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049 Name Your Price · bit of a Rambler

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  Speaker 1: Hello. My name is Kai, and I am a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a rambler. I like to travel, learn and tell stories. Today,
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about just the cost of traveling itself,
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  Speaker 1: the brass tax numbers, and I'm going to compare a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these costs to the cost of living in
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  Speaker 1: the US, because that's what I'm most familiar with, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be converting all of the costs that
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  Speaker 1: I talk about in every country back to US dollars,
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  Speaker 1: so you can easily just use one metric and see
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  Speaker 1: how much cheaper it is to live abroad than to
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  Speaker 1: live in your home country. Just a one to one
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  Speaker 1: comparison of what you're paying for an apartment in the
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  Speaker 1: US versus what you would pay in Vietnam or Portugal
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  Speaker 1: or Germany or Australia or anywhere else is a very
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  Speaker 1: easy way to see how much cheaper it is to travel.
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  Speaker 1: This becomes even more apparent if you're a long term traveler,
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  Speaker 1: because then you don't have health insurance. It's unless you
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  Speaker 1: want to buy it, and it's like one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty dollars a year. You don't have any car or
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  Speaker 1: vehicle insurance, but you can still get around because public
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  Speaker 1: transportation works in all other countries. You're not paying for
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  Speaker 1: any utilities because you're renting. You're not paying any earned
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  Speaker 1: income taxes if you're gone for more than three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty days out of the year. If you're a
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  Speaker 1: US citizen, you're not paying any home repairs. If the
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  Speaker 1: shower breaks or the table breaks, I don't know. If
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  Speaker 1: whatever breaks, they're gonna replace it for you. You're not
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  Speaker 1: paying fuel prices. There's no tipping abroad, there's no automatic ratuities,
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  Speaker 1: there's no sales taxes in supermarkets. There's so many everyday
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  Speaker 1: costs of living that you probably don't even notice anymore
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  Speaker 1: that will immediately disappear as soon as you start traveling,
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  Speaker 1: and those savings will just keep adding up the longer
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  Speaker 1: you are abroad. I want people to be aware that
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  Speaker 1: if they really want to travel, have always wanted to travel,
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  Speaker 1: or are thinking about travel, but their main concern is cost,
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  Speaker 1: it should not be objectively just from a cost perspective,
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  Speaker 1: that should be the least of your worries concerning travel.
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  Speaker 1: And since these costs are going to be dunking on
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  Speaker 1: the US and making it look bad for thirty minutes
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, this is I want to mention up top
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things I like about the US. I
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  Speaker 1: love the creativity in the US. I love the environment,
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  Speaker 1: the animals. There's a lot of great stuff in the US.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to the National Parks annual pass. That's one
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  Speaker 1: of the most worth it things I have ever bought.
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  Speaker 1: Visit all the National parks for seventy five dollars a
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  Speaker 1: year or something like that, it was. That's an amazing
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  Speaker 1: value for life changing experiences seeing some of the most
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  Speaker 1: beautiful parks I have ever visited. But living in the
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  Speaker 1: US month to month is also excessively, often prohibitively costly,
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  Speaker 1: literally ten times more expensive than living in a similar
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  Speaker 1: condition in many other countries. So this episode is specifically
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  Speaker 1: about But isn't traveling expensive? And if you're from the
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  Speaker 1: US or a modern developed Western European country, the answer
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  Speaker 1: is no, it is not expensive relative to the cost
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  Speaker 1: of living in your routely called developed country right now.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you move to Western Europe from the US,
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  Speaker 1: as I'll mention later, the costs are going to be
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  Speaker 1: half as much. Generally, and if you move into Southeast
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  Speaker 1: Asia or East Asia, except for housing in Japan, the
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  Speaker 1: prices can be ten times cheaper than what you're paying now.
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  Speaker 1: So is traveling expensive, especially long term travel? No, it isn't,
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  Speaker 1: And usually you will save money by traveling long term.
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  Speaker 1: The longer you travel, the more you will save car
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  Speaker 1: payments or anything like that. Traveling is nothing compared to
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  Speaker 1: those costs. The amount you're paying for just your utilities
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  Speaker 1: right now in the US pay for a whole private
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  Speaker 1: apartment including utilities in dozens of countries. I'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: frugal travel tips and all that other stuff and other videos,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure they'll come up a lot, because one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite parts about traveling is how much money
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  Speaker 1: I save. I've never ended up in a deficit after traveling.
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  Speaker 1: I've always come back with a net profit or I've
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  Speaker 1: always yeah, I've never spent money overall traveling. I've been
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  Speaker 1: perpetually saving money now for almost fifteen years. My travel
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  Speaker 1: experience so far has been a wild net gain. Part
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  Speaker 1: of that is due to the FIE, part of that's
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  Speaker 1: due to just the nature of how I like to live.
