>decide to take the plunge and live in asia, get told to just buy stuff there>go looking for items, can't find it in stores or find expensive knockoffs>go online to look and ask>"huh? why do you need that?">"anon just order it online at <place>">to order online need resident or alien registration card>find mirror to forward>login through all the hoops>sorry we don't deliver to hotels/ :)I never realized how coinvent amazon shipping was back in the USA, I must be doing something wrong in my travels how do you get shit shipped properly to you when abroad. In Korea and it's fucking impossible to do most things without some local phone number, citizen card or whatever, and local bank acc. Is there some must have service living in asia for goods online?
you are going to live there forever?
what do you need
>>2897229Workout supplementsShoes that fit (13w US impossible to find not boots) + proper shoe insertsproperly fitting clothes, unless you go to Itaewon jack shit for foreignersOlder thinkpad I brought with me assuming I'd just buy something abroad would be a good deal is just "buy online for gud price"Proper shampoo+deoderant, nothing works out here in the asia summer stagnat heatAnything in bulk that you would go throughEverything in Asia seems to be this way or "Oh you didn't know random store on floor 5 of the mall outside of downtown has X? How anon?" KOrea is the worst nothing works on google maps and Naver sucks. Heard it gets worse the farther south you go due to the amount of straight up counterfit goods. Trying to aim for Taiwan when it's cooler and see those amazing mountains.>>289722290 days Japannow 90 days koreaI figured since the USD is stronger against the won it would be an ez win.
>>2897132>decide to take the plunge Go fuck yourself. I don’t get to take the plunge because I can’t afford to sustain myself overseas. Fuck you
>>2897236>90 days Japan>now 90 days korea>in hotelok, trust fund kid
>>2897236Uhhh anon, they have amazon in JapanI don't know about Korea but they ship to me in Taiwan, free over 12,000 yenUsed it Japan and got delivery to multiple hotels, where the fuck are you staying that won't take a packagehttps://www.amazon.co.jp/
>>2897258Also I've seen locals get their packages from convenience stores which I guess is how it works if you're in an apartmentHave heard the koreans are really retarded when it comes to tech though, like banking requires you to install all different activex apps before it will load, and they're all riddled with security bugsAmazon JP should be able to ship most things to you
>>2897256No a trust fund kid lmao>>2897258Japan wasn't much a problem but Korea is. Taiwan I hear a lot of the same. I would ask the hoels in Japan sometimes said no package, my airbnb I had no way of getting packages either.Based on my research at least, Taiwan, PH, Malaysia, Thailand, for the best deals you want to order things online if you need "western" sizes. Heard something about grab but this app looks like ubereats>>2897261I didn't really try in Japan I was busy working and it was constantly raining so I kinda thought I had everything I needed last 2 months. Little did I know after moving how dogshit things get.Korea is so fucking stupid>need vitamins>SORRY NO SALE HERE>get told online go to itaewon>derka derka town like you wouldn't believe, the drug store I go in is 90% women PMS and pooping meds and 9% drank too much meds 1% generic multi vitamin>go to a pub to ask some locals where to get stuff>everyone is a burnt out english teacher or military fag who has all the documents for ordering online and just tell me to do it>explain I am just expat for 90 days>"LOL WHY DID YOU BOTHER SO LONG WITH KOREA? ARE YOU MENTAL LAD? OI THIS MATE STAYING 90 DAYS AND NOT EVEN WORKING HERE!"Sorry for trying to see what Korea had to offer fuck, so far this place is like where expats go to die.
>>2897264>Not a trust fund kidThen say how and why you’re able to live in Asia you fucking faggot and I mean indefinitely not 180 cricket cock days of travel
>>2897265I work remotely, it's called digital nomad.
