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Zark · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:53 am Post subject:

The people with the real cajones are those who stay home, work the mortgage, drive the suv, pump out the kids. There really is something to that discipline.

Don't know how they do it.

I gots me wanderin' shoes on . . .

Falstaff · Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Location: Ansan

metalhead · Joined: 18 May 2010 Location: Toilet

Fallacy · Joined: 29 Jun 2015 Location: ex-ROK

tardisrider · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: Seoul

yodanole · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Location: La Florida

As concerns Korea or Japan or China or wherever "Where ever you are, there you are". As concerns Atlanta, it's Sharknado III ( Oh Hell No !!! _)

Fallacy · Joined: 29 Jun 2015 Location: ex-ROK

tardisrider · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: Seoul

PRagic · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

If you had asked this question 20-30 years ago, I may have said no.

Now, however? Come on. The path has been trodden so long by so many, and there is so much information that it really isn't that big of a deal to do a year or three over here any more. Most hit the ground running.

The expat scene in Seoul and other larger cities is massive, there is little difficulty finding many of the comforts of home in terms of food and supplies, and Koreans are much more internationally minded than they once were.

jcd · Joined: 13 Mar 2012

No most people I know have no idea how I can live here.
They would freak out just visiting let alone living here.

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

A couple of my best friends from back home did do this and enjoyed it enough. None of them stayed as long as I have though. My immediate family barely ever gets out of my hometown and I'm quite sure some of them would just curl up and die if they tried to live here.

PRagic · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

That's merely the difference between could and would. Could they? Absolutely not a problem. Would they? That's another issue.

Over the years I've had friends and family visit. They loved it. The key is breaking down the old misconceptions about life here. Another buddy is visiting in a couple of months. He's been here before and is psyched for a visit.

I remember a big one page story in the Wall Street Journal about ESL teachers in China. They made it sound so exotic and exiting. Oooohhhh, they had to go to another Asian country to get a visa renewal. Yawn.

Who's Your Daddy? · Joined: 30 May 2010 Location: Victoria, Canada.

I have a friend who would love living here. We used to go to Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants. We would go to bars with Chinese girls and chat them up.

But he could never stand working here. He would probably punch a sixth grader within a month.

Hokie21 · Joined: 01 Mar 2011

Yes, I think just about all of my friends could do it. The only friend who I don't think could do it is a guy who refuses to fly and doesn't eat spicy food or vegetables or seafood so...yeah.

Living and working in Korea is not nearly as hard or difficult as most people make it out to be. It continues to amaze me that people find it stressful...I mean c'mon now, it's a teaching gig and your school takes care of most of your bills.

Least stressful job I've ever had.

World Traveler · Joined: 29 May 2009

It varies school to school. At some places, students are rude, inattentive, disrespectful, and disinterested in learning English. That can be demoralizing.