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  Speaker 1: But I know people of all walks of life, families,
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  Speaker 1: disabled people, like everybody, and whatever their activities are, they
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  Speaker 1: always end up spending less than they think they will.
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  Speaker 1: But if you are trying to be frugal at all,
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  Speaker 1: it's very easy to live for less than a one
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars a month and have your own place and
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  Speaker 1: all the food you need for under five hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: a month. That is not a difficult to ask for
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  Speaker 1: many countries. I'm talking about most of Southeast Asia, most
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  Speaker 1: of East Asia, a lot of Western Europe. Like in Portugal,
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  Speaker 1: you can get a month in a hostel for three
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  Speaker 1: hundred bucks. That one's you know, that's a hostel. But
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  Speaker 1: still you can go stay in Lisbon for three hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars rent a month, and then all the facilities are
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  Speaker 1: very nice there, of course, and then you are going
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  Speaker 1: to meet people, and if you want your private room,
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  Speaker 1: then you just you know what. I was gonna make
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  Speaker 1: up a number, but said, I'm going to check right
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  Speaker 1: now what a price is for your own private room
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  Speaker 1: in Lisbon, Portugal, because that's the city. I said. So
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  Speaker 1: in April twenty twenty five, the prices look a little
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  Speaker 1: more expensive, but similar to what I saw when I
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  Speaker 1: visited eight years ago. Okay, looks like right now I
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  Speaker 1: can see five rooms from four hundred and ninety to
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  Speaker 1: five hundred twenty four for a private room in Lisbon, Portugal.
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  Speaker 1: You're probably paying much more than that for your private
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  Speaker 1: room wherever you are in the States. And that's Lisbon.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very popular tourist destination in Europe, and it's
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  Speaker 1: the most popular tourist destination in all of Portugal. If
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  Speaker 1: you go to another city, it'll be much cheaper than that.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, let's check, yep. So if you take a
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  Speaker 1: train it costs twenty bucks north one hundred miles or something,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for a cup for an hour or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: then you can pay three hundred and twenty nine up
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  Speaker 1: to looks like four hundred ninety, but instead of starting
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  Speaker 1: at four ninety, it starts at one hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 1: dollars cheaper, thirty percent cheaper in a Tugia de Belea
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  Speaker 1: and that's yeah, So a one hour train ride and
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  Speaker 1: you're you just cut down to three hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: dollars a month, three hundred and ninety per month. I see,
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  Speaker 1: let's see, Oh that's nice private house for five hundred. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so five hundred dollars a month in the city centers
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  Speaker 1: with zero I haven't you know dived into this. I
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  Speaker 1: just want to show that even without any planning, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to Lisbon tomorrow, your rent would be less
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  Speaker 1: than five hundred dollars, you could and down to three
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  Speaker 1: point thirty like we just found for a private room
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  Speaker 1: and bathroom in Lisbon, Portugal. Now, if you're not from
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  Speaker 1: the USA, then this isn't going to be strange to you.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm going through this in detail because it is
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  Speaker 1: very strange for Americans to hear this two way one.
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  Speaker 1: Every American I talked to asks, how can you possibly
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  Speaker 1: travel for so long? Traveling is so expensive? Is? That's
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  Speaker 1: what I hear from everyone who has not traveled yet,
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  Speaker 1: And that's okay. I thought the exact same thing before
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  Speaker 1: I traveled. That's part of why I wanted to start
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, not just to share stories, but to share
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  Speaker 1: useful knowledge that might allay anxieties or worries about traveling
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  Speaker 1: in general, especially these common ones like travel is so costly,
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  Speaker 1: I can't afford it. I want to let people know
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  Speaker 1: that if they're paying several hundred dollars in rent, plus
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  Speaker 1: car payments, plus insurance, their cell phone bill, just all
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  Speaker 1: the regular costs, then they can travel for cheaper and
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  Speaker 1: probably save money while abroad. And I just tell them, well,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm staying in the States, I'm paying sixteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars for a private room, minimum eight hundred dollars for
