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I decided not to pay my student loans because gently caress student loans.
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Just store all your money under your matress or in conviently hollow bricks like on the mainland. I loving hate transferring money and instead try to wait when I fly back to the US in cash because its easier to loving wait than deal with Citibank here (transfering to a US Citibank too.) And the open door/windows thing I think just amounts to "bad air" mumbo jumbo or because they think they can store the cold in their bodies and release it during the summer
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Dec 19, 2014 05:57
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GoutPatrol posted:Just store all your money under your matress or in conviently hollow bricks like on the mainland. I loving hate transferring money and instead try to wait when I fly back to the US in cash because its easier to loving wait than deal with Citibank here (transfering to a US Citibank too.) Can you tell me more? Why is citibank in taiwan bad? Global transfer isn't working as intended or something? I guess I sound like a major shill, but I do like Citi handling my payroll
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Dec 19, 2014 06:07
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Barto posted:Yeah, that's right. Because the business still has to report the payment being made to "someone," if the "someone" is outside of the country then they get flapjacked with a 20% tariff. I dream of the day my loans get forgiven. Only 50 more payments until I am eligible for it maybe to happen. Spanish Matlock posted:I decided not to pay my student loans because gently caress student loans. I was pretty amazed when I found out "living abroad and not paying your loans" was a valid method for dealing with loans from the EU and UK. One of my coworkers got his forgiven since he hasn't lived in NL for 7 years now. I don't get the logic behind it at all but I'm just jealous cause if I don't pay the US then my life ends or something.
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Dec 19, 2014 06:08
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caberham posted:Can you tell me more? Why is citibank in taiwan bad? Global transfer isn't working as intended or something? Its more communication problems with the 2 Citibanks I have went to in Taichung. It took literal HOURS for them to figure out how to do these things, then they would try to convince me to do things I didn't want to do. It is possible, but it was pulling teeth every time. I go back usually once a year, and I have no loans back in the US, so everything I transfer is small amounts to buy things on US Amazon or Ebay (because I have yet to get a Taiwan credit card,) or my retirement fund. I usually go back once a year, so I can just bring a few thousand back in cash and that'll be fine. GoutPatrol fucked around with this message at 07:04 on Dec 19, 2014 |
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Dec 19, 2014 06:59
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Man that's so loving weird. Thought it's just link the 2 citi bank accounts. Bam, use online banking. I know this sounds weird but if you actually write a complaint letter, corporate will address your issues and normally this involves either a few free stock trades or some token gesture.
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Dec 19, 2014 07:27
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GoutPatrol posted:Just store all your money under your matress or in conviently hollow bricks like on the mainland. I loving hate transferring money and instead try to wait when I fly back to the US in cash because its easier to loving wait than deal with Citibank here (transfering to a US Citibank too.)
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Dec 21, 2014 03:11
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If you have a decent US bank, the easy way to move cash: 1) Go to a bank that will let you write a US draft, pay ~$300 for a US draft 2) Use your bank's mobile app to take a picture of the check (even Paypal supports this now) 3) Enjoy your cash
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Dec 21, 2014 14:17
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okami posted:For Taiwan and US purposes, the 2 Citibanks are 2 different banks. Taiwanese banks are good for wiring money, better if you speak Mandarin. How about citi bank gold where it's supposed to handle situations like these?
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Dec 21, 2014 14:34
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caberham posted:How about citi bank gold where it's supposed to handle situations like these? The reason you pay high fees for those types of services is that you essentially pay someone to handle running between the banks.
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Dec 22, 2014 02:58
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Or you have 100K USD in each account to waive the fees. Then again, you can say the deposit is more of a lost opportunity cost
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Dec 22, 2014 06:00
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Has anyone ever flown Delta out of JFK to Taipei recently? In my memory, it used to be a really lovely flight, but that was probably in the late 90s? Has it improved a lot since then?
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Dec 22, 2014 16:50
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From what I've heard, that might be because Delta's a lovely airline.
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Dec 23, 2014 04:06
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I usually don't care what airline I take, but a trans pacific flight with Delta convinced me to never, ever, fly with Delta again. I imagine its only worse if you start from the wrong side of north America.