>>2897266I really don’t like knowing that there’s people who can just arbitrarily decide to live in different parts of the world simply because of their digital dork job.I’m gonna spend the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself that I didn’t try harder
>>2897288>burnt my HS years on PC learning>got a BS cashier job to help me buy from newegg and learn PC shit spend it as my hobby >worked a HD job to make a savings for my college rather than "go work for whatever" after 80k in FASFA debt>burnt my college years at a community college with the money I saved working a helpdesk job and small cashier job losing weekend parties for exp at 20/21>work for a professional company at 22-24>studied my ass off to be certified with Cisco, MS, etc>apply to some other jobs after 2 years of busting my ass under a micromanager dickhead on my ass>scale the ladder instantly through boomers >27 top of the ladder Sr. Engineer, CIO, CEO, CFO know my name by CYA and not getting into any drama>decide to now live like>WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THESE PEOPLE REEEEEEAnon I am sure you had time to party, work a 9-5, laze at your parents, and so on. I had another path I chose, maybe the grass would have been greener because looking back I miss those college years others had but so what. I am here now and best thing I can do is live it up.Maybe just focus on something that offers this rather than be mad and "solve it tomorrow"
>>2897292What's your pay?
>>2897288It's called a larp. You can't really travel the world fulltime remotely unless you have your own business due to tax reasons. Companies won't let you.
>>2897295This is called cope
>>2897288>spend the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself that I didn’t try harderSo what you can try really hard and shit still may not work out. A lot can happen that's outside of your control.
>>289729398k/yr + phone paid + "personal" laptop after my work one expires + free health care + 401k at 3.5% even if I put nothing in with 5% matching, tax exemptions, 3 weeks off per year with 10 corp holidays.I could make more if I changed jobs but my boss is about 3 years older than me and doesn't care what I do since during covid kinda saved the company on being WFH in 2 weeks of doing +90hr weeks.>>2897295My CEO literally found out I wanted to travel when we were tearing down our main center from covid and asked what countries I would be going to. I told him, he checked his phone and said "yeah we don't have business in there so shouldn't be a problem, just keep this to yourself". My boss and my CEO worked in Europe for a while anyways after I built an entire citrix infrastructure and SSO'd VOIP into chromebooks that give "virtual airgap" from local network. We shut down paying 600k/mo call center to WFH for employees to ~125k/yr in licensing, guess who makes sure that is working?Do people really not understand how nerds applied shit from HS into modern day?
>>2897296You can only remote for half the year at best by doing a site to site VPN tunnel without telling the company and hoping IT doesn't flag you. More than that you're getting fired when they find out you're out of the country too long to be considered a current resident and they have to deal with tax fuckery
>>2897300Bruh I a IT, my CIO doesn't care as long as I keep my laptop with a Prebook password bitlocker setup and iphones with my corp data on them. No clue on the 180 day thing unless you mean a specific country, I swap every 88 days due to visa imitations
>>2897264>Malaysiadude you need lazada or shopee. not grab. shopee is usually a bit cheaper but there are lots of fakes etc on there>>2897236>Shoes that fit (13w US impossible to find not boots) + proper shoe insertsthis can be quite difficult. i have a friend in malaysia who has a teenage kid with freakishly huge clown feet. the only shoes that size that are available locally are hideous so a few times i have brought shoes over from the uk for them>>2897266if you are staying three months in a place you are not a digital nomad. more like a temporary migrant. nomad? i bet you don't even have a camel
Not that Gymcel no deo, nuffin works like at home omg le ebin digital nomad larp thread again, we had that 10 times this year.Fucking Schizo.
>>2897328>Not that Gymcel no deo, nuffin works like at home omg le ebin digital nomadIt's like you had a stroke.
>>2897295Imagine believing this lmao. I work anywhere I want. As long as I'm available during some core hours, nobody cares where or when I work so long as I'm getting everything done. If you're American, no matter where you are, you're subject to American tax laws. Whether you're in Cambodia or Kenya, it's the same shit to the company. They'll just file you as a resident of whatever the last state you lived in was then you handle your own tax filing beyond that.
>>2897328Granpa lookmaxxing is the thing to do these days
>>2897333>omg u look so youngHahahhahaha
>>2897299You are smarter than most of us, quite obviously.Which other position in your company can afford to live like you do?