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  Speaker 1: like a shared room in any decent city, at least
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  Speaker 1: in a private way that I like to live. Eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars per month. I probably have a car, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm paying car insurance. Every time I buy
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  Speaker 1: a pizza. It's like twenty bucks or like thirteen if
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  Speaker 1: I only get on on Tuesdays when the specials are going,
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  Speaker 1: and I just add it up and I'm like, so,
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  Speaker 1: I'm easily spending two thousand dollars per month trying to
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  Speaker 1: be frugal. In the United States. The utilities are add
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  Speaker 1: on four hundred bucks for utilities and cell phone bill
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  Speaker 1: and whatever streaming services you have. The overhead is so
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  Speaker 1: much lower abroad that I always am saving money while
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  Speaker 1: traveling relative to the costs of living in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not really missing out on anything. Bands travel
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  Speaker 1: so I can see live shows. Wherever I go, there's
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  Speaker 1: live music. The utilities are utilities. They have electricity, Wi Fi,
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  Speaker 1: five G everything in the rest of the world. They
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  Speaker 1: have supermarkets, they have trees. So I'm not not getting
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  Speaker 1: anything that I get in the US. It's just I'm
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  Speaker 1: just in a different place that costs much less and
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  Speaker 1: usually has much better food. So, just as an example,
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  Speaker 1: let's say you're paying fifteen hundred. You're a frugal person
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  Speaker 1: by necessity, maybe in the US, and you're only paying
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  Speaker 1: fifteen hundred for all of your expenses per month. You're
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  Speaker 1: scrolling away a couple hundred for emergencies each month if
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  Speaker 1: you can. If you take that, fifteen hundred, five hundred
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  Speaker 1: USD should get you nearly anywhere in the world all
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  Speaker 1: the flights with no planning ahead. Jump on skyscanner and
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  Speaker 1: choose a ticket. Five hundred will get you to Australia,
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  Speaker 1: to China, to Japan, literally almost anywhere in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe like Antarctica or something will be more expensive. But okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to quote those prices again. I was going
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  Speaker 1: to say the prices I know roughly, but why not
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  Speaker 1: just check it out. So skyscanner, no preparation, just typed
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  Speaker 1: in two days from now, just clicked on two days
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  Speaker 1: from now. If you fly out of New York, Barbados
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  Speaker 1: is sixty dollars. Canada is twenty nine dollars right now,
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  Speaker 1: Puerto Rico is eighty three, Ecuador is one hundred twenty
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  Speaker 1: Iceland Iceland is one hundred and sixty. Colombia's won seventy four.
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  Speaker 1: Italy is one hundred seventy six right now. If you
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  Speaker 1: buy it and you're leaving on Friday, you can be
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  Speaker 1: in Italy for one hundred seventy dollars. France is one
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  Speaker 1: hundred eighty dollars. United Kingdom is one hundred and ninety.
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  Speaker 1: So these are a little more expensive than you should
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  Speaker 1: expect to pay because, like I said, I've done no.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't use a private tab, which I usually do
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  Speaker 1: to search for flights, because the cookies do like add
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  Speaker 1: on twenty bucks to your flights if you search, like
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  Speaker 1: multiple times in a week or something. But Guatemala's two hundred,
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  Speaker 1: Romania's two hundred PERUS two forty, Germany is to sixty eight,
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  Speaker 1: Denmark two seventy one, Greece to eighty three, Sweden to
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  Speaker 1: ninety Ludegue. I mean, they're all, like I said, everything's
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  Speaker 1: under five hundred dollars. And this was with zero preparation
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  Speaker 1: leaving in two days. So if you have a passport,
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  Speaker 1: you can go to any country that you want to
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  Speaker 1: go to for less than five hundred bucks. How about
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even get to Asia Asia. India's for fifty,
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  Speaker 1: Koreas for sixty, So these aren't Yeah, this is clearly
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  Speaker 1: because I looked earlier in the week, you'll get cheaper prices.
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  Speaker 1: There's still Taiwan's five hundred, five hundred twenty, Vietnam's five fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: but that's quite expensive. I would expect to pay closer
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  Speaker 1: to four hundred dollars. Like right now, I'm flying from
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  Speaker 1: India to New York for four hundred and twenty dollars,
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  Speaker 1: and that's even a little more expensive than I usually pay.
