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MeramJert posted:Yeah but what if you're going back for like, a week or two? I haven't found anything good. Then you're kinda screwed. Month is like the minimum unless you get Tmo pay as you go (which is like the same price in the end really).
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Yeah that's what I thought. The US isn't really set up to handle "visitors"
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Jul 15, 2014 04:16
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MeramJert posted:Yeah that's what I thought. The US isn't really set up to handle "visitors" AT&T airport stores will happily price gouge you though. 80 bucks for 3GB data and some voice calls. I think we are just spoiled with cheap internet, buy from a newspaper stall and then call it the day.
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caberham posted:AT&T airport stores will happily price gouge you though. 80 bucks for 3GB data and some voice calls. I think we are just spoiled with cheap internet, buy from a newspaper stall and then call it the day. No, we aren't spoiled. The US just sucks rear end. Maybe Canada, too, but I don't know anything about Canada. Getting a cheap, prepaid sim card good enough to last me a week for a reasonable price has been easy in every other place I've been to. e: Seriously I don't know how you're always so enthusiastic about visiting the US. Every time I go back I think "ugh, I need to pay $80 for a sim card and I need to get a car and actually drive places myself or I'm screwed." Either that or make very specific travel plans before I visit. It's just a huge headache you don't have to deal with when visiting most other places. Everywhere I've been to in Asia or Europe you can basically land in the airport with no plan and just figure it all out as you go along. In the US I end up standing on a snowy street corner at midnight waiting for an hour for a relative to pick me up, because there's no reasonably priced alternatives for someone visiting for a week. fart simpson fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Jul 15, 2014 |
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Jul 15, 2014 04:35
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MeramJert posted:No, we aren't spoiled. The US just sucks rear end. Maybe Canada, too, but I don't know anything about Canada. Getting a cheap, prepaid sim card good enough to last me a week for a reasonable price has been easy in every other place I've been to. I'd bash US cell service more, but I've lived in Japan recently. edit: Goddammit, you're making me hate America again already and I'm not even back yet. VideoTapir fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Jul 15, 2014 |
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Jul 15, 2014 04:53
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MeramJert posted:No, we aren't spoiled. The US just sucks rear end. Maybe Canada, too, but I don't know anything about Canada. Getting a cheap, prepaid sim card good enough to last me a week for a reasonable price has been easy in every other place I've been to. Yeah, I'm also not a big fan of the US. My parents live in a suburb of Boston and it's basically impossible for me to do anything when I get there since my parents live out in suburbia and there's no like, spare car for me to use while I'm there. The sim card thing is another annoyance, and all the other issues with the US these days like these cool guys:   And the whole political/social climate these days, ugh. I really have no desire to move back but I also want to leave China. Ailumao fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Jul 15, 2014 |
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Jul 15, 2014 07:43
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I wanna watch a tv show about those guys palling around, awkwardly ordering food with guns.
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Jul 15, 2014 07:49
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"Hey I'm going to Starbucks you want anything?" "Yeah, hold on I'll come with you. Just gotta throw a new magazine in my AK." It's like some weird libertarian dream come true.
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Jul 15, 2014 07:56
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The crazy thing is these people think they're advancing their cause.
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Jul 15, 2014 07:57
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Just live in Hong Kong Magna 
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Jul 15, 2014 07:58
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I thought you were doing like a contrast thing with the first guy being a gay urban lame latte hipster because somehow the gun initially blended into his jacket to my colorblind eyes.
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Jul 15, 2014 08:09
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Christ I don't belong there: I wouldn't be able to stop laughing.
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Jul 15, 2014 08:10
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Magna Kaser posted:And the whole political/social climate these days, ugh. I really have no desire to move back but I also want to leave China. Me too.
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Jul 15, 2014 08:16
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I thought that's what Canada is for.
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GuestBob posted:I thought that's what Canada is for. Canada is hard to immigrate to though 
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Jul 15, 2014 08:27
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I think it's weird they are carrying the guns but I wouldn't be scared.
