@Mma ******

I know how things work- I was asking Lindsey to explain. Not for me.

@Lindsey ******

maybe share some of that info to help them? I’m also curious.

Yep you’re every bit of 19 alright, there’s so many of us with lived experience which is why the group exists- to help sort and navigate and disseminate information- but you will say with your whole chest we are wrong. 😞 do you babes. What you learn will be very valuable to someone coming behind you.

Hopes, dreams and goals are of supreme importance, but being armed with information and the experience of those who have trod the path before you is invaluable.

Many of the people in this group have been in Thailand and Southeast Asia for many years, dating back to when you could just walk in and be western and make big bucks. That is not the case today, especially with some shifts that the Thai government is making currently. (Since Covid all SEA has buttoned up and is extremely exploitive of ‘teachers’. Your idea is sound but you’re at least eight years behind the curve of reality. I miss it too, but denial ain’t it.

Wish you all the best.

There are many many, ways to survive in the world, but you won’t get rich. I left dirt poor 10 years ago and have not had to return. You can do the same, but you will need to open your mind a bit and listen . It’s not as simple or direct as it may seem to you in this moment. The group exists to help people avoid tough lessons. There’s nothing like setting up house somewhere and having to leave. It sucks. We are just trying to help somebody else not go through that.

Also, please be mindful of your internal and external attitudes?

If you think you can just walk in and be a teacher that is sort of disrespecting people that have put in the work to become teachers. I’m not being mean, I am just suggesting that you pause and consider that point.

@Dave *********

I don’t understand the desire to be so simplistic and just slap labels on everything and then try to cement them. I’m not a left anything but I’d rather be whatever I am than what you are. You personifify the problem. 🙄 the first and last argument of the fool is ridicule. Boring.

Mexico has changed its policies and n the last two years to include more and more regulations- and why shouldn’t they. But you are woefully under informed and overly confident in what you think is your knowledge.

Also not for nothing, it will always be the old white man with a SEA woman on their arm who is the final authority and arbiter of all things in regard to SEA… or any discussion on any topic that may arise. He loves to snigger and try to humiliate and leave laugh emojis as evidence of his righteousness. Boring, predictable, inflated. Mediocre? Feel you’re not appreciated in your home country- move to SEA and be acknowledged and treated accordingly to your superiority. 🤮

We can say not all, but certainly well more than half - this is the landscape. Been out here a long time,

stereotypes are born from types that are a majority. Boohoo somewhere else wankers.

@Jim ******

I live in India and have traveled here extensively- that percentage is ridiculously inaccurate.

I worry that won’t matter to you and will only draw your ire, but carry on.

@Abhishek *****

but are you a teacher or are you someone who speaks English that wants to teach for your income? Because yeah there’s racism but also not even respecting the profession or the students and then complaining about how you’re shut out- that’s conflating two different factors and wanting to lay all the blame at the feet of racism. Racism is real 💯 but so is people of all colors that speak English deciding it’s ok for them to teach. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Bhia, you owe me no explanation, this is just an exercise in conversation 👍🏼

@Dave *********

not all Indians!? What a weird thing to say. I live here and there are as many English dialects to be heard throughout this country as exist in any so-called native English speaking country. I would even venture to say that the majority of Indians throughout the country speak English fully from a VERY early age.

I lived in Vietnam several years and have spent plenty of time in SEA- India is easier because of the English spoken here, and in many instances it’s cheaper.