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bump for you op.
>Also, I speak fluent English, Cantonese and Mandarin
that's powerful. I don't know anything about hong kong, but I would expect you to be able to land a decent job in your field if you speak the big three

>>1077655
not really, it's the minimum needed

>>1077332
>1.) For the people that came back to HK after growing up in a Western country, what is something you would like to share or advice you would possibly want to give to me?
Sorry I don't know.

>2.) I am aware of the current instability of Hong Kong's political situation. How much do you think this may affect my quality of living? In other words, has this been a significant issue for anyone?
It's a bit overblown. There are just more protests because of the suffrage issue but we are always mad at the government. The ruckus will die down after Leung Chun Ying finishes his term. He is very unpopular.

>3.) Do you think what I'm doing is a wise choice? To just temporarily give up my life here in the UK and leave to Hong Kong?
If you have a job offer, and are not giving up a particularly high-paying job I don't see why not.

As much as it pains me to say it I think you would get better advice from reddit. By the way OP are you Chinese?

>>1077305

I live in Cambridge.

Peterborough has a massive amount of Eastern European pussy. I think either that or Boston are tied as the highest percentage of Eastern European immigrants (Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian) in the UK.

Hit on them, they are hotter, trust me.

Run, run... U.K. is a trap. Go to ....?..
cheap countres... Where plp r nice. Spain... Philiphines... Thailand... Poland... or ? Venezuela

Pretty crazy dude as I live in rushden.
Never thought I'd see the town "wellingborough" pop up on /trv/
Rushden is about 4 miles away when traveling into London of get a bus to Bedford and then catch the train to London as it's so much cheaper fare. Also check out irchester country park in the village/town of irchester it's only a few miles from wellingborough
Happy /trv/ling

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Warsawfag here

>What to visit?
You didn't state what you like (clubs, nature, museums, etc.)
>What should I expect?
I don't think there's anything really special about Warsaw. The only reason I would come here specifically is if you're interested in WW2 stuff. Old town isn't that great compared to Krakow, downtown Warsaw is depressing and gray in the Winter.
Some parts of Warsaw are nice and interesting to walk in and enjoy the architecture, albeit I wouldn't really choose February as a time to do that.
>What about the people?
Unfriendly people - You can be clearly holding a door for somebody and they will not even acknowledge you.
English is quite common and most people will be able to speak it.
>What should I avoid?
Groups of drunk football hooligans (pic related). They are anti-gay and anti-immigrants and can be aggressive if drunk. You probably won't have a problem with them, but it's worth keeping your eye out for big groups of them late at night.

I'm gonna second the vote for Krakow, the most underrated city in Europe in my opinion.

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I lived in Warsaw for six months, though I am not Polish.

If you are coming to Poland for fun, I strongly recommend going to Wroclaw (my fave), Krakow or Gdansk instead of Warsaw.

During summer even Warsaw is okay, but winter is pretty brutal there or I guess everywhere in Poland. Weather changes can be insane when Spring rolls along.

To me Warsaw is just a big city. I didn't feel it has a soul and specific atmosphere like Krakow for instance. It's quite crowded, hecktic and folks are running around busy just like in other metropolises.

I found it suprisingly safe though. You might want to avoid the Praga area at night (the other side of the river), but there isn't much for tourists anyways.

What might shock you the most (and not in a good way) is the sheer amount of poverty, homelessness, and crime. San Francisco is the homeless illegal immigrant crime capitol of the world. That said there is still a lot of fun to be had in SF, plenty of things to do.

Be prepared to casually see some fags walking their boyfriends on leashes wearing leather chaps and ball gags on your way to work.

better get a car.

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Use 9292.nl for planning all public transport in the entire country. Don't know about the site but the app has an English option. Zaandam to Amsterdam Central station is 2,70 euro one way. To Leidseplein also 2,70.

Amsterdam is a zoo with drugs and prostitutes. If the landscape and other tame stuff are what you're after, you might as well just stay somewhere relatively far away from Amsterdam and then just spend ~1.5 hours going there by train to check out the museums and stuff. Personally, I wouldn't spend more than 2 days in Amsterdam anyway since the city really isn't that big.

