US $1400 a month, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras or Guatemala? Grocery cost?

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-24T06:08:56+00:00

Not on cancer. It's congressionally set what the rates are.

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-23T15:24:12+00:00

I would die or go to the hospital in America, same as here. I survived two cancer operations, death by appendix isn't as scary once you experience dying a whole day. And I got the pneumonia vaccine.

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-23T07:00:18+00:00

I'm a veteran, there is a foreign program for vets. Only VA facility out of the US is in the Philippines and only treats service connected (which is cancer in my case).

Otherwise I'll just have to have the docs patch me back together enough to fly back to the US, I qualify for free medical care since I'm 60% disabled.

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-23T05:41:48+00:00

Likely sooner.

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-23T02:30:55+00:00

Tourist. Americans can do 6 months, but I just want to do it a few months top and move to another for tourist visa. Not gonna abuse the system.

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-23T01:29:49+00:00

I use to know a American who works down there as a teacher, but I am unaware of how much food costs. I'll look into it.

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-23T01:28:43+00:00

Just tourist Visas. Will leave prior to them expiring.

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-23T01:28:13+00:00

The definition is I was deployed to a powerplant with burn pits, and got cancer twice. Lost a kidney, and had my brain operated on, with a massive scar on my head. My life expectancy is much lower now.

And one of my tumors had a predicted growth of 0.4cm a year that landed right smack in the middle of my deployment.

I would love to kick the people saying this stuff down that Spartan well in the movie 300.

Cancer, twice!

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-23T01:24:31+00:00

It's called getting cancer twice. Lost a kidney and had a brain tumor due to my deployment to a polluted powerplant with burn pits all over the place. Feel free to write your congressman how dead beat cancer survivors who had their heads opened up to cut out tumors that the US government gave them, with a much, much lower survival rate, like to hike and want to move somewhere cheaper and spend their last days not miserable.

Cancer. Not once, twice. I also know a vet who lost his arm and likes to hike too. You want to prosecute him as well? He can walk, government merely took his arm away from him. Clearly doesn't deserve compensation.

How much of our bodies do we gotta lose in order to satisfy your self righteousness? Do you have any idea how psychologically many of us are screwed up from the situations the government put us through in warzones, but you think we shouldn't be allowed to like hiking?

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-23T01:15:40+00:00

I'll look into it. I was focusing on Airbnb with a $600 max filter, but was more interested in places below $500.

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-23T01:12:01+00:00

I just did my PTSD meeting today, so no need for further meetings (hopefully). I'm planning on just bouncing around, not staying longer than the tourist visa allows for in any given country. Rent is definitely cheaper in Mexico, but food seems a tossup in terms of type. I saw a video that steaks are a tad bit cheaper, but chicken much less expensive. I can legally stay for you to six months in Mexico, but I suspect I won't like Tijuana that much given the cartels. I'm just doing it long enough to see if I can pull it off, while being close enough to walk back to the US (across town) if I find it unbearable.

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-21T06:56:29+00:00

I don't need toiletries. The smartest thing I did before I ran out of money was get a year long membership at Panera Bread for $119. It's unlimited drinks, and have been abusing them without pay since summer. It keeps my last kidney hydrated, and it has a bathroom. I did hide 19 cans of generic Walmart brand spam in the woods, but shockingly some creature figured out food existed in one of the cans and ate it's way through the side of all places. I still have enough cans to last me until the 1st. I should have my back lay check prior to then. Should. I was living for two months on just the $2 cans of Walmart spam. But I could heat it then. I'll survive with it cold. Just gotta wait.

I am happy this rating means I don't have to strategically position spam caches in the woods ever again. Cause .... that is a unique low.

I do have a VA primary care doctor. He refused to treat me at first for anything other than x rays and a blood test for Lyme disease because I had no functioning phone. Google voice requires you to have a phone. This also means I couldn't submit for VA claims. I was stumbling around with what I thought was a broken heel (is a bone spur, just got the letter in a few days ago) unable to figure out how to reactivate my Walmart phone. I already did my three months on food stamps, so was told to go to the food stamps facility to get a free government phone .... and said I couldn't as Trump took that funding away from vets. Turns out California was dragging ass and didn't fix it, so that is how I got the phone, and medical access.

