Topic: Is there a place in the world you could live like a king via sig campaigns? - page 13. (Read 7754 times)

You know that Zimbabweans are now into the 'lucrative' business of chopping off their toes for money. That even can get them more attention from tourists.


Please what federal school are you talking about here in today's Nigeria? It will cost more than that now. Maybe you used the record of the past to judge this because that is not what i see in schools now. Or maybe you are talking of schools in the north and in the west. Federal institutions in the east collect more than that annually. Yes it is true that accommodations inside schools can be cheap but they are often too dirty to stay in.

$200/year will not get you a good accommodation, but it all depends on where you live; for $200, you can get a good self-contained accommodation in rural areas and a single room in urban areas; the minimum self-contained accommodation in my city is $330/year (N200k) The bare minimum is $300. (N180k)

If you want to live like a king, you should make your room very comfortable; you'll need at least $1000 (N600,000) to get a TV, AC, kitchen appliances, a bed, and so on. In most parts of Nigeria, a Sr.Member's signature pay cannot make one in the city live like a king. The cost of living is currently extremely high.

A Sr member weekly payment can only make one live like a king if one stays in the hostel where average feeding per day is $10 (N5000).

We've heard so much on this thread about relocating majorly to third world countries, but how about for someone like myself who already lives in a third world country wanting to relocate, or maybe take a vacation of nothing less than 4-6 months in a first world country, maybe the USA, Canada or somewhere else, but a first world country.

The Pharmacist I know you live in the USA, so is it going to cost me a fortune to have a vacation of 4-6 months in the United States, in my country i do have what i can call a stable income in real life, if you convert my salary in real life to USD, i take home around $400 per month, how much of that can i save to be able to fund my vacation over there. I am not rich, so what areas are the best for someone of my income to spend a minimal amount and get a good degree of comfort for the time i will likely spend.

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I am a first degree holder in my country, and for the last 6-12 months or so, i have been applying for scholarships to undertake my MA in European countries like the UK. Canada and the USA as well, for now there is no luck yet, but if i indeed do get some soon or later on, how quickly can it take to adapt to life in the U.S, i know if i get a scholarship, the school will cover a large chunk of my expenses there, but what part-time jobs can a student take up in the U.S, i heard it is easy to school and work over there, it is hard to achieve in my country.

Wait a minute....what are you saying you dug up on me?  It kinda sounds like you got most of the information correct except for the sunshine thing, and even that isn't completely wrong.  I'm not exactly frightened by your post, but my paranoia is starting to flare up.  Lol.

All of those pics are beautiful, by the way.  I saw a tortoise last year with a metal object that some idiot crazy glued to its shell, and since the torty was still growing, the metal thing got integrated into the shell and can't be removed.  But damn, the torty in your pic looks so much bigger than the one I saw.  They're amazing creatures with very interesting body language and personalities.

That's one of the problems I'd anticipated if my signature campaign castle ends up being located in a non-English speaking country.  I'm of an age where I probably can't learn a new language with enough proficiency to speak it to the natives.  But on the other hand, my plan was to seclude myself in the castle dungeon, where my small living quarters will be and where I'll write for a living.  

Sounds like you've been thinking about this idea yourself--if you end up going through with it, I wish you luck and hope you report your progress.

Lots of typing under the glow of candlelight.

Unless you just feel like changing scenery for the sake of schooling, I still think a senior member signature pay of $75 is enough to live comfortable in Nigeria. The exchange rate of naira to dollar is in your Favour since you’re paid in Btc/usd, the current rate being $1 = N603, imagine making $300= 180,900 in a month. That’s good pay for a job that’s as flexible as signature campaigns. University education in Nigeria costs about $75 (federal universities), if you’re looking to save more money, hostel accommodation on campus is very cheap, free power supply, security. But if you want to live like a king and stay off-campus, you can get an apartment for $200/year. For your campaign that gives you income of $220 per month. You can pay your rent for the whole year in one month, and still have enough to buy provisions. After covering that, you can spend subsequent pay on your wants.

