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what do you like? cities? towns? wilderness? food? beaches? what time of year will you be going? what is your budget? how long? are there any cultures you're interested in? how far do you want to push your comfort level? give us a little fucking help here.

>only speak english
not a problem. i only speak english and have been all over. most of the time you can find someone who speaks enough. plus learn "yes", "no" and "thank you" in whatever language and that will get you miles of goodwill.

>>1062661
>>1062661
I like cities and Wilderness. Budget would probably cap at 3k a week although I wouldnt really want to maintain that for more than 3-4 months. I good mix of expensive and cheap would be ideal.
My comfort level needs to be pushed, that's kind of the point although I wouldn't want to go somewhere that I could easily get lost or robbed.
Anytime of year really.

>>1062669
>budget 3k/week
>3-4 months

you really have $40,000 to drop, or do you suck at math and budget planning?

>>1062592
don´t go
stay at home
play videogames

>>1062592
Well how long are you going?
What kind of things do you like?
What do you want to do?

>>1062592
That's such a retarded map, holy shit... Uptown does not exist! There be niggers!

>>1062533
Think of it as a paid vacation and not an occupation. Except in rare instances it is not a job to build a life out of. Further the longer you do it, the further back in your career path you'll be left.

>>1062564
>Except in rare instances it is not a job to build a life out of
Is it true that you only save very little money each month? What about teachong at an actual primary school/kindergarten?
And surely teaching ESL abraod is better than, ugh, retail and catering in the west?

>>1062533
Because most people view it as a gap year gig which is really what it should be.

>>1062572
>Is it true that you only save very little money each month?

It depends on the country and job. Teaching in public schools in Korea is a very good deal. Or at least it used to be. The government cut the public school program back drastically but I believe jobs are still available in elementary schools. I saved about 10,000 dollars during my year in Korea. You get a free apartment and don't pay your water bill. In addition to a pension refund and severance bonus upon completion of your contract.

Most ESL jobs work out to about $15 USD and hour which is better than retail unless you live in like Australia or something.

>>1061498

I'm in the same boat, OP.

It's ironic, because the two places I'm considering most are Peru and Thailand/Cambodia.

Would have to do Angkor Wat in Cambodia and Machu Picchu and ayahuasca in Peru.

Have you considered Morocco? It's fairly close to the UK, cheap enough to fly to, cheap as shit once you're there, and radically different from the UK. You could easily spend a month there with roundtrip airfare for under 1000 GBP, and that's if you made no serious effort to be thrifty

>>1061533
Hm, I'd like to but I actually have an Uncle who recently went there and said it was shit for some reason, I'll find out from him what he has to say.

What do you suggest to do there?

>>1060165
bump

>>1060165
>Pros
lol wat
>Cons
Designated shitting streets.

>>1060165
Go someplace nice.

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>>1062446
Grow the fuck up.

You can't just pack up and move to a foreign country because you feel like it. Going to live in Europe is very difficult as a new worlder because visa restrictions on people from those countries are very tough. If your just some 19 year old angsty kid who dropped out of college and wants to live somewhere else good fucking luck, these countries want skilled workers not wage slaves, they can get those from the 3rd world and poorer EU countries.

>>1062455
well I'm an EU Citizen so...

troll or retard?

in case retard, sorry bruh, you fucked.

>>1062517
I already googled the question and looked through tons of post, both with conflicting answers. Can you just answer it?

>>1062518
you MAY get into canada with the right dl. you will NOT easily get back into the us.

if it arrives while you're in canada have someone overnight ship it to you to save yourself from embassy hell.

>>1062472
First of all, its hip deep in expats who don't follow Islamic rules, so that's a reasonably target-rich environment.

There are also a lot of Muslim women, Arab. Asian and African. For obvious reasons. there needs to be an element of caution there. Many women in UAE will be more open to a little slap and tickle than in more traditional countries, but their husbands/brothers might not be, and the authorities might not be if things bet sticky.

(A good indication of the local schizophrenia on sexual mores can be found down at the beach, where women in bikinis are common, as are women in full hijab, also signs prohibiting the use cameras on the beach, along with any number of young men with surreptitious cameras enjoying the scenery that is never to be seen in their home countries...)

Not to say that it's not possible, just that you need to be aware of the situation. People been fucking around on the side since forever, even in the most repressed of cultures. Of course, in the MOST repressed of cultures, they sometimes get stoned and such,or thrashed and tossed out of the country.

So exercise caution if you want to dip it into the more local of local talent.

