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Given this economy, where can Americans like like Kings for hardly any money? Are there any cosmopolitan ones where people aren't eating rats, cats, or dogs? I always here places in South America. I stayed in Buenos Aires and got a nice furnished studio for 680 a month, but is there anything cheaper and just as much as a city?
In the land of the blind, you can be king, if you have one eye.
I rented a a nice little two-room house with electric lights and running water in a little town in Paraguay for $25 a month. There was a decent grocery store with everything I needed that wasn't available at the open market. It was about 2 hours on the bus from the capital.
The problem is not affordability, it is residence visa. Paraguay seems pretty slack about that. I just got stamped in at the border, and nobody seemed to know or care how long I was allowed to stay.
In the southern summer, there are a lot of Argetines in Chile, and those vacation rentals are very cheap i the off season. Chile is lovely, and you can stay for 6 months without papers, then go to the border and re-enter. Make your visa runs in spring and fall, as the roads through the Andes can sometimes remain closed all winter. It would be perfect to stay the summer in Mendoza, a lovely Argentine city, and then the winter in Chile.
I'm paying 8 US per night for a hotel room with good cable TV in Chiang Mai Thailand. Another dental appointment tomorrow. BO needs to stop printing money like toilet paper, and I will be living like a king again. Two years ago I was paying 78 usd per month including hotshower, cable, furnishings.
You can't live as a king.. but you definitely can live a lot better on a lot less in India.. and most you wouldnt find eating dogs because they are vegetarians
Don't be silly Indians aren't vegetarians. They seem to have a higher portion of vegetarians so you see more restaurants clearly marked as veg or not but so many of their markets, restaurants, and street vendors sell meat that somebody over there has got to be eating it. I'd go further and say that the person eating it probably had a mustache.
I'm paying 8 US per night for a hotel room with good cable TV in Chiang Mai Thailand.
I love Chiang Mai. Hell I think everyone loves Chiang Mai. Mae Hong Son too, just because of the convenience of the airstrip I once flew MHS to Chiang Mai for under $20.
You know another place I enjoyed that is cheap but has lots of things that make life easier for a Westerner is Vientiane. I've never really investigated the possibilities visa-wise but even things like healthcare that would be more questionable you've got Thailand right across the river. Bonus = they can speak Thai and most places things can be paid for in any of Euro/USD/TBt or Lao Kip.
Don't be silly Indians aren't vegetarians. They seem to have a higher portion of vegetarians so you see more restaurants clearly marked as veg or not but so many of their markets, restaurants, and street vendors sell meat that somebody over there has got to be eating it. I'd go further and say that the person eating it probably had a mustache.
ahhaha well i wasnt being too serious in my response, but i will agree with you on the mustache part!
Hoi An. It is a river town, cheap, beautiful beaches, can get Western food if you need to since on tourist trail, plus only an hour ride from Dan Nang's intl airport.
Hoi An. It is a river town, cheap, beautiful beaches, can get Western food if you need to since on tourist trail, plus only an hour ride from Dan Nang's intl airport.
Sounds great, but when I asked in Vietnam about settling there, it sounded like it wouldn't be easy, unless I had six figures to invest. You would think that those countries would be happy enough to have a rich American bring in their pension check every month, but they don't make it very easy.
The downside of Vietnam is that if you're a foreigner, they see you coming, and the smallest coin in circulation is the $20 bill.
The most livable little place I saw in Thailand was Pai, up in the northwest corner.
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