Quote from: Crypto_I.N on June 13, 2022, 09:58:53 PM

Quote from: Dabs on June 09, 2022, 11:52:36 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on June 09, 2022, 08:04:50 PM

Are you suggesting that there would be significantly high safety issues for whities who stand out too much in the Philippines? Does familiarity help with not being a kidnapping/ransom target, or are there just some folks who are targeting whities for economic reasons in the more rural areas (or the areas that you outlined)?

Only in the really isolated far areas. There are lots of whities in the big cities, so it's no longer much of an issue. All the police are there too, to make sure whities don't become targets.

The whities who end up in the news are the ones going too far away from civilization or some secluded beach spot, and where there is little to no law enforcement. Don't go there, you'll be fine.

Hm, this is another kind of discrimination that exists in various parts of the world, but it will be very difficult to stop if something like this happens in a country or an ethnic group within a country.
The role of security will also be a little more difficult to say if it is wise to respond to things like this, even though there are punishments but only as a formality without making them aware.
In this case in my area there is also this kind of thing which is indeed very difficult to control but in this case in my country it is more based on belief than race because my country is a country that is quite compatible in terms of race but it is very difficult to accept and mutually tolerance in terms of beliefs and based on religion.

For sure my way of framing my question might not have been very artful; however, it seems that the reality of any of these kinds of personal assessments about "what to do" and "will I feel safe" in one area of the world versus another area of the world happens to have some factors regarding how much will I stand out as a sore thumb or not.

I don't really consider any of these kinds of conversations to be very productive if we are just proclaiming that there are various injustices in the world.. which inevitably is true.. but maybe attempting to figure out some of the factors of safety that are likely to change at various points in time and surely boots on the ground can sometimes give some senses about feelings of being safe and also incidents that might occur from time to time. . There are likely some areas of the world in which rule of law and even disruption is greater than other areas, and I would consider that non-warring areas should be better than areas in which civil conflict is taking place. Some places also may not have enough tourism in order to have created some tolerance for tourists.. whether they have a different skin color or not (whether the tourists are going to excessively stand out or not).

Some responses that I see in this thread mention these kinds of safety consideration factors, and some do not... and surely sometimes what is happening on the ground in any particular location may well be different than the media representations that exist, too (or what we might easily be able to find through internet sources.. if we were to attempt to do that kind of leg work researching about any specific location).. Even though in this thread we might be able to either get some kind of introduction to some place in the world that we had not considered or we might be able to get some kinds of short cut research from a certain kind of forum member perspective about some places that s/he has visited or lived, I do not even expect members who participate in these kinds of threads to have to be unbiased, but surely some members are going to be better at presenting ideas and factual information in more unbiased ways as compared with other members, too.

Quote from: Sithara007 on June 14, 2022, 02:59:12 AM

Stop living in dreamland. Average earnings from signature campaigns nowadays are $200-$250 per month. Gone are the days when campaigns like PrimeDice and Yobit used to pay four-digit salaries for just displaying their signature. And I am living in a third world country and here it is impossible to live like a king, if you are earning less than $2,000 per month. You can live in relative comfort if you have $1,000 per month. And I am sure that nowhere in the world, you can live like a king, if you earn $200-$250 per month. My advice - just work hard, learn new skills and invest your money properly. Maybe within the next 20 years, you will be able to retire and live like a king.

I don't really disagree with your various points or your suggestion about some likely better courses of action - especially in regards to building up some kind of an investment nestegg, but still you do seem to be fighting with the hypothetical way too much - and maybe just fighting for the mere sake of fighting, no?

Remember the hypothetical also involved 5 guys making $300 per week each.. so maybe there are some unrealistic aspects of the hypothetical, too.. but you just seem to go out there and just totally go into your own only quasi-related talking points. Cheesy