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>Moving to the USA
>Thinking that you can just plop down on any ol' city, live the manager life, ski and milk cows for oil

There are so many wrong things about this, I'll let someone else rip you a new one, also good luck

>NJ hotdog

lol wtf is a nj hotdog. If anything it would our NJ subs or like our zeppole's.

>>1073986
I have a masters and have seen plenty of job offers for managerial positions for recent graduates.
Also I'm an american citizen, I just wasn't born there and have never lived there.
So it isn't going to be that difficult, I already live outside of the country I grew up in.

>>1073470
Protip: Don't ever just flag a taxi and get in. You look stupid that way, and will be treated like all the other stupid idiots that driver once drove. Use other transport to/from trains and airports, there should be kiosks where you pay first, and then a queue of taxi drivers receive a voucher from you and can't size you up or choose you as the passenger.
Have your hotel send a car for you, a limo is never that much more money when affiliated with your hotel, and the hotel trusts them/vetted them and their reputation rides on them. Have a local call for one when you need one somewhere, from a restaurant or just some hotel you walked past and asked a concierge a favor. Now if we're talking about Europe, you probably should navigate the metro/bus system if you are worried about your money.

Don't wave them down on the street, but if you do, you ask the price before getting in like you want a vague estimate and even say something like "hrm, the metro is only $5" like you're weighing if you want to get in, and you get a feel for the response and the person before getting into the car. Often, you get a return response like "okay, it'll be $10, and blahblahblah about how you should ride with them" and once the firm negotiation is over, you get in. You now look like someone who gives a damn about the price. And, go ahead and ask people how much it should cost to/from, or miles, and understand what would be fair before doing it. Ask a damn policeman at the door of the train station, how much me thinks it should be to city center, thank him, and use that as a baseline of honesty with the taxi driver.

>>1073470
>I live in the South East US so I have never dealt with them in the states
It's a regulated industry in the US. Union-negotiated fares are marked on stickers on windows, drivers are reported by 800 number, and you can reverse a credit card charge. On top of that, there will be competitively stated rates for all services to/from airports, and to/from ports, such as in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, New York, and transits such as that. It's posted and companies can't veer from that prices. Why are they higher? Or why are they capped? Because drivers must enter into queues not snatch passengers from each other, and there could be heavier rates during rush hour delays, and this means idling time. Local municipalities made it easy for tourists by making a set rate.

>>1073487
I dont think OP was asking for advice on taxis......

>>1072596
Swim with the Whale Sharks in Oslob, Cebu.

>>1072596
Drop by Camotes island, hire a motorbike and travel the Islands municipalities of Poro and San francisco. Go to its beaches and 2 cave pools

>>1072596

>Filipinas that pale

don't think so timmy

is she a Korean gook tourist?

>>1065717
What sauce should I put un my Kebab?

Would i dare go to wollongong?

>>1065717
Are there any nude titties on bondi?

>>1071868
Namibia possibly

The vast majority of it desu.

Cape Town, Morocco, Tanzania, Kenya

Like all travel, keep your whits about you

>>1060743
pic is a Mongolian-Tibetan Buddhist temple in a grasslands town in Inner Mongolia.

I want to go somewhere magical that has no tourism in China. What have you found where you are practically alone but for the sight or attraction?

Can I transfer my savings in my chinese bank account to my UK bank account via paypal (eg having a Chinese paypal account and transfering the money to my British one?) Anyone have experience doing this?

Do I need USB verification from my Chinese bank to be able to make the payment?

Also whats the pollution like in Chengdu? Anyone on this thread lived in China with asthma?

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>>1073957
French southerner reporting in.
I'll assume you have a car or will use our efficent, when not on strike railway, so i'll pick locations from all over the south.

Nature/mountain/hike

-High mountains: The Pyrenees are pretty amazing but I know the Alps better. The nationals parks of the Écrins and of the Vanoise (pic related) are beautiful. The Aiguille du Midi is pretty cool, with its James Bond villain like base at the top.
-Lower mountains: The pre-Alps, a.k.a the Vercors mostly is rocky cliffs and tortured landscapes with waves of rock cutting the land. Pretty cool to hike and without the need of high altitude preparation. Otherwise there's the Massif Central, made of a lot of plateaux, sleeping volcanoes, and global comfyness.
-Sea shore: The Atlantic coast is famous for its surf spot, and in Arcachon you can also find the highest sand dune in Europe and the Landes forest, largest "man made" forest in western Europe (look at a satellite map of France, it's this green triangle in the south west). The Mediterranean coast is warmer waters but very touristic, I honestly it isn't worth spending time on the beach of the Med if you are used to the sea, there are far better, more unique things to see in those regions. Unless you go as far as Corsica, the beaches are stunning.
-Canyons: We have a truck load of them actually. Canyon of Verdon, Tarn, Ardèche, Hérault, Bourne...My favorite being the first 3 I wrote. I'll dump pics of those places when I'm done. Definitely worth going there tho
-Caves: A lot of them too, especially in south western France (Dordogne, Lot). Caves of Padirac, of Proumeyssac.
-Also in Provence, the Calanques national park is beautiful, pics will follow.
Otherwise there are other landscapes like the wetlands and marshes in Camargue, foggy hills in the Corbières, plains in the Causses plateaux...so if you have something precise in mind, ask.

Cont. with the vilages/cities

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>>1073968
Aiguille du Midi

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>>1073969
Pre Alps (Vercors)

West is chill. Oregon is fit and outdoorsy. Washington is super hipster. Northern Cali is more chill/less superficial. Southern Cali is faster paced.

East coast is all about time in the bigger cities. Machismo is a bigger deal. Jersey has the bros. Massachusetts and around have the grungy fishermen/blue collar workers.

