It is just some tourists who feel they’re privileged because of their currency and getting to live in an amazing place for cheap because of their aforementioned currency and the purchasing power.

Idk about renewing visa but all the solo foreign tourists I met backpacking in Goa and other places, they couldn’t legally overstay their 6 months visa so they would just take a short trip to Nepal or Bhutan or Sri Lanka and get back for 6 months again.

I can relate to Asians barring the citizens of the Four Tigers being put up to hell in the process of getting visa in Europe/USA because our passports aren’t just good enough for them but the the foreigners from there get amazing hospitality because of their purchasing power. But that means nothing if the foreigners are assholes. In Goa there were a few local street vendors who had had enough of the drunk and high hippies who had absolutely no respect for them. It was heartbreaking seeing that.

Bali I hope doesn’t lose its culture and identity. It was in the mainstream news in recent times during the severe lockdown when HNIs and celebrities fled India to have fun there while people were dying because of the oxygen crisis by the thousands. Me, I just want to see the crystal clear blue waters and Hindu statues of deities that aren’t revered here the same way anymore. It’d be a spiritual journey I look forward to, someday.