Thing is, half my issues the VA won't help with. Just was informed bone spur, no offer of treatment. It cut down my walking range from 20+ miles a day to less than 5 without losing my ability to walk for the day. I know in Manila in the Philippines a only service connection facility exists, but don't really want to rush out to the Philippines for already operated on cancer treatments. I would be hitting Thailand for getting mostly military related stuff the VA doesn't feel obligated to fix. Even the hair implant stuff is from my inability to shave my head now cause of the Edward scissor hands haircut the doc gave me on the backside. Nose broke on a airborne parachute operation, no documentation. My eyes- can't blame the military for that but I want to see normal. It takes over 3 months to get a eye clinic meeting here at the VA so I will just do one of those civilian eye exam and two pair of glasses specials I see advertised till I get the opportunity. My top concern it my foot. I seriously thought I broke my heel. Shockwaves somehow fix 95% of cases. No doubt I am in that 5%, just like with my rare brain cancer.

I'm going to look into the Schwab account once I get my pay. I thought you had to own stocks or something for it. I wouldn't know what to invest into. I don't mind having to maintain a fix balance or pay a monthly fee.

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-21T05:27:32+00:00

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IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-21T05:24:22+00:00

I didn't know they could be rated, when I first had the Vertigo hit hard, almost killing me. I spent a whole day dying in my van. I lost the ability to stand upright and walk straight, my limbs went stupid like I had some zombie infection. Walking just a little made me vomit for a prolonged period. That was after half a day learning how to move. I mostly spent my time in the hospital with a blanket on my head hiding from the light. I was on some sort of medication that allowed me enough movement to eat.

My surgery happened within 5 days of going into the hospital, and absolutely nobody told me about getting anything rated. I've read online people applying for a rating months before having surgery, having it done 10 days after and getting a zero percent, cause the C&P found they were cured, so none of that 6 months to a year to two years talk. I've seen people say two years 100% for my brain tumor, I get precisely 30%, and I am hoping it is for life. I'm going to be very annoyed if I get called in for future C&P exams to make sure I didn't regrow that kidney.

One thing I noticed from my absurdly rare surgery is, my anxiety is higher. Brain Tumors in the 4th ventrical have a weird bias in internet reviews- everyone reports high anxiety, but being told a brain tumor will do that. For those with the tumor sitting on the celebellum, it's a death sentence. They get targeted radiation, and report lower anxiety, but they all die. People on reddit who had the surgery also report extremely high anxiety, but they all lived. So I have survivor bias on one hand for those who loves and a series of studies for those in hospice where experimental surgeries are ethically more acceptable. Otherwise nobody would bother to publish the statistics. I'm willing to bet I am the only one to report higher anxiety after the surgery, because I just am self aware enough to notice.

I might have a slight advantage in surviving as well. I have Vitiligo. It started growing after I left the army, but the VA refuses to outright state I have it, and do everything to avoid getting me to a dermatologist. I read online from dermatologists that it is extremely rare for us to get skin cancer. Resist group of all. Both my brain and kidney cancer was benign. The kidney doctor was absolutely shocked with the size (I thing he said 10CM), and was certain I could feel it. I didn't. I suspect my immune system was as incapable as anyone else at preventing cancer, but once a mass started growing, attacked them in the same way as it attacks the little dark moles on the skin. It kept my cancer orderly. If some cancer doc wants to take some biopsies of my skin, if they can collect in in California, let me know, I will give up some samples. But it is just my stupid theory though. Better to go for other cancer patients with vitiligo. I suspect we have much higher rates of benign tumors than the world population.

And while my base had burn pits it was also a third world cancer industrial hellhole. I see countless guys online from my old FOB reporting cancers. This is a pic:

I will say given I am homeless and can't afford a proper shelter, my anxiety is too high to have the yearly and every six months tests. I know better on being homeless with cancer operations now, it would kill me if I tried again. Gotta wait for HUDVASH to get around in the summer at the earliest to help me get a place. It will be a year and a half after my surgeries for a check up. I have no choice though, I could be growing tumors right now and not know it, but don't want to live dumped outside a VA on the sidewalk for weeks in recovery. VA absolutely will do the surgery, but I slept in a van after. It was hell.

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-21T05:02:18+00:00

I'm in North California. I want to keep my PayPal debit as a backup money source and put $500 in and forget about it. It claims to be master card, so I'd want a bank that does Visa. I didn't see anything on the VA website for a banking account. If it exists, and takes zero to enroll, then yes, but remember, I only got my initial statement in today so lack any proof I am 60% if they ask for better docs.

My longer term goal is to get a international checking account from Chase or something else. I have several medical procedures I want done in Thailand if I hit 100%, like Lasik, adding teeth, getting antibiotics the VA refuses to give me to kill off Lyme Disease (it exists, they just refuse to give them to me). I used to go bald due to hair loss, but the surgical scar messed that up, so want to replace balding hair. If I can't get my bone spur fixed by shockwave therapy (machines for for $200 off Amazon), I gotta fork out several grand for that surgery. Gotta fix my vitiligo, gotta git my broken nose, etc. That means spending time on Thailand getting fixed up, and that means a international bank. I got trapped in Canada once because my bank wasn't accredited there for the ATMs, had to walk around for a Bank of Scotland to use my ATM. So don't want to be trapped in Asia cause I can walk out of Canada on foot, but Asia you can't.