I just discovered that if I rank-up to senior member, my campaign income might be able me to live a modest life in Georgia, Eastern Europe. Georgia has a cost of living that is extremely affordable. The currency of Georgia is the Georgian Lari (GEL) and 2.94 Lari can be exchanged for $1. The average living costs in Georgia capital city-Tbilisi according to educations.com for one person in its capital Tbilisi is about 1280GEL (US$415) a month and my campaign signature can give me a monthy revenue of about $220.
I intend to share a room with a student or tourist which would save me $185 since the monthly rent for a 1 bedroom apartment is1140GEL ($370). I can even save more money if I decide to stay in hostel accommodation or shared rooms for international students or tourists which cost less than $100 per month. The average utilities’ cost of 210GEL ($70) would also be divided into two making me to pay just $35. Hence I might end up spending just $195 per month or less.

One of my greatest barrier would be language because getting accommodation might be difficult since I do not speak either Georgian or Russian. But I intend to engage the service of a private rental agency to secure accommodation before my arrival. Another challenge would be Georgia’s cash-driven society but there are more than 20 crypto ATMs in Tbilisi for converting smaller amounts for residents. But the fees for this service are high and some are not effective. But for non-residents of Georgia, one can exchange Bitcoin and have it deposited directly to any international bank account that accepts SWIFT transfers, in USD or GEL.
I am choosing Georgia because owning and trading Bitcoin is legal. Also tax rates on gains for individual traders are 0%. Bitcoin mining cost is cheap and there is available hydroelectric power and a lack of government regulation. Hence, I can build a career there. Apart from the favorable conditions it offers to Bitcoin, Georgia is a Beautiful and wonderful place to live.    

Only in the really isolated far areas. There are lots of whities in the big cities, so it's no longer much of an issue. All the police are there too, to make sure whities don't become targets.

The whities who end up in the news are the ones going too far away from civilization or some secluded beach spot, and where there is little to no law enforcement. Don't go there, you'll be fine.

Are you suggesting that there would be significantly high safety issues for whities who stand out too much in the Philippines?  Does familiarity help with not being a kidnapping/ransom target, or are there just some folks who are targeting whities for economic reasons in the more rural areas (or the areas that you outlined)?

For the various folks recommending countries in Africa, I am thinking that quite a few African country rural locations would be less safe than places like the Philippines, and of course, it is one of those things that likely is going to vary from country to country, and usually the more major cities are going to be safer than rural areas... but also that anyone might proclaim that it hardly ever happens, but there  can be quite a few reasons that "it hardly ever happens," and we may well even be entering into an era in which anyone perceived to have access to dollars will be even more of a target because of what seems to be ongoing world-wide economic declines - and at the same time, even though people with dollars still might be kind of fucked - but for a while they still might be less fucked than some others who are experiencing economic declines that surely do not even affect people within countries in any kind of equally distributed way.   

  Trust you good Mr TP ? Seen you haven't been quite active as you use too be. That's by the way..Stay clear some of those nicotine if you do have long walks and go flex your muscles. I'm sorry too say, but, I dug into profile (lol) noticing you love pretty dog's and cat's and sunshine likewise. Having said that, I thought you'd want to visit the top ten tourist centers at Zimbabwe whenever you eventually move over that ends. You should visit the Lion and Cheetah Park, such a beautiful place to be and get Wowed( Venomous snake's, Zebras, Lions and Tommy the tortoise over 250+ ages ), of which I know you won't be.
As I think the best possible way too get first class information about Zimbabwe is to be a tourist and get all the possible information.

Some top ten tourist centers you might probably look in whenever you do,

• Victoria falls
• Great Zimbabwe
• Khami ruins
•  Matobo
•  Mtarai Falls
• Lake Kariba
• Mazowe dam
• Tsindi Ruins
• Mukuvisi Woodland
• Antelope Park

@Victoria. Falls.        

https://twitter.com/PTChimusoro/status/1533821874299359233?t=t604XIDa8k8fZgKMDeUm0w&s=19


 @Tommy the Tortoise, moved from, Mozambique with Portuguese trader's in 1850's and  lives at the Lion and Cheetah Park in Harare, Zimbabwe. Age  estimated about 250  years.

https://twitter.com/drewrawlins/status/1383274995435020298?t=GOVlU2u3gRA4jOZfpG6vJA&s=19

I believe in unity and being our brother's keeper, I never in any form considered what you have written as an offence or take it personal dude. I only tried to expatiate more on what I've written about Zimbabwe and some of the things we need to know. If my write-up looks offensive, pardon me for my wrongs, thanks!
Yes, being a tourist has limited benefits and the person would not be able to stay as long as they want unless they renew their visa. Although staying in a country as tourist is just for the fun. Going from one place to another and having fun with by eating foreign food, visiting beautiful places. Zimbabwe is a beautiful place to live.