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Dec 23, 2014 05:35
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Delta flies from JFK to Tokyo NRT and then on to TPE. I flew NRT-JFK a few months ago and it was a great flight. It was on a 747-400 which is an old but very nice plane. Delta now uses the 777-200LR from JFK-NRT. I didn't care for the business class seating layout in the 77L compared to the 744. I personally love Delta, so I don't understand all of the angst. I flew 50k miles with them last year and they were all great flights.
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Dec 24, 2014 00:36
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My school has started playing ICRT over the sound system in the mornings before the students arrive, and I swear it's like that station is just three separate Spotify accounts that they randomly switch between, and one was made by a 12-year-old girl, one by a tragically un-cool 16-year-old Taiwanese boy, and one by a 65-year-old man. Also their DJ makes me want to claw my eardrums out.
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Dec 24, 2014 04:33
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Whenever I make fun of my girlfriend for listening to ICRT, I do the hackiest Morning Drive DJ voice and she says I could probably really get a job there. I do actually listen to their Taiwan Talk podcast, it's hard to find many perspectives on news in Taiwan in English. It's not too bad, though the interviews are still about as bland as possible, which I suppose is a pretty good description of ICRT as a whole.
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Dec 24, 2014 06:49
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Radiohead71 posted:Delta flies from JFK to Tokyo NRT and then on to TPE. I flew NRT-JFK a few months ago and it was a great flight. It was on a 747-400 which is an old but very nice plane. Delta now uses the 777-200LR from JFK-NRT. I didn't care for the business class seating layout in the 77L compared to the 744. I personally love Delta, so I don't understand all of the angst. I flew 50k miles with them last year and they were all great flights. Maybe he got stuck in a Mad Dog all the way there  Seriously, you don't get the true Delta experience unless half your flight time is in the back of one. Though, I've heard they've been updated the '88s, and I thought someone said they're retiring the older DC-9s for some Airbus of one flavor or another.
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Dec 24, 2014 07:28
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 Ponied up for the Eva direct flight.
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Dec 24, 2014 07:45
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I find it hilarious that they ditched most of their DJs but kept Joseph Lin, hands down one of the worst DJs they had. Do they still have that one cracker DJ who can't pronounce Kaohsiung on too? I also find it hilarious that ICRT continues to call itself "International Community" Radio Taipei and hasn't just admitted to reality and changed its name to "ESL Radio Taiwan".
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Dec 24, 2014 08:18
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The past two times coming back to Taiwan I've taken the San Fran/Taipei flight from United. I've never been better flights. It does involve getting me to SF, and domestic United flights are garbage.
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Dec 24, 2014 11:05
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GoutPatrol posted:domestic There you go
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Dec 24, 2014 13:44
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I'm trying to get cable internet at my apartment. When I went to the place, I wanted 100/40. They told me the fastest they could offer was 60/20. Guys come out today to install it, and lo and behold, the wiring here is even older. Apparently, the fastest my apartment can handle is 20/5, and they have to come back out on another day to install it.
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Dec 27, 2014 17:49
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YF19pilot posted:I'm trying to get cable internet at my apartment. When I went to the place, I wanted 100/40. They told me the fastest they could offer was 60/20. Guys come out today to install it, and lo and behold, the wiring here is even older. Apparently, the fastest my apartment can handle is 20/5, and they have to come back out on another day to install it. The porn must flow!
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Dec 27, 2014 19:02
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So, tell me more about whisky in Taiwan. I asked my mom and dad (who are from Taipei) about Kavalan and they looked at me confused.