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  Speaker 1: But only I don't know, fifty bucks more expensive, I'd say,
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  Speaker 1: so I wasn't really worried about quibbling for the price
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  Speaker 1: because the price. I've been living in India, so I've
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  Speaker 1: literally spent three hundred dollars per month on a huge
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  Speaker 1: house with all utilities included, two bedroom, two bathroom, just
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  Speaker 1: a giant nice house, a private house with locking gates
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  Speaker 1: in a parking space and all that. All the utilities
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  Speaker 1: included three hundred bucks a month and then I'm finding
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  Speaker 1: it very difficult to spend more than one hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: per month on food, candy and snacks and fun and
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  Speaker 1: just get going around the city and visiting things. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to clubs or anything like that, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not depriving myself of anything. I like, my hobbies are
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  Speaker 1: very frugal anyway. Like I like reading, I like writing,
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  Speaker 1: I like drawing, I like exploring a lot. I will
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  Speaker 1: ride my bike for one hundred kilometers just to see
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  Speaker 1: what's over that mountain. But so I spent four hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars this month basically in India, and I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: nothing compared to what I would be spending if I
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  Speaker 1: was in the States. In the States, if I have
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  Speaker 1: to take the bus somewhere, I'm like, oh, man, six dollars, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I have to go whatever, go to the DMV. So
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  Speaker 1: you're three dollars to get there and three dollars to
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  Speaker 1: get back, which you know in India is only who
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  Speaker 1: can say, ten cents maybe round trip. It's very cheap.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the point. That is the point. You will be
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  Speaker 1: saving money if you are traveling. And again, the longer
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  Speaker 1: you travel, the more you will save and the better
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  Speaker 1: you'll get at traveling, so things will be cheaper, so
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  Speaker 1: you'll save even more, and so on and so forth,
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  Speaker 1: which is news to most Americans. So America is isolated.
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  Speaker 1: It's connected to two countries, which is very odd. Most
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  Speaker 1: countries in the world are connected to a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: other countries. So most people think, Okay, I pay a
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  Speaker 1: little money for a ticket, I go on a vehicle,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'm in another country, and it costs the
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  Speaker 1: amount of fuel plus infrastructure to get me to that
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  Speaker 1: other place. So I think most people in most other
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  Speaker 1: countries have a more normalized view of ticket prices and
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  Speaker 1: travel in general, that you can just leave whenever you want.
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  Speaker 1: You can just go to another country, And obviously it's
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  Speaker 1: easier when you're connected to the other country. But it's
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  Speaker 1: not actually different for Americans, and in fact is often
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  Speaker 1: much easier because of our visa free travel status our
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  Speaker 1: passport enjoys. When Americans talk about travel, though to me
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  Speaker 1: relative to people from other countries, they often talk about
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  Speaker 1: travel as this distant goal or sort of like a
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  Speaker 1: mythical objective that could happen. They know it's physically possible,
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  Speaker 1: they know it's economically possible, but they don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: as simple as it is, and almost none of them
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  Speaker 1: realize how affordable it is, how wise a financial decision
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  Speaker 1: traveling is. I certainly didn't. I still can't get over
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  Speaker 1: how fair grocery prices and transportation prices are in other countries.
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  Speaker 1: And I've been doing this for fifteen years, and I
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  Speaker 1: think it does play into that isolation that for Americans,
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  Speaker 1: they don't understand that the process of traveling is that simple.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have to struggle or suffer to buy the ticket,
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  Speaker 1: So it doesn't make intuitive sense to an American used
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  Speaker 1: to American work culture. Americans don't intuitively trust the streamlined
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  Speaker 1: price process of buying a ticket, getting to the vehicle
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  Speaker 1: on time, and that is most of the trouble of traveling.
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  Speaker 1: I talk to a lot of Americans about this, and
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  Speaker 1: they seem freaked out that there's no internship, that they
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  Speaker 1: don't have to prove themselves for years, thanklessly without pay,
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  Speaker 1: in order to enjoy this privilege that is travel that
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  Speaker 1: is available to all Americans. Americans, if you have a passport,
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  Speaker 1: can tomorrow go to one hundred and sixty countries, either
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  Speaker 1: visa free or with visa on arrival, which for the
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  Speaker 1: first means you don't need to do anything, and for
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  Speaker 1: the second means that you give them twenty or forty
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  Speaker 1: dollars when you land and they stamp your passport and
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  Speaker 1: then you're done. The ones that require visas, almost all
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  Speaker 1: of them, just in the last decade have switched to evisas.
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  Speaker 1: So you go on the official government website, you pay
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  Speaker 1: ten dollars to fifty dollars, depending if you're going to
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  Speaker 1: stay for like six months or five years, and then
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  Speaker 1: they mail you back the visa and juke go to
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  Speaker 1: that country. So it's a very streamlined, simple, inexpensive process.
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  Speaker 1: Like fifty dollars. Oh, fifty dollars is kind of a
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  Speaker 1: lot for a visa, Yeah, but that's five years in India.
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  Speaker 1: So you can imagine you want to buy a car,
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  Speaker 1: and you can buy a ten thousand dollar car, or
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  Speaker 1: you can buy an identical one thousand dollars car if
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  Speaker 1: you pay for a special license that costs twenty dollars. First,
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  Speaker 1: that's the only functional difference between the two cars. That
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  Speaker 1: you can pay ten thousand dollars if you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to fill out a form that takes ten minutes to
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  Speaker 1: fill out and pay them twenty dollars for the license,
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  Speaker 1: or you take ten minutes, pay the twenty dollars for
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  Speaker 1: the license and get the functionally identical car for one
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Obviously, pay for that special license that cost
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  Speaker 1: twenty dollars, then buy the one thousand dollars identical car.