>>2897336I don't look at HR data but I know most make a bit more. For my qualifications I probably should be making 130k min or 180k if I was in california. >>2897335Anon I couldn't understand what you were saying so I figured you were mad at something and made a joke. I just like to work out because if I put in X number of steps I get a +300 rebate on my healthcare which makes my gym membership free (thank you anytime fitness working in asia life saver).>>2897332Pretty much this. Even when I worked abroad for a bit before I just import into turbotax, next through it and done. Taxes are only a problem if I am working for someone in the country
>>2897292I’m not solving anything. I’m 35. I sit at a desk overnight and watch kick streams and listen to music for $23.65/hr. I literally get paid to entertain myself and not have to interact with anyone.I experience no mental, physical, or social discomfort whatsoever and sit in a Herman Miller Aeron office chair, which might as well be a hammock.
>>2897476>get mad at how someone lives and ask how they did it>get explanation>I don't care anon! what was the point
>>2897132My oh my, how did humanity survive before God Emperor Jeff Bezos invented Amazon? I haven't shopped at either Walmart or Amazon for years, because unlike you I'm not a mindbroken goyslave who can't function without his favorite megacorps. >>2897236>being so stinky you need to apply industrial grade destinking goop to your skin every day, multiple times a dayAt this point you should just pajeetmaxx and smell up the room without a care
>>2897515So I can self flagellate
>>2897551mid 30's man still listening to linkin park and being "le depressed misunderstood deep thinker"
>>2897516>unlike you I'm not a mindbroken goyslaveyou certainly fucking talk like onelearn to communicate like an actual adult
>>2897516it's not a real person. it's a focus group trying to datamine or some bored office wagey concern trolling from Albuquerque. Every few days its the same larp but a slightly different location
>>2897516Anon, I can't find the sizes needed. I am glad everyone here fits the 5'2"-5'6" 160lbs size 9 shoes so shopping in asia is a no brainer. If you're over 6 and are active(average 25k steps a day 5hr a day out seeing the sites and city), you burn through things my dr scholes inserts more or less vaporized, finding replacements that are worth a damn? not the easiest.Of course I am going to default looking at amazon when abroad since they are huge and what I have an account with.
>>2897577Im an analog nomad and when spending a year in Asia i had to fly to Kuala Lumpur to buy shoes that fit. Lots of western expats there. Check out the big malls by the Petronas towers
>>2897516>>being so stinky you need to apply industrial grade destinking goop to your skin every day, multiple times a day>At this point you should just pajeetmaxx and smell up the room without a careI get this is 4chan but anytime I hear this and recall the soaps and cologne you get in Asia I'm always wondering if this is just lack of social awareness or something. It reminds me of the fat people who tell me after I decide to go to post workout meal "how to eat healthy" and "yeah I gym a lot" who are 300lbs with +30% BF and what "snake oil vitamins are".It's better to have some quality deodorant or something than not enough, I don't walk around as a walshart american but you can't tell me you don't start smelling after being out and about in Asia with the heat and humidity and random smells that will start sticking to you. No I am not going to wear axe or random Kimmy's smell so good bodywash that has menthol in it.I've never been worried about smelling good, but I have been worried about smelling bad. I'd rather smell like some bodywash than whatever mystery smells have clung to me that day along with my own sweat. If this was winter, sure I could see criticism for being as anal if this was winter, but summer? come on.
>>2897638Cool great, I'm no where near the equator, doesn't really help me anon.
>>2897295>You can't really travel the world fulltime remotely unless you have your own business due to tax reasons."because tax reasons" Funny because I met someone who explained this meme to me, makes more sense when you think about it. Now that I am in a semi management position it also makes a lot of sense. #1 reason for this is the boss you have simply doesn't trust you to report on time, focus on work, worried you just do something dumb and they have to explain "well actually anon was in bangkok with our company laptop and data...". For me I work 90% of stuff in the cloud remoting for work, if my laptpo went poof I just download VPN, reload my configs to connect, login to my Azure VM and roll on.Tax reasons is a grey area most people are going to throw their hands up to and just say it's not possible. Now if you are trying to fille one of those weird tax loopholes where you get tax exemptions, that could be valid but I just turbotax my W2 and next through it pay whatever the USG says I owe
