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Re: Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?

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Post by randycupertino »

walrus01 wrote: post #40

Lots of places in Pakistan and India you can do that on $1000 USD a month. If you don't do really well with hot weather you could pick a traditional hill station location (Murree, Darjeeling, Shimla, etc). They have lots of domestic tourism accommodation, I'm sure it wouldn't be impossible to negotiate month-to-month terms with some of the property owners there.

How would Pakistan be for a long-term visit for a woman traveler? I've zoomed around some of the mountainous areas on google maps and as I'm interested in the hiking/mountaineering areas and one thing I've noticed is that there are ZERO photos of female travelers on any of the google images from those areas. Basically anywhere outside of Karachi I am not seeing pictures of women.

Between that and this recent thread on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pakistan/comments/pb5l2k/how_can_yo...

I had been ranking it lower on my travel wish-list.

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Post by bonzini »

rwmj wrote: post #176
Leftium wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe the system started when there were double digit interest rates (in the 80's?). Now interest rates are much lower, but Koreans got used to paying $0 rent and anything above that feels like they are being ripped off. One reason landlords like the system is because they can daisy-chain the purchase of multiple properties. They take the first cheonsae deposit and use it to purchase another property, then use th…

But why couldn't the renter use the deposit to buy a house instead?

Maybe buying a house would be less liquid?

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Post by gilney »

piyushpr134 wrote: post #124

If you are a developer, you can move to Bangalore. You can get a new job in a heartbeat. Salaries here for a senior dev can range between $60K to $120K. Living expenses depends on where you live and what you do. You can easily live here in $1K. A decent 2/3bhk (2/3 bedrooms, hall and kitchen) with all furnishing in a nice area would cost $400-500 along with maintenance. Rest is super cheap. $20 for really fast intern…

What about working visa?

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Post by MrRiddle »

walrus01 wrote: post #40

Lots of places in Pakistan and India you can do that on $1000 USD a month. If you don't do really well with hot weather you could pick a traditional hill station location (Murree, Darjeeling, Shimla, etc). They have lots of domestic tourism accommodation, I'm sure it wouldn't be impossible to negotiate month-to-month terms with some of the property owners there.

Why would anyone in their right mind go to Pakistan? Straight up dangerous for women, most places are dangerous for men as well.

Sure they have nice mountains, but you have those in much safer places as well.

When someone recommends Pakistan I feel like they’re saying: “Sure, Hell is a bit hot but it has great view”.

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Post by wil421 »

freediver wrote: post #215
wil421 wrote: post #122

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180 degrees from what culture? I’ve been to Belgrade a few times for work and worked with lots of Serbians for a number of years. They are more like the conservatives in the US. People move to Belgrade because it’s cheap and the food is awesome. I’ve partied at the Splavs and had a great time. Random people were much more friendlier than Germans (the Serbs told me they were robots). There are some resentments by the…

I meant culture of living. Things like cities with lots of parks and pedestrian zones, more walking/less dependency on cars, hidden coffee shops between old buildings, ability to live decently on a very small budget, free education and healthcare, generally easier to make friends, specially if you are a foreigner - things like that. I would not necessarily compare Serbians to conservatives in US (we are both generali…

The reason I made the comparison to conservatives is because my coworker over there did an exchange program in High School and he thought the South had similar viewpoints to Serbians. I do agree with him about both being conservatives.

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Post by lappet »

rich_sasha wrote: post #143
bruceb wrote: post #129

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non pole here, knew a guy who wasn't white or European, not living in biggest cities, loved it there. sure its safer than many places.

Well I love it, and many places and people will give non-white non-straight people no issues. But hand on heart can I say to someone outside that narrow blueprint it’s definitely fine? Nope.

Is that true even for visiting? I am Indian and have wanted to visit Poland and the region for quite a while. I did find rural Germany quite ok except communication.

Re: Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?

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Post by tannhauser23 »

flemhans wrote: post #94
pie_flavor wrote: post #71

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You perhaps missed that you get the whole deposit back. The landlord doesn't keep it. You could buy the property outright, or you could live somewhere for essentially free, as long as you don't value the interest on that cash more than you value the place you're staying.

Still, why not pay 10% more and own the building? You could still get the money back (and hopefully more) when you sell it again.

Owner might not want to sell?

Re: Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?

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Post by freediver »

wil421 wrote: post #225
freediver wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I meant culture of living. Things like cities with lots of parks and pedestrian zones, more walking/less dependency on cars, hidden coffee shops between old buildings, ability to live decently on a very small budget, free education and healthcare, generally easier to make friends, specially if you are a foreigner - things like that. I would not necessarily compare Serbians to conservatives in US (we are both generali…

The reason I made the comparison to conservatives is because my coworker over there did an exchange program in High School and he thought the South had similar viewpoints to Serbians. I do agree with him about both being conservatives.

Yes I would agree that political views are in general more conservative but for historical reasons I described, not because it is someone's choice (plus strong influence of church 'helps').

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Post by topicseed »

aix1 wrote: post #54
topicseed wrote: post #38

Vietnam... Ho Chi Minh mainly, as it has great internet (except the couple of "shark attacks on submarine cables" each year).

> "shark attacks on submarine cables" I thought this was a euphemism for something but, no, an actual thing: https://www.forbes.com/sites/melissacristinamarquez/2020/07/... Who'd have thought...

Nope, very real! You're working in your coworking space in HCMC, then all of a sudden all internet stops, friends miles away too.

In the US/UK, one would mostly bet on Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS, GCP outages... There, it's either sharks, or some locals think it's an enemy country that's close by that's doing sabotage.

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