[cooledcannon]

(06-08-2014 05:55 AM)fokker Wrote:  

You could come to Australia, they've got a really good live music scene in Melbourne (or so I've heard).

I heard Aussies have really bad english too, so you can still be an ESL teacher there.

[boycottamericanwomen]

(06-04-2014 11:28 PM)ZenSpace Wrote:  

Hey guys I am an ESL teacher (English as a Second Language) and I am getting ready to pack up and move to a new country for a year or so. I know exactly what qualities I am looking for, and I was hoping some of you world-travelers could tell me which countries most match my list. I understand there may not be any places that perfectly meet all these criteria, but I want to search around and get as close as I can.

1.Women’s attitude - I’m looking for a country where the women are easy and submissive. Period. Its hard to for me to even say that, because from a young age I was brain-washed by American feminists, but that’s the truth and I don’t want to tiptoe around it. I also just finished 2 years of teaching in Saudi Arabia, and I have had it with sexually closed cultures. I want to escape to a culture that is far removed from both those extremes. Sexually open, but also submissive, that’s my target. Its not enough for me to just find a few women like that, I want to find a place where that’s part of the culture. Attractiveness of the body is only marginally important. Of course I want hot girls, but I rank body as less important than attitude. I’m also a fan of dark skinned girls, so dark skin is a plus.

2.Warm (maybe a beach) – I have some pretty serious chronic pain in my ankles and knees, and it gets much worse in cold climates. Hot and dry is my target. A beach would be a plus. Mountains also a plus.

3.Live Music Scene– I want to start a band. This is very different than just wanting to go somewhere that has a good live music scene though, because a lack of competition could actually be a good thing. I want to be able to start a band, book gigs where I played a combination of cover songs and originals, and record an album of my originals which I could sell at my gigs. I have already written about 12 songs (some more polished than others) I play the guitar, the saxophone, the harmonica and I sing. This will probably be my main project over the next year, after I get laid a bunch to break me out of the depression of living in Saudi Arabia.

4.Jobs in ESL – Most musicians make like no money at all, especially when they are just starting out, so I will need a day job. I’m looking for a country with at least halfway decent ESL pay. It’s a balancing act, trying to find the country with the best quality of life, weighing that against how much I can get paid there. This is the category I hope I can really get advice on from other guys who’ve done it. For example I’ve heard that women in the Philippines have attitudes like I want and its easier to make it as a musician there, but there are no good ESL jobs there. Thailand has some low-paying ESL jobs, but China pays more.

-Of course I’d be open to some other kind of job. Whatever pays the bills! But so far ESL is the best strategy I’ve come up with for making money overseas.

5.Weed – I’m a 420 enthusiast, the chronic pain I mentioned is a big part of this. Despite my dislike of American culture I almost moved to Colorado when they legalized. I considered moving to Uruguay because they legalized, but it turns out they only legalized it for citizens, not foreigners, so that’d be difficult. Still a possibility. At the least I need to live in a place with a very lax attitude towards weed, somewhere its easily accessible and not severely punished.

6.Spanish Speaking is a Plus – Spanish is the only other language I speak semi-fluently. I am seriously looking at South America, especially Columbia and Peru, because I hate not speaking the local language. I tried to learn Arabic in Saudi Arabia, but I just couldn’t get the hang of it. The language barriers is one of the things holding me back from committing to Asian countries like Thailand, which otherwise seem to have what I am looking for.

7.Bonus points – Low cost of living, with fairly high quality of life is bonus. I also like a good subway system. I love living in cities with very good public transportation, especially rail.

So that’s what I am looking for. Sorry if I rambled a bit, lol. As you can tell I have put a lot of thought into this.

As I said, I probably won’t find 1 place that’s perfect in all categories, but I want to look and see how close I can get. I’m also looking for a place where people are “real” I have been warned that Thailand is very fake somehow. I’ve been reading other forum posts and right now the top countries on my list are Thailand, Columbia, Peru , Uruguay, the Dominican Republic.

