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Hi guys! Welcome back on my channel.
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I'm Charlotte and in today's video (like the title might have told you),
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I want to address something that several people have asked me before
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And that is: How do you survive abroad when you're on a tight budget?
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Like you might have known (or not…) I started my travels and living abroad when I just graduated
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I didn't have a large amount of money, but of course I had to save up for my flight ticket and have some savings
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just to be safe, you know. If it wouldn't work out and I wouldn't find a job abroad.
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But once being abroad, I found out that there are several ways that you could survive
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while spending almost no money
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And I'm going to tell you more in this video!
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How to live abroad on a tight budget
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The first thing on my list is the one that I experienced for myself
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And that is: you can survive abroad while working in a hostel or guesthouse.
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It's not really working for money, in my case at least
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It was some kind of work exchange deal, where I would work for about 2 to 3 hours, 5 days a week
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And in exchange I would get a bed in a 6-person room
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I would also get some free rice and noodles every day
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I thought it was a really good deal. Especially because I was young, I was a student…
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I mean… not that I'm old now but… You know what I mean?
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It was just such an amazing way when I did it in Seoul, to connect with people
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I also had roommates, kind of in the same situation as me. They were also on a tight budget
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We had great times together, going out in the middle of the night for karaoke or just having a nice meal
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If you think about it, for only 2 to 3 hours of work a day, usually in the morning
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The rest of the time you're completely free and you don't have to spend anything on accommodation
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and if you have enough with rice and noodles, you're all set to go and to survive there as long as you want.
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Another way for you to live abroad would be for you to look around for scholarships
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Because I know that so many countries are eager to have foreign students studying at their universities
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And they have so many programs set in place to offer a lot of benefits to international students
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So it's really worth it. If you have a country in mind,
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just check online if they have any interesting universities with scholarships
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I know for Taiwan for example, I think they offer at least 2000 full scholarships every year.
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It depends from country to country and university to university if they will also pay something for your accommodation
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I went to Sweden for my Erasmus program. I remember they helped me out and gave me 300 euros every month to pay for my accommodation.
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It was more expensive than that but still… that's a huge help every month
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If you have a country in mind where you want to go for a few years and if you want to learn something at the same time,
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and get a degree, I really recommend you to look into their scholarships
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My third point is a little bit related to the first one, but while I was living in Taiwan,
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there was a hostel that reached out to me and asked me if I wanted to manage their whole social media
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and do the advertising. They were pretty new, and nobody heard about them,
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and they wanted someone to make videos about their place and things like that
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In exchange I would get a small single room in their big house.
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That was definitely interesting. I didn't do it because I already found my two awesome roommates
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and I didn't want to leave that place. But if you have any kind of skills,
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if you're very good in communication or in advertising or videomaking, or anything that you think can help a hostel,
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you can definitely try to approach them and ask them if they want to do an exchange:
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your work for their accommodation.
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These were three points that I had personal experience with, but I saw some other possibilities from friends around me
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One of those is for example becoming a nanny somewhere. If you like working with children,
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this is a good way to immediately integrate a family and learn a lot about the culture, the language, everything
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It could be very good if you quickly want to become part of the country and integrate well
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Because you will literally live in the house with that family and take care of the children
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I have heard mixed stories about it though, there are people who absolutely love it and who really like their families
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But it depends from person to person, if you like children or not, and also if you find the right family or not
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If you are someone who likes children, I think becoming a nanny could definitely be a good option
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to live in a country without any expenses.
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Something that I really considered doing for a while was doing a work exchange in a temple
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There are so many temples in Asia and sometimes they need volunteers, so you would basically help them clean,
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help them prepare the food, do some gardening and all kind of tasks around the temple
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You will also participate in meditation and things like that, and in exchange they will offer you a roof and food
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I think that's an amazing deal, if you need a break for a while, for a few months
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You're tired of your life and you need to find yourself again
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I think, doing this kind of temple work can really be healthy for you
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The last thing on my little list is: You could volunteer on a farm.
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I have heard several people I know do this and usually it would only be for a few weeks or a few months
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That you would live on that farm with those people and they will feed you, give you a bed
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And in exchange you will help them with some seasonal work
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I think that if you're not scared of getting your hands dirty and of doing some physical work,
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Working on a farm can also be an amazing experience abroad while you don't need to spend any money.
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That was my list for today. I hope I didn't forget anything.
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If you have any other ideas or if you have a genius tip of how to live abroad on a very small budget,
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Feel free to share it with everyone in the comments!
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I also was thinking about maybe making a future video about jobs that I did in foreign countries
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while not speaking the local language
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So let me know if you would like to hear about that too
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I hope you just have a great day and see you very soon.
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Bye bye!