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Hey

Next March we'll start a trip around Europe and Asia and we're thinking in the possibility of, at any moment, jump to the USA and stay there for some months.

We've got some reasons:

1.-We like to vagabond, but we'd like also to live some time in a foreign city
2.-It would be nice to improve our poor English
3.- As we'll be traveling for a while, it would be interesting to stop at some place, work and save some money before arriving to Madrid

As we're Scorsese and Woody Allen fanatics, we were thinking in going to NY to do this.

What do you think? It can be easy for EU citizens? Someone did it?

It's not sure yet because maybe we get tired of our trip and come back to Madrid soon, or maybe we just travel through Europe and Asia north and south, but it's interesting for us to know all the possibilities

I'm American and I stayed a month in your beautiful city-Madrid-a few years ago. I rented someone's apartment for a month and just lived like a local. I didn't work, but it wasn't too expensive because I did a lot of my own cooking.

You could probably do the same in the USA. New York City would be really expensive, but what about Chicago? I met a woman (American, actually) who was living in the Arlington House Youth Hostel while she was getting her master's degree. I stayed 3 months in San Franciso living in a residential hotel...a bit expensive at 900 dollars a month, but there was a kitchen and students from all over the world stayed there. I forget the name of the place but it was on Turk St. The same company runs a property in San Diego, too.

Let's see, other good cities might be Portland, Oregon or Seattle, Washington. I've also heard a lot of good things about Asheville, North Carolina.

I don't know about working on an EU passport in North America....might be kind of hard. But I heard of some travelers volunteering with nature conservation programs (I think the American Hiking Society and the Sierra Club take volunteers). You would definitelty be able to improve your English.

Good luck!

Well, maybe can be Chicago, why not? But we have to get some info about visas, it seems is not very easy to work there on a legal way