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[–] lanre ago 

I was exaggerating about the tyranny part of it a little, but South Korea. Until the 1990s or so they effectively were a dictatorship, and even now there are a lot of rights that they don't have by law that Americans have, but if you look at the actual situation they're sending their corrupt politicians to jail, while our corrupt judges and prosecutors are sending innocent men to jail for stuff like hate crimes, so it works out to be a lot more similar than it looks if you just read the laws. Of course, in countries like that everything can change in an instant, as the Europeans are finding out, but I really did feel in a lot of ways that I was more free living there than I am in America.

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[–] toobaditworks ago 

Is it expensive to live there?

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[–] lanre ago 

If you earn an American salary you could live very well. I wouldn't want to work for a local salary and live there. There are some downsides:

1.) Everyone lives in apartment complexes now. If you're super rich you can live in a house, or if you're super poor or live in a very rural area you might live in an old house.

The apartments can be very nice, but if you want your own land and house it might not be for you. My friend lived in a great house and had a decent amount of property when we were in the countryside, but even there most of the people lived in small apartment complexes.

2.) Salaries are lower and the job market is very competitive. As a foreigner you could screw around and teach English and get by, but if you're Korean it's much more difficult. It's hard to imagine for us, because in our society probably half or more of the population is lazy or retarded, so you're not competing against a large percentage of people, while in Korea pretty much everyone is trying their best.