I have another friend at PestiSracok, they have the same problems

Yeah, that's right. And 888 is intentionally insane

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

but it's bad because human capital is fleeing left and right

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