@pepsi_man @BattleDwarfGimli @GoyGirl @Humpleupagus @LatigoMorgan I heard grim stories from the Marines and State employees at the embassy. I spent less than a year there because the romance of what I was doing (very low level NGO shit, not very interesting. I was young) wore off pretty quickly

Here's a silly one. People who left the country and lived in the west would go back to visit and wear every piece of jewelry they owned to show off their relative wealth with their impoverished subsistence farmer relatives. They'd then call the embassy and ask to be rescued because they were "scared"

Kids doing drug shit, getting ripped off, getting in a tussle and then arrested by local cops complaining to the embassy. Fuck you

Grim - old local men who went overseas for 20 years, then either divorced their wife or she passed away, and then they are told by someone in their network who informs them of a young marriage-aged girl. They go back, she's older than they thought, they get their dick wet and lose all of their savings if they're lucky. If they're unlucky their Social Security check is sent to the country in perpetuity and they are in a shallow grave in the jungle

Western men, particularly the defectives, go there to live on SSI or disability because it's cheap. You can't just be a permanent resident without forking out a lot of money. They disappear a lot, and the neighboring countries will often trade off these defectives to spread the milking of their families around - jail, fines, etc.

They don't know how bakshish works, don't speak the language, and don't realize that they are, to the locals, not a person but a walking meal ticket