Ex-pat literature

what is some comfy literature of white people living in exotic places drinking together, fucking and having fun?
also books on how to pursue this life

Under the Volcano

>comfy
debatable
>white people
most definitely
>exotic
Mexico
>Drinking together
One drinking moreso than anyone else
>Fucking
Ole boi Geoffrey can't even get it up because of his alcoholism
>Having fun
If it isn't trying to be bleakly funny then its pretty depressing.

Weird reading you had famalam

i want the cozy life like in the year of living dangerously—mad laughs and black tie events

>what is some comfy literature of white people living in exotic places drinking together, fucking and having fun?
the great gatsby

>also books on how to pursue this life
financial times guide to the stock market

Mexico is pretty exotic for Brits

true

>great gatsby
>long island
>exotic

>financial times
fuck off

new york is considered exotic by most of the world. why do you think so many people go there?

>financial times
>fuck off
bit rude. the ft guides to investing helped me become fairly wealthy through the stock market.

Because it's the cheapest part of the US to make a trip to.

>exotic
>lots of people go there
wut

where do you consider to be exotic?

The goddamned jungle

pick up a dictionary

what places do you think people who live in jungles consider to be exotic?

well ok let's have a look

1.
of foreign origin or character; not native; introduced from abroad, but not fully naturalized or acclimatized:
exotic foods; exotic plants.
2.
strikingly unusual or strange in effect or appearance:
an exotic hairstyle.
3.
of a uniquely new or experimental nature:
exotic weapons.
4.
of, relating to, or involving stripteasing:
the exotic clubs where strippers are featured.

so where do you consider to be exotic?

A moveable feast
The Sun also Rises

we're talking a few bars/city clubs/country clubs in a place like jakarta, nairobi, beirut where there's a mix of embassy employees, spies, journalists, bankers, visiting professors, alcoholic writers, etc.

A denser jungle

Odyssey

i've been to jakarta and beirut and believe me they're not especially "exotic"
i think the books you are looking for are probably the james bond books or orwell's burmese days
or maybe tintin in thailand
actually if you go to bangkok airport the bookshops there are full of books full of lurid tales of people getting up to no good in thailand. try there.

oh also william hickey's memoirs is pretty much exactly what op describes

Parts of V.

so is the world of the 70s or even 80s where places around the world were legitimately different now gone and everything looks like a shitty american version of itself

The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell

Rum Diary by Hunter

>Weird reading you had famalam
Cringe

A Sport and a Pastime

The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Supper Cannes by JG Ballard
The Night Manager by John le Carre

...

The Sun also Rises

I've lived in and around the jungle before, and I'd still consider New York pretty exotic
>inb4 ooga booga

Central America, Parts of South America, a good deal of Southeastern Asia, some of Africa, small islands in Oceania.

have you been any of those places? recs? ex-pat lifestyle?

looking for something more contemporary

There's a short story by B Traven called Canastitas en Serie about a gringo who arrives to some town in Oaxaca from New York and sees a indian making Baskets; he thinks how cool it would be to sell that stuff in NY, he finds out industrialization would kill their magic.