Vikings TV show, Katheryn Winnick

How was it?

I had dog in Jiamusi, China, simple slices rather than a sausage or barbecued.

Oh! Apparently that’s in medellin, I was just in medellin two weeks ago and didn’t know it was there!

despite not getting to go, I’m glad it is there.

Thailand is often one of the first places I recommend because it covers pretty much everything. Any-gender friendly? yup. Artistic culture? yup. Friendly people, great food, low cost of living? for sure. Thailand has many virtues, and it’s pennies on the dollar for better medical care, housing, and everything else.

Companies in particular for any remote job, not really. Indeed and Fiverr are the only platforms I personally know people have gotten jobs from. I’m more familiar with teaching English, which has literally thousands of job openings right now and will hire fluent english speakers with no experience or certification.

You can sign up for Cambly today and start teaching as soon as you’re approved(usual wait time is a week). If you get a TEFL certificate, you can max out your pay and teach anywhere English is taught.

At some of the platforms you can teach without a degree or certificate, as explained in the chart, and there are dozens of platforms besides, not just the ten there. The demand for fluent english speakers is gargantuan.

Internationally accredited TEFL certificate available here, lifetime accreditation, self-directed pdf tests, should take 1-2 weeks, instant maxed out pay depending on your level of experience.

here are a few of the higher paying countries for teaching english, starting pay is usually $2k with regular schedules(20-25 hours a week) even through online platforms, or you can teach as little as you like and make enough for rent and food.

You don’t have to teach english, but it is a wide-open field that hires and pays high immediately. I’m familiar with the field, so I always feel compelled to bring it up to fluent english speakers who have trouble finding work.

If you don’t want to teach, I recommend signing up for any job aggregator site, applying for literally every entry-level job and taking whichever one hires you. Your CoL abroad isn’t going to take more than 15 hours a week and you can spend the entire rest of the week looking for a job you’re interested in without ever worrying about money. Or you can just chill out, enjoy your free time, and get back to life when you feel like it, which I also highly recommend.

It’s very nice out here. I’m living in a 3-bedroom, 2 bathroom condo by myself with washing machine/full kitchen blah blah for 300 a month right now in Peru. I hiked outside the city to Incan ruins that I can touch with my own hands, it’s crazy.

$500 a month is for private rooms and food, you can live in a hostel in Cambodia right now for $90 a month with hot showers, wifi, AC and storage lockers. You live there, your CoL goes down to ~$200 a month including food.

Live outside of the US more than 330 days a year and pay no income tax on your first 125k of income with form 2555.

Sure! I think I suggested English teaching as an emergency backup, but I’m very glad to hear your union stepped up and helped you out!

Congrats, that’s great to hear.

With about 200 countries, there is quite a range, and CoL in general is much lower than often thought.

The cost of living in most countries is $500 USD per month, and the cost of living is $1000 per month in the minority of more expensive countries.

I define what I mean by cost of living in the parenthetical list.

Lower if you stay in hostels, those can be 2-4$ a day in some countries, $120 or less a month for rent, utilities and wifi.

assuming you’re a) US american and b) don’t have a remote job

tldr: passport, get any remote job that pays $500 a month or more, choose a country, airbnb a spot for a month(best value), fly over.

passport: You can apply for a passport at many USPS offices. You can search for locations here or call up your local USPS offices and ask them if they process passport applications. Fill out the forms, pay the $165 fee, you’ll receive your passport in 2-4 weeks, and then(I’m assuming you’re US American) have 10 years access to ~180 countries visa-free or visa-on-arrival.

Once you’re abroad, you can either move country to country every 3-12 months(that’s what I do), stay in the same country by popping over to and back from adjacent countries, or get long-term visas or residency status if you’re sure you want to stay somewhere permanently.

jobs: While you’re waiting for your passport, sign up for indeed or any job search site and apply for whatever you can get that you can make $500 or more a month at, there are hundreds of entry level jobs. Teaching English is an accessible job for fluent English speakers requiring no certification to begin.

