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How can this be done when the average tourist visa lasts for anywhere between 15 to 90 days? If I can only make a pick out of the countries that offer a working

• scarmig 13y ago
  Getting a job teaching English can provide a work visa. Easier to do in some places than others, though. There's also a middle ground I might consider ideal: choose 4 places to go to, and spend 3 months in each. You can't pick up everything a city has to offer in 3 months (let alone a country!), but it gets you much further than the 3 days here, 4 days there strategy. Cuts down on travel and housing costs, too, both monetarily and temporally. If you want more extended trips than that, you can often go on a day-to-weeklong vacation to a neighboring country and return to where you were before, bringing it to a 6 month stay in a city. I'd almost argue that if you want to be there longer than that, you actually should pick up a local job, not just to fund yourself (which is probably a minor point for most of us) but because it deepens your experience in a place. If you're pretty well-off, at least some countries will offer you an "investment visa" if you can prove you have hundreds of thousands of dollars in liquid assets.
• scheff 13y ago
  There are ways of getting around it. Travel to S.E Asia and meet some expats who have retired there. For some countries this is easier to get around than others. Mostly, people just do border runs when their 90 days are up.