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  Speaker 1: That's what getting a visa is like for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these inexpensive countries. Say you do visit India, which
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  Speaker 1: should there are two billion people there and the food
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  Speaker 1: rocks spending. Let's say you go crazy and just buy
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  Speaker 1: a lot every day, and you spend one thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: per month, every dollar over one thousand dollars if you
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  Speaker 1: make a remote job, or you're saving the remainder of
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  Speaker 1: your pay all of it rather than all of those
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  Speaker 1: invisible costs we mentioned upfront, as well as the baseline
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  Speaker 1: eighty to ninety percent reduction in cost for everything in
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  Speaker 1: India relative to the United States. Even if it's way cheaper,
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  Speaker 1: I still need some kind of money. So how do
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  Speaker 1: I pay for traveling? If you have or can find
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  Speaker 1: a remote job that pays more than five hundred US
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  Speaker 1: dollars per month, and any ESL job will get you
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  Speaker 1: way more than that. Then you can live perpetually, you
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  Speaker 1: can travel perpetually. Any work that you do, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to get better at as you do, and you'll probably
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  Speaker 1: make a little more money. So if by the end
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  Speaker 1: of the year you're making seven hundred dollars per month
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  Speaker 1: rather than five hundred, now you're saving two hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: per month. It's also not expensive to travel for Americans, specifically,
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  Speaker 1: because they're just very lucky to be citizens and native
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  Speaker 1: speakers of English. You can teach English in dozens of
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  Speaker 1: countries and make probably you're as much money as most
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Americans make normally. You land in China, you're making twenty
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: five hundred minimum starting maybe not minimum minimum. If you
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: have no degree, you have no certification, you can't speak
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the language, or not there, maybe you'll make only two
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars per month. There are postings right now for
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia between forty five hundred and six thousand US
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: dollars a month if you have a bachelor's and a
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: tefel certification, but you could, let's say minimum two thousand.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: You fly to China tomorrow with none, nothing, and you
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: land in China, you can get a job for two
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars a month teaching twenty to twenty five hours
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: a week teaching English right away and in China. China
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: is one of those countries where you can easily spend
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: five hundred dollars per month and save the other fifteen
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: hundred per month, which is what I did. I spent
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: to access after a while, but I was still saving
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: one thousand a month every month I was in China
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: at least. So the cost of travel itself much cheaper
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: than you might think. Only a couple hundred dollars to
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: go to most places, only four hundred plus to go
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: to the most expensive places without any planning ahead. If
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: you keep an eye on the prices day after day,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: you'll find the cheap things like it's very It's not
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: uncommon to get a ticket from Ireland to Morocco for
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: thirty bucks, or Atlanta to New York is twenty nine dollars.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I just you want to get to New York or
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle one of the major port cities,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: because they'll be the cheapest in getting out of the States.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: But even if you're not there, add on fifty dollars
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: from any major airport in the middle of the country
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: or anywhere else in the country, and it'll take you
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: to New York or LA. So all of those prices
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I said earlier, add on fifty bucks. If you're not
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: on the coasts, and that's your new price. Just add
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: on fifty dollars, which is nothing compared to the important
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: overhead cost, which is so much lower abroad. In most countries,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: you spend three hundred USD on a flight ticket to
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: a country where your own private house only costs four
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars per month. So ticket prices are pretty low.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: There are a couple hundred bucks. The cost of living
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: in other countries is excessively. I can't describe well how
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: much cheaper it is to live abroad, but literally ninety
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: percent cheaper. In India, for example, I can say I'm
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: living ninety percent cheaper. I have free AC, a heater,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: five g oh, I have everything. My cell phone plan
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: is two dollars a month and I have actually that's
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: not unlimited. I think the unlimited is like five and
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I have unlimited Wi Fi, so I don't use that much,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: So that's ninety five percent cheaper. Than what I was
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: paying in the US for my cell phone bill. So
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: if you're frugal or even financially responsible or really just sensible,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: right now, you're struggling in the United States and thinking like,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: how can I just save money so I can do
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: what I want? Go? Travel? Get a job online that
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: pays you five hundred a month. I was living on
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: two hundred a month for a while, between two and
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: three hundred, Like two fifty was not weird for me.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I was only staying in dorms, but I'd spend one
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars a month on a dorm in a hostel.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: The pub hostel in Cambodia cm REAP is ninety dollars
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: a month, sometimes one hundred and twenty dollars a month,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: but it was ninety when I just checked last month,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and then two hundred dollars on food and hobbies and
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: you know, shows, cultural exhibitions and taking buses between cities
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and stuff, just traveling around. So you'll be fine on
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: five hundred dollars. You will survive with your own room
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: and food and all of that. And if you teach,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: then you're going to be saving one thousand to two
