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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:all of the above, we're touristy as heck. if we went to japan there's a good chance we'd be one of the mt. fuji walkers I've heard good things re: all of the above about Japan and Hong Kong but never been. Taiwan has them too, and like HK gives a little bit of the "China" experience without actually being China. Thailand and Cambodia are beautiful places with (if you go find it) great nature in addition to awesome temples.
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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:good beer/wine/liquor is a plus Have you considered Europe?
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Blistex posted:Have you considered Europe? Yeah, for good alcohol, Europe's your best bet. If you want it to be cheaper, go to Eastern Europe.
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I'd say liquor is actually "good" in Asia for certain definitions of good depending on what it is you are looking for in liquor. Japan and Taiwan both have amazing whisky for instance. Korean booze is great though their beer is a loving war crime. Thailand and Taiwan have passable beer if you're used to American domestics. I'd stay the hell away from Thai liquor. Taiwanese liquor is something of an acquired taste, but I swear by it. And of course sake is fine, though I haven't personally been able to drink it since an unfortunate night involving onions and the local rotary club. But yeah you're never going to find good wine made in Asia.
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Blistex posted:Have you considered Europe? yeah I might just say gently caress it and go to germany lol thanks for the suggestions though
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Blistex posted:$15,000 a year in Property taxes that's actually $396,000 a year
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Atlas Hugged posted:Thailand and Taiwan have passable beer if you're used to American domestics.  And Phoenix is pretty chilly if you're used to Marble Bar.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Korean booze is great not even if compared to like a cup of zippo fluid
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Jeoh posted:that's actually $396,000 a year Thats why they go bankrupt
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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:all of the above, we're touristy as heck. if we went to japan there's a good chance we'd be one of the mt. fuji walkers Takayama in Japan was pretty touristy but we liked it a lot. It's a small town in the mountains, so you'll spend a couple hours on a scenic train ride (you can stop at Gero on the way for hot springs). Stay at the Zenkoji temple hostel, and eat Hida-gyu yakiniku at Ajikura Tengoku just around the corner. The old town is cool, and there's also the Hida Folk Village on the edge of town that I wish we'd had time to visit. http://japan-articles.japanican.com/en/articles/a_gourmet_food_tour_of_takayama.html has lots of pictures including that loving excellent restaurant.
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Jeoh posted:that's actually $396,000 a year Anyone thinking that is an unreasonable amount of cash outflow should direct their attention up thread to the photos of Pikachu McLarens and Lamborghinis being driven in a foot of snow. Hope they enjoy their run.
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/\ The really "tragic" part of this is that the people who have managed to sneak only $5 million out of China have to compete toy-for-toy with the Coal Bosses who managed to get 100 million out of the country, and have to appear to be just as rich (spending as much money on luxury crap) or they lose face. In the end they end up going broke after a few years because they can't stand to live within their means.Jeoh posted:that's actually $396,000 a year I am not an accountant, so I can't comment. Blistex fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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Also if you have 20 million you can earn about a million a year in interest.
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Jimmy Little Balls posted:Also if you have 20 million you can earn about a million a year in interest. Haha! Look at this guy who thinks the people we're talking about might invest in anything other than solid chunks of rare metals and property.
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Jimmy Little Balls posted:Also if you have 20 million you can earn about a million a year in interest. You think any of that money is properly invested...  It is all sunk into unrented property in Vancouver.
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Since I have posted some LOLs from the lady side of Tantan, I decided to post some sexy mans from the man side: This guy's profile was real and full of photos of him in Final Fantasy streetwear.  I said make up was common on dudes in here.  Adult with a bowlcut...  "..."  If they made a Chinese version of Miami Vice where they rode ebikes and delivered noodles, this guy would definitely be an extra.  "We'll be together with a roof right over our heads; We'll share the shelter of my single bed"  This guy was real. All of this photos were progressively more anime. The frilly shirt was my favorite, though.  Barber: "What you want, fam?" Guy: "A fresh patty and some fries." Barber: "Say no more." 