If you're not Dutch or Nordic, you won't want to bike next week here. The wind is no joke.

Zaanse Schans is something people take the bus to from Amsterdam, and is nice by bike if there's no wind. Windmills and stuff.

That green building is basically the only interesting looking one in Zaandam besides Zaanse Schans. I warned you. Amsterdammers go there for like... Primark.
It is definitely doable riding the train every day to Amsterdam, if you don't mind the extra time and blandness.

Expirience guys, talk out of expirience

>expirience

How much cash do you have access to? There are lots of options.

>>1077226

Also depends where you are flying from...duh.

>>1077168
There are plenty of female perpetual travelers, I've met several online and two in person. Gotta keep looking.
Except I think you're full of bollocks, you're a NEET with delusions of heartache and grandeur

>>1077171
What about guys? I bend both ways.

Not a NEET, got a bunch of qualifications, just don't use them.

>>1077168
what do you do for work?
your lifestyle is essentially exactly what I'm looking for (nothing to tie me down, no long-term connections) and I'm trying to figure out the best way to fund myself doing so.

>>1077126
Gambling as in taking a general risk, not necessarily with money.

>>1077126
Whilst I can't say conclusively what would happen, I would just enter the US again and hope for the best. Yes, America is the only country fucked up enough to scan other country's criminal files, but there's no way theyd do an international criminal record check for every single entrant.

>>1077162
Sounds good, though I'm way more inclined to apply for a visa properly. I'm in some sort of a catch-22, what ever I do I run the risk of getting barred from entering the US ever again.

You and someone cute with a mouth.

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>>1077112
Rent a giant fucking Rv and split the cost 10 ways. It's a really dumb idea but itd be legendary. http://www.shadymaplerv.com/rv-rentals-online

Less retardedly, don't fit more than 2 in a subcompact, 3 in a compact or midsize coupe, and 4 in a full size sedan. You need to stretch around in the back, or shits gonna suck. 10 people should be in 2 vans, or kick out 2 people and rent 2 full size cars (like a Hyundai sonata) for 8 people.

Honestly its an incredibly stupid question, do you need us to also explain the ass wiping process?

First mate, second mate, navigator, and a freeloader.

Astana in Kazakhstan. Singapore. Shanghai, Shenzhen. Dubai, northern Europe

File a complaint with the BBB. Should have fought them at the time though. Plenty of times they don't have the economy car I booked, so they upgrade for free.

Get the fast pass so you'll be able to see both sides of the park in a single day.

The hulk roller coasters is closed for the rest of the year

Valet Park.
Universal Studios and Disney World installed metal detectors for "safety" reasons.
Only problem? You have dozens, if not hundreds of people lined up to go through the detectors at a time, in a small bottle necked area. Hopefully anyone who plans on shooting up an amusement park will want to only shoot people INSIDE the park and not be content shooting all of the unarmed tourists stuck outside the park, waiting to get in.
Valet park, and you'll avoid that mess. You'll still need to go through a metal detector, but if anything, there should only be a few people in front of you, not dozens.

What to do?
CIty Walk itself has some good restaurants and has some clubs. I can't speak for the clubs, since I've never been in any of them, but the Restaurants are good. NBC Grill is new there, and I personally think it's really good, despite what some reviews online say. There's also a Hard Rock Cafe, an Italian Restaurant whose name I can't remember right now that I like, a more upscale Emerald Restaurant, a CowFish burger sushi place, and a few others. A lot to choose from when it comes to eating.
If you wanna do Harry Potter stuff, expect to wait at least half an hour for anything. More likely an hour or more. If you can, I would suggest going through the single rider lines. It's usually much shorter, but you'll miss much of the ride queue themeing.
If you stay at Hard Rock Hotel, Portofino Bay, or Royal Caribbean, you'll get a free unlimited Fast Pass for your entire stay, which is pretty cool if you plan on going on rides more than once, or if it's really busy.

If you have any specific questions, just ask. I don't know everything, but I go to Universal a lot. I'll try to answer as best I can.

