English Speaking Countries Where American Dollar goes the furthest? (school, safe)

[bluebeard]

Originally Posted by sponger42

India is horrific. I'm a pretty travel-hardened individual; from dodging rioters and red army in Xinjang

red army? what year were you there?

[moving123456]

Originally Posted by Jonotastic

Boracay is really nice, very friendly locals too! (Philippines)

Boracay is over-promoted, overrated, and overpriced for the Philippines.

[caution]

Originally Posted by moving123456

Boracay is over-promoted, overrated, and overpriced for the Philippines.

Yup. I'd live up in the hills. Baguio. If I had to live in the RP, it would be up there. Great city. Great people. Great new(ish) mall (even has a Mexican place it in LOL).

But I probably would not choose any of the developing countries that are English-friendly if looking for a new place to live.

[sponger42]

Originally Posted by bluebeard

red army? what year were you there?

This July, during the uprising.

[DBCC]

Try Zimbabwe: for a buck you could have a Trillion Zimbabwe Dollars

[joelaldo]

Originally Posted by +Daimon

Other than South Africa, that is.

Anyone know of any countries or regions of countries that match the topic's criteria? Countries that speak romance languages and a good bit of english are ok too, particularly french and spanish since I'm strong in both.

Try Belize or Guyana. Close to home, and tropical. In Africa, any country from botswana in the south to Sudan in the north. (Have fun!) or Nigeria! India, Pakistan, Bangladesh.

In all seriousness, a country that's somewhat affordable AND English speakers...CANADA. Cheaper than the U.S. at least.

[yankinscotland]

Uganda. The official language is English and most people speak it. The dollar goes a long way, unless you are staying at tourist lodges at $200-400/night.

[califantastic]

Why not just move to an inexpensive part of the US?

[Thomas R.]

Liberia is likely very cheap. English is official, although only about 70,000 speak it, and I believe they are one of the last nations besides us to use Imperial rather than Metric units. I think it's been a couple years since a civil war, major bloodletting, or human sacrifice occurred. (That's not a racist statement, much of that occurred or is alleged of former leader Charles Taylor) Their current leader seems like an okay gal judging by what I know. Granted I'd still be a bit wary of it as they're new to stability.

Of more livable countries Belize and Grenada both have fairly low GDP so might have low cost of living. A nation with a lower per-capita GDP than those two is the Federated States of Micronesia. Its GDP is even lower than the Philippines. Micronesia was part of the US until 1986 and still uses the US dollar. I don't know much about them except one of their islands is Yap, which is famous for the big stone money. I think they're fairly poor, money from relatives in the US is apparently one of their main sources of income, but they don't seem to have coups or civil wars.

[Boxcar Overkill]

Yap is nice, very friendly people, but there's not much to do there. Chuuk (also in FSM) is not worth going to. The rest of the FSM islands are safe, but fairly boring.

Where I live now, the Republic of Palau, uses the American dollar as its currency, and everyone here speaks english. (In fact, I think they speak better english here than they do in Hawaii.) Only thing to do here is dive, fish, and be on the ocean.