(US) Expats of this sub...

11  2018-03-02 by howard_roark714

What country do you live in/ have you lived in since you got out? What caused you to get out? How have your opinions of the country changed since you left? What do you miss about the US? What don't you miss about the US?

34 comments

nice try IRS....

Mexico.

You only need too prove you make $1250 and you live like a king, I used an expatriate service where a guy showed me the ins/outs of the city I was in and provides any spanish support on documents and the like.

That's cool. I'd like to check out Mexico some day. Of course, our country makes it seem like a scary place.

That's fascinating to me. How do you make 1250 down there though?

How's the blow?

Digital nomad, making money online.

I don't do coke, the weed mostly sucks.

What are your thoughts on Mexico City?

I don't like it at all, has it's thing but it's just one of those megacities where it takes you 2 hours to reach the other side, the main cities are like that and there's no reason to live in them because with $1250 you can be a nomad and live mainly on any cheap small city you want.

Thank you for your honest response. I have friends who went to Mexico City in Nov/Dec of last year and said they loved it and could live like kings there. They're begging us to go with them next year.

Could you recommend a better spot in Mexico to visit? I'm afraid, to be honest. I've seen the cartel videos of the guys slicing little kids up in front of their parents....I don't really want to step foot in Mexico. I know how stupid that sounds, but it's the truth.

It's a miniscule risk, you getting murdered by the cartel or so is as probable as getting murdered in europe by terrorism.

The city I lived in was a port-city called Tampico, was cheas as fuck! $250 for a nice apartment in one of the nicer parts of the city, maid lady that did my laundry for around $20 a week, internet (had 2 lines) was $20 for the ADSL line which was good enough for netflix and work-related things and a $40 cable internet that was 100mb in speed and $200 / month to my guide and translator who helped with everything every day for the first months.

So I was living with around $500 a month saving $1000 each month which I used to go for a vacation every 2 months and also visit family back into my country.

I moved to another city because a relationship but I still save a lot of money and I'm making more money in other things anyway.

how do you make money? interested in learning....pm if you want

ecommerce, can't say much outside that

why?

I would have to give you a complete course and make you a competitor.

is your business model that easy to steal/replicate? That sucks.

no, just too much work to tell you

tell me?--my current work is probably more complicated than this lol

China, been here 5 years. I left after college because I was bored in the States. It has definitely given me a greater appreciation for America. I miss the people, air quality, nature. Communism is a soul sucker. Moving back home soon.

Get out while you still can

Trust me, I'm trying!

Do you watch videos of Laowhy86 or Serpentza?

first year in China I did.

Did those videos along with other vloggers in china helped you alot on your time over there?

eh, they did at first. I just quickly found out you kind of have to "find your own way" and honestly I got sick of the constant negativity. It's hard enough to live here, I watch youtube to learn, not smolder in my animosity.

I have lived in many countries since leaving the US. I visit occasionally to visit my grandmother and some friends. In saying that I think its a shithole and would be more than happy to never return.

1.) New Zealand

2.) because I didn't believe it was an option to have a child in the US, under the US indoctrination system. I didn't want my child influenced by people who literally believe the opposite of the truth (or worse, that objective truth doesn't even exist) in all scenarios.

I don't believe in anything the US does or represents, and I refuse to support it in any way, which eventually led to me not being able to pay taxes there. (50% or more of your tax dollar goes to the military, and everything the military does.)

Voting doesn't matter and I was sick and tired of talking to people who think it does. You can't vote to stop dropping bombs, you can't vote to stop fracking, and regardless of who is in office, there is a hidden agenda that is always consistent and never changes.

3.) Don't miss anything at all.

The only thing to miss about the US is the numbness and cyclical day to day....

I left before the tail started wagging the dog. The respect the country once had has evaporated and Washington's permanent isolation alongside Jerusalem are the final nails in the coffin of a once proud nation.

ecommerce, can't say much outside that

why?

no---you are being vague