Quote: (08-08-2012 01:32 AM)houston Wrote:
I ask myself that sometimes. I think I have to leave the country though.
Life is about your happiness. If you are not happy with your situation, then your driving effort should be get yourself into a happier situation.
Travel gives you the perspective of different lifestyles and you may realise what makes you happy.
For example, Vacancier told me that he didn't like Asians at all until he went to Asia. Now that's all he looks at.
Even myself, when I think of Asians, I think of pale flesh and flat bums. However, I haven't been so it would ignorant of me to rule them out based on that.
Who knows, I may travel and may become totally infatuated with them.
I think it is ESSENTIAL for every young person to travel to different countries in order to set their perspective accordingly. I think it is as ESSENTIAL as reading, writing and 'rithmetic'.
Staying in the same city all your life is similar to being malnourished, except is a case of a malnourished mind state.
Houston, Athlone and yourself seem to be young intelligent males. The fact that you signed onto this site and stuck around, speaks droves for your foresight.
I don't believe that you guys have really tested out other parts of the US. The US is a gigantic country in terms of land mass and more importantly, population and each state is like its own country..literally.
Don't read into too much of what other people say about parts of the US. Check it out for yourselves. Go and travel within the US first. You are both citizens and you don't even need a passport to hop on a plane or a bus or in the whip so do it.
You don't have children or family responsibilities so do it now before you get bogged down with family in a place that sucks the life out of you.
It's very easy to travel. My first trip to DR only cost me a G note because my friend crapped out at the last minute and I had to book single occupancy.
If I could speak Spanish, I could have just gotten a casa there and it would have been even cheaper.
Look at Ali, as blonde as a Swede and yet he is solo in DR sticking out like a leopard in a greenhouse.
Point, I am making is that travelling is easier than we give it credit for.
You stay in Houston and say oh I can't stand American chicks..is goldfish bowl minded.
If you notice, there are other members on this forum that never complain about lizards.
Miami cats never seem to complain, El Mechanic never complains and G or MikeCF never complain.
Why don't they complain? Because the quality and ease of the reptiles change according to what part of the United States you are in.
DC is hard for most, some live in places that are underpopulated with minimal diversity and others live in punani honeypots.
Even Canada, you leave Toronto and the lizards are nice and easy. I went up to Ottawa last summer with a friend and we pulled both nights but only scored one of the nights (one of the lizards on the first night, it was just her and she felt ho'ish about being slammed in the same room as my homie).
A lot of guys stay in one city, in one zip code and they condemn their entire country based on the attitudes of the few parasites that reside there.
I left Canada because I could but also because I wanted to make better money and have access to better creature comforts.
I don't feel I have time to fcuk about with playing second fiddle.
But if not for that, I would probably take a page out of Vacancier Permanent's book and go to Alberta or something.
Again, as men, we should stop being scared of movement and relocate.
Back in the days, it was often the men that would go to different countries and then after they had settled, they would send for their families.
I am CERTAIN there are NIRVANAS within the US for Mexican looking brothers and for black brothers etc.
I have hit up more states than many of you cats and I never lived in the US.
If I had the money to travel back then in more grandeur, Lawd a mercy, it would be a blitz op.