I see you have taken my post very personal. I did not mean to somehow offend you (if I did - sorry), or maybe disappoint. I just wanted to say, that when making such suggestions, a lot of people take into consideration their experience while there were vising country as a tourists. Living in a country as a tourist and living in a country as an employee or like a local citizen is completely different.

Like a lot of Russians now migrated to UAE because they were there for vacation, it is warm there, they had a lot of fun there. In reality UAE does not wait them wide open hands. People from other UAE neighbor countries have already taken all good positions, and Russians are not willing to work on a construction site or something of that kind.

Zimbabwe is a great country with great people, it has a lot to discover. But when I google it and switch to images, second shown picture starts to scare me a little.

Do you expect to suddenly become an expatriate in a country without having a taste of what it looks like? This has to surpass our normal fantasies about what we think of a country or the beautiful places we would like to visit.

It all depends on what he intend to do in there. Zimbabwe is one of the developing countries I'm the world and we know those factors that are being faced by this country. Zimbabwe is a landlord country which is a major concern when it comes to exportation and importation of goods and services. It is not linked to the ocean where cargo ships can easily transport goods from one country to another without having to pass through land.

The question of what to do in Zimbabwe depends on the major interest of The Pharmacist whether he's going there to stay self employed or create one or two things that will yield income for him too. It's a matter of choice!

I know many expatriates in my country that are currently working and earning good salaries without staying idle. Although it all started from being a tourist before they finally settle down to acquire their own houses and get place to work. Some tourists/expatriates might decide to establish their own businesses and create employments to earn from multiple sources.

You need to stand that to live a routine lifestyle in a foreign country, you need to be there first to have a clue and knowledge of how things works there. Glancing through articles and tourism sites could also help you to sharpen and broaden your knowledge about such place so you can plan ahead.

No doubt that Zimbabwe is a great country, but you are sharing information from tourist point of view. It is fun to visit new countries and see new places, but Pharmacist was searching for country to live in. He would not visit Victoria Falls everyday, he could spend several months to visit every sightseeing place in Zimbabwe. Then what he should do? What his daily routine life in Zimbabwe would look like?

Zimbabwe is a great country I'm also looking forward to tour because of their vast culture and tourism for expatriates. The people in Zimbabwe are known to be courteous, friendly and cheerful. When meeting people most of them shake hands or say the common greetings. When women meet men, they curtsy or at gatherings they crouch down, as a sign of respect.

https://www.haikudeck.com/zimbabwe-education-presentation-NX9npY8bc1
Cotton, tobacco, gold, ferro alloys and textiles/clothing comprise the major items that Zimbabwe exports. Amazingly, Zimbabwe has one of the highest literacy rates in Africa. 86.5% of its population is literate.

Zimbabwe Currency
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) used to print money to fund the country’s budget deficit before early 2009. This led to hyperinflation that saw the reserve bank print a 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar note, which currently holds the record for the note with the highest number of zeros in recorded history.
The Zimbabwean government started releasing bond notes in November 2016 as a parallel currency. The government claimed that the bond notes will help ease cash shortages because it will have a one-to-one exchange ratio with the US dollar.


https://www.kickassfacts.com/zimbabwe-facts/
The World Bank stopped tracking inflation in Zimbabwe in November 2008, when it reached 79.6 billion percent. One year later, the country abandoned its currency. The exchange rate at the time was $35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars to $1 USD.

Victoria Falls
One of the largest waterfalls in the world, Victoria Falls, is located on the Zambezi River. It is wider than a kilometer and has a height of more than one hundred meters.

https://www.timbuktutravel.com/region/victoria-falls-zimbabwe-safari
The waterfall was named after Queen Victoria by well-known explorer of Africa David Livingstone (1813-1873) and was discovered in 1855. The noise of Victoria Falls can be heard from a distance of 40 kilometers. You can notice spray and mist from the falling water from a height of 400 meters, and it can be seen from a distance of 50 kilometers. During floods, the water flow capacity can reach approximately half a million liters per minute.