>>1062474
damn

i watched this emirati cuck's vlog where he takes his sister to the gym:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaNYrdNoi_k

i mean it doesn't look THAT conservative

>>1062476
Compared to many (most) other Islamic or Arabic countries, it is not. The issue is that the women don't come with warning labels to tell you which have a traditional father or brother lurking about.

Be cautious, is all I'm saying.

It really depends on where "across Georgia" takes you. but here are some good restaurants.
Dillard House in Dillard
Downda Earth in Helen
Lil Jakes BBQ in Wrens

Not hole in the wall places to eat that i like
Vortex in Atlanta(double or triple bypass burgers are great) They also started serving poutine but i haven't tried it yet.
Sushi Yoko/Tamato is a japanese resturant and grocery store on the north east side of atlanta.

as far as shit to do...well you can hit the southern side of the Appalachian trail for some good day hiking. Helen is beautiful too

where in georgia are you going, exactly

>>1062181
Tbsili mostly

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I'll start:

>Yucatan/Belize
Gorgeous clean beaches, but most frontage taken up by private resorts. Not Asia cheap, but affordable accom and food. Sea life pretty intact.
>Cambodia
OK beaches in tourist areas, but step just outside and it's a trash heap. Dirty backpacker accommodation cheap, but anything better expensive for SEA.
>Vietnam
Horrific amounts of litter anywhere besides high-traffic foreign tourist beaches (including at a lot of resorts). Incredible value on accommodation. The whole coastline is one endless natural beach, but 99.9% of it looks like pic related.
>Florida
Endless clean public beaches. Prices typical of anywhere in the US if you avoid core tourist ripoff zones.
>South Africa
Endless clean uncrowded public beaches, many in natural surroundings. Amazing value on mid-high-end food, OK on accommodation. Cold rough water. Sharks. Begging/hawking can be a hassle.
>Mozambique
Reasonably clean, mostly deserted beaches. Great value on good food, but accom can be expensive for the developing world.
>Malawi
Reasonably clean beaches can be found. Begging/hawking a big hassle in a lot of spots. Fish life is incredible where not fished out. Basic accom and food cheap.

>>1061317
They have sand. Sometimes they have rocks too.

These are the beach areas I've been to

Baltic sea has really nice sand in all the locations I've been to. In the summer after the sea has been warmed up for a good month it's really great for a swim.

North Sea everywhere is fucking windy and has shitty sand, been to 3 locations in 2 different countries.

Cuba has amazing beaches. The sand is nice, the water is bathtub warm, it's easy to find empty or practically empty beaches.

Mexico, east coast has really nice beaches with nice sand while the west coast has gritty volcanic sand that gets into your asshole and cuts you up...

West coast America/Canada has spectacular beaches but not good swimming until you get down to Cali.

Costa Rica has really crowded beaches with a lot of people trying to sell you shit. The water is super nice however and the views are nice as well.

>>1060546

My family travels but not extensively or adventurously. The only time my dad has ever left the country was for his honeymoon and he doesn't seem too interested in going abroad otherwise. My mom has been a few more places with my step-dad, albeit only in Europe. The same is true of my grandparents, who occasionally go on cruises or small trips with friends around Italy, Germany, France, and so forth. I was never taken overseas growing up, and my parents wouldn't pay for tuition, let alone trips.

When I graduated high school and started working over the summer before my first semester of college, I realized that I could save money and start going places by myself. One of my best friends is a Georgian Turk and suggested that I go to Istanbul, given the low cost of airfare. I didn't know much about Istanbul or Turkey, but I decided it'd be a good starting place to branch off into Europe, the Middle-East, and India.

I ended up having an incredible time and have taken a few long trips since.

My grandparents and dad weren't initially supportive of what I was doing, from a practical sense. My grandma tried to convince me to put it all off until after graduating, saying I should be vacationing in Florida instead of Turkey.

But I did what I wanted and continued to do so on subsequent trips. I was a little shit in 2013 and called my grandparents up from Iraq to tell them where I was. I think they calmed down afterward and realized that if I didn't get murdered there, I probably wasn't going to elsewhere.

Now they just kind of accept it and act interested in what I'm doing.

My grandfather on my fathers side spent the first 14 years of his life in India. My grandfather on my mothers side was In India during WW2 and many years living in Israel once retired. (both white British Christians)

I have extended family living in Vancouver, Copenhagen and parts of New Zealand

My dad has lived in Saudi Arabia and Dubai for work and travelled extensively around Europe. He used to Hitch-hike France/Spain in his early 20's.

No one in my family has ever backpacked around the world the way I do. My mother only ever took guided bus trips and now with my dad vacations to warmer countries. My dad is actually in a way well traveled because he used to work on fishing ships and would be flown all over the world to go on his ships. However he never really did much traveling except for 2 month-long trips once to Asia (Bali, Phuket, Borocay only) and to South America (Rio, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires).

