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Originally Posted by rbracco
Yeah we would be in the low season and Crete is the only place warm enough. Not sure what part of Crete yet, somewhere around one of the bigger towns and near a nice beach would be ideal. We are looking at Argentina/Colombia, one of the guys is moving to Cambodia though so he doesn't want to go to thailand.
What about somewhere on the coast of Italy? Crete is nice btw, just those two towns I was in weren't somewhere I'd be particularly keen on staying past the two weeks I was in them. Dunno if you've experience with them, but there was a huge population of Roma Gypsies there and where there is Roma, there is trouble.
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Originally Posted by rbracco
btw in addition to crete we are also looking at Dahab, Egypt and Buenos Aires, Argentina, and possibly brazil pretty heavily if anyone has input on those places.
@urubu, how is Natal?
I've stayed in Sharm El Sheik in Egypt and it's amazing. If you could find something residential there you'd be set, the place is beautiful and a lot of fun too. It's very touristy but theres loads and loads of clubs and restaurants in an area called Nama Bay, hot girls, partying etc. Not your traditional muslim area, safe to say. There's also casinos there with high limit action vs tourist fish so it'd be pretty sweet for competent poker players.
I've also been to Cairo which I wouldn't really return to, it's a pretty scary area if I'm being honest and to a westerner I couldn't imagine living there comfortably. It has become very muslim and is a bit of a giant slum, with super dangerous road conditions 24/7. I'd imagine crime is low though as there's armed police EVERYWHERE but overall it was a pretty depressing place to be.
Luxor is another area I was in, really nice area on the Nile so plenty of green grass and plants around. Everyone seemed a lot more relaxed than in Cairo and nicer in general. Some really cool historic areas in Luxor but I don't know how the nightlife/fun element matches up to somewhere like Nama Bay.
If you go to Egypt you have to get into scuba though, red sea is one of the best places in the world to do it and it's dirt cheap there to do it through PADI so it's safe too.
Good thing about Egypt is they're all broke and will literally do anything for a bit of cash. Bad thing is that some of them don't particularly like white people nor atheists. They'd literally rather hear you're a Jew than an Atheist because they simply can't understand not believing.
I know people who've moved to BA and they've no intention of returning, it's supposed to be an awesome place to live.
I'm super interested in Vegas next year but it's $$$ depending, so if I make a decent chunk between October and December I'll give a definite answer on it.