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"Living like a local" in most places means spending the majority of your waking hours working to pay rent and much of the rest of it doing household chores, and
by notahacker 4y ago
"Living like a local" in most places means spending the majority of your waking hours working to pay rent and much of the rest of it doing household chores, and your rare trips out being more likely to be to McDonalds than to enjoy the local cuisine...
- randomdata 4y agoThat's how I like to travel. Stay with someone, help with their chores, go to work when they do (the benefits of WFH), basically mirror the life they live. Those rare trips get compressed somewhat, largely because being able to share the experience with the host means that there is greater desire to make those rare trips happen while I am there as a guest, but not excessively.
- hunter-gatherer 4y agoThere used to be (maybe still is) a pretty robust couch surfing crowd in the days before airbnb. I did a decent amount of traveling that way in my 20s around the world and was able to accomplish this that way. Good times.