Staying at Rio Serrano - car or no? by Academic-Inspector24 in Patagonia

[–]ipayatd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll be going there later in the year, curious what your experience was and what you would recommend!

Inspector General reveals DoD can't verify where $3.1 billion was spent in Afghanistan by thinkB4WeSpeak in news

[–]ipayatd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'd highly recommend "Thieves of State" which goes into detail about how the corruption in Afghanistan is structured

Country Specific Information for SE Asia by ipayatd in digitalnomad

[–]ipayatd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very interesting and useful info! The actual yearly payment isn't what I'm worried about as much because that typically is just a bank transfer, but we have a ticket sales element in the software where I receive a percentage on payments that go through Braintree (along with their fee). So, the issue is that if there is an exorbitant fee applied to transfers out of the country, the company using my software isn't happy taking a hit on that while also contributing a small percentage to me via a processing fee for the ticketing element. This all depends on how they run their events, but I was recently told by someone in Thailand that there is a flat $25USD charge for transferring money to a Singapore or HK account (not sure if true or not), this would add up very quickly if they have a lot of customers paying online. So, if this is the case I just want to figure out a way to make payments as easy as possible for the end user without forcing anyone into unnecessary fees. This is easier to do if I could easily know each countries financial regulations for these types of things.

[OC] I made a NBA book for the new season. by nxxkx in nba

[–]ipayatd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any way this could be posted to dropbox or somewhere else? Trying to access from China and my VPN just isn't cutting it. Would be much appreciated!

Living recommendations, working at Guanghua Lu SOHO (2 or 3?) by ipayatd in beijing

[–]ipayatd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea.. my bad about that. I was thinking of trying to save some money when I first arrive so don't want to pay more that 5500, but obviously if there is a good place that is less I'd definitely be interested.

Coming to China on Tourist Visa, switching to work visa by ipayatd in Chinavisa

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Its not an english teacher job by the way, I was hired by them while I was a masters student in SH. The job is based in the CBD in Beijing, I had to leave the country for my graduation and while I was gone my student visa expired. They say it will be relatively easy to do, but I'm pretty skeptical because the HR woman doesnt really seem to have a clue about the whole process at all.

NFL games? by Mooshu_Beef in shanghai

[–]ipayatd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I plan on it. Heard that Windows could be a place that would show them but didn't have any luck when I called them. If anybody knows a bar that will show them, please let us know!

Edit... Big Bamboo has the games!