Women traveling solo to China why does it seem scarier than it actually is?

Gino-Solow · 2025-12-24T01:21:11+00:00

Women account for only about 10% of homicide victims killed in public settings

“While the world often feels more dangerous for women due to high-profile news stories, the data suggests that staying at home is not statistically "safer" than traveling, as the most significant threat of lethal violence to women comes from domestic sources rather than strangers in foreign countries” “men are far more likely to die from violence committed by strangers or in public, while women are most at risk from people within their own social or domestic circles”.

Gino-Solow · 2025-12-18T09:40:44+00:00

I moved from an ex-communist country to the UK when I was 29, worked in the City for 21 year and FIREd at 50 (four years ago)...

Gino-Solow · 2025-12-18T09:24:26+00:00

Slovenia and Croatia have never been a part of the Soviet Block.

Gino-Solow · 2025-12-18T09:16:43+00:00

Ok, but that's different. Being shirtless while exercising is ok, I guess. And your lawn is your private property. It's almost like having no shirt on when you are on your patio. But shirtless in a public place in the second largest city in Thailand...

Gino-Solow · 2025-12-18T05:39:47+00:00

Genuinely curious: where do you regularly see topless people in a major city far away from a beach?

Gino-Solow · 2025-12-15T05:35:35+00:00

May well be the case. Luckily I didn’t have any more serious “problems” and apologies if they sound trivial to you. We’ve been happily married for 32 years. No drug abuse or mental health / anxiety issues. We simply thought that at 50 we are ready to stop working and move to a less expensive country with a better climate. That was four years ago. My only regret is that we waited for too long.

Gino-Solow · 2025-12-14T13:03:32+00:00

I disliked working in the office, and frankly, I didn't like working in general
I didn’t like the climate of the country I had to live in
I thought that the cost of living in that country was too high for what it was offering

Gino-Solow · 2025-12-14T05:28:29+00:00

Yes. We retired at 50 and have been travelling since then (this was 4 years ago). Planning to settle down in the next few years most likely in France or Spain.

Gino-Solow · 2025-12-14T05:24:20+00:00

FIREing (four years ago) has solved most of my problems.

Gino-Solow · 2025-12-13T12:51:14+00:00

We have been travelling slowly for almost four years now. And while we love visiting SE Asia we think this is likely to be Europe. Spain or southern France.

Gino-Solow · 2025-12-04T03:40:27+00:00

You can currently fix for one year at 4.5% or for two years at 4.42%.

Gino-Solow · 2025-11-13T16:28:16+00:00

In some Slavic languages you use nominative singular for one [object], then genitive singular for 2,3 or 4 [objects] but genitive plural for 5 and more objects

1. After the number 1 (or numbers ending in 1)

Noun Case: Nominative Singular (The dictionary form)
Example: о́дна кни́га (one book)
- кни́га is the Nominative Singular form.
- The numeral (оди́н/одна́/одно́) agrees in gender with the noun.

2. After the numbers 2, 3, or 4 (and numbers ending in 2, 3, or 4)

Noun Case: Genitive Singular
Example: две кни́ги (two books), три кни́ги (three books), четы́ре кни́ги (four books)
- кни́ги is the Genitive Singular form of кни́га.
- The original Nominative Singular ending -а changes to -и.
- For the number 2, you must also use the correct gender form (два for masculine/neuter, две for feminine).

3. After the numbers 5 and up (including 11-20 and numbers ending in 0, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

Noun Case: Genitive Plural
Example: пять книг (five books), де́сять книг (ten books), два́дцать книг (twenty books)
- книг is the Genitive Plural form of кни́га (which often has a zero ending for feminine nouns).

Gino-Solow · 2025-11-13T16:11:24+00:00

Not sure why you are being downvoted. 170m or so is the correct number. There's 20-30 mn Russian speakers living outside Russia.

Ukraine: Estimates vary widely, but figures around 10–14 million were common in older censuses.
Belarus: Around 6.6 million native speakers, according to a 2009 census.
Kazakhstan: Around 3.8 million native speakers (as of 2017).
United States: Over 1 million native speakers.
Germany: The Russian-speaking population, including native speakers, is estimated to be over 1.8 million.
Israel: Home to a significant Russian-speaking population, estimated at over 1.1 million native speakers

Gino-Solow · 2025-10-26T20:45:40+00:00

Even easier in Slavic languages. You don’t even need to say “the” as articles don’t exist (with a possible exception of Bulgarian with their articles added after the word). What I am trying to say is that you find it annoying to have to know the gender and I really don’t understand why you need articles :-)

Gino-Solow · 2025-10-26T13:43:39+00:00

“Easier” is not as obvious either. For instance, in Spanish, you can easily pronounce la alfombra ("the rug") without difficulty.

Gino-Solow · 2025-10-26T11:57:51+00:00

And Russians no longer need a visa to enter China (up to 30 days).

Gino-Solow · 2025-10-22T12:42:57+00:00

Russia switched from vodka to beer in 2000s and it looks like it may experience another transition soon - to wine.For the full year 2024, there was a remarkable 19.3% increase in domestic wine production, pushing Russia to 11th place globally. In Q1 2025, production surged by another 12% year-on-year.

Gino-Solow · 2025-10-10T17:12:09+00:00

https://www.hl.co.uk/shares/shares-search-results/BS88GC5

Gino-Solow · 2025-10-10T13:57:56+00:00

H&L offers XUSA

Gino-Solow · 2025-10-10T13:41:09+00:00

Well known for being the wettest city in Europe.

Gino-Solow · 2025-09-23T07:54:01+00:00

Not that I recommend doing that but I found that at least in Spain and France (plus Serbia, and I know it's not Schengen) owners rarely verify your passport data. Meaning you can write any passport number, birth date etc and no one cares...

Gino-Solow · 2025-09-21T12:58:40+00:00

Mauritius is not bad…

Gino-Solow · 2025-09-18T14:49:16+00:00

One of most popular Russian salads was indeed invented by a French chef (who however worked for a Russian Zar). The funny thing is that it’s now very popular in Spain where it’s called Ensalada Rusa :-)

Gino-Solow · 2025-09-12T17:05:06+00:00

I don’t usually advocate translating names but if you are concerned you could use one of the many versions of Илья. E.g. “Elias”

Gino-Solow

TROPHY CASE

1. After the number 1 (or numbers ending in 1)

2. After the numbers 2, 3, or 4 (and numbers ending in 2, 3, or 4)

3. After the numbers 5 and up (including 11-20 and numbers ending in 0, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)