I wouldn't go to europe you will get killed on the exchange rate and yanks aren't so popular! I reckon pacific coast of costa rica or somewhere like that as you can take dollars and its safe. Maybe don't sell everything but get some cash and go down there in November for a few months. You can stay cheap in a hostel or a cabina, learn to surf see how you like it.

Check out Tamarindo and along the Guanacaste coast where there are quieter surf towns. Dominical is cool too.

Leave the girlfriend (no need to settle down yet, there will be plenty more around) Take your backpack and GO. Fly around the world, see where you like it the best. You'll get stuck somewhere half on the way surely! Wouldn't advice you to go to Europe though the euro blows. Sounds like you could use some culture shock experiences, owh and try girls in all sizes/ages and nationalities too :)

yea im not even thinking euro.. im trying to have a cheaper cost of living.. euro blows vs usd

I Invented selling everything and moving on.

I try to travel as much as I can because I can't LEAVE like you can....

You should be on expedia.com right now looking up fares so that you can go on a sample vacation.....do NOT just up and move anywhere without visiting first, especially if they don't speak english...

Do like buyandsell said and just live in a cheap hotel or hostel....And the only other bag besides your backpack that you should be carrying will contain your laptop.

I moved to another country last year. Even though the language is very similar to my native language and I can understand most of it I don't speak it at all yet. If you move to another country you will have to learn the language first or invest a lot of time learning it while you're there within the first 1-2 years.
It's hard to meet new people and make friends if you cannot comunicate with them. And you cannot expect people to speak English with you.
Why don't you move to California first? The weather is much better and you can go to the beach every day too.

I was 18 when I picked up and moved to a new country. If you have drive you can do anything.

go for it dude

No, you invented giving head to make ends meat.

dude - do it!!
ur a kid, with the world at ur fingertips
go have fun and explore :)

heheh what a great thread.. lots of good insight

if I had the $$ I would be in a loft in vancouver, and have a summer house somewhere nice.

hehe im not rich but i make enough to live very nice in a cheap country.. i mean i make more than 99% of my friends, but then again they work 9-5 makin $50k/yr :(

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

moving aint easy..

Go to Brazil!

Nice!!!

You went to Sabaneta probably....

Love the pics. By the way it must have been sometime ago. The beach is now white sand and way more condos. But nice to see you with the chicas ;)

V

i thought about BRazil but heard it isnt the safest, plus i need to know portugese

Get out and see the world now while you can man. Someday you'll be 30 or 40 plus... have a few kids and a wife... and you won't have the luxury of dropping everything and exploring the world and meeting new people.

Concerning your girl... well I know this is callous but there are over 6 billion people in the world. You'll meet another one thats great in the future.

wow 3 pages.. nice

why not get a place in florida/cali ? stay in NJ during summer and in sunny state during winter :pimp

cost..:(

so why dont you get a house first and pay that off... then you can fuck around the rest of your life and do whatever you want

whats the point of getting a house now? cost too much, plus i rather use the $300k for something else... houses arent all they are cracked up to be..

you can make better returns elsewhere.. besides i just want someone to live thats warm and more fun and cheaper

It really is a surfers/wannabe/wuckfad forum. :disgust
Page views and impressions pay the rent though.

Spend some quality time with your GI Joe or your GameBoy xxweekxx.
You'll get over it ..............

I'm 27 years old and at your age I had to make the same decision. I had the perfect opportunity to move with a free spirit girlfriend of mine at the time. Loved that girl to pieces. We broke up over my decision to stay. My decision was based on not wanting to leave friends and family behind.

Months and eventually a couple of years passed and I got stuck in the hometown/homebody mentality, content with the Boston scene and comfortable with the same old places and friends. Bought a car, accrued bills and got stuck in my ways. And as my friends started to move away, get married, and family started doing the same I came to the realization that I made a huge mistake.

And now 5 years later I've finally worked my way back to a place where I'm financially and mentally comfortable to make the jump again. As I'm typing this the ex that I said no to is traveling the globe as a traveling nurse with her fiance.

The moral of my story is that opportunity's only come once in awhile. Take it when you can.

btw before anyone says anything I'm not saying that 27 is old. Just that I wish I took the opportunity 5 years ago.

