On a day to day level - Ukraine.

Had similar experience in Canada. My solution was 1. target immigrants - in my case eastern, southern europeans, latin anericans. 2. Move to southern Europe.

If you have time try sending money in smaller chunks to mitigate the risk since only one chink could get stuck.

I was selling my sony alpha to a young man. He showed my his event videos which were decent and told me he is doing it entirely for free to get experience… you can’t beat that competition.

Istanbul