East Coast: Arrogant and rude
West Coast: Smug and liberal

East: Cocky Assholes
West: Smug Assholes

Slovenia is amazing! Bosnia is supposed to be quite good too. But why not combine it with Croatia?

I'd avoid Albania like the fucking plague.

Slovenia is the best country in the world.

>>1074005
>But why not combine it with Croatia?
Too many tourists.

Albania seems very intriguing.

>>1074008
In Istria and Split you'd be right. But I thought it wasn't too bad in Zadar and along the south-western shore.

Melbournian here. I can't give much advice on travel seeing as I've never needed to stay in a hotel or anything, but I'm happy to answer any other questions you might have.

>>1071880
Honestly the only bad thing about Australia is Australians. Incredible nature, breathtaking scenery, incredible beaches and big beautiful clear skies. What will amaze and astound you, they consider pests. If you like wildlife prepare to have your mind blown.

The people however are unfathomably stupid, violently aggressive, boneheadedly arrogant, and thick as all get out. You'll have an incredibly difficult time to find anyone who can speak or reason beyond a third grade level. Add some ridiculous slang to the mix ("cunt" can be positive or negative for instance) and ugly koi fish tattoos everywhere, and you have the general picture of aussies. Imagine American dudebros in lifted trucks x1000.

However, you'll never meet them because you'll be stuck on the tourist tract. They call it "backpackers" but you're just tourists. Maybe a little younger. You'll shuffle around to various bars and hostels, meeting obnoxious Brits and humorless aspergian Germans all convinced they're doing something unique and grand. You'll get bilked into stupid "pub crawls" and "bus tours" where you'll be wrung dry and shuttled around with the other Germans and brits. When you go broke, you'll call your mom for help and get another grand to piss away on dumb drinking activities. Some people get jobs fruit picking where they and other Germans and brits will work for half the wage that an Australian would get, others get suckered into "wwoofing" where you literally don't get paid.

You'll get laid two or three times and come back broke, a few kilo lighter, indebted and you can tell all the bumpkins in flyover America what an exotic, mind blowing, completely original and unique time you had down there, and they'll believe it...

Until they go.

>>1071983
Melbourne guy here. You basically summed up what I hate about my own country, which amuses me because I can list the same sort of obnoxious shit about other countries.
Melbourne is a lot better than any of the other major cities for this reason, a lot less bogans if you stay away from the shitty suburbs.

>>1074027
800 euros a month that is

>>1073895
If you stay in The Netherlands or Belgium, you can easily go to Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Brugge, Ghent, Antwerp or Brussels. They're all well-connected by public transport and the distances are quite short. So take your pick. You could even do a city a day, but then you'd definitely miss a lot.

An alternative would be seeing Vienna and Bratislava or maybe Vienna and Budapest.

Ljubljana and Zagreb is also an option.

Munich and Salzberg can be done as well.

That's all with relatively short distances.

>>1073923
Sounds good. I'm not really tempted by Belgium 2bh, leaning more towards Central Europe. What's the party scene like in Vienna? I like the sound of Bratislava and Budapest but I don't know much about Vienna. I do know it's a beautiful city though so it will certainly be on the shortlist. Would Prague-Vienna-Bratislava sound like a viable trip? Or Vienna-Bratislava-Budapest? I also like the sound of Krakow.

>>1073939
I wouldn't discard Belgium. Brugge, Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp are very nice and Belgium quite simply has the best beer in the world.

I've only been to Vienna by day, so I don't know the party scene. I was staying in Bratislava and from there Vienna is just an hou by train. So we took a day trip. Bratislava does have a nice party scene, and Budapest an even better one. Cheap as well.

I spent some time in Krakow last summer. Great place!

Bulgarian here, not much experience with our sea side cuz' I consider it grossly overpriced and tourist-ridden. This is how I'd put things.
>Partying and beaches at: Burgas, Slanchev Bryag (Sunny Beach) and Pomorie.
These are meme party locations though, shit music (chalga), easy girls and what have you. You can clearly bonk off to the city to find a club with alternative music, but the beachfront is shit.
>Laid back at Sveti Vlas
>Sight-seeing in Nesebar and Sozopol
Good news is that you can day trips to each and any of these and still sleep in Burgas if you want. July and August are optimal as far as weather goes. Go as late as possible in May.

I'm not sure /trv/ is a great place to try and enlist a more-or-less personal army for a great crusade to save couch surfing. If for no other reason, there are so few users here.

But to discuss things, what have they replaced the old color code with? Something that will be fine once you get used to it?

Also, what's your stake in this? You seem pretty intense about something that seems a minor matter.

>save our community

Our community is /trv/ -- whether or not it needs saving would be a topic for a different thread but in any case would have nothing to do with Couch Surfer website questions.

>>1073941
Well if you use CS it's a pretty big deal. The changes they made basically made it, so no one can leave negative feedback anymore, so basically now the only way you can tell if someone had a bad experience is to read every single reference they have.

I've found it possible to book "excursions" based on what I want to see and do, rather than on what the ship thinks many people will want to see and do, online a few weeks ut, rather than go through the ship's purser, notably cheaper. Sometimes I have discovered it is the same tour, they pick up the group on the ship that paid too much, then pick me up a block or two away.

And, of course, doing your research and just doing your own thing in port is fine.

The sole real advantage of booking through the ship is that they guarantee to get you back aboard before the ship sails. Getting left in port is a nuisance, you'll have t catch up with the ship at the next port, at your own expense.

I've never had that happen -- just leave yourself plenty of time to get back aboard, but if I had to name an advantage to booking excursions with the ship, that would be it.

If you DO book through the purser's office, get in line and book early... popular excursions sell out early.