Wickedfire Travel Thread

Kiopa Matt's $2500 per month is about the same as what I spend. That excludes capital investments (like building a house) but does include car payments and buying a new appliance now and then (like a new LCD TV last month) and eating well (restaurants are often not cheap if you want something other than fried rice or pad thai).

@Kiopa Matt, Khon Kaen is a nice city. Pretty big actually. I live near Pak Chong which is about midway between Bangkok and Korat. It's a lot smaller than Khon Kaen but has most things I need. My village, however, does not have ADSL so that is killing me.
 


geomark said:
Teaching English in Thailand is a pretty crappy way to get by. The pay is low (30,000 baht per month which is about US$1000) and most often the working conditions and treatment are pretty crappy.
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yeah, if you want to travel and are really concerned about cashflow, the best would be Korea. free housing + airfare as long as you have a bachelor's degree and aren't a complete retard. the weather fucking sucks though
 
greyaisha said:
yeah, if you want to travel and are really concerned about cashflow, the best would be Korea. free housing + airfare as long as you have a bachelor's degree and aren't a complete retard. the weather fucking sucks though
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Lots of pretty girls, right? Although I've heard that Americans (or anyone who looks like an American) are not so well liked due to all the issues with US soldiers over the years. If people are unfriendly I don't care much for a long term stay.
 
Lots of hot girls, but they are either total sluts for foreigners or they just want to practice English and won't touch you until you get married.

As long as you don't look like a soldier people are generally pretty friendly. Not sure I could stay here long term, but it's been a good place to build other stuff and generally fuck around over the past two years.
 
Interesting about the girls. Nothing in between? I've always liked the looks of Korean girls but the ones I met in the U.S. were complete bitches.

Thailand covers the range from the bottom of the barrel bar girls to the ultra-conservative traditional girls, and everything in between. Most of them are inaccessible to western men who don't go where they go and don't speak the language. But if you are a young guy who is decent looking and speaks Thai the opportunities for "real" fun (as opposed to paid fun) with college girls and young professional Thai women are boundless. But like I said, most guys will never meet them and instead all they know are the trash of Pattaya/Patpong/Patong.
 
I found the girls in Korea to be very receptive to me. I'm Canadian though, so I may have been lucky. I spent my time teaching in Chuncheon and Hoiryeng and the women there were quite friendly, but I wouldn't call them slutty.

If you spend your time clubbing in places like Soeul then you'll find plenty of willing sluts, but that isn't true of the rural areas and mountain towns.
 
greyaisha said:
yeah, if you want to travel and are really concerned about cashflow, the best would be Korea. free housing + airfare as long as you have a bachelor's degree and aren't a complete retard. the weather fucking sucks though
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Korea is another place I want to live for a bit. Is the free housing + airfare for TOEFL, I'm guessing? And would the housing be in Seoul or another big city?

I've seen some other recommendations about Korea being another nice, cheap option. But, from the very limited research I did, it seemed like living in one of S. Korea's major cities would cost much the same. Am I wrong in my conclusions?
 
Did the Mongol Rally last year.

London til Mongolia in a old ambulance.

London->EU->Turkey->Iran->Turkmenistan->Uzbekistan->Kazakhstan->Russia->Mongolia->Ulaanbaatar

Would really recommend it to any WF members.. Best trip ever.
 
CitizenSmif said:
I'm in the same situation OP, however I don't think I'll be able to regularly bank enough online to survive.

Does anyone have experience of going travelling with little cash?
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Teaching English in foreign countries is for the proles.

Hustle hard online, live like a King in Asia. KISS. :love-smiley-013:
 
ive been to all Hawaiian islands, and most of the Caribbean major inhabited islands. If you go to either or hit me up and ill give u advice on where the fun shittts at
 
Crynos said:
Korea is another place I want to live for a bit. Is the free housing + airfare for TOEFL, I'm guessing? And would the housing be in Seoul or another big city?

I've seen some other recommendations about Korea being another nice, cheap option. But, from the very limited research I did, it seemed like living in one of S. Korea's major cities would cost much the same. Am I wrong in my conclusions?
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nah, you don't need TOEFL, just a degree and a clean criminal record. Toefl helps since all the recent idiot graduates have been coming here and competition is getting tougher, but it's not required.

You can get jobs literally anywhere in the country. Seoul is pricey, as is Busan, but I live 40 minutes outside Seoul on the subway and can live on $500/month if I want. Gwangju and Daejon are also decent places to live.
 
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greyaisha said:
nah, you don't need TOEFL, just a degree and a clean criminal record. Toefl helps since all the recent idiot graduates have been coming here and competition is getting tougher, but it's not required.

You can get jobs literally anywhere in the country. Seoul is pricey, as is Busan, but I live 40 minutes outside Seoul on the subway and can live on $500/month if I want. Gwangju and Daejon are also decent places to live.
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Oh wow, so just all Korean schools offer free airfare + housing? I was looking around at some English teaching programs that offered it (eg. Longbridge Pacific, Teach English in South Korea! FREE service!), but I couldn't tell if it was specific to certain programs or just a general thing. Would I just contact the schools directly, or is there some type of agency/group you would recommend? Seems like a pretty sweet gig. I like the idea of TOEFL for not only the certificate, but also the help in job placement.

Thanks for the info!
 
Travel as much as you can. I travel pretty extensively, trying to hit a new country every month, with #43 and #44 coming up this weekend (Romania & Bulgaria) 2 months in Europe you could do a lot of damage, more depending on which part of Europe you want to visit more.

I intend on visiting about 48/52 European countries by the end of 2012, and hopefully about 75-80 overall by that time as well. No asset is more valuable than travel IMHO.
 
@CPAPIMP - that is how I'd want to do it. Hit a new country every single month. 40+ places, that is pretty extensive. What were some of your favorites?
 
I went to Thailand, Japan and Cambodia with bunch wickedfire guys last year, it was excellent. Thailand was cheap, food was great, but locals there don't speak much English.

After living in US for 15 years, I have finally decided to move back to Taiwan, best decision ever made. It is a bit more expensive than Thailand, but still much lower cost compare to US, also people here speak much better English.

Currently hanging out at hong kong and macau right now, the food here is so good that I don't want to leave anymore.....lol
 
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