Rent an apartment and stay someplace for 6-12 months. That way you can bring all your stuff with you and it's just like living any other place. You get used to it. You're not out partying every night like when you're on vacation. If you go to southeast asia, then it's so easy to travel to nearby countries for the weekend. Go to Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, etc., all within a couple hours flight. I personally have a day job with a British company that keeps me busy during the day and then I'm working on my own stuff and for clients until about midnight (as well as on the weekends). I don't party nearly as much as I did when I first got here.
Making Monies Online and Traveling the World?
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@illmill, my fav is where I live now about two hours drive from Bangkok in the mountains near Khao Yai National Park. There are some issues with trying to do serious business in Thailand, like poor English skills and spotty internet access. If you are in Bangkok you can get 12Mbps ADSL but elsewhere it's hit and miss. You'll do a lot better in the Philippines if you need talent that can speak English.
@ricdes, that's an issue I face regularly. U.S. banks won't deal with an overseas address - they won't mail you a credit card or ATM card and you have to use a little deception that you're not living overseas but just traveling a lot. So far I've been able to get by with a relative's address in the U.S. But I'm still looking for a permanent solution. Health insurance - if you have any reasonable amount of cash banked you just pay out of pocket in this country. The health care is world class and very cheap - it's one of the top medical tourism destinations. I've looked at some expat health insurance plans and they are way overpriced. But if you don't have the cash you do need insurance.
@ricdes, that's an issue I face regularly. U.S. banks won't deal with an overseas address - they won't mail you a credit card or ATM card and you have to use a little deception that you're not living overseas but just traveling a lot. So far I've been able to get by with a relative's address in the U.S. But I'm still looking for a permanent solution. Health insurance - if you have any reasonable amount of cash banked you just pay out of pocket in this country. The health care is world class and very cheap - it's one of the top medical tourism destinations. I've looked at some expat health insurance plans and they are way overpriced. But if you don't have the cash you do need insurance.
^Have you tried anything like EarthClassMail.com or mailboxforwarding.com? They can scan the shit you don't need in your hands, and forward the shit you do, anywhere in the world... Of course your shit better not be too private in nature.
Nah it is still there especially if you have over a certain amount number of assets or make above a certain income within the last 5 years low 120s a yr I think it was.
Get a UPS store or Mailbox ETC .. The ones that allow you to use their street address for all your US related mail. I am not out of the country yet but I have currently everything going to it now and plan to continue doing that when I go abroad at the end of this yr . That includes DL, Car stuff , banking and cc cards and pretty much everything else. If you need anything from the States make sure you get it setup before you leave as I heard they are a real pain in the rear with all the new Banking Acts and other retarded recent gov't laws that is making it very difficult for US citizens when they are abroad. As for my international mail, plan to do the same thing with it but at a destination spot that I will not mind traveling to every once in awhile as I plan to country hop around every 6-1yr.
Being productive on the road was a big issue for me, so I'd stay places 2-3 months and then travel for 2-3 months. After 4 years and 50+ countries, i know where i want to spend most of my time, so in the places i really like, i just buy a small apartment. The truth is i could buy 5 apartments in south america for the same price as 1 back home.
As for mail, all my banks/credit cards use electronic statements now. Anything that requires physical mail goes to my brother or dads place, 99.9% of it is rubbish anyway.
Health services outside of western countries i find are just as good and reasonably priced, so if anything happens, ill just pay full price... which will probably work out less than a lifetime of paying insurance.
As for mail, all my banks/credit cards use electronic statements now. Anything that requires physical mail goes to my brother or dads place, 99.9% of it is rubbish anyway.
Health services outside of western countries i find are just as good and reasonably priced, so if anything happens, ill just pay full price... which will probably work out less than a lifetime of paying insurance.
Seems like Thailand is the place to go for young affiliates, anyone been to or lived in South America or Brazil???
It's all in who you know and where you can stay.
Out in the countryside, where life is good, broadband sucks.
In BKK, where life is ugly, broadband can get up to 100Mbps if you know someone.
Ahh... That's cool then.
Wait... There are Internet Marketing TV shows now?!?
I gotta get back in touch with the world sometime...
Wait... There are Internet Marketing TV shows now?!?
I gotta get back in touch with the world sometime...
If you have an opportunity to travel the world and live the nomad life, go for it. You get to choose how you wish to live your life. If you get tired of being a nomad then it's your option to settle down.
You learn things about the world through travel, you would never learn otherwise.
You learn things about the world through travel, you would never learn otherwise.
Yep, I had adsl in Bangkok, then moved up country and it sucks. Been using satellite internet (IPStar), it sucks. In my village there wasn't even land line telephone service until a couple years ago. They recently strung the main line for adsl through the village but didn't install a dslam so I'm still screwed.
It's an old thread but I missed posting in it the first time around.
Travel the world, party hard and if you must settle down to get married and have kids do it in the place you like the best.
Global health and dental coverage can be had for €45 (about $60 USD) a month from someone like Bupa.
Mail can be sent to a family member (we do this) or to someone you trust (a best friend, business associate or lawyer for example) and important bits can be forwarded to you by overnight courier (like bank cards, CCs, important documents, etc.).
You can register a company (or companies) in a country (or countries) that are tax havens, open bank accounts and merchant accounts there, and do all your banking online.
Get out there and see the world. Unless you have some weird beliefs, you only live once. Don't wind up one of those people that never leaves their home town and who thinks a trip to the big city is an exotic adventure.
Travel the world, party hard and if you must settle down to get married and have kids do it in the place you like the best.
Global health and dental coverage can be had for €45 (about $60 USD) a month from someone like Bupa.
Mail can be sent to a family member (we do this) or to someone you trust (a best friend, business associate or lawyer for example) and important bits can be forwarded to you by overnight courier (like bank cards, CCs, important documents, etc.).
You can register a company (or companies) in a country (or countries) that are tax havens, open bank accounts and merchant accounts there, and do all your banking online.
Get out there and see the world. Unless you have some weird beliefs, you only live once. Don't wind up one of those people that never leaves their home town and who thinks a trip to the big city is an exotic adventure.
Damn, rent must be cheap there. I've thought about doing this. Settle down on a remote island in the Philippines or Thailand and make my online monies, but after visiting the villages and using satellite internet I got crazy frustrated. Isn't it weird how some of these places don't have land lines or even clean water, but everyone has cell phones and often enough blackberries?
I own a nice big plot with a nice big house on it. It was pretty cheap when I bought. Prices have skyrocketed in the last few years. Market value of my land is 10X what it was 5 years ago.
Yeah, the cell phone companies can put up a tower in a few days and the whole village has coverage. It takes years (maybe decades) to get land lines. Private business versus government subsidized monopolies. It's too bad they can't get their heads out of their asses on 3G.
Yeah, the cell phone companies can put up a tower in a few days and the whole village has coverage. It takes years (maybe decades) to get land lines. Private business versus government subsidized monopolies. It's too bad they can't get their heads out of their asses on 3G.