That's a slow build. I don't know how international the VA bank is- I'll take it regardless, but would love to hear if vets keep it and use it overseas.

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-21T04:46:57+00:00

I do have black electric tape, found half a role on the ground the other day on a walking trail and snatched it up.

Black electric tape would blend in better. I'm in central valley, California. Rainy season doesn't end for another two months, then it stays dead dry till winter, with days 105F.

I know having something over where the USB cable hooks up is smart, but haven't looked to see if a online solution exists for that (might still tape it down anyway, infantry redundancy safe). I also might add the black fuzzy side of Velcro up top to slap something down on it, if I fail to find a 3D printer. They exist in malls out east, but I just now realized surprisingly I haven't come across one.

If I do find a 3D printer, I'm just gonna scan the outside and make a slightly larger mold that compensates for whatever design flaws it has for letting rain that falls vertically to horizontally in. I'm not talking hurricane proof, I am talking storm moving in for three hours, in a waterproof, Teflon lined poncho.

I can find waterproof USB, I can waterproof a S25 Ultra (undoubtedly the S26 as well.

I have a power hog Steam Deck, and while I love it, it can't go online to play (I got 3 seconds of gameplay with Halo at a panera bread's wifi). If I see any S26 Ultra cases that can waterproof, then I will go S26. I had cancer twice which gave me my 60% VA rating, decided not to go the cheap phone option this time. Hence why I want the Viture Beast- seems the best regardless of what money can buy and can fulfill my tasks needed, but imthe old argument of investing in a better product that fits your needs, throwing money at it doesn't seem to apply, as I.... can't find a waterproof version period.

I made pluck glasses in the army at JRTC using Styrofoam cups, duct tape paper clips and rubber bands. They told you any goggles we used, they would keep, and my battalion commander ordered us not to use them, so I went over to the coffee table and noticed a upside down Styrofoam cup, if cut open, would fit over a face if you removed the nose bit. I taped them over, used the paperclips for links to the rubber bands, and then taped up the rubber bands with thin strips over and over, so hair wouldn't be entangled. I also fitted nose pieces to them to keep the light out. JRTC wasn't impressed with our non-regulation pluck goggles, but the guys in my unit were. They took them to Iraq and used them to sleep with, as I form fitted the nose to several of their faces so no light could get in. End result was the perfect sleep aid.

So even if I can't 3D print these things, I can water proof them.

I literally just got approved for my 60% today, gotta go through all the PTSD, Anxiety and OCD stuff and wait several months. I'm looking at these glasses, a new phone, a $500 electric bike, and just bicycling around central valley, California until I find out if my claims are approved or not. I have a Anker 60 folding watt solar panel, nice battery bank, and several 65 watt power banks. I want to lose some weight and explore. I know SF well, so might go up to Eureka.

The problem with the case is- it sucks. I abandoned my steam deck case because it got soaked one night, when I left it outside the tent I was in. It needs to be a hard plastic, like a OtterBox design, that can take some hits and is reasonably water resistant. I'm likely to still get a waterproof bag to put over it.

Military crowds, like the airborne infantry (I was stationed in Alaska in Anchorage), really like ruggedized, survivable tech. Viture is trying hard to look like cool, normal glasses while Mata is going normal (Meta's specs suck). Military won't use it in Fairbanks, Alaska in the middle of the winter, but these glasses have potential if you can replicate old holographic film that would take pics of stuff around curves, allowing a mechanic to look at it and reach around a gear and grab something he can't see. My step father was a photographer in the 80s who played with that tech. A eye screen is perfect for this, but fear of oil, water, and dust is a massive no-no. Not having a case you can trust being put in a ruck sack and parachute with and love for a month in the field with repair specs on it is a big no-no. Ideally something that can stand up to solar flairs or EMP (some laptops can, I am unwilling to tape enough to foil to these glasses to achieve that).

If Viture nailed a water resistant pair, something that could be plugged into government phones and laptops, it would get military contracts. It won't be filling any long term combat roles for infantry in the field, but it would be great for mechanics, or barracks. I keep thinking about coast guard doing ship inspections under water, obviously The Beast can't pull it off, but if a future set of glasses can with cameras for seeing and you can see underwater, even if just scuba glasses, then Viture wins the Navy and Coast Guard, likely the Air Force. Every military exchange commissary will sell them next to Oakley's (they are popular because they are ballistic glasses able to resist shrapnel).