Some info about me: I’m 29 (few months from 30), white, American, have a BA in Political Science and English. 4 years of experience teaching English overseas, so my resume is good enough to get me a job in most places.

Thanks very much for any help you can offer!

Sounds to me like Cambodia may be the perfect place for you.

1. Women here are probably the most submissive women in the world. Super humble with zero attitude.

2. It's definitely warm here. And there's a nice beach area called Sihanoukville.

3. There's a decent live music scene there. I saw a Jimi Hendrix cover band about a year ago there, so it's definitely a place where many visiting bands come.

4. Plenty of ESL jobs in Cambodia.

5. Weed is pretty much fucking legal here. In Sihanoukville, at one bar, the girl at the bar opened threw a bunch of weed on the bar and asked how much I wanted to buy. And there are plenty of "Happy Pizza" places that openly sell marijuana pizzas. There is all done in the open, and the police don't do anything.

6. Visas are extremely easy to get. You can get a one year business visa for 300 dollars and just keep renewing it every year. No need to even leave the country.

7. Cambodia definitely has a low cost of living. I must warn you though that it is not exactly the most developed country. But the people are nice and very chilled, so you won't have to deal with much bullshit here.

[Sandman]

Goa has

Great food

Best beaches in the world

Awesome English language live music

Cheap

Chill with 420

Local girls are dark, but not easy. Lots social circle

However, a lot of Israelis and Russian tourists, los euro expats

Would be hard to live ssd am English teacher. Very little pay fort that

[ZenSpace]

(06-08-2014 10:10 PM)boycottamericanwomen Wrote:  

(06-04-2014 11:28 PM)ZenSpace Wrote:  

Hey guys I am an ESL teacher (English as a Second Language) and I am getting ready to pack up and move to a new country for a year or so. I know exactly what qualities I am looking for, and I was hoping some of you world-travelers could tell me which countries most match my list. I understand there may not be any places that perfectly meet all these criteria, but I want to search around and get as close as I can.

1.Women’s attitude - I’m looking for a country where the women are easy and submissive. Period. Its hard to for me to even say that, because from a young age I was brain-washed by American feminists, but that’s the truth and I don’t want to tiptoe around it. I also just finished 2 years of teaching in Saudi Arabia, and I have had it with sexually closed cultures. I want to escape to a culture that is far removed from both those extremes. Sexually open, but also submissive, that’s my target. Its not enough for me to just find a few women like that, I want to find a place where that’s part of the culture. Attractiveness of the body is only marginally important. Of course I want hot girls, but I rank body as less important than attitude. I’m also a fan of dark skinned girls, so dark skin is a plus.

2.Warm (maybe a beach) – I have some pretty serious chronic pain in my ankles and knees, and it gets much worse in cold climates. Hot and dry is my target. A beach would be a plus. Mountains also a plus.

3.Live Music Scene– I want to start a band. This is very different than just wanting to go somewhere that has a good live music scene though, because a lack of competition could actually be a good thing. I want to be able to start a band, book gigs where I played a combination of cover songs and originals, and record an album of my originals which I could sell at my gigs. I have already written about 12 songs (some more polished than others) I play the guitar, the saxophone, the harmonica and I sing. This will probably be my main project over the next year, after I get laid a bunch to break me out of the depression of living in Saudi Arabia.

4.Jobs in ESL – Most musicians make like no money at all, especially when they are just starting out, so I will need a day job. I’m looking for a country with at least halfway decent ESL pay. It’s a balancing act, trying to find the country with the best quality of life, weighing that against how much I can get paid there. This is the category I hope I can really get advice on from other guys who’ve done it. For example I’ve heard that women in the Philippines have attitudes like I want and its easier to make it as a musician there, but there are no good ESL jobs there. Thailand has some low-paying ESL jobs, but China pays more.

