Originally Posted by lfin

Outside of the big tourist cities in Italy, life is fairly good value for what you get --- good pollution standards, high quality food, subsidized or free entertainment. Some small cities have started free wifi for their populations. Transportation is well-organized and subsidized. Free emergency medical care. And you can't beat the weather -- seasonal change, but never extreme --- or the scenery.

Lisa

Originally Posted by juice99

the topic says it all.. i'm looking for a country with cheap costs of living ( i will get money from working online so i don't mind high unemployment in this country)

but i need pretty fast internet (would be even better with low pings to europe...), good weather ( i'm in Poland, and it's very cold ), and low costs of living. i wouldn't mind the sea or ocean too

let's look at what i so far considered:

Thailand/Malaysia - it's not cold for sure, but internet is pretty slow and since my work depends on it, i don't know... also, i looked at telegeography, and all traffic from east-asia is going to US and then to Europe, that's really bad... it's slow i checked and there is average of 500 ms ping replies )

Vietnam/Laos - underdeveloped still. some stuff is actually more expepsinve han in europe (like internet). won't even say a word about internet speed.

Cyprus/Malta - pretty warm and close to europe. but internet costs and overall costs of living not really good.

Uruguay - so far the best bet, but internet still not quite good... and i don't know spanish but that i can learn. but then again - electronics in Uruguay is so expensive, and so cheap compared to malaysia.

any other ideas? Bali in Indonesia also quite good, but also slow internet...

more developed countries are more expesinve... but maybe i missed some small (or not so small) country that is pretty cheap but also has quite fast internet? if you have any ideas, please post them here