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OP, why exactly do you want to move to a different country? It seems like there're very few commonalities between the places you have picked and your plans on what to do there. Why do you want to move and get a job rather than going as a traveller? Why a foreign country and not another part of the USA?
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Mar 11, 2016 05:07
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Backpacking is a way better way to have that experience than TEFL.
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Mar 11, 2016 05:56
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Backpacking: buy a ticket to another continent, bringing only the things you can carry in a backpack, and travel on a tiny budget. Pick up work at hostels or farms if you feel like on the way. When you don't have a job contract, you can see a lot more and move on whenever you get tired of a place. In most places outside North America lodging is much cheaper and it's easier to get around without a car, so you can travel very freely. I recommend this over committing to move to a foreign country. Because if your new workplace sucks, or living abroad isn't everything you thought it'd be, you're stuck there, and you can't predict whether or not you'll like a place you've never been. (In Japan, China, & Korea in particular, a lot of people commit to TEFL, then as soon as the exoticism of the new country wears off, they realize they don't want to live in a culture as a semi-literate outsider, or they don't like teaching, or they like American communication styles better. But then they're on a contract.)
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