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Well, if you seriously wanted to leave the USA, one possible route is through Ukraine. Yes, Ukraine, but hear me out: you can enter Ukraine for up to 90 days free with a US Passport. From there, as long as you sound competent, remember to shower and shave regularly, and are white, you can settle there, teach English, find your own clientele (or steal your school's clients by underbidding them - a lot of the expat school directors are sleazy bastards, they deserve it) and schmooze your way to some oligarch's heart. Once done so, he'll arrange for you to have a visa and residency permit (locally called a pozvidka) and you'll be kind of an ESL consultant for his company and you'll have permission to live there. The drawbacks of this plan include a backbreaking work schedule in Kyiv (and let's be honest, if you don't speak Ukrainian or Russian your best shot is in Kyiv), the language barrier, lotso racism, sexism and such, higher risk of thyroid cancer, unstable economic conditions, and cage fights to the death for to right to rent crappy studio apartments in Kyiv (if you don't make the big bucks). But in Ukraine's defense, the women are gorgeous (but materialistic), the borscht and salo are great once you develop a taste for them, there's a surprising amount of cool nature and historical sites to visit once you figure out one of the national languages, and it's cheap to live there, except the rent in Kyiv will set you back a bit. I'm only half-joking here - I met an American national and an Englishman who did just this in Kyiv, and both still live there to this day. Alternatively, if you have a license to teach in the USA, you can easily find work at an international school there and they should this through legal channels, plus throw in a housing stipend and a Russian language tutor.
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