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A new book club for you to share your literary journeys 📚✈️ We read, travel, meet new people, and turn stories into real-life adventures.

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Welcome to Made-up English, your online ESL tutor for natural, confident English pronunciation!

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13 contributions to Nomad School
Is the collapse of the West inevitable?
There's a great video that I've linked below which talks about the rise and fall of empires. Every empire rises and every empire falls. Do you think we are witnessing the collapse of the West and is it inevitable?
2 likes • Jan '23
yes and yes
Teaching English and what other work could I do with my experience, I have outlined skills below.
Hey community, best group I’ve ever signed up to. I don't know whether to start teaching English in Cambodia or Thailand. I’m more swayed to Cambodia as it’s cheaper and more undeveloped maybe more opportunities I’m not certain on this assumption though? do you have any info on this? Can’t wait to get out of the UK. It's easy money where i am but so depressing, I DJ and produce music, I'm better at DJ'ing as have been doing that since 13 years old! Don't know if i could show my skills off over there? I am a qualified chef also, switched to delivery driving through pandemic and never went back. I've done labouring work, Dumper driving also. I have setup a Swedish massage business this end, so may be able to do some of that abroad but don't know if thats something that could be done without treading on peoples toes in the area. I've got a lot of potential and I am very ambitious, I'm new to the online stuff but I'm trying my best to get my head around it all as it’s new I’m very practical but would like something at home and a workspace maybe part time although the teaching is low hours and you can still have an amazing life. Its just a graft over here to make ends meet for a shit life basically. I’ve really had enough! It's good though as thats my drive! I'm coming over to Thailand 31st October 2023 I'm doing delivery driving for uber, deliveroo and just eat and make around 1800 after bills i'm left with about £1000 so I can’t complain really its long hours for that money and very monotonous. Just need to know what angle/business model i could use use with the online nomad stuff any help would be really appreciated, I want to get ahead as much as i can before i get there. Thank you 🙏
2 likes • Jan '23
Teaching English can be tough. Or amazing. You'd need to join a teacher's forum to understand which schools would suit your level. Teaching is a great option because it will give you a proper visa - I know people who are perpetually insecure about their visa. Whatever you choose, I wish you the very best
1 like • Jan '23
@Clive Kingshott This is true - I could have done with you when I were looking for schools in early 2019. I would ride my scooter and stop at every school I saw. Suit and tie on a Honda 125 😆. I'm tech savvy, but my TEFL school recommended this method and whether it is the best or worst way to find a school, I cannot say. What I CAN say is that it sure was fun - I have warm memories of arriving in school entrances and being swamped by kids - like a poor man's Rocky 2. If I dare enter a school gate unannounced in the UK, the only thing that would greet me would be sullen paranoia. I went to many schools in rural Chiang Mai - most needed an ESL teacher, but sadly, only a few could pay... one school even gave me fruit and breakfast because they were so happy to see a Farang. ❤️🇹🇭
Vaccines in Thailand
There is a lot of misinformation surrounding vaccines and Thailand so please refrain from posting news articles in the community, this isn't what it was setup for. If you want vaccine news or if you want to debate vaccines, you can do that on public news sites.
3 likes • Jan '23
Well said. It's 2023 - let's not drag problems of the past into our futures. Eyes on the prize, guys ⭐
What is your biggest life hack?
#Biohacking Your Life what is the one thing that you do each day that drastically improves the quality of your life? For me, walking an hour a day, it is literally the difference between me feeling great or feeling like utter shit the next day.
What is your biggest life hack?
3 likes • Jan '23
Same. Long-ass walks / runs. Anything cardio
Is the UK finished?
After 5 weeks in Thailand and Cambodia without any issues or stress whatsoever, I arrived back in the UK in October and a friend picked me up from Heathrow. We honestly forgot to pay the drop off fee for the car to enter Heathrow as it is a new system and as soon as I remembered (2 days after) I called to make the payment but with literally zero leniency I was told I can't pay and that I'll be fined £80. That was my very first greeting back to the UK. We drove from Heathrow back home and my friend and I were hungry and it was late so we went to McDonald's drive through, the food was handed out the window without a word or a smile to the point I even said to the staff you could at least speak to your customers. I then arrived home and within 5 minutes of sitting down, the girl who lives next door started screaming down the street and smashing things as she was arguing with someone and just as I started to eat my food the police arrived to calm her down. To top it off, since I've been back (October to December) 6 kids have been stabbed and killed within my town and the surrounding towns. I'm now 40 years old and I can say that I enjoyed the UK in the 90's and early 2000's but now I feel like I don't belong here (I was born here and I'm a British citizen). I don't even bother to go out anymore when I'm in the UK because going out in town has become so dangerous, you only need to look at someone the wrong way or sometimes not even that. I used to go out very often. My life in Asia and UK are so different it is unreal! In Asia I'm out every day, doing something all of the time and I warm to the people so much that I now have more friends In Asia than I have in my home country! People in the UK are so distant, well in my area and down towards London they are. To me, the UK seems like it is finished, completely f*cked which is why I'm getting out and moving to Asia in January. I'm literally clearing all of my house out now ready to rent it out. Brett covers a lot of these topics in his videos which is why I related to what he was saying in them and honestly, I think its stuff which needs to be said.
3 likes • Dec '22
@Rik M I wish you great success in your new life. I can pretty much parrot @Brett Dev - family and friends say I'm brave to live abroad... to me, it is the easiest thing in the world. It's now December - in UK, it's cold, grey, rainy, and shops/cafes are closed... to any Brit looking out the window at a similar view, now close your eyes and picture Chiang Mai right now... See you there!
2 likes • Jan '23
It's a tricky one. Everything is subjective. For many, the UK is wonderful. For myself, it's all stick and very little carrot. One cannot change one's country, but those of us lucky enough to be able to do something about it, should. For me, it's a wonderful country to visit - not to live. If anybody in this thread is living in and displeased with the UK then I can only say MOVE - it ain't getting any better. Move to Thailand, or wherever you feel most you. In a previous video @Brett Dev warned of folk complaining about home and then bringing all their troubles to Thailand. Sometimes the problem is the person, not the place. Thus, step 0 is to get one's life in order before we move. You'll know you've achieved that when you don't dread work 👍
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Alex Mackenzie
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Born in North England, I moved to Prague, Czech Republic in 2011. I have since lived in The Netherlands, Thailand, and now Japan.

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