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Dec 27, 2014 19:24
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Insane Totoro posted:So, tell me more about whisky in Taiwan. I asked my mom and dad (who are from Taipei) about Kavalan and they looked at me confused. There's a wide international selection and it's fairly cheap. The local stuff is alright, but the Japanese and Scotch whiskies still overshadow them, and the price difference doesn't justify buying local
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Dec 27, 2014 20:10
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I'm in Taiwan now for 10 days on break from teaching in Thailand. We flew into Taichung and spent a couple days there visiting my friend. Then we'll be spending New Years in Taipei. Holy drat I love this place. The food is awesome. The quality of western food in Taichung was much better than bangkok. You can get good scotch and beer for cheap anywhere. If you want to do it cheap its not much more expensive than Thailand either. The only downside seems to be the lack of good vacation time as an ESL teacher here. I checked out some interesting things to do on wikitravel and we'll probably do some of that stuff like go to the museum, check out some temples, go to the night market. But does anyone have any suggestions for something to do off the beaten track? And maybe the best place for watching the fireworks on New Years?
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Dec 29, 2014 11:23
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Yeah Taiwan pretty much owns I did a little cliff/rock jumping in 2012, a friend of mine loved there fora a year and gave me great directions from Taipei, if I'm not lazy later I can post it if you want
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Dec 30, 2014 04:47
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Yeah that would be great. I hope we can find a good NYE activity for tomorrow. I'd like to watch the fireworks from a good spot too if that's possible. Otherwise it was a little strange walking around tonight and seeing so much activity in the streets and not being able to find a bar to grab a drink in.
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Dec 30, 2014 17:59
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Taiwan's not really a "bar" culture, if you want a local equivalent you can go to a 熱炒 (cheap fried seafood and things and beer) restaurant or you could just google the major expat hangouts and go to one of those if you want an actual bar. Or you could just drink beers inside 7-11 for the exchange student/ESL teacher experience
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Dec 31, 2014 02:28
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About what time does the MRT start to get super crowded? I work until 8:30 and my apartment is one stop up from Taipei 101 station. How much of a pain in the rear end is it going to be getting home tonight?
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Dec 31, 2014 03:12
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hitension posted:Or you could just drink beers inside 7-11 for the exchange student/ESL teacher experience Please don't go to the 7-11 pub. Buy your beers there, but don't drink them there. Actually, a couple of Taiwanese guys use my neighborhood Family Mart as a pub. My coworker lives in an apartment overlooking it, and hates their rambling on into odd hours of the night.
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Dec 31, 2014 03:18
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You could go all-out and use a Wellcome as a bar like some people do near me. There are always empty cups stuffed full of cigarettes outside at the tables. Also a really fat golden retriever who doesn't move.
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Dec 31, 2014 03:22
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Moon Slayer posted:I work until 8:30 and my apartment is one stop up from Taipei 101 station. How much of a pain in the rear end is it going to be getting home tonight? hitension posted:Taiwan's not really a "bar" culture, if you want a local equivalent you can go to a 熱炒 (cheap fried seafood and things and beer) restaurant or you could just google the major expat hangouts and go to one of those if you want an actual bar. quote:Or you could just drink beers inside 7-11 for the exchange student/ESL teacher experience Drink in front of 7-Eleven.
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Dec 31, 2014 03:53
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TetsuoTW posted:Don't drink inside 7-Eleven, what are you, an animal? behold the wisdom of this post
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Dec 31, 2014 04:29
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TetsuoTW posted:Don't drink inside 7-Eleven, what are you, an animal? The truth. This is the way and the light my brothers.
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Dec 31, 2014 05:18
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When I lived in Taiwan, local dudes were always hanging around 7-11s drinking. I was living next to Shi Lin Nightmarket though so....
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Dec 31, 2014 06:56
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Moon Slayer posted:About what time does the MRT start to get super crowded? I work until 8:30 and my apartment is one stop up from Taipei 101 station. How much of a pain in the rear end is it going to be getting home tonight? After having spent a great deal of time in Bangkok I find this post quaint.
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Dec 31, 2014 07:44
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Moon Slayer posted:About what time does the MRT start to get super crowded? I work until 8:30 and my apartment is one stop up from Taipei 101 station. How much of a pain in the rear end is it going to be getting home tonight? The level of hosed you are at is making me giggle.
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Barto posted:The level of hosed you are at is making me giggle. eh, should be ok. It means waiting for like 5-7 cars before getting on, then you're sardined a bit, then you get off and you're fine.
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