>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
>in asia>google a few places to eat because weather is kinda mid>find place>want to order>oops not on grab>oops not on uber eats>random ass delivery service you never heard of Worst thing about some countries is the requirement for a local phone number, all the sims around you are data only. Fucking SUCKS. Every time I go HK or Korea I ALWAYS get a sim with texts because some random off the wall bullshit app will want it.
>>2898802>ordering food delivery>everkwab
>>2897640You stink because you eat garbage and don't bathe
>>2897645No dumdum, your company owes payroll tax to the locality where you are, they may not want to file taxes in Timbuktu for your 1 month visit then bangcuck for your 1 month ladyboy visit etc. That's the only reason. If you don't have a job it's easy to nomad
>>2898802>>2898811This is why I eat hotel breakfast and McDonald's 90% of the time. Solves the food problem
>>2898820>I don't know how US taxes work
>>2897288Not OP but I live this life and the amount of seethe it causes other people truly makes my day kekYou meet some people and they seem to get visibly annoyed about it, had one wanker american in this group of people lecturing me about geoarbitrage and how it hurts other countries, meanwhile he's also trying to move to Asia himself lmao.>>2897295There's dozens of nomad visas now, tax shit isn't an issue.>>2897264Should check if they will send to familymart or whatever the Korean equivalent is, they usually handle all this stuff
>>2897132>take the plunge and live in asia>hotelsYou're a tourist.
>>2898878trv be like "KEK anon staying in a airbnb? gay" but then "KEK anon staying in a hotel? uhhh tourist normie?".>>2898823Korea specifically registers a lot of things for ARC holders or citizens. It along with the new Airbnb laws in Seoul, Busan, and Jeju basically are the reason I don't recommend or stay there anymore. It's like Korea actively tries to do everything to make life harder for tourists and people.>>2898820Taxes in the US are based off your state and federal exemptions, whatever your registered address is in the USA is how you get taxed. Technically if you wanted you could apply for FEIE or whatever to get exemptions if you make under 125k/yr or something forget the exact number, and live outside the USA for 360 days per year. Taxes don't apply if you aren't providing any goods and services to the local/countries economy. Most Nomad visa's are just for extending the visa free 90 days rather than doing anything about working while in the country. If that were an issue every person who has a long layover or cancelled flight needing to text their boss about it would be committing a crime.
>>2897640In poor countries everything is open air and full of odors, so who cares about a little sweat smell unless you're some hideously reeking ogre. I use a $1 Speed Stick when I am inside A/C transport, three extended travel seasons and I still haven't used it up.
>>2899095>whatever your registered address is in the USA is how you get taxed.Companies get fined if you are using the wrong address, thats why they care
>>2899112No they fucking don't in the USA. The burden of keeping the address correct is up to the individual not the company. IRS will come after you for misfiling if you manage to scream up and down about it otherwise they won't do anything. Think about this for like 2 seconds, how the FUCK would CDL workers, delivery drivers, or anyone with more than one business site if where they physically were at that second be taxed? Every business would have a logistical nightmare, which is why it's based on what the employee puts down as their residential address.This sounds like some weird Aussie bullshit tax stuff
>>2899115>summerbummingLmao, you are a moron, there are thousands of taxing jurisdictions in the usa, the irs isn't the only one
>>2899116No shit, have you never filed taxes before? You provide your information to your employer which they provide to the government, during filing you confirm the address in your W2 matches what you submitted. You'll want it correct because most companies still send physical W2's each year to that address so unless you want all that identifiable info just going to Jamal it needs to be something close to your living residence.There is basically no repercussions unless you're making millions per year claiming in a city/state that doesn't have income tax, I know people who moved and for years their info wasn't up to date. No one really cares all that much, the possible fines you could face are nothing for most office/remote workers; even then it has to be proven malice in not updating.You sound like an aussie or euro who has weird ass tax shit.
>>2899120>>2899120>You provide your information to your employer whiAnd then they fire you when they find out you lied.
>>2899125Lying how? Stating a place of residence can be anything. Have a friend? Pay them 1 dollar to live there when you are done being over seas? Congrats that counts. Have parents that will keep a room open for you to return to? That counts too. Hell I even think a PO box can classify in some instances/states. Again this sounds like some foreigner who's never filed taxes trying to make shit up.
>>2899127Wrong
>>2899154>be oilfield worker, ship hand, or commercial truck driver>gone 6 months or more out of the year>can't file taxes because I stayed in a hotel or slept in somewhere else other than the home address I gave to my companySure Ari, sounds great.
>>2899156You are a moron you are claiming a po box can be a residence
>>2899160Anon I said I thought some states might allow it, who knows what california does and how all those homeless get EBT and other benefits even though they should have an address. I don't know, but I know the other two examples I gave "living with a friend' or "living at parents" is doable and what 99% of people do.
>>2899162Exactly you are making shit up. No states allow a po box as a residence>but I know the other two examples I gave "living with a friend' or "living at parents" is doable and what 99% of people do.And this is false also. If you list California as your residence and your employer finds out you live in Bangkok you are getting fired
>>2899165>Exactly you are making shit up. No states allow a po box as a residenceI said I wasn't sure, if it's not okay.>If you list California as your residence and your employer finds out you live in Bangkok you are getting firedThen that's not a tax reason that's a company policy reason you might be violating. Personally my boss doesn't give a shit about me living in Asia since most my job has implementations that have to be done off hours with our team in India.Hell half our employees often work outside the USA at some point and we just say "don't lose your laptop, bitlocker it, work with HD to get VPN on your laptop."
>>2899166Its a company policy because its illegal to cheat on taxes
>>2899165>No states allow a po box as a residenceFake dorkus caught redhanded lmao
>>2899120>or euro who has weird ass tax shit.complicated as they are, believe me our taxes are child's play compared to the shitshow that exists in the usa
>>2899167Amazing CPA skills you were able to extrapolate from a few posts on an image board? Do you work for Goldman?>>2899234US taxes are complicated is code for "I owed money to the government and didn't want to pay it" speak. People buy new cars or a boat or some other insanely dumb thing that's taxable and don't realize it only to get a Personal Property Tax that they didn't realize or deferred at purchase when they file on April 14th 10PM, 2 hours before the deadline.What it is for like 80-90% of people with jobs is this>login to turbotax or some similar site>pay 10 dollars if it found your employer and W2 to automatically import and fill it out>add in car/house/boat and benefits (child credits, student loans, mortgage benefits)>see how much you owe or don't owe based on what you told the fed government to take out of your paycheck each time. If you say withhold 0% you owe a lot at the end of the year if you say withhold 5% you usually get shit back(depending).It takes me no more than maybe 30 minutes, and since I live in an apartment back home with 0 car I just next through it all. Sure it probably gets WAAAAY more complicated if you start trying to squeeze in any and all free gibs you don't really qualify but that happens(especially with working outside the US tax exemption BS reddit loves).No one on this board makes enough to have their travels come up in taxes, maybe if people are shelling out upper six figs in crypto that's taxed and trying to work that number down sure. But, some random anon making between 55-155k a year working in Thailand who's home address is valid with property taxes up to date and no late child support? Pffft lmao no.
