Travel Pro Tip #33: How to Live Travel Pro! Inspired by @jedau. Part Six: Maximize Your Purchasing Power Through International Living! (Part II)

Hey there my Steemit friends! "Maximizing Your Purchasing Power Through International Living" is a key strategy for any savvy long term budget traveler. In the last post I asked a series of questions, to help get you in the mindset of how to think when Living Travel Pro!

What's your budget? What are you working with? What's your income while traveling? Can you afford to travel perpetually? Can you afford to travel anywhere perpetually? How about living in a hotel in Paris France for a month at $100 dollar as night? Can you afford $3,000 dollars a month in rent; for a year, for ten years?

To paint you a better picture let's say you decide to travel and spend a month in Paris. You negotiate a good deal on a hotel for a week at $60 dollars per night, you eat out three meals a day costing your about $50 dollars more per day, with a little sight seeing and entertainment we add another $100 per week, then getting around using public transportation we add another $50 per week.

So after doing the math you would have spent $870 in one week. That's over $3,500 a month, not including what it cost to get you to Paris in the first place. Can you afford to spend almost $4,000 dollars a month without working, and just perpetually traveling. I can't, it would blow me out of the water and I simply could not live how I do if I chose destinations like this to spend my time in.

Now let's take Chaing Mai Thailand; one of my favorite budget travel destinations on the planet. A place where I've spent four months of my life, in a country where I've spent over two years of my life since age twenty. Thailand, one of my favorite Pay Less Get More countries in the world.

For this example I'll think back on the three weeks I stayed there in October of 2017. I negotiated a very clean and comfortable hotel room with a fan, hot water, and very good wifi. It was a little bit small but I was very comfortable as the family who owned the place was very nice and took exceptional care of the hotel and their guests. I negotiated the room for six dollars a night!

For food I splurged and spent maybe eight dollars a day on average including going to this awesome all you can eat barbecue buffet for six dollars a few times a week. I spent no money on transportation because everywhere was within walking distance. I got about four massages a week for $4.50 a message. For entertainment I spent maybe another $10 dollars total for the week.

If you add that up it comes to about $126 per week. About $500 dollars a month, and if you give up the massages it's closer to $400 dollars a month. If you rent an apartment monthly it's closer to $300 dollars a month. If you rent an apartment and cook your own food, it's closer to $225. Now that's how you Live Travel Pro!

Let's not forget that Chaing Mai is clean, the food is great, the people are nice, it's low crime, it's organized. Anyone making the argument....."Yeah, but you're living in a third world hell hole" Couldn't be more wrong. Chaing Mai is an All Star Travel Pro Budget Destination! A place where you Pay Less and you get Much More!

Chaing Mai and places like Chaing Mai are destinations you need to spend months of the year so you can Live Life Travel Pro. Living for $400 dollars a month at destinations like this for six months of the year will balance out your budget so you can spend the other six months of the year traveling to destinations like Paris and other places hopefully less expensive if you choose.

Chaing Mai is just one destination of many around the world that will keep you in the financial driver seat. I find it so funny when people ask me how I afford to travel. Then I tell them that I rented a fully furnished all utilities and wifi included apartment for $190 dollars a month in Vilcabamba Ecuador and I cooked my own meals for another $80 dollars a month; then I watch the expression on their face.

The same time next week I'll be publishing the third part of this theme of "Maximizing Your Purchasing Power Through International Living". I hope that anyone following this series is enjoying learning the tricks of the trade on How to Live Travel Pro! Until Next Time! -Dan "World Travel Pro!"

With over 11 years of travel experience I answer travel and international lifestyle questions. Leave a question in the comments and I may make a Steemit post just for you!

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