Maybe look at hostels run by Mormons or hostels in a country under Sharia law

Lol yeah but even in the US white people ask each other this question, it’s really annoying imo (but 100% I know its not as frustrating as the experience of a nonwhite person). My grandpa was from Hungary, escaped during '54 and I have citizenship from there but I would never call myself Hungarian, in Hungary itself I joke with people I am papír magyar. I just say I am American, both to Americans and everyone else. Nothing else is relevant unless I’m talking with border police. The identity politics are insane

Ok but where are you FROM

Spain, Thailand

Original, I know

Honorable mention goes to Japan but not for the long term

Passport & condoms, the bread and butter of passport bros

And my aer travel pack is pretty nice (aer pls pay me now)

Tons of Scandinavians in Thailand obviously but mostly of the old retired variety. One nice thing here is no property taxes unless you are renting your place out. That bothered me in the US, in some places you pay so much in property taxes but there’s no guarantees: you may or may not get public trash pickup, you may or may not be connected to the public sewer systems (i.e. need a private septic system), cops & fire can take 1+ hour unless it’s life threatening, sometimes they don’t come at all, roads aren’t guaranteed to be good quality just because property taxes are high, etc.

Income requirements are just that. You aren’t actually handing over money. But for an elite visa that money is gone. 15 year elite visa is $70k now, and you’ll never see that money again + the benefits are worse than before as an additional fuck you. The 20 year visa basically doesn’t even exist anymore (invite only and $140k lol). Very glad I got my 20 year for $28k (almost same price as a 5 year now) before all this stupid shit happened, but I bet they’ll backpedal on it.

I know how you feel but I’ll also say it’s one thing to vacation in a place and a whole other thing to need to balance work, visa shenanigans, etc. while you’re staying there. And then explain to the girl you’re dating you can’t or won’t actually stay long term

I liked Dresden & Leipzig

Most of us are working on tourist visas yeah, but we’re also not staying that long, so I wouldn’t call it immigrating. Sounds like the OP wants to stay long term but merely doesn’t qualify for the DN visa (which is really just an immigrant or expat visa with a trendier name).

So you want to be an illegal immigrant then

My Google pixel had esim & physical sim from the get go. Apple’s strategy is to lock you into their ecosystem, and it works well

DN life, where you feel like you’re always working and everyone else feels like you’re always on vacation

Same…6 months Thailand, 6 months traveling

If I didn’t have to be in Milan I’d probably live somewhere around lake como (not como or bellagio etc. because they get insanely crowded) and then you’re only a train ride away from Milan if you feel like shopping or whatever. Milan would be a fantastic hub though, super connected train station, airport

Gesundheit

I fucked up my visa for Vietnam. Only realized after I landed at Da Nang. Paid around $150 for an “emergency visa fix”. Let’s call it what it is, a bribe. Lesson learned. Your problem though is that with no visa at all the airline probably won’t let you board

The 90s were a great time

Basically downhill since then. Just shows that nothing is static, everything changes. Maybe when we’re all old farts the US will be on top again, or maybe not. That’s why I value being mobile.

I love the convenience of the US where everything is open 24 hrs

Lolwut

Lol the mental image of probably some super waspy kid from US suburbia walking around Barcelona going d…d…d…donde estan los españoles hrrrrnggfffderp