Originally published via Armageddon Safari: One would hope this is just about drawing more tourism dollars, one of the major economic engines of the country — and yet, when the social engineers who pimp globo-homo race communism get involved, there’s always some darker ulterior motive afoot. Via Bangkok Post (emphasis added): “The Bangkok Pride Parade is scheduled for May 31 as Thailand bids to host World Pride 2030. One of the region’s major Pride parades is set to take place on Silom Road under the theme “Patch the World with Pride”, conveying a message […]

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Originally published via Armageddon Safari: “Horrendous” also applies here, but I didn’t want to oversaturate the headline with adjectives. (Tucker Carlson’s “more verbs, less adjectives” mantra is the best writing advice perhaps ever dispensed.) Often, in East and Southeast Asia, picking out the Chinese based on purely physical features is more of an art than a science. Related: My Gold-Standard Expat Memoir: Back and Better Than Ever With the Second Edition While it’s true that, as a rule of thumb, compared to their Southeast Asian peers, Chinamen tend to have lighter […]

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Louis Potenziano, also known as Bangkok Louie, is an American expat who has been living in Bangkok for over 6 years. He owns O’Leary’s Irish Pub (Soi 15, Sukhumvit), Louie’s on 15 Bamboo and Bourbon, a Thai European restaurant in the same area. Before moving to Bangkok, he worked in Doha on a hospital project, where he led a team installing integrated low-voltage security and communications systems. Q. How did the name ‘Bangkok Louie’ come about? I will tell you but I must go back in history, my history. My […]

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Originally published via Armageddon Safari: I recently stumbled upon a true gem of an X post from @kunley_drukpa — not necessarily a ringing endorsement of expat life in India, but an expert treatise on the “low trust society” that rings all too true for anyone with experience in the Third World. A small excerpt: “A few years ago now I spent some time in India. One of the more lasting impressions I have from that period was the degree to which the low trust environment there (of a kind) wore me down mentally and transformed […]

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Originally published via Armageddon Safari: Sometimes stereotypes hold true. Case in point: Asian men do indeed, as a rule of thumb, as anyone who has watched Japanese pornography may have noticed, tend to have smaller-than-average packages compared to those of the European persuasion and definitely pitted against the Africans. (I discuss issues related to the phallus in the context of living in East Asia as an expat extensively in my top-selling memoir, Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile.) Accordingly, the Asian market is rife with all manner of pills and potions to […]

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Originally published via PJ Media: What follows is a (mostly) unedited excerpt from my critically acclaimed, gold-standard expat travel memoir/existentialist treatise, “Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile”: The degenerate felon with whom I had come to briefly reside in South Georgia in 2006 through a series of unfortunate events, in my younger years, asked me for a cigarette. Tyrone had none because he refused to buy any. Inhaling deeply the smoke he hadn’t paid for, Tyrone once said to me: “Get it how you live.” For sure. November 12, 2018: Me and […]

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Introduction Amsterdam was not meant to change everything. For most business travellers and expats, it is just another European city on the itinerary—a convenient spot for meetings, conferences, or short-term projects. The plan is always simple: arrive, work, explore a little, and leave with some nice memories and a few photos. But Amsterdam has different ideas. Beneath the picture-perfect canals and tourist-friendly surface lies something more powerful: a place where temporary visitors accidentally discover what they’ve been missing. It’s not the museums or nightlife that hooks them—it’s the morning bike […]

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A quaint fishing village on the Pacific in the middle of nowhere, Santa Cruz, Mexico is best described by its proximity to Puerto Vallarta, which itself was a fishing village until a few decades ago when some gringo celebrities turned it into a sodomy-laden tourist destination. Related: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in Full Color Santa Cruz is still the real deal. Farmers ride horses where they please and shirtless motorbike riders with their toddlers on their laps don’t wear helmets. Cockfight Above: A bona fide cockfight, during which farmers strap razor […]

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In 2016, 209,000 expats were living in Shanghai, enjoying a lifestyle that encompasses change, innovation and technology. It’s a metropolis of diversity, with a unique blend of old and new, eastern and western culture, business and play, along with a fascinating rate of development. But why else is Shanghai such an attractive option for Australian expats? Why should they go – and more importantly – why should they stay? A thriving economy Shanghai is China’s growing business capital, so it might be likely that an impressive job offer is the […]

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Most people know Costa Rica for its biodiversity, adventure tours, and beautiful beaches. But its landscape and various terrains doesn’t make it any different from neighboring countries such as Nicaragua or Guatemala. So do you REALLY know Costa Rica? Here’s a list of 10 things you probably don’t know, but should. It’s Not Cheap Visitors tend to think that because Costa Rica is located in Central America, it must be cheap–Wrong. There are reasons behind the high cost of living in Costa Rica, and it’s directly related to why people […]

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Belize is all the buzz these days for expats looking to downsize their expenses, live the simple life and retire in a picturesque setting sure to be the envy of their friends and family. So you’ve got the itch to pack your bags, but maybe you’re not ready to hang your hat or your nest egg isn’t quite ready to hatch? If you’re considering the good life in Belize and wondering what it takes to start a business, here’s some advice from 4 expats that took the plunge and brought […]

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There is a famous song in the 90’s by TLC which advised not to chase waterfalls, but to stick with the rivers and lakes that you are used to. But what if you could have it all? I believe that we should chase waterfalls, metaphorically and physically. If we don’t chase after waterfalls to places and dreams we aspire for, then how would we ever reach paradise? I set out on a journey to Dominican Republic in June for the first time to a province many have not yet heard of named […]

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I hopped on the skytrain at Victory Monument in Bangkok sporting my “Tintin in Vietnam” shirt and a camera holstered around the neck and was quickly greeted with an old expat standing next to me who said out loud to no one in particular, “there are so many F*(&&ing tourists in town right now”. This was the same expat who then pushed out a rather large chubby boy when a seat opened up as both were heading towards one of the empty seats. The young kid started crying and ran […]

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Caribbean Chic and Volcanic VIPS in the Dead Zone “Lifestyles of the rich and famous” spokesman Robin Leach has nothing on budget jetsetter John M. Edwards. A West Indies “Old Hand” — One who cannot sail, surf or fish – he still says Montserrat can’t be beat for ATMO. If you don’t mind destruction and destitution in the wake of a deadly volcanic eruption … Maybe Montserrat? You plan your next Caribbean vacay around a disaster of legendary dimensions, an “active” island of ashes and dust associated with flash jetsetters […]

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John M. Edwards grabs his “Beachcombers Card” and does Divali (Festival of Lights) on delicious Mauritius, a paradisiacal Indian Ocean isle–once the roost of extinct dodos, now the boast of professional beachbums–which initially he can’t place on a map! “Incredible!” You are from New York?!” boomed Willy Van Damme, a friendly Belgian restaurateur and former soldier of fortune, in the sleepy resort town of Péreybere. “Very rare! We get almost no Americans, only French, South Africans, some Germans, English, and the odd Italian.” At a snap of Willy’s fingers, an […]

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