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Jul 15, 2014 08:30
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Admit it, you say that because they're all white.
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Jul 15, 2014 08:34
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Are you saying blacks aren't allowed to carry guns?
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Jul 15, 2014 08:37
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In China they're definitely not.
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Jul 15, 2014 08:41
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What a racist country.
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Jul 15, 2014 08:43
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Those armored bank car guys in China have very poor trigger discipline.
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Jul 15, 2014 08:48
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MeramJert posted:
I hear you guys. I'm in the US right now and I pretty much hate it all. Save for a few things like being able to see friends and family more often and having a nice motorcycle it it kinda sucks. I'm fleeing to SF, California in hopes that it's better in regards to the social/political stuff. But ultimately I wanna move back to Asia it's so much nicer over there, I don't know how but I feel like I hate America more and more each day. What I'm saying is, consider yourselves lucky. Come back for career advancement if you must. But really, don't come back.
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Jul 15, 2014 10:45
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SB35 posted:I'm fleeing to SF, California in hopes that it's better in regards to the social/political stuff. Haha!
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Jul 15, 2014 10:46
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MeramJert posted:Haha! Anything is better than Indiana.
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Jul 15, 2014 10:54
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SB35 posted:Anything is better than Indiana. Ooooh, ouch. Serious contender for worst state east of the Mississippi.
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Jul 15, 2014 10:59
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What about actual Mississippi?
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Jul 15, 2014 11:04
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Without a doubt the strongest contender, but by no means guaranteed to win year on year.
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SB35 posted:I hear you guys. I'm in the US right now and I pretty much hate it all. Save for a few things like being able to see friends and family more often and having a nice motorcycle it it kinda sucks. I'm fleeing to SF, California in hopes that it's better in regards to the social/political stuff. But ultimately I wanna move back to Asia it's so much nicer over there, I don't know how but I feel like I hate America more and more each day. Indiana is terrible. There's only a few places I feel I could live in the US, and the Bay Area ain't bad, but it is incredibly expensive, so that sucks.
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Jul 15, 2014 11:35
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For all its bullshit I like the USA. Just my two cents there.
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Jul 15, 2014 11:40
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I'm having a great time while here, it's been 8 days and I haven't had a bad day. I miss Tianjin and work and my life there but everything here has been great. Of course I have been in Boston and college campuses which are like the best things ever and I'm sure if you dropped me off in Eden Prairie, Minnesota I'd be singing a different tune.
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Jul 15, 2014 11:54
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Shut up Minnesota is great. Probably the best Midwestern state if you don't want to live in Chicago.
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Arglebargle III posted:Shut up Minnesota is great. Probably the best Midwestern state if you don't want to live in Chicago. Some severely harsh qualifiers you have there, though.
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Arglebargle III posted:Shut up Minnesota is great. Probably the best Midwestern state if you don't want to live in Chicago. Minnesota is great but Eden Prairie is like the biggest suburbia ever and I would not do well there if I had to live there right now.
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I'm interviewing for a job in Madison Wisconsin. I think the midwest is pretty sick tbh
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Jul 15, 2014 14:22
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Madison is a good town. Population what, 300,000? With 60,000 college students.
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Madison is where I was living before I went to China and I would move back in a second, it is better than Denver and I hope you get that job.
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I'm interviewing for both Madison and Pittsburgh right now... I don't know which I'd prefer tbh cause I have a soft spot for Pittsburgh
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Jul 15, 2014 14:29
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I have some friends in Madison and they say it's almost as boring as Maine.
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MeramJert posted:What about actual Mississippi? Depends on where you live. 80% of the state is dirt poor, 10% is stuck in High School Pom Pom local celebrity mode, and then there's the 10% that's livable. It is also called Madison.
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MeramJert posted:I have some friends in Madison and they say it's almost as boring as Maine. Boring is a word that describes the person, not the place.
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