Another vote for the Philippines from me. One, it's where I was born in. Two, I happen to be, or had been, in a position, to know the former president. If that's not enough, I happen to be a commissioned officer in the military, so I can get away with very minor traffic violations, or enter places I would not otherwise have access to.

But even if you have none of those, its a decent enough place to live in, even if you are white as a vampire and stick out like a sore thumb. Stick to the top two large islands. If you decide you like the bottom one, try to stick to Davao city or other place that has large buildings, banks, shopping malls. You should be fine.

You can probably stay as a tourist for about 1 year, then you can worry about alien registration to stay longer or indefinitely. You'll need some sort of paperwork and documents if you intend to open bank accounts, and you'll need that even if you have lots of crypto / bitcoin because you'll have to pay for most things in fiat.

I thought about another good way how you live cheaply without spending much money. I got this idea from a friend during our university time, he managed to live for free for 2 years in really nice house. The good thing is this works all around the world with no need to move to a far away country for cheap housing. Unfortunately this only works alone, for a group of friends this is not feasible.
The basic idea is to find a city with a big university and strong housing demand. In that city you look for big houses close to campus with a lot seperate rooms. After renting the whole house, you divide it into single rooms that you then rent out to students. One room remains empty and will be your room, while rent of the house is divided by the remain rooms. Basically you become the landlord of a rented apartment. There is some risks involved and it costs time to manage it, but if you have good tenants there shouldn't be an issue. And if you have some spare time you could do things like taking care of the garden and clean the house and community areas. All these works you can then again charge the tenants. So if you don't mind living with students you could live for free. It's not like living a king, because the room is small and you have to share a kitchen with strangers. But you can atleast use your whole signature campaign funds for other things, like atleast eating and drinking like a king, or just investing that spare money.

But the problem is that things like this are sometimes not profitable for local residents in an area.
For example, in my area, there is a foreign company that is quite large, let's call it a company from country H. This company is quite large and is supported by government authorities on the grounds that it can add jobs. if you look closely, maybe yes, but if you look at the salary comparison that is applied, it is clear that this is quite far from the average, moreover they continue to bring foreign workers from their countries to be employed as superiors in their own companies and even though local residents have the ability in their fields, they still don't will be able to compete for the same position which in the end remains under the foreigner in office.
It's clear as if they want to monopolize the local residents to work continuously by depleting the state's natural resources but on the other hand the profits remain in their hands and the citizens who have power due to the reasons of the company owner.

I would say investing in crypto is very risky.. so fuck that ambiguous nonsense.

If you understand the difference between shitcoins (frequently referred to as "crypto") and bitcoin, then there are likely some very solid investment strategies for bitcoin, whether you are ONLY able to invest small amounts or if you can invest larger amounts, you should consider your investing into bitcoin to have a 4-10 year timeline or longer and develop a strategy that is tailored to your own circumstances. 

Bitcoin seems to be one of the best asymmetric bets to the upside that anyone (any normie) can make in these times, and you can choose very small amounts, which frequently cannot be accomplished through a large variety of other investments (not talking about shitcoins, here.. fuck shitcoins. don't get involved in anything other than bitcoin in terms of the crypto category)..

In regards to hacking. then there is going to be preferences to hold your bitcoin privately.. but many times, I do suggest to people that they should be able to hold on a reputable exchange until they get to a certain amount.. for sure, everyone is going to be different in terms of which exchanges are available or other ways to get bitcoin and to hold them privately, and if you are  possibly dealing with small amounts, then you might want to wait until they get to a certain level before moving them to your private wallet.

investing on crypto is very risky - don't you think so?
It is better to save up and invest in some local business which is reliable and authentic. People get money but the tales of hacking are very upsetting

If I were in your position I wouldn't know what to buy each week. Maybe save 30% on Bitcoin, and the rest take his wife and kids out for a walk. The ChipMixer signature campaign makes us envious, hope the ChipMixer campaign keeps going until I have the chance one day. It's amazing that all of you can support your family amidst the uncertainty of government policies that only hoard wealth for themselves.
Regardless, luckily the forum is still alive and we quite frankly rely heavily on signature campaigns. Whether it's just me or indeed almost 90% of all feel it. In my country, it is very difficult to get a permanent job, let alone have a bachelor's degree.