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It varies.

Apply for job that starts around the time you want your holiday to end. Bring all the shit you may need for the job on holiday.

I heard Korea is a lot of bother to get in to these days... I know people who are US-based that are having to get FBI background checks for their schools. (Maybe that's only the international schools though and no-one cares for hagwons?)

Check that you don't need to do it at the Korean embassy in your country, too. It would be shit if you had to fly back home just to get the visa.

>>1115662
I'm going to go to the Korean embassy where I live and report back on what they say.

My big goal here was to just leave whimsically and stay floating around travelling for a longass time, but that can only be possible if it doesn't take a big long hassle to get into new countries while I'm abroad

>>1115662
I taught in sk. Pretty much all schools require an fbi background check and it has been that way for a while now. Make sure you dont get a shitty school. Do your research and ask to email a teacher before taking any job.

>>1115555
Antarctica

Go live in a kibbutz, you degenerate.

I seem to remember some hippie commune in the Netherlands, but I don't think that matches all your criteria.
Your only choice is to go "off the grid". The Russian government was giving people a bunch of money and a chunk of land in Siberia if you wanted to move there. But I doubt you could dodge taxes unless you moved to some shithole of a country.
I guess the only option is to do like Jackie Chan in "Who Am I" and join an African tribe. Even then, they are already starting to adopt the western culture and have started buying and wearing clothes, which is no bueno by your insane standards. Plus they would probably murder you and use your limbs in black magic ceremonies.
So no.

>>1115554
I've been there in 2005, 4 days each capital, and I've been in Saint Petersburg twice. Here are my thoguts:

- Vilnius and Tallinn are really beautiful, but 4 days are too much. 2, max 3 days are enough.
- Once in Vilnius, pass in Trakai.
- Riga is boring. 2 days max.
- In Saint Petersburg, spare a day only to Hermitage and another only to Peterhoff.

>>1115554
It depends what you're doing. If you're hiking, or cycling and camping in the countryside that's fine, but if your just visiting the cities it too much unless you add Russia; the capitals of each Baltic country are nice but as the other anon said, two days max. Russia is a hassle to get a visa for; so look into it well in advance.

>>1115558
Thanks. I'm pretty interested in history so they seem like good suggestions.

How does the nightlife compare to other places in Europe?

you really think the two of you can manage with only 27€ per day? maybe in eastern europe you could but if you don't want to sleep on the streets i doubt you could do that in the west

What do you want to see and do while in Europe? What kind of travel do you prefer? When you aay you're planning to rough it out, what do you have in mind specifically?

I've travelled all western europe usually without money, so I know what I think as roughing it out, but on a 800€ monthly budget I think your anticipation and forethought on rough might be a little different than mine.

Quite impossible, senpai.

Travel costs alone (planes, buses, trains) will bleed you dry. Then comes a roof above your head. Then comes food. Then comes basic necessities and toiletries. And this is in a scenario where you can't afford to buy a pack of gum.

If you want more detailed info, post your itinerary/travel wishlist.

find a sugar daddy

>>1115338
Credit card fraud

>>1115338
Get rich the. The prices don't seem ridiculous

>>1115298
Well, there's a reason all the Poles leave Poland. There's enough money to satisfy whatever basic needs you have, but not much left for luxuries. Imagine all the fun things back at home costing three, four times as much and you have a good comparison for the purchasing power you'll have with your remaining money. Of course if you get paid an American or whatever foreign wage while living in Poland, you'll live like a king. Traveling isn't a problem - if I can do it, so can you. Don't expect to stay in really nice hotels though, you'll be counting every coin you spend.
Expect to pay 1000-1500 PLN/month for a small, one room flat. Look for "kawalerka" (bachelor's flat) when digging through ads. If you rent a room in a shared apartment, you can easily cut it down to half that.
Polish is a grammar nightmare and will probably be a gigantic pain in the ass to grasp if you're not used to declension-based languages. There's 7 cases and 3 genders (or 5 if you count the minor subtypes). The suffix of both nouns and adjectives pretty much changes every sentence. My advice would be to not worry about grammar too much and just focus on vocab and pronunciation. People will love you for learning the language even if you speak in the vein of "me want food".
And learn to roll your r. You'll sound ridiculous saying "kurwa" otherwise.

>>1115396
>genders (or 5 if you count the minor subtypes)
Wat

>>1115409
Feminine
Neuter
Masculine Personal (people)
Masculine Animate (animals)
Masculine Inanimate (everything else)

The masculine split only really matters with adjectives in a specific grammatical case or two. Nothing major.

>>1115296
Maybe look at getting to a Delta hub out of Mexico with their gazillion dailies, and then connecting with a cheapo like Allegiant to/from IN.

WTF working on a tourist visa in Mexico? Sounds a bit too dangerous.

>>1115306
>Sounds a bit too dangerous.
how so? I'd describe it more as "sketchy". The school I'm at doesnt care and technically theres some sort of loophole so apparently La Migra doesnt give a fuck that we dont have work visas, as long as our tourist/resident visas are in order (hence my need to make the journey). What makes you think it'd be dangerous?

>>1115296
How easy is it to find work teaching English there?

The desert.

