Do you like travelling? Where have you been?

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Troll_Whisperer said:

2000cc said:

Troll_Whisperer said:

2000cc said:

Born & raised in Australia, but lived in Orange County (California USA) for a year, Kyoto Japan for a year & now living in New Zealand. I love to try & live in countries & try and get into the culture as much as possible rather than just visiting them.

short visit wise I've been to too long of a list of countries to bother with

Currently I'm thinking of basing myself in NZ permanently & going on a trip to europe spending a few months in a few countries (because there are so many!) & I visit harajuku Japan for around a month each year because its the fashion capital of the world (which is a higher priority than anything else for me, not to be a gender cliche or anything) in my eyes (beats milan, paris & new york by a magnitude imo!)

Bolded: I know, I love that too. Had a great experience in London and I can't wait to live in Japan.

Italics: wow, you have a lot of time and money...

Yeah Japan is my favourite country worldwide, but being a blonde, blue eyed white girl I'd never fit in living there, So NZ it is, its still a great place (just not harajuku, tokyo haha)

You'll love Japan its amazing

& yeah I'm lucky to be an only child from an upper class famiily with parents who want nothing more than to pay me off & have me out of their way, so i do have plenty of resources & not having to work (if i dont want to, because of the upper class resources thing) helps too. Sounds amazing,doesnt it?, but the reality is not so great, can't fault the ability to travel though!

You must be  kidding, they love blond, blue eyed white girls! You'd be superpopular. Even a scruffy brown haired, brow eyed white mess like me can raise a few looks, lol. You could be an English teacher, there's crazy demand for native speakers, you don't even need to have studied anything related to teaching.

I was in Japan already for a couple of months, but living there is definitely going to be refreshing.

You're life sounds great, what's 'not so great' about it?

Haha I actually was an english teacher over there, I spent around 3-4 months each at 4 differnt schools in Kyoto through a progranm run from Australia called JET

Yeah while they 'love' blond blue eyed types, they'll be nice to you initailly, but over time you realise you'll never actually fit in because of it. It got so bad some of the wives of other teachers wouldn't allow their husbands to hang out with me at all. Not saying they are not nice, they are extra nice consistently to your face, but there is a difference between people being pleasant to you and people actually accepting you as 'one of them'. The first definitely, the latter sadly would never happen for me, I was actually kind of lucky to leave when i did as one of the wives in particular was pretty toxic toward me & things were getting very awkward.

Living there is fun though, & as you are not an australian 'beach' girl (thats the most simple term many use these days I believe) but a male (who are far more respected over there than females) you shouldnt have any problems with friends & colleagues wives (& their connections) etc

hahaha, well thats too long to answer here & you'd probably get bored halfway through the answer anyway, dont want to seem like the poor little rich girl in public, or get banned