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RE: What's the best way to earn an extra $1000/ month? And an SBI give away
This isn't an entry, but £400 a month is enough to live in Thailand/Cambodia/Laos/Vietnam simply and renting the house out back home will add to your budget. Factor in the fact that you could still work online, without the pressure of knowing that you NEED to earn and you've cracked it...
Added bonus, you can call your self a digital nomad and impress all the millennials who will be jealous of your beard, as all the DMs I've met have nothing but a chinful of bum fluff. Win-win :-)
ROFL at that added bonus. Especially the beard part.
The digital nomad part doesn’t so much impress the millennials anymore as their coffees are rather expensive and many a writer/designer/nomad needs to put in a lot of hours to cover to fancy lattes and MacBooks. Not to mention their iPhones.
Telling the locals, not millennial ones, that you’re a writer does still awe though. Beard even not necessary. Although it does add to the fun. Yes, I know I have one too. But only few months old, more a fashion anti-statement.
Sent you a DM on Discord, @revisesociology.
The more I hear about it the more digital nomadism sounds like Shoreditch.
Shoreditch being the kind of place I make a point of avoiding, and not because of the knives.
I can't imagine any local being impressed by someone working online - it's just transplanted advantage!
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I think it is more enjoyable than Shoreditch tbh. It’s what you make from it.
Here, while the Philippines are usually on the forefront of internet evolutions, especially because of the high number of freelancers, the nation is being globalized since a little more than a decade with the Philippines having become one of the leaders for outsourcing due to their rather accentfree English.
At the same time, careers are still very corporate and with having been a colony of the USA for some years the power of brands is massive. So telling people that you’ve chosen a lifestyle based on “own choice” rather than being dictated by the Almighty HR is at the same time a weird and amazing thing to them.
Until you explain them it requires just as much discipline as any other job.
PS: it is possible to live and avoiding the expat scene. I’ve barely hung with any expat for several years now and it hasn’t made my life any worse. In fact, I’ve had the opportunity to discover more not having to show up at expat hang outs.
Sounds very interesting.
I had no idea you were in The Philippines.
I'm not ruling out a move abroad, but I do quite like England. Bizarre I know!
I think it's the security of just knowing so many people and being able to get a job easily if I need to.
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I know what you mean about the UK. I still often think back to my time on Tameside, Brighton was slightly too wild for my likings.
That “security” was pretty much how I ended up here. When I decided it was time for expanding my horizons beyond Europe, the question was one of where. Having travelled several countries and lived in several, I knew that it doesn’t really matter where you end up. But your social circle is what it’s all about. I had most friends here so it was an obvious choice/base.
And yes, it was the first time I committed that cardinal sin of moving somewhere I wouldn’t have a direct job opportunity. Read: leaving the EU for extended time.
Thats exactly how I used to travel PH, and also now like my expat life in Thailand, generally work out where the expats live and do the opposite! The amount of snobbery here just out of Bangkok when you do bump into the odd expat is hilarious as we look at each other suspiciously and attempt to greet each other in Thai as a sort of test! Mr Sociology would be able to write a doctorate thesis on it!
Where in Phils are you @fknmayhem ? I used to love wandering Mindanao by bus 10 years ago. Had many, many adventures. Amazing country, amazing people.
I love visiting home in Yorkshire for a few weeks a year and having a wander around Scotland , its amazing and I love the food but after a couple of weeks, Im ready to come home. SE Asia has felt like home since the minute I stepped off the plane on my first trip, which was to Laos in 2005. Im just at peace here
Mostly hang in Manila but often go to Davao, Cebu, and even expat paradise Dumaguete (different lifestyle there, they have a huge Mediterranean, Spanish way of living so it’s different from all expats on contracts). 3G is now ubiquitous workable so I’m anywhere and nowhere most of the time.
I occasionally hang with expat friends to “commiserate” over cultural differences and... errr efficiency. LOL
The skin color/bonus/obsession expats (can) have here in PH honestly annoys me. Then again many are here for shorter term or exactly because of that advantage.
You wouldn’t want the locals to know you speak Tagalog because you will be the next viral YouTube sensation for 3-5 days.
It’s a lovely escape from “First world related obligations”. I will probably return to Europe in some years but back to there where I left, back in 2010, a quiet village outside Paphos in Cyprus. It’s becoming too crowded here in SEA. Alternatively Morocco for some years.
I've heard sbout the skin whitening craze!
Sounds like a great country!
Another reason for wanting to stay UK is I love self-sufficiency and the seasonality of the UK climate.
I just want to settle down and plant an edible garden tbh!
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I've heard sbout the skin whitening craze!
Sounds like a great country!
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Great reply.
Although I think all the Brits on their gap yas in SE Asia would do my nut in.
Especially those bum fluff sprouting self styled digital nomads!
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