Costs:
- Almost got into a group fight for no reason (the reason was: I was there and anyone there would've been caught up in the fight)
- Got scammed a couple of times
- Random headbutt
- Randomly pushed off a stairs
- Threatened to be beaten into a hospital
- Got groped by random women (random sex workers roaming the streets are the worst -- especially because I can't tell who is a sex worker in another country)
Neutral(ish):
- Got fake robbed 2 times, they could've actually robbed me but they gave it back. (yea, weird, never got actually robbed)
Benefits:
- Friends
- Romance
- A free bus ticket back home (when I lost my old bus ticket)
- Strangers offering to charge my phone (or something similarly small) when I was really fatigued and tired while traveling (and too disorganized)
- Listening to countless and countless of interesting stories
- Rides to safe places when I am completely lost and way in over my head
- Hitched rides when I really needed them
- A lot more really too much to list
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If anything: my concern is always that you're imposing on someone else's time. I try to do this as respectfully as possible, but even if you ask someone a question, you're demanding their attention.