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: thousand a month, especially if you get that TEFOL certification,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: so check out the TEFOL podcast I did. Or if
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: you just want to devote six months to a project
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: that you want to work on, if you have a
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: few thousand dollars, you can go spend six months in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Alaos,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: which are beautiful, comfortable, modern countries. They're not like Japan
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: or New York modern, but they have all the modern
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: amenities you have. Yeah, like I said, five G and
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: AC and all that kind of stuff, and you can
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: comfortably live in those places and work on what you
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: want to work without having to work forty hours a
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: week at some service job in the US just to
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: maintain a roof over your head. You can have that
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: for much much less abroad, and you can work on
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: what you are passionate about. So it's also if you
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: don't have any saving you can get an IT job.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: There are so many SEO certifications and all types of
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: IT certifications that you can get and get any crappy
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: IT job for twenty bucks an hour and you work
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: ten hours a week, twenty bucks an hour, two hundred dollars.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: That's your rent two weeks four hundred dollars. Now you
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: have a private room per month, so every two weeks
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: you're working. If you only work for ten hours per week,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: which you'll probably work more, that's a private room. And
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: then you have another four hundred dollars because you know
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: another two hundred for working ten hours a week at
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: twenty dollars an hour, that's just for fun. Go, that's
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: for eating and expenses, but entertainment. So instead of barely
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: making your rent, work ten hours a week, make all
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: of your expenses or work more hours, make your rent
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: in a week and save the other three weeks. As
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: an example, I was making twenty five hundred when I
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: first arrived in China teaching England, and my rent was
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I want to say, one hundred and twenty USD roughly
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: per month. So I made my rent in about three
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: days each month, and then after food and entertainment beer,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: I was saving the other twenty eight days of income
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: every month. Have all of your utilities that are already
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: paid for. Yeah, it's all taken care of. If I work.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Sounds bad, and teaching also sounds bad. These are just
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: a couple examples. There are so many different jobs available
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: that you can make five hundred bucks a month on
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: and as long as you're making five hundred bucks a month,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: all of your financial stressors are gone. You are covered
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: for food and rent, Food and board is done if
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: you're making five hundred dollars a month, and from there
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: you can focus on you can find something you like
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: that will help you make more than five hundred dollars.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Or if you're fine with just traveling on five hundred
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: dollars a month, covering your room and board and travel, yeah,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: you're good. There are lots of seasonal work. You can
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: go pick fruit in tons of countries. Well, I'll say
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: like a dozen countries that I know about. Like, I
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: know you can do it in Chile. I know you
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: can do in Australia and New Zealand, although New Zealand
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: recently changed it because they're economies. Whatever. Spain and France
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I know have that. Germany definitely has agricultural farming jobs
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: that you can do. I knew a married couple who
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: just moved with the seasonal agricultural work and they basically
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: went between Australia and Europe and worked on farms, harvesting
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: whatever they needed harvesting. And they usually or at least
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the places they went provided housing as well, so they're
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: only expenses for that paid work while staying in the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: country were food and cell phone bills. And then they
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: were just saving money moving country to country with almost
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: no expenses, and they were just enjoying themselves, saving up
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: money to buy a house and start a family eventually
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: by picking berries. They did it like they were saving
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: money at the rate they wanted to without any stress,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: because they both liked working on farms and achieving their
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: goal because of traveling. It's really where your preferences lie.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I don't mind teaching, especially because teaching is a bunch
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: of smart, polite students. I say red, yellow, blue, red, yellow, blue.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: They repeat after me. I count to ten, they count
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: to ten after me. Every forty five minutes, I'm making
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: like fifteen dollars at the barest minimum, So every two
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: to three minutes you're making another US dollar, and that
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: is a meal in China. Three dollars is too much
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: food on a plate. That's it. I just say colors
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and numbers to polite, respectful students, and it helps you
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: are helping their venturing out into the world. English is
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: a good resource to have in your back pocket. You're
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: not doing a useless job. Hello, how are you? They
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: repeat after you. That is actually beneficial to non English
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: speaking students. You're doing a good thing. You are getting
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: compensated very well. There's no planning or anything required. Like you,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: if you go to those Asian countries I was talking about,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: you will get a job and start teaching and start
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: getting paid, and you will earn the cost of your
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: monthly rent in less than a week after that. Anything
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: you don't spend on food or entertainment is savings. And
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: all those countries are cheap, so food and entertainment is
