I love living in a 3rd world shithole.
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very detailed but what about the cute little hunnies? how are they in Thailand and Taiwan which one has better hunnies in your opinion?
You wouldn't think that way if you were born in one of those counties.
Yes, it's nice living like that, but what makes it nice for you is resources. You had access to various resources in the early stages of your life.
Most people can't even grasp how lucky they are. they were born in the states/other developed country.
I didn't have even 1/5th of the possibilities you had. And I'm living in Europe(within the EU now, 5 years). Asia? Africa?
There is no such things as "cost effective" when it comes to medical care.
And yeah, I've heard Singapore is very good too.
It's all relative.
For me, I prefer freedom to a police state. Driving perfectly, within the speed limits, following all the laws, and still having pigs follow you, pull you over, and fuck with you, and if your lucky you only drive away with a ticket for some bullshit thing like a small crack in your windshield. Bloody pigs checking the id's of all the passengers just in case they can put someone in jail for a silly warrant from an unpaid parking ticket, or force an unlawful search.
The first and fifth amendment to the US constitution have recently been thrown out the window with the National Defense Authorization Act. Now US citizens can be locked up forever without being formally charged. Indefinite detention without a charge or a trial. Meanwhile, the sheeple just watch in apathy and fear. I call it a call it a police state. Anyone who doesn't see this, is blind.
Yes compared to this, it's a very good thing.
I can deal with shitty rude drivers. Nothing anyone can do about the violent coppers on a power trip or lawmakers shredding the constitution. Doesn't matter whether you follow the law or not, they will still fuck with you.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi0meiActlU]Part 2: Roads FiT for People - YouTube[/ame]
Late to the party but I agree with EvilPenguin in that no one should forget their roots or the lives they've led to get to where they are. Be it in a better situation but in a third world country, or wherever. I plan to move to a third-world country to as I have enjoyed the benefits of such a life previously.
But I won't nor have I ever forgotten the sweat and tears I have endured in my home country, nor the sacrifices of my parents.
I will never say "Fuck my country", but I will and have said "it's too hard and expensive to live here fuck this shit".
To those who believe they'd be as successful as they are now, if they were born in Thailand or wherever else, that's utter bullshit.
You would be another broke citizen working for fuck-all with a shitty passport (if you're lucky to have one) that would give you suspicious looks at every country you visited (or a deniable), or more realistically you probably couldn't afford to fly.
But let's say Maybe you DID become great at your field, marketing or web designer or whatever, your peers in said third world country would would keep you at their level of perceived normality regarding income - In fact YOU would be the cheap labour that the "rich foreigner" would be hiring. Suddenly hostgator doesn't seem as cheap.
Enjoy the fruits of your labour, but do not ever forget how you got where you are and do not forget the fact you were privileged and LUCKY to be born in a country where fairness, high income (and high tax), and followed-up with laws, greatly assisted your economic situation, even if you were broke most of that time in that country, consider you were still richer than 99% of the world and every other broke family in any third world country would gladly have family swapped with yours.
Enjoy your life in whatever country you deem to be easier to live in, just don't deny or forget its unlikely you would be there without the people around you (and their influences) and where you were born.
But I won't nor have I ever forgotten the sweat and tears I have endured in my home country, nor the sacrifices of my parents.
I will never say "Fuck my country", but I will and have said "it's too hard and expensive to live here fuck this shit".
To those who believe they'd be as successful as they are now, if they were born in Thailand or wherever else, that's utter bullshit.
You would be another broke citizen working for fuck-all with a shitty passport (if you're lucky to have one) that would give you suspicious looks at every country you visited (or a deniable), or more realistically you probably couldn't afford to fly.
But let's say Maybe you DID become great at your field, marketing or web designer or whatever, your peers in said third world country would would keep you at their level of perceived normality regarding income - In fact YOU would be the cheap labour that the "rich foreigner" would be hiring. Suddenly hostgator doesn't seem as cheap.
Enjoy the fruits of your labour, but do not ever forget how you got where you are and do not forget the fact you were privileged and LUCKY to be born in a country where fairness, high income (and high tax), and followed-up with laws, greatly assisted your economic situation, even if you were broke most of that time in that country, consider you were still richer than 99% of the world and every other broke family in any third world country would gladly have family swapped with yours.
Enjoy your life in whatever country you deem to be easier to live in, just don't deny or forget its unlikely you would be there without the people around you (and their influences) and where you were born.
You know what's so amusing about this video is the utter surprise of the people who thought it could never work without the strict control of traffic lights. It's a microcosm of the whole culture of overregulated societies in which people think society will collapse without all the laws and controls when in fact it self organizes and operates much better. Free market versus statist thinking in microcosm. Much amused, I am.
20 years ago? Sure. Nowadays? No.
No excuse now.
Again, globalization has taken hold, and will continue to do so as the years tick by. For example, 10 years ago maybe 85% of my customers were from the US. Nowadays, maybe 40%, plus I'm getting orders from countries I'd never receive orders from before; Vietnam, Indonesia, Chile, Eastern Europe is large now, Philippines, etc.
Only REAL barrier is the English language, which can be easily overcome by anyone who has the ambition. The rest is cultural / societal influences, but that's rapidly changing as we speak. Sorry, but I don't have as much pity for poor people as I used to, especially in developing countries where the economy is booming. Know loads of people who complain they're poor, and if they don't want to make something of themselves, that's up to them, but they have all the exact same tools & resources available to them as I do. There's no reason they can't. I don't even have a high-school diploma, and I've managed to do just fine for myself.
Don't rent jetskis in Thailand!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsPuoaktoAw&feature=plcp"]CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Thailand jet ski scam exposed!!! - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsPuoaktoAw&feature=plcp"]CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Thailand jet ski scam exposed!!! - YouTube[/ame]
Lol, I love this guy. His Mixergy interview was packed with some good stuff too!
Good video! I just got back from Koh Samui last week. Apparently, the scam is alive and well there. I also read they'll do that with scooter rentals. I rented my scooter from my hotel, so I wasn't scammed.