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Blistex posted:Haha! Look at this guy who thinks the people we're talking about might invest in anything other than solid chunks of rare metals and property. Warehouses full of copper, outlander.  This dude is basically a serial killer. "monster" indeed. McGavin fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:i want some real advice from the china thread Go to Taiwan. Great country, nice people, cool landscapes, best museum of Chinese art in the world for your dweeb gf
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Sheep-Goats posted:Go to Taiwan. Great country, nice people, cool landscapes, best museum of Chinese art in the world for your dweeb gf Oh yeah, there's that--the National Palace Museum here in Taipei is loving awesome if you like old Chinese stuff. Everything that wasn't nailed down or too big to move in 1949 is here.
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Blistex posted:I think I posted this scenario before, but this is how I imagined it going on for your typical "smash and grab" Chinese family moving to Vancouver. If you invest 20mil well in China you're set for life A+ rich man without touching the principle dummy You think they bring the whole kit and caboodle over and break ties? Even in Canada that's minimum 400,000 in dividends and whatever if you don't invest like a retard Edit: beaten but yeah. 100mil CAD isn't even that much for what these rich families are bringing over. You got no idea Modest Mao fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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From what I know of the rich in Vancouver their "investments" are cars and real-estate and sometimes businesses but very rarely actual good things like mutual funds. I don't know if it's a cultural thing or what, I've found it's the same with eastern europeans. There's a strong mistrust of high finance, that you need to directly invest in tangible things and just parking 20 million in a bunch of e-series index funds is "too risky" because it's not a "real" investment. It' makes sense when you come from a country where the stock market is a joke and or there's been lots of cases of people's entire fortunes being wiped out, or you come from a place where mutual funds and such simply don't exist. Yeah, if I had 20 million I'd park it in a mutual fund and enjoy earning 5-7% or so on average each year while living modestly. But that's just not a common thing thing that's seen as a safe and logical thing to do in a lot of cultures. "investing" is risky, that's playing the stocks or giving your cousin seed money for his construction company. That's what a lot of people think of when they hear "investments". Even "old stock" canadians will tell me they don't trust mutual funds because that's "playing the market" and it's too dangerous, best invest in something safe with guaranteed gains like a house.
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Blistex posted:
I agree except most of them only make it out with less than 5m. All the rich chinese guys I know are 1 crazy rich and like 5 of his friends that are single digit millionaires one-upping eachother I didnt read your last post when i wrote this. But yeah exactly Fauxtool fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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Baronjutter posted:From what I know of the rich in Vancouver their "investments" are cars and real-estate and sometimes businesses but very rarely actual good things like mutual funds. I don't know if it's a cultural thing or what, I've found it's the same with eastern europeans. There's a strong mistrust of high finance, that you need to directly invest in tangible things and just parking 20 million in a bunch of e-series index funds is "too risky" because it's not a "real" investment. It' makes sense when you come from a country where the stock market is a joke and or there's been lots of cases of people's entire fortunes being wiped out, or you come from a place where mutual funds and such simply don't exist. Speaking as someone descended from Eastern European stock, it's a mixture of historical distrust of banks (imagine making money during the Communist era in intangible commodities) and a lack of financial education. Understanding how stocks or markets work is tough and scary, but everyone knows how property works: buy low, sell high. If the economy's in the shitter, at least you can live in the house and wait it out (and ideally, you can farm on it). Also, their idea of investment is more like throwing capital into a business and becoming a millionaire like in movies, without knowing how things like risk, ROI, etc. (Ask me about being asked by my aunt about what to do with a very conservative mutual fund for her 18-year-old son that lost 1% last year and was afraid of any risk at all.)