I'm pretty much in the same boat as you and im prolly 20 mins away in staten island. I'm 22, in my last year of college, made and saved some good money (offline) and now I'm just building sites and finishing school up unsure of what to do after it's over. One thing I do know though is that I love New York City and I don't wanna leave for shit. I'd travel and even stay in places for months at a time but NY feels like home.

maybe we should meet up :)

We are same age and i just graduated last yr..lol

good advice =)

hit me on icq dude, numbers in my profile

aiight man.. cool stuff

Costa Rica fucking sucks, don't come here if you know what's good for you

You're out of your mind and so is anybody else discouraging this guy from doing what he wants to do. I did it at 27 and have never regretted it, not for one minute. If you all love the sit in traffic, stand in line, be quiet, know your place, get gouged on everything you buy, wait for the jackbooted thug cop to smack you around for whatever nitpicky bullshit this time and big brother watching your every move and word life that is living in the US today, enjoy. By the way, enjoy that depression and the coming world war too. If you treasure your illusions and are comfortable in your denial, have a blast.

Some of the rest of us are courageous enough to strike out, explore and see that the world DOESN'T revolve around the US and that there are NO dragons outside "the colonies". Just like those who went West, the sailors who got on ships going to nowhere and discovered new worlds and every other person brave enough to drop the status quo and think for themselves, there will always be sacrifices and fear of the uknown. But the rewards, the experiences and the wisdom of a life well lived are worth the change that some of you so desperately fear.

You know what you call somebody who speaks one language? American.

Panama is the fastest growing country and economy in Latin America, the #1 real estate market in this HEMISPHERE and one hell of a party country. There's every imaginable water sport in two oceans an hour away from one another with a strip of mountains down the middle that add all of those options too. It's 85 degrees every day, we've got the same rainy season that Florida does and there's no natural disasters here. The US, Central and South America and the Caribbean are a couple hours flight away. There's non-stop flights to Canada and Europe and there's commuter flights all over Panama, Costa Rica and COlombia. The cost of living is great and the quality of living makes up for the stupidity of the people. I haven't washed a dish or cleaned my house in 3 years. I barely touch the kitchen and if I want to go out to eat with 4 or 5 friends, I don't have to budget in advance like you do in a decent restaurant in the states.

There are tens of thousands of foreigners from every country in the world here because there's $140,000,000,000 (that's right, BILLION) in foreign investment pouring into this country and it's a wild west, entrepreneur's dream. Unlike the US, Canada, Europe or most of the rest of the world, here you can be a big fish in a little pond and the money is just as good as it would've been 100 years ago in the US. There's opportunities everywhere for somebody with a brain and the ability to innovate. The "good 'ol boys club" can be circumvented easily with a little brain power and some payoffs. The corruption here is the good kind that helps you, not the kind that keeps you poor and scraping in the US or the kind that shoots you and kidnaps you in Mexico or Brazil.

Did I mention the women? Forget all of that feminist, "Why are you looking at me?", "You don't drive a ferrari, so fuck you" nonsense. The women here are amazing. They're gorgeous, they fuck like animals and best of all, they're actually WOMEN. They enjoy being feminine and all of that idiocy that American guys have to put up with doesn't exist. The Colombianas, Venezuelans, Dominicans, Ticas, Chinese girls, Russians and yes, even Americans, Canadians, French girls, Dutch, German...on and on. They're all here for the same reasons you are and they're a blast to party with in this place that loves to party.

Stop thinking so small and THINK FOR YOURSELF!

I think what he's doing is great and I encourage him and anyone else who isn't tied to WalMart and Applebees for existence to consider it too. There's nothing more freeing, more gratifying and more amazing than to live out of a backpack.

The world's waiting and if you're here, you can most likely work on a laptop. WTF are you waiting for? :pimp

haha perfect.. i know im still gonna do it.. i dont see why not? I built up enough cushion so even if i dont make any income ill be ok for a few years living over there..Plus i dont see how thats possible cuz im making good money again..

Ill def be flying out to panama in a month and half and youll be my guide :)

gonna go check out panama something in october.. will see how it goes

Dude, I have moved once a year every year since 2001 and I love it.. Every time I pack up my webcam and my fav stuff, leave the rest of the crap behind, and move somewhere where I know no one and nothing about the area. This time last year I was in Denver, Colordao, and now I live 8 miles from the beach in Orange County.. and I don't find it scary it all.. its amazing and exciting and liberating.. grow some balls, dump ur girl and travel.

...What he said

everyone saying dump the gf and move on.. how ez is that

Its funny how very few (one maybe) people mentioned education. You said you were fine where you are and the people you knew while you were in college. I think a good temporary solution would be to continue college? Why not? You never said you didn't like school or the work involved. Just because your degree is finished doesn't mean you HAVE to be done.