I’ve been traveling for about 14 years and living abroad is a very attainable goal and comfortable lifestyle.

tldr is get a passport, get any remote job for 10-15 hours a week, move to one of the $500 countries, rest, recuperate, live.

Take it from there without financial pressure weighing you down; build up passive income, get access to better healthcare, great food, world wonders and innumerable other benefits.

If you are an English speaker, you have immediate access to thousands of teaching jobs that pay anywhere from $2000-10000 USD per month.

FAQs are in the community sidebar and feel free to ask any other questions about living abroad in the comments, messages, or this travel community.

    • bitofarambler@crazypeople.onlineOPMEnglish
      54·
      vor 9 Tagen

      Do you mind being more specific?

      In terms of this post, the terms “countries” and “the rest” refer to the roughly 200 commonly recognized countries.

          • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            vor 8 Tagen

            Keep it up. It gives me pause when dealing w/ trolls, and that’s almost enough to improve my traditional reactions to them. Almost. 😝 I’m working on it. 🙇🏼‍♂️

            • bitofarambler@crazypeople.onlineOPMEnglish
              42·
              vor 8 Tagen

              Thank you, I will! Troll antics directly build my community, allow me to reiterate important points, and are often removed anyway for violating the rules, so it’s pretty fun and rewarding for me to pat them on the head. I also get a kick out of imagining how it feels to try so hard to be negative and instead boost my posts.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
      11·
      vor 7 Tagen

      Cambodia might be doable, just … on $500 but it would be a miserable existence, $1000 a month easily

      Visa is super easy.

      Matt McKenzie has an hilarious insight, he has a wife and kid as well, so much more expensive

      https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrzCfPKQdrk2W-0kLH9Z0bA

      this one was great, young American guy, he used Tinder to decide on the country to move to, not for a ONS per se but to see how friendly people were in general in other countries. After scouring the world he settled on Cambodia… haha, awesome “hack”. Didn’t’t even tell his parents, told them he was going camping and fcuked off to Cambodia !

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHMMMPpc7xI

      • bitofarambler@crazypeople.onlineOPMEnglish
        1·
        vor 3 Tagen

        Cambodia is a $500-a-month extremely comfortable destination, I stayed for 3 months under that budget and I was eating fresh sushi most days plus got the best glasses I’ve ever had for about $25 usd.

        They have tons of inexpensive high-quality housing and good food.

        • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
          5·
          vor 8 Tagen

          They seem to be removing everyone’s comments…?? Maybe they are looking for more of a blog experience rather than a community where things are discussed…

          • bitofarambler@crazypeople.onlineOPMEnglish
            18·
            vor 8 Tagen

            Discussion is great and highly encouraged! There are only two community rules, and comments following the rules stay up.

            • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
              4·
              vor 6 Tagen

              I fail to see how removing a comment because it “was misleading and incorrect”, without giving a single word to what is actually incorrect, then replying to it, is “encouraging discussion”.

              • bitofarambler@crazypeople.onlineOPMEnglish
                14·
                vor 5 Tagen

                There is so much travel information that people don’t know or understand that quickly removing incorrect or misleading comments is critical to the accuracy and overall helpfulness of this community.

                There is no place for incorrect travel information in a community focused on providing correct travel information.

    • bitofarambler@crazypeople.onlineOPMEnglish
      25·
      vor 9 Tagen

      High quality healthcare is accessible and inexpensive when you participate in international healthcare so that insurance is often unnecessary, but if having private health insurance is a high priority then yes, you can include health insurance in your $500 by getting a private room instead of a private apartment.