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: not going to cost that much, and you will be
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: saving money working fewer hours. Those are not the only
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: three jobs. Teacher, it, person, agricultural work. There are any
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: number of jobs that you can do online, either remote
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: work or locally, and I'll go over that in the
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: remote work episode or employment of episode. Look for what
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: you're interested in. You only need to make five hundred
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: to survive, and then you can work on what you're
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: actually passionate about or find something that makes you a
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: thousand or fifteen hundred a month, and you're good. You're
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: saving every single month more than you're saving in the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: States right now, probably and have that capital to use
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: for whatever you want to use the capital for. I
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: really wanted to talk about this because it's the first
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: thing I always hear, not just from Americans, but Americans
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: have a particular insistence that travel is unattainable unless you
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: are already rich. And I moved from the US basically
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: permanently on I think I had just about seven hundred
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: dollars in my bank account, and I had asked a
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: school to hire me beforehand and they agreed to. But
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: once I landed there, it's like, oh, okay, I can
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: work anywhere. There's one hundred schools that all want to hire.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: It's a little different with Shijinping in charge. Now he's
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: shut down. He made the laws more difficult. But I
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: just checked because I'm helping somebody else become an English
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: teacher right now. So I was checking the classifieds and
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: they're still literally four hundred and seventy three English teaching
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: jobs just in the city center of Beijing, one city
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: in a country of thousands of cities and towns with
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: more than a billion and a half people. The job
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: is not going away anytime soon. And even if it
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: was all gone from China. There are jobs in Vietnam, Thailand,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, just all over. So if you can, if
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: you can handle just saying how are you, I'm fine,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: thank you, and then they repeat after you. If you
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: can do that, then you can make enough in a
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: week to live in a foreign country and then save
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: for the other three weeks and yeah, and do whatever
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: you really want to do. You'll be working far fewer
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: hours than you're working too, like most Americans are working
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: forty hour weeks or close to it. The biggest days
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: to teach will be on the weekend, so you might
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: have an eight hour day on Saturday, and then you'll
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: have a six hour day on Sunday, and that's forty
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: five minutes per each class session fifteen minute break, so
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: fourteen hours on that weekend. But then that's only six
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: more hours over the Monday through Friday. So you may
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: bee work two days two hours one day or three
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: hours another day. So most of your time is free
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: already because you're only working two days a week close
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: to full shifts eight hours and six hours, but most
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: of the other days are free and you can work
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: on whatever you want to anyway, and that eight plus
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: six hours plus the six over the whole rest of
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: the week. That's twenty hours a week. And at fifteen
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: dollars an hour, you're making three hundred dollars a week,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: and three hundred dollars is enough for all of your
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: food and fun per month. Three hundred dollars is your rent,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: so you have at least two weeks of just savings.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: That's if you were only making fifteen dollars an hour,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: which is the absolute lowest I heard of anyone making
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: in China a decade ago, and up to one hundred
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: dollars per hour for face to face one on one
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: private students you meet in a cafe, you have the
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: lesson prepared. You guys do a lesson. Here's one hundred
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: dollars an hour. I got my private student by doing
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: my laundry outside and someone ran up to me and
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: asked me if I would teach their friend's daughter who
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: was going to Canada, I think for high school or
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: something like that. But I said sure, but I'm really
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: expensive because I actually didn't want to teach. And I
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: said something like seventy five dollars an hour us and
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: she was like, oh, that's fine. They're super rich, they
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: don't care. And I was like, oh, okay, great, and
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: that's how I got my seventy five dollars an hour.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: I have a tutoring gig. But even if you don't
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: get the one on one thing, which again you do
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: have to make your own lessons for it is a
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: little more work. You can work at any of those
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: schools twenty five hours a week, four weeks. Like that,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: you're making two thousand minimum per month. Most places in
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Asia cost less than five hundred dollars a month to
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: live in. So whether you're in Europe or you want
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: to go to Southeast Asia or you want to go
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: to South America, everywhere is cheaper than the States. And
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: if this is about money for you, then you can
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: live frugally, especially in Southeast Asia, extremely easily. You can
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: start saving money as soon as you're making more than
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: five hundred dollars per month. You can survive comfortably on
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: five hundred USD a month, and if you build that
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: up to one thousand, you'll be sitting pretty. You can
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: do whatever you want making one thousand dollars per month
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: with remote work or teaching or ag farming or whatever
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: it is. Whatever you can get a job done, and