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Yeah my wife is Russian and her family is all in Ukraine and they got really worried when they found out we "played the stock market". Some of them came into some money, good money for ukraine, and thier plan was to just put it in the bank and even that was risky. I advised mutual funds, but they simply don't seem to exist there. There's no infrastructure in place for it, and certainly no "financial culture" surrounding it. Instead, my poor cousin went into business in china and got fleeced for like 10k (by an american, not chinese!) on an "investment opportunity". When you say "investing" that's what people think of. They think of a plan to buy a $10k container of "chicken paws" from an industrial producer in the US, export it to Vietnam, and distribute it via your chinese business partners who run a meat distribution business. If everything goes as agreed you'll make 13k on your 10k investment. Oops the meat dealer which claimed to be a rep from Tyson Foods was using an @yahoo.com email and took the money and ran and a bunch of the money you spent wasn't your own but chinese mafia connected investors???? drat, investing is risky! Cousin is ok, she paid her "investors" back with her own money and she's onto her next chinese import/export deal. Also holy poo poo my cousin has some strong opinions on "the chinese", Slavs and Chinese are an amazing mix for business.
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that sounds cool, way more cool than mutual funds
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So tell your relatives that you have a great investment opportunity, guaranteed return on investment. It's, uh, buying and selling rare earth dirt from Mexicans to a producer in Airzona. Then invest the money into a mutual fund and keep a percentage of profit. Tada.
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Blistex posted:Edit: Almost forgot! When he showed up to the school there was the customary "introduce him to the staff" function in the staff room. When he was handed the school swag set (bath and hand towels, coffee cup, digital alarm clock, and pen set) all with the school's name and crest on it, he just left them on his desk in the main office, and the only time they moved (for the entire six months) was when the custodian picked them up to dust his desk. They were still there the day he left for home. I'm picturing something like Fry's dog except it's a welcome bag of monogrammed items on a desk
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Outrail posted:So tell your relatives that you have a great investment opportunity, guaranteed return on investment. It's, uh, buying and selling rare earth dirt from Mexicans to a producer in Airzona. We do this for a relative. Its great!
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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:i want some real advice from the china thread China is perfectly nice as a tourist, I'd go there or Japan.
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Rome:Total War owned
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There is actually two Taiwanese National Palace Museums now, A new one opened in the south recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Palace_Museum. Still only less than 10% of their hoard on display though. Most of it is underground in the mountain behind the northern branch. Also there is an awesome Fish-Ball museum in north of Taipei, and Sugar Refinery Museum & of course the beautiful Tarako Gorge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teng_Feng_Fish_Ball_Museum Then there is the fast train, Hot Spring Resorts, Sun Moon Lake The best computer conventions, Black sand beaches, Its all around a good thing. Women are V.Cute as well.
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Darkest Auer posted:It's a mental illness. I knew a guy who basically refused to eat anything that wasn't his mom's cooking. God knows how or why he ended up in China, but the guy ate nothing but imported cheese and ham melted together in a microwave oven. I think I posted about this in one of the other threads, but there was some sports interview with a CBA coach and he commented that it's been a struggle to get any of the American-Import teammates to eat any chinese food, instead eating exclusively at mcdonalds and pizza hut. One of the players mentioned that during his 1-year (2?) term in the CBA, he ate Chinese food one time, at the introductory dinner his first day in China.
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ladron posted:not even if compared to like a cup of zippo fluid Makgeolli is delicious.
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Usain Bolt ate nothing but McDonalds Chicken Nuggets for the entire duration of his stay in Beijing for the Olympics. He knows something we don't.
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wildemere posted:Women are V.Cute as well. I'm sure his wife will appreciate this, yes
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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:i want some real advice from the china thread Going to the Great Wall will kinda suck, because Beijing and surroundings kinda suck. The Wall is alright. Hong Kong is cool, and you can get by in English. Japan is also cool, and you have a lot of choices for poo poo to do. The only Taiwanese people I know is this dude with advanced anemia and a girl who desperately wants to be Japanese. Don't go to Taiwan.
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I hope people put flowers at that heroic tank monument. Taiwan Number #1 etalian fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Mar 15, 2017 |
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wildemere posted:There is actually two Taiwanese National Palace Museums now, A new one opened in the south recently Fish ball museum? That sounds loving amazing/delicious.
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