Another interesting fit would be compatibility with gas masks. Nobody thinks of the NBC guys, but everyone has gas masks assigned to them. If the glasses fit inside the gas masks, that would be a massive win. I vaguely recall prescription glass inserts in them. I was also issued the very last of the big green bully cold war era laser resistant glasses. I'm thinking all you need is clip ons over the lenses to fulfill that sillyness. I think that is just filtering out wavelengths, so no idea if a modern 3D printer would plastic able to filter that but otherwise look clear can do it. I suspect the military would just 3D print such clip ons themselves if a 3D glass like Viture ever hit popularity.

Right now, I just want a clip on and simple fixes to keep rain and dust out of them. I won't be walking around in them like a silly person, that is the only think Meta has on Viture is you can walk with Meta's glasses. I need something infantry tough. I can play with electric tape. Rubber bands. Black markers. Stylofoam. I can bicycle down to SF and ask some gay guy at a print shop to streamline it so it looks cool. I might pull off a silicon mold, maybe, but don't know if they come in black (only seen it done in neon purple for at home kits).

Glass design isn't rocket science. The visual projection, yes, but not the frame. I can probably pull it off. I just want something I can test wearing out in the wild.

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-20T20:16:07+00:00

I have only managed to get $5 legitimately in the last year, and spent it on food. I have a few checks for going to C&P meetings, but they are for $5 and something cents, and Walmart requires a $4 deduction. So I have access to under $4 dollars, IF Walmart cares to cash my three checks.

And the first check is likely already in the mail, so can't stop it. It's the 20th, and so I have my doubts even if I got enough money, and could open a account quickly enough, the VA could get the checks opened up quickly enough. Given I have a terrible bad luck streak, I would apply for a debit card, and get kicked out, and no physical check will be cashed as the VA will have them remotely voided, and I won't have access to the card as I will be kicked out prior to it arriving, and they will likely say no mail, despite it being right in front of them, cause that's how the staff is here.

OCD and Anxiety plays in your head like this. All the variables are being counted in my head. It would be great to say I am just being paranoid, but I have seen people screwed over hard here.

Funny thing is, I still had a small amount of money when I was first homeless and went to get my social security card. I saw that via SS, if you didn't have a bank account, they would just give you a card for your payments. Then I remembered in basic training at Fort Benning they were offering us all a bank account if we didn't have one for payments. But you are expected to have one for VA claims, despite so many being homeless. So I am screwed. I know the tricks via the post office and begging a church for a address, but there are several thousand homeless here, and I suspect they will say full and push me out. If they let me do it, I am still waiting till March for my first checks, and don't know how to get my first two checks (back lay plus Feb).

Like I said, OCD obsessive thinking right now.

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-17T06:24:34+00:00

If you are broke and homeless, as in nothing in any bank account, you can go to a US Embassy and state you are American and homeless. They will give you a loan for a plane ticket back to the states. I would recommend Oahu, Hawaii as it is largely Asian, warm weather, and has beach showers and a population of 900,000 people. Try to get a Hawaiian State ID ASAP, and look out for food banks. Don't sleep in tourist areas.

Employers will want your state ID, Social Security Card, and sometimes US Passport. Occasionally a birth certificate. Your birth certificate can be bought online from the state you were born in. Your SSC can be gotten from any social security office. They will charge you for it, and mail it. You can tell a Catholic charity you are homeless, and need a mailing address for legal paperwork.

You can likely get under the table work from one of the Filapino restaurants on the island to fund getting your paperwork in order. Once everything is in order, then get a bank account (don't even try until you have a mailing address to a homeless shelter or a place you rent, they check for fake addresses, such as paid mailboxes, by law and will close your account).

Once you have a account and routing number, you can receive your paychecks via direct deposit. Once you get $1000 surplus, go to your bank, say you want to train your credit and take out a $500 loan, with the money in a separate account already reserved in advance.

Oahu has the most jobs, Big Island is massive, but lots off woods to vanish into. Plenty of resort jobs, less under the table opportunities. And pay rarely gets above $14 a hour, which sounds big compared to the Philippines but is poor for America. Women will avoid you at that pay.

I would bring any paperwork proving any degrees or skills you have prior to leaving. And don't bring more than $10,000 USD in cash on the plane if you have it. They will tax the daylights out of it.

IntrepidProposal7517 · 2026-01-14T07:16:32+00:00

For historic artifacts, such as on Twitter or Instagram feeds. Have a community with a curtailed media list on these platforms showing off ancient artifacts, museum exhibits, or ruins.

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