-Of course I’d be open to some other kind of job. Whatever pays the bills! But so far ESL is the best strategy I’ve come up with for making money overseas.

5.Weed – I’m a 420 enthusiast, the chronic pain I mentioned is a big part of this. Despite my dislike of American culture I almost moved to Colorado when they legalized. I considered moving to Uruguay because they legalized, but it turns out they only legalized it for citizens, not foreigners, so that’d be difficult. Still a possibility. At the least I need to live in a place with a very lax attitude towards weed, somewhere its easily accessible and not severely punished.

6.Spanish Speaking is a Plus – Spanish is the only other language I speak semi-fluently. I am seriously looking at South America, especially Columbia and Peru, because I hate not speaking the local language. I tried to learn Arabic in Saudi Arabia, but I just couldn’t get the hang of it. The language barriers is one of the things holding me back from committing to Asian countries like Thailand, which otherwise seem to have what I am looking for.

7.Bonus points – Low cost of living, with fairly high quality of life is bonus. I also like a good subway system. I love living in cities with very good public transportation, especially rail.

So that’s what I am looking for. Sorry if I rambled a bit, lol. As you can tell I have put a lot of thought into this.

As I said, I probably won’t find 1 place that’s perfect in all categories, but I want to look and see how close I can get. I’m also looking for a place where people are “real” I have been warned that Thailand is very fake somehow. I’ve been reading other forum posts and right now the top countries on my list are Thailand, Columbia, Peru , Uruguay, the Dominican Republic.

Some info about me: I’m 29 (few months from 30), white, American, have a BA in Political Science and English. 4 years of experience teaching English overseas, so my resume is good enough to get me a job in most places.

Thanks very much for any help you can offer!

Sounds to me like Cambodia may be the perfect place for you.

1. Women here are probably the most submissive women in the world. Super humble with zero attitude.

2. It's definitely warm here. And there's a nice beach area called Sihanoukville.

3. There's a decent live music scene there. I saw a Jimi Hendrix cover band about a year ago there, so it's definitely a place where many visiting bands come.

4. Plenty of ESL jobs in Cambodia.

5. Weed is pretty much fucking legal here. In Sihanoukville, at one bar, the girl at the bar opened threw a bunch of weed on the bar and asked how much I wanted to buy. And there are plenty of "Happy Pizza" places that openly sell marijuana pizzas. There is all done in the open, and the police don't do anything.

6. Visas are extremely easy to get. You can get a one year business visa for 300 dollars and just keep renewing it every year. No need to even leave the country.

7. Cambodia definitely has a low cost of living. I must warn you though that it is not exactly the most developed country. But the people are nice and very chilled, so you won't have to deal with much bullshit here.

Thanks for the great reply! The "Happy pizza"blew my mind. I've never heard of that. Cambodia is now high on my list.

[boycottamericanwomen]

(06-10-2014 02:07 AM)Sandman Wrote:  

Goa has

Great food

Best beaches in the world

Awesome English language live music

Cheap

Chill with 420

Local girls are dark, but not easy. Lots social circle

However, a lot of Israelis and Russian tourists, los euro expats

Would be hard to live ssd am English teacher. Very little pay fort that

The whole Goa scene has been dead for at least 10 years, from what I heard. People are saying that Sihanoukville, Cambodia, is the new Goa.

[Sandman]

My goa experience is from 3 years ago

[Roustabout]

OP - you should check out this book: Big in China, by Alan Paul. The author moved to Beijing with his wife. While there, he started a successful blues band. Great read. I have no first hand knowledge of the ESL market in China, but others on here probably do.

[boycottamericanwomen]

(06-13-2014 04:24 AM)Sandman Wrote:  

My goa experience is from 3 years ago

I guess I meant the "alternative" scene there has been dead for 10 years at least. It's still a great tourist spot, for sure. The GDP of Goa is twice the size of the rest of India combined, so it's probably the least shitty place in India.