a lot of local tours and some devil in the white city history, and just great architecture in the first skyscraper city kind of way. Key West is tops

I'm not really into the Haunted kind of travel thing, far too creeped out and I don't want to pick up some spirits as a parting gift for the way home. I do love tours of macabre kind of events in history, though, from Jack the Ripper kind of tours to voodoo and bayou legend history in New Orleans. An evening walking tour, in general, in most towns, is worth the investment. There's a lot of room for chatting between stops. Having a dramatic storyteller is always fun, and most that I've seen are semi-professional types, college professors by day, ancient historians who have been 3rd generation there, just full of information. The worlds best from my experience is probably the guy who did the candlelight tour in Annapolis Nova Scotia, who fed us acadian local food from his wife, Miami's Dr. Carr on the Miami River Tour or Dr. George's Stiltsville tour (which covers some interesting miami vice 80s heydey history still talked about in novels today) and Ken Price who runs this one
https://www.lockwoodrestaurant.com/events/history-is-hott/
My absolute best unique experience was the evening laser light show that used to go on in Teotihuacan, but they made them take down the lights. They animated the founding of the site, in images and gave a tour through history and the culture. It was narrated well, and cold evening desert wind howled :P