My grandparents never traveled, unless you count Nazis transporting them to work on their farms in Germany as travel. My aunts and uncles didn't travel, except one aunt who was a whore and got to go to the Alps to fuck old guys. My cousins for the most part have very different priorities in life.

At 25 I was probably already most traveled in my family and now in my late 20s I'm by far most traveled although my dad has been to more countries because of his work.

Obviously a bachelors in English will help me, but are there any certificates I'd need for actually teaching it?

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>>1062144
best advice: get a real job or you end up like this guy.

Someone please tell me this asshole isn't right in the stance he's taken

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>>1062008
>My paranoia is going to ruin a lot from now on.

If you let that happen, you're letting them steal more than your money, and something more valuable.

Don't get paranoid, maybe get a bit more cautious and keep in mind that physical cash in hand is always open to getting lost or stolen, so don;t keep more of it than you need.

And keep in mind that you can get more cash, you can't get back potential good times traveling that you wasted fretting over life's vicissitudes.

>>1062008
Yep, at knifepoint in Peru.

>>1062008
>nearly 2016
>staying in a hostel in southeast asia

You got what you deserved

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>>1061913
Where from? If you're looking for southern culture, I know a few places. When I'm out of college and settle down I'd love to get into couch surfing, unfortunately I can't host now.

>Oyotunji Village, SC
The southeast has the highest number of blacks in the country, back in the 1970s when they were deciding between violence and nonviolence, some nationalists split off and founded a Kingdom that has been recognized by spiritual leaders in East Africa. They practice Voodoo and Yoruba, and will tour you around for an hour or two for $10, it's a real experience, but try to contact them first. It's just a stone's throw away from
>Old Sheldon Church Ruins
Both near the coast, this place was destroyed by the British in the Revolutionary War and by Sherman in the civil war. Really amazing photographs, worth stopping by. Also close to
>Savannah, Georgia
Really amazing city, take one of the ghost tours. It's the only place that General Sherman didn't burn, he said it was too beautiful, and still looks that way.
>Andersonville, GA
Confederate prison camp that was only up for a year, but held over 45,000 Union soldiers, at least 13,000 died. Very eerie vibes from it.
>Plains
Close to Andersonville, home of Jimmy Carter, Georgia's only president. He doesn't have long, very old with brain cancer, but he's still a humanitarian. He gives speeches for free at the Maranatha Baptist Church every Sunday.
>Stone Mountain
Basically Confederate Mount Rushmore, I want to be there on Confederate memorial day. There has been a lot of crazy activity there lately with people talking about heritage (pic related). Nice hike.
>Wildman's Store
In Kennesaw, run by an ancient Klansman who carries 2 revolvers. He'll sell you KKK and Nazi memorabilia and give you underground militia books. He's crazy and I love him.
>Kennesaw Mountain
Good hike, great view of Atlanta, a lot of history as a Civil War battlefield.

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>>1061928
A few more that I know of locally

>Fort Mountain State Park
Weird rock wall that pre-dates Cherokee. The Indian legend is that a small race of people that couldn't see in certain cycles of the moon built it. They found their weakness and killed them, and then used the wall as sacred honeymoon spot, lel
>>Rock Hawk Effigy
Also paleoindian, from when people were roaming tribes rather than settled like Cherokee or Creek. No ceremonial objects existed there, it wasn't a burial, and nothing is known about the tribe other than a similar one is 40 miles away.
>Indian Mounds
There are a few, like Kolomoki, Ocmulgee and Etowah, each have an a different story. You can see skellingtons at Kolomoki, an in tact shaman room at Ocmulgee.
>Brasstown Bald
Highest mountain in GA, really beautiful colors in fall.
>Blood Mountain
Nice hike, you can stay in a cabin on top for free overnight. Bring blankets, there are no doors or windows.
>Springer Mountain
The start/end of the Appalachian Trail, Georgia to Maine. Some of the people here are just finishing a 3 year hike, fucking hippies.


Other places I have are probably too small and out of the way. Good luck OP, tell us how it goes.

>>1061930
Thanks!
To answer you're question and to provide some information about myself, I'm coming from Austin (Mexican, 21). My friend's only 20. I also lived in Chapel Hill for a year when I was much younger.

>>1061838
Military.

If you qualify to be a pilot Air Force, otherwise avoid AF like the fucking plague from this definitely go Army.

>>1061839
US Navy us best for travel. Army is arguably the worst. They have a lot of bases (very few in Asia), but are so large your chance of getting the base you want diminishes.

Prostitute