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the travel itself is not very expensive. You spend a
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: couple hundred dollars, and once you spend that initial couple
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars, once you spend let's say five hundred just
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: for the most expensive price you could possibly pay traveling
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: anywhere in the world, you'll probably pay less than that.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: But let's say you spend five hundred to go from
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: who knows, New York to Saudi Arabia or Thailand. You
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: spend five hundred, you get a bad deal, and you
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: spend five hundred dollars age. Once you're in Thailand, it's
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: like forty dollars to fly to any other country, and
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: often twenty five dollars Thailand, Tallaosis twenty bucks. Everywhere's twenty
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: bucks from Thailand. It's all connected. Japan is only one
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars, so it's very cheap to travel. Once you're
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: in Asia, you can travel to all the other Asian
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: countries cheaply. Once you're in the Middle East, you can
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: travel to all the Middle Eastern countries easily. Once you're
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: in Europe, you can travel to all the European countries
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: super easily and cheaply. So the initial ticket might be
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: a little bit, but if you travel perpetually, your travel
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: costs are less than one hundred dollars per month. I
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: flew around the US to visit friends in the beginning
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: of the year, so I spent five hundred dollars in
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: total on multiple flights, visiting everybody and moving from East
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Coast Philadelphia to Hong Kong. So after visiting like four
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: cities in the US, I stopped in Hawaii for a while,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: and then I flew to Hong Kong and all total,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I think the total was four hundred and seventy It
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: was around there anyway, four hundred and seventy US dollars.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: So then I was in Hong Kong, and in one month,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the much lower cost of living in Hong Kong and
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the subsequent countries completely negate months of travel costs. Because
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: let's say you spend five hundred dollars like I did
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: over a few months, in one month, I'm only spending
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: maybe five hundred dollars for the one month to live
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: in Hong Kong versus the one thousand or fifteen hundred
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: or two thousand that I would spend in one month
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: to live in the States, and I went to Thailand
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: for a few months, loose for a few months, Vietnam
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: and then India, and each of those flights were thirty dollars.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Hong Kong to Thailand was only twenty something, so I
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: spent we'll say, one hundred and fifty total the rest
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: of the year, So all of my costs of travel
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: for the entire year was about six hundred and twenty dollars.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: And I just think of how much it would have
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: been if I was living in the States just for
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: one month of rent and utilities and car payments and
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff that you don't need while
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: you're traveling. There's public infrastructure abroad. There's trains that take you,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: there's buses that take you anywhere for near next to nothing.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: You can take international buses for ten US dollars or
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: less pretty much anywhere I've been. Maybe if you're in
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Europe and you're going from I don't know, Austria to Portugal,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: it'll be like forty US dollars. But it's still just
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: incredibly cheap to travel on public transport anywhere in the
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: world except for the US. And you should definitely check
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: out these flights hotels, cost of living costs for yourself
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: online or check better yet, check out YouTube videos because
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: instead of just a math equation where the search engine
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: tells you the AI cost of living, which I can
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: personally tell you is often wrong as in much too expensive,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: you can watch and listen to the people who are
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: actually living in those countries. A beer is compared to
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: a beer you're paying for where you're from, or a
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: plate of food, sort of real cost of living things
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: on the ground. Everyone should check it out for themselves
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: because I wouldn't have believed how low the cost of
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: living is abroad if I hadn't experienced that life myself.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: But now you don't have to do that. You can
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: just watch people like me showing you the actual prices
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: in real time, and YouTube videos in different countries. We'll
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: end it there, But to sum up, is it expensive
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: to travel not at all compared to what you are
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: used to paying, especially if you get a job while
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: you're abroad, or you have any kind of remote work
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: that pays you more than five hundred USD a month.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: As a rough guideline, that's not fun. Though. I'm going
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: to end on a few more flight prices just because
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I love to look at fight prices all the time. Anyway,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: did I say fight prices fighty flight prices? Okay, so
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: let's say you're from Los Angeles' time and not New York,
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  Speaker 1: just to switch coasts. Oh well, okay, twenty six dollars
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: to Las Vegas. So that's cool. If you want a
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: weekend cheaper than a greyhound, Mexico is fifty, Canada is
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: ninety on the West coast today for that random day,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I chose it's usually cheaper. All the other prices look
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: the same. Ooh, Columbia's two hundred, but oh, okay, Japan
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: is only two hundred dollars right now. So Japan is
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: one of the visa free countries for Americans. So if
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: you have a passport, you can fly to Japan from
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles for two hundred dollars. Oh that's pretty nice.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: I gotta go look into that. You can talk to
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: me at bit of a Rambler at gmail dot com
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: or bit of a Rambler on all the socials, and
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: I will catch you on the flip side