Message from @mattforney
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Good right wing or even unbiased journalists are hard to find
moreover any attempt at honest reporting, if it gets traction, will just make me a target
for example I'm not going to Poland this year for the independence celebrations
not after Jared Taylor was banned and the government is probably on high alert for foreign "extremists"
it's high-risk, zero-reward
I would rather sell weird novels about sex addiction
Yes, that is how it is, unfortunately
there's more money in running a book and merch publisher
I am prob going back to Budapest soon once the merch store is online to get some models for a store shoot
Melissa used to do that for a living, I'll ask her if she can hook me up with some photographers etc.
I do photography, but unfortunately not portraits or modeling
ah cool
this project's not coming to fruition for a few months
the first book hits the production line, then I talk to my friend at the merch store and he gets the shirts etc. up
he uses generic models but I want to go the extra mile because I have the money
Isn't it feasible to run it from there? Lack of models?
I looked into it, the scene in Georgia is a joke
everyone with a clue has moved to Russia or Europe
the economy here is in freefall after Putin's flight ban
that's good from an expat perspective because the value of the lari has sufficiently declined to make Georgia one of the cheapest expat destinations in the world
also Georgians are...incompetent
to put it mildly
starting to suspect those "low corruption" indices are goosed
How so? Lazy?
it's very clannish and everything here relies on familial connections
Tbilisi is a bit better than the rest of the country
The latin American model, I see
but in general the economy is very cartelized
not as bad as Armenia but still very annoying to deal with it
Hungarians and Poles are more on the ball
Hungarians are a mixed bag, but I like to work with them.
Georgians have had visa-free access to Schengen for a while and anyone with a bit of capital is leaving
there are already a ton of Georgians living in Poland
when I went to Warsaw for my friend's wedding in April, the Uber driver who took me to the Warsaw airport was Georgian
same thing will likely happen if/when Armenia gets visa-free access
They go then the way of Bosnia
Poland has depleted Ukraine's stock of guest-workers and they need more
yeah the ex-FSU states outside of Russia, Belarus, and the Baltics are basically going to get worse
Brain drain is the fertile grounds for future migration waves
they're losing human capital to the E.U. and Russia