>>1076913
I know this is just 'pretend to be jihadi' trolling, but I have, believe it or not, actually visited Grozny. It's more normal than you probably expect. Small post-Soviet (ie, slightly dismal) city, with an atypically gleaming, newly constructed center (since the original city center was, of course razed). Apart from that and a couple of prominent mosques, it doesn't look much different than other minor provincial centers in greater Russia. There is very little visible evidence of support for the various separatist movements--Moscow is ostentatiously in charge--so there are no martyrs' monuments or much in the way of political iconography. There are still some ruined/scarred buildings, but they're not everywhere. I was visiting a university (again, almost all new-built; few standing original buildings are drab commie cement), so I probably didn't meet too many ordinary Chechens, but everyone was friendly. A small minority of the female students (or young women in general) covered their heads, and many dudes off-campus were beardy, but I was served wine and araq at dinner.

>>1076959
>small *majority of female students
Typo. It was a pretty headscarfy place but it was by no means universal.

>>1076964
Not OP, but like Istanbul's less well-kept areas or more like eastern Turkey? It's the only muslim country I've ever been to.

Do a U.S. National parks road trip. See the redwoods, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon.

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>hike the Annapurna Circuit
>Visit the Ennedi Plateau
>buy a motorbike in Cape Town and bike up the Skeleton Coast
>cross Patagonia on a horse
>take the trans-Siberian railway
>bicycle the entire length of the Nile
>scuba dive in the Andaman archipelago
>visit Socotra
>motorbike through Myanmar
>kayak down the Mekong
>hitchhike to Tajikistan
>walk the Camino Santiago
>walk the PCT
>cross the Darien Gap
>hike the Inca Trail
>ride Mauritania's famous iron ore train
>scuba dive in the Red Sea
>cross India by tuk-tuk
>cross Tibet by horse
>rent an apartment in Hanoi and take Vietnamese cooking classes
>stay at a meditation camp in Thailand
>tour the Sundarbands and the Bengal delta by boat
>visit every microstate in Europe
>rent a private island in Indonesia and survive on it (there's a website for this)
>see the pyramids at Meroë
>go on a whisky tour of Scotland, a beer tour of Germany, a wine tour of France
>if money really is no problem, get your ass to Antarctica
>go dolphin watching around Musandam
>go on a pilgrimage between Japanese shrines
>go to north Korea
>visit the hellmouth at Ashbagat
>hot air balloon over Cappodocia
>hike into the Alaskan wilderness and don't come back

>>1077178
i like how you basically told him to kill himself like three times.

>>1076851
Never been, but as with all large gatherings of people, keep your head about you and make sure to keep your possessions safe.

>>1076853
For sure. I've been looking up like, etiquette from a couple websites and a lot of people mention not bringing a lot of valuables. Thanks, anon. I'll have to maintain a steady buzz instead of getting hammered every night.

>>1076851
Yeah safety should be your first concern. There was a shooting in Thibodaux LA at a parade a few days ago, and it wouldn't surprise me if one or two people got killed at parades in New Orleans. But...that's not going to change. So just remember that there is a slim chance you will hear gunshots during your stay.

That said, from Thursday before MG to Fat Tuesday itself, you can't go wrong. I am a local and I've experienced both the family friendly and wild partying sides of it. St Charles Avenue on Thursday, Friday, Sunday and Monday will have hundreds of bars, restaurants, and places to watch the parades -- just walk up and down the street; approximately from Napoleon all the way to the French Quarter will be happening on that street. This will start dying down around 9 or 10 though; go to Frenchmen Street from then on. It will be PACKED but it's the best place in the city for bars and live music. Vaso on Frenchmen is a wonderful place to chill out and listen to some blues/zydeco/funk/whatever else they have.

Do go to Bourbon Street! It will blow you away on Mardi Gras Day. It's only necessary to go there once though, unless you want to get blackout drunk and get ripped off for t-shirts and hot dogs

The Metropolitan is a good higher-end nightclub if you are looking for that kind of thing, but Frenchmen and St Charles will supply more fun than you can take in. Wish I could be in town this year