The only thing about this country is the corrupt government. The living cost is quite low (on average $300 a month if you have a property, which are quite cheap)
Living in bigger cities is similar to first world countries, but rural areas are lovely, in special in mountains.
You have a bit more freedom of movement and choice than countries like UK. E.g. in my hometown and around, I never paid for a parking ticket, because there are none. Parking is free anywhere basically. Maybe on bigger cities you can find parking where you may have to pay.
That is just an example.
I love to go on trips around the country on most beautiful places ever; I can be on the road as much as I want for minimum costs.
The only big downside are salaries. If you work online and have an income from your blogs / hive / YouTube or any other sources, you may earn many times the minimum wage, comparing to other countries where is not even enough to live.
As an example, minimum wage in Romania per month is about €450 BEFORE TAX. Living based an online income there, and you can live really well. It really depends the area, of course.
Currently, I live in the UK but I plan to return back soon; One of my dreams is to live on the road on a motorhome and travel as much as possible, to every corner of Romania, because so much is left unseen.
Gabriel.
The UK is also very strict with surveillance as bad as the USA and much worse free speech and self defense laws. Do you think that is part of the reason why you like to travel? To get away from all of the rules and tyranny?
I love to travel because I love the nature, landscapes, places away from cities where the most beautiful sides of earth exists. I hate living in towns, and I would trade everything to be away!
yes, that is a good idea, towns create chaos, problems, more crime, etc. I want to live in the countryside or in a rural area on the outskirts of town. :)
yes i am familiar with government corruption from visiting Latin America, and also places like the USA, though in my opinion pretty much all governments are corrupt, so I dont see that much difference..they are just corrupt in different ways I guess. If it is corruption in the form of needing to bribe cops sometimes and also bribes to bet paperwork done and stuff, I am ok with that, and just see it as a small tax basically.
As long as the government leaves non violent people alone and does not meddle in my affairs, thats what I care about. In the USA, if your garage was built 2 inches too close to your house, they will send a government worker to your house to terrorize you and give you fines and will keep coming back, it is terrible. You must have a license for everything. Or for example, if you use cash, cops can come and steal it from you for ANY reason. Or a woman can just accuse you of sexual misconduct and ruin your life with no proof. I myself, had a small bit of drugs on me one time, and here they give you a FELONY charge just for having possession...I didnt hurt a fly or bother anyone, and now because the country is tyrannical, I am forever labeled in the same category as dangerous violent criminals, for the rest of my life, even if the charges are dropped, people can see that you are a felon FOREVER.
So you see, that is the type of tyranny that I am trying to escape my friend. I dont mind if the infrastructure is a little old or slow, or if I am inconvenienced with some things, as long as I dont have to constantly worry about my life being ruined or seriously damaged for no reason, or having my privacy violated and having my every movement tracked.
Wow, it’s pretty rigid life and rules and laws there in America. I was thinking to visit it as a tourist but seem so complicated.
I am sad to hear about your events. That is definitely not okay to be classified like this. :(
Yes, basically the "American Dream" is dead, and the USA is not a free country, it is quickly becoming one of the less free. The one advantage USA does have with freedom however is freedom of speech, I will admit that the USA probably has the best free speech protection in the world, but that is about it, everything else is pretty much mediocre or negative.
Well as a tourist it is probably ok to visit once or twice, its just a bad place to live. It depends on where you want to visit though...a lot of the popular tourist places I think you will be SHOCKED to see that they are nothing like how you see in movies, they are not glamorous at all, and you will probably find them to be extremely disappointing. New York City for example is one of the worst places I have ever been to: cold, rainy, dirty, rat infested, unfriendly, loud, crowded, and one of the most expensive places anywhere in the world. Detroit is similar, not quite as bad traffic and not as expensive but also run down and many areas are VERY unsafe, even just walking at night is a bad idea. Miami is a ghetto full of rude and arrogant folks and gold diggers, it is just extremely..ghetto (thats where the Miami "accent" comes from, its not really its own accent, its basically just a generic ghetto accent to be blunt). California is not much better: most people want to visit LA, Hollywood, and San Francisco, and Hollywood is fun, but San Francisco is a massive ghetto now too, needles and trash everywhere and homeless camps all over, with the bad smell of fish with the harbor nearby, and LA is ok but awful traffic takes forever to get anywhere. Cali is also ridiculously expensive: 2 hour parking can easily be $28...yes thats right, PARKING is $28! I hate to use the word "ghetto" so much but that is simply how to accurately describe them.
if you want to visit, you are much better staying away from the tourist areas and big cities. Go bike riding or hiking in Virginia, hunting/shooting in upper Michigan, go to the observatory in Colorado, maybe come during a festival or something if you like that, perhaps the USA Bitcoin conference, visit Keene, New Hampshire if you like Libertarians, or maybe visit more of the off the beaten path stuff in Texas.
Anyway, just some suggestions, and also trying to prepare you for disappointment, as there is a lot of misinformation about the USA being some great utopia or something, and it is just not true.
Hope that info is helpful to you, I do hope I was not too negative, just want you to have realistic expectations, cheers. :)
Thank you for the detailed post. Is better to be realistic than hide the important stuff; no worries at all about all negative opinion. I currently live not far from London and I visited it about three times in 7 years. And is just one hour drive - I don’t like big cities, I never did. The only big cities I would consider visiting in the event of a trip to USA are Hollywood / Las Vegas (just for fun, no betting). I am more like a nature person. I would love to visit the Grand Canyon, take the Route 66, go through Utah and visit those stunning desert landscapes, and maybe a trip to Houston, if I get to Texas (big fan of NASA) lol.
It’s a huge trip with difficulties of obtaining visa for tourist, but if I will have the financial opportunity for such a trip, those are the main points I want to visit.
Thanks again for all the detailed information. I appreciate it.
No problem, glad it can be of use to you. Yes, Nevada actually has very scenic areas once you get outside the city, lots of things to see just 20-30 mins outside of Vegas. Actually the more nature and outdoors kind of things are where the USA has some strengths imo (though most of our beaches are crap: no white sand or clear water, and tons of seaweed and garbage that washes up in any USA beach I have ever been to). There are some famous trails also that are a few states long.
If you do visit, it sounds like you have a solid gameplan!