Right, and the fact that tourist visas require some cash has zero to do with my original comment. I specifically mentioned that vast swathes of the world are accessible to people even with crappy passports. Citizens of Africa and South America can generally travel extensively within their own continent with no visas, for example.
Yes, a priest that travels exclusively by plane is not a representative sample of Africans or how they travel...
> But you need that [€100 for Schengen health insurance]
Again, no, you can get Schengen health insurance for some 15 euros a month long term.
> well, I have been to Bulgaria and the experience of buying train tickets was "interesting"
In every country I've ever taken a train in, I have been able to buy a train ticket by finding an employee, translating the simple words "buy", "ticket", and the names of two cities.
> why are there stricter requirements and can you provide a source for your claim?
Because everyone knows what the majority of applicants are coming for, and first world countries' governments don't like that. As for a source, look up "B visa refusal rate" and you will get a handy PDF showing that while less than 2/10 Yemenis will get approved for a US B-visa, most Ghanaians get in, 66% of those from the Ivory Coast etc.
>you'll have used a bit of money in Europe and I doubt you can survive on the move below 3€ a day
Now, if you were actually reading any of my comments, you'd have seen where exactly I noted how that's not only very possible, but I've had many guests do it. But to spare you the effort, Couchsurfing and hitchhiking.
And an open secret anno 2020 is that basically nobody is enforcing the "no remote work while traveling" thing, just FYI.
To your comment about not finding the hordes in Eastern Europe, well, not sure what part of Eastern Europe you were in but I certainly saw a ton of Eastern Europeans traveling their region, and I've been to several countries there. Furthermore, no, you're not going to see massive amounts of Africans on a bus in Kyiv, I explicitly mentioned this was about their own regions.
Poor Russians are kind of like mountain goats: you see them somewhere ridiculous and think "how on Earth did they get there". Trust me, if we discover a new planet the first person there will be an enthusiastic Russian hitchhiking and traveling on 3 euros a day. So as far as they go, I have no doubts of their ability to travel with limited income.
Yes, the Corona factor goes without saying.
The poorest 20% of a poor country is certainly a lovely example of cherry picking, but for what is perhaps the 20th time, I never claimed everyone would be able to travel Schengen, I _explicitly_ mentioned people traveling their own region. That's why I'm still not sure if you're trolling me, because I keep saying "people can and do travel in interesting ways in their own region" and then you just talk over that with something ridiculous like "but this Yemeni subsistence farmer could NEVER afford a hotel in Paris! Checkmate!"
Poor people with bad passports do travel in interesting ways. Most of them won't end up visiting Switzerland, but trust me, there are cooler parts of the world in many impoverished people's backyards, and they do go see them.
Yes, a priest that travels exclusively by plane is not a representative sample of Africans or how they travel...
> But you need that [€100 for Schengen health insurance]
Again, no, you can get Schengen health insurance for some 15 euros a month long term.
> well, I have been to Bulgaria and the experience of buying train tickets was "interesting"
In every country I've ever taken a train in, I have been able to buy a train ticket by finding an employee, translating the simple words "buy", "ticket", and the names of two cities.
> why are there stricter requirements and can you provide a source for your claim?
Because everyone knows what the majority of applicants are coming for, and first world countries' governments don't like that. As for a source, look up "B visa refusal rate" and you will get a handy PDF showing that while less than 2/10 Yemenis will get approved for a US B-visa, most Ghanaians get in, 66% of those from the Ivory Coast etc.
>you'll have used a bit of money in Europe and I doubt you can survive on the move below 3€ a day
Now, if you were actually reading any of my comments, you'd have seen where exactly I noted how that's not only very possible, but I've had many guests do it. But to spare you the effort, Couchsurfing and hitchhiking.
And an open secret anno 2020 is that basically nobody is enforcing the "no remote work while traveling" thing, just FYI.
To your comment about not finding the hordes in Eastern Europe, well, not sure what part of Eastern Europe you were in but I certainly saw a ton of Eastern Europeans traveling their region, and I've been to several countries there. Furthermore, no, you're not going to see massive amounts of Africans on a bus in Kyiv, I explicitly mentioned this was about their own regions.
Poor Russians are kind of like mountain goats: you see them somewhere ridiculous and think "how on Earth did they get there". Trust me, if we discover a new planet the first person there will be an enthusiastic Russian hitchhiking and traveling on 3 euros a day. So as far as they go, I have no doubts of their ability to travel with limited income.
Yes, the Corona factor goes without saying.
The poorest 20% of a poor country is certainly a lovely example of cherry picking, but for what is perhaps the 20th time, I never claimed everyone would be able to travel Schengen, I _explicitly_ mentioned people traveling their own region. That's why I'm still not sure if you're trolling me, because I keep saying "people can and do travel in interesting ways in their own region" and then you just talk over that with something ridiculous like "but this Yemeni subsistence farmer could NEVER afford a hotel in Paris! Checkmate!"
Poor people with bad passports do travel in interesting ways. Most of them won't end up visiting Switzerland, but trust me, there are cooler parts of the world in many impoverished people's backyards, and they do go see them.