English speakers: Most countries have some level of English, especially near the cities where most people live. There are expat communities everywhere and most tourists from all countries will also be able to speak English. Thailand gets 30 to 40 million tourists a year for example, and most of them will be speaking English, in addition to the local professionals, students, so forth, so you have entire country populations of English speaking people even in non-majority English-speaking countries.

Thailand has had three genders forever and has recently added gay marriage and legal protections to their cultural recognition of lgbtq and is a very easy beginning country to live in with low cost of living, great medical care, friendly people, good food, and a lot more. Different countries deal with queer culture differently, but in general big cities everywhere care less about lgbtq and Thailand especially won’t care if you’re gay, trans, or literally polka-dotted purple. you’ll just be another person, although they have pride marches and events to take part in if you want to.

I can go into way more detail and context, so ask away.

Hey there, I’ve been living abroad for over a decade and can tell you exactly how to do it.

The total cost of living (rent, utilities, wifi, groceries) outside of the US is $500 for most countries and $1000 for the remainder.

Get any remote job you can work at for 10-15 hours a week, move to one of the $500 countries, recuperate, live. Take it from there.

Please ask me any questions about living abroad here in the comments, in messages, or in my travel community; it’s extremely liberating living abroad and I have all the practical information and experience to help you do it.

Couldn’t agree more. I use running sandals or generic deck shoes for hiking.

Build up feet and ankle muscles, grips better by their flexibility and ability to feel terrain, far cheaper, more comfortable, breathability is a huge factor for me.

You are biologically and culturally incorrect.

Queer and gender-fluid people are as old as human culture and many humans have both masculine and feminine physiology.

Any number of “teach english online” lists include several options:

https://www.theteflacademy.com/tefl-guide/teach-english-online-with-no-degree/

I’d recommend getting the TEFL certificate to max out your pay, but it isn’t necessary for some platforms.

This is a very fortunate time for English speakers.

The job demand is enormous, so if a fluent English speaker needs money, teaching English is a good option to be aware of.

Hi there, if things get dire, teaching English online is very easy to get into for fluent English speakers.

Good back-pocket job, or regular pocket if you like it.

Don’t tell me where it is, I’ll be there and also I was there last week.

Thank you Josh Milton for your style and a well-written article.

What kind of band is Josh in?

My guess is “awesome”. Maybe “rad”.

“Why did this society, which otherwise seems completely alien, just happen to evolve a conspicuous element that’s uncannily similar to an element in human history?”

The game was designed to include gothic architecture and medieval society, rather than those elements evolving within the game.

It’s natural that the game would be designed with elements of human society and history given that humans designed the game around the character of a “knight”, calling to mind swordplay, castles, legends and chivalry.

If the story was all about food delivery in Adelaide in 2011, the setting and language would be very different.

Since the HK stories focus on fantasy swordsmanship, fallen castles and knights, strongly associated in the human world with chivalrous poems of legends(King Arthur, for example), the descriptions and dialogues of HK reflect that.

Could be!

Lofty, broad poetry is the HK games bread and butter, but now I’m looking forward to playing the Chinese version after I finish my English game, or at least directly comparing the texts.

They’re already overjoyed, what’s one more piece of good news?

I’m not sure what that screenshot is supposed to be directly comparing, you’ll have to ask that commenter.

The difference in the Chinese characters and words themselves is that the Silksong words are more complex, like using “无”(without) rather than the simple negative “no”, even “台”(platform) has a dozen different meanings depending on the context. The HK characters more concretely refer to single or limited actions and objects, while the Silksong characters are more complex and dynamically significant, depending on a lot of context to discern any specificity.

If all of Silksong is translated like that, it indicates the Chinese translators have focused on translating the overall shadowy, legendary, poetic atmosphere of the game throughout the descriptions and dialogue linguistically, which is contrary to the brief, down-to-earth descriptions and dialogue of much of the English source text. It seems like an artistic choice by the translators, but apparently not one that is resonating with some of the Chinese-speaking audience.