Taos
Salida
Bandelier
Ouray
Chaco
Canyon de chelly

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They have some pretty epic steam train rides in those places through sexy nature and stuff (the level of sexiness overall is overwhelming at times).

The biggest ones:
http://www.durangotrain.com/ (southwest Colorado)
http://cumbrestoltec.com/ (southwest Colorado/northwest New Mexico)
https://www.coloradotrain.com/ (southwest Colorado)
https://www.thetrain.com/ (northern Arizona)

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This is Brooklyn.

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This is also Brooklyn.

>>1115173
Shiiiiit I just realized I didn't put where exactly in Brooklyn, hmmm well when ever I know what part of Brooklyn it is, I'll post about it. Thanks for the pics though.

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Visit the Manchester Museum of Science & Industry on the west side of town. They have a working replica of a locomotive built in 1830 for the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, the world's first modern railway (the museum building is its former terminus). They have other neat things, too.

John Rylands Library, Karl Marx worked there. Might be full of tryhard students revising there though.

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Imperial War Museum North is very good; the People's Museum is good too, but takes a very left-wing view (although seeing as it's on the site of the Peterloo Massacre...)

The Manchester Art Gallery has some nice local boy Lowry paintings. The Science & Industry is pretty cool too, if you're into machines and engineering.

There are free buses all through the centre of the city, so no excuse not to get around.

Yes probably, if you had all the right gear. It rains a lot.

I don't think you could get a work visa that easily though.

>>1114931
I think my passport allows me to stay six months. Are there programs that let me stay with a family. The reason for work is that I also want to be productive, not so concerned about money.

>>1114936
Is it possible for me to live in the Nebraskan country side for two months? I want to work, maybe. I'm from the UK.

Don't worry OP, you're probably guaranteed to have a great time. you are at least 6'3" right?

>>1114888
what hostel and how much is it?

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>>1114905
it's called HI New York, around $70USD/night

>pic from the hostel's facebook page
>tfw see all these normies

>>1114825
I just can speak for Basel:
If your Master is Pharmacology related or anything close it might be your best bet as you can easily score a job there if you want and the university is funded by all the big players in the industry.
Pros:
>you can be all over switzerland/france/germany within 4h so there's enough nature or travel opportunities
>You're about 2h away from great ski/snowboard locations by train
>comfy place with ok tier nightlife and events
Negatives:
>it's expensive, and I mean expensive. You will probably cross the border to germany to buy groceries or eat out for 50% off often but as it's only about 5km it's not that bad...

Finland has lots of nature available everywhere and it's a huge part of local interaction and probably the greatest part of experiencing the country, but other than that I wouldn't recommend spending two years if you don't have anything solid to do here.

And I'm not exactly sure what you're looking for when you say 'cool', but Finland at summer isn't anywhere as cold as people seem to think. It can and will be as high as 35 degrees Celsius, and at most sunny days it'll be around 25.

t. mongol

>>1114837
I plan to study design. The place seems like a dream, sans the money aspect

>>1114838
My studies would take up most of my time. Do you think I would run out of things to do there?

Cotton a shit, wool a best. Look for lightweight merino t-shirts. Merino blends have acceptable smell resistance.

Or you could, you know, wash the clothes. Don't they make a detergent concentrate?

>>1114773
I do wash them, they smell regardless

I mainly use cotton/poly blends. If I go full poly they smell like absolute death even after washing.

Merino is great but at $40/pop it's a hard pill to swallow. Also, wool wears out pretty fast, especially with a backpack on and you've got to wash it like the baby jesus

>>1114771
Cotton isn't smartly shunned as travel clothing entirely, it just doesn't help against hypothermia when wet/damp if that is an issue for your travels ("death picks cotton"). It's comfortable, breathable and healthy on the skin so it has its purpose, and is alright in a wool blend, but it can take more than overnight if airdrying.

It's the poly and non-gortex nylon that smells, because I think down on the microscopic level it's pretty porous with little exchange like the plumping that happens with natural stuff, so soap doesn't really wash it out..memory. It's why they dry fast too, though.

Try a brand called Ibex or look to Patagonia. You could also pack some of the Sport Tide or a washing bag that scrubs the hell out of it. Or just pay for some hotel laundry, and skip the sink and air dry. Heat drying kills bacteria too, and resets those fibers and wrinkles.

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time budget? money budget?

denver's cool. great food.

not sure what you're into, but from an /out/ perspective: yellowstone>salt lake city. coming home i'd jam south down i5 out of portland, maybe hit crater lake if time for the detour, swing west from sacramento to san francisco then take 120 east through tuolumne (hit yosemite valley while in the area) to 395 south through the owens valley to i40 east. stop at grand canyon for sure.

>>1114739
boise is pretty fun
park city, ut is great too and you can check out the nature if you have time

>>1114744

havent calculated money yet but ill be keeping it pretty tight.
and i dont work so i can have as much or as little time as i need. and ive got a high school friend that lives in denver so i imagine i can stay there while im in town and then the rest of the places ill either camp or airbnb i assume. im new to camping so i dunno how well that would go.

that sounds like a great route back though, im gonna map it out and see what the time difference would be.

>>1114772
whats fun about boise?

and to both of you, music is really what im into but i want to try and get as much nature stuff in as possible on this one.