Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget.

Re:Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget. by jaaron on Sunday February 01, 2009 @11:06AM (#460951)

As others have mentioned, visa requirements make this sort of travel impossible. It's a shame, too.

If you're set on leaving the UK, you may want to consider other destinations. I'm currently living in Hong Kong and you shouldn't have too much trouble getting here. You'd still need to get a work or investment visa to be able to properly live here, but it would be easier than in the US.

Finally, getting an education during the recession isn't a bad idea. The investment in yourself could be the best use of your time and money now.

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Re:Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget. by tjic on Sunday February 01, 2009 @01:27PM (#461116)

> As others have mentioned, visa requirements make this sort of travel impossible

No, they just make it illegal.

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Re:Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget. by markessien on Sunday February 01, 2009 @11:52AM (#461010)

Hong Kong is great. I'm planning to work there for a bit a bit in the future.

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Re:Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget. by alizaki on Sunday February 01, 2009 @12:42PM (#461059)

Singapore. Thriving startup community. VERY oool govt + system, liberal visa policy

I just moved my startup from SF there, consolidated our employees across the world and got money to do it too from the Govt.

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Re:Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget. by jaaron on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @01:42AM (#463634)

Hong Hong also has a growing startup community:

http://www.hksua.com.hk/

And there's efforts in getting the communities in the two cities to better work together (such as the Web Wednesday groups).

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Re:Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget. by critic on Sunday February 01, 2009 @03:38PM (#461309)

Would love to hear more about all this. Relevant links, blogs, stories?

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Re:Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget. by markessien on Sunday February 01, 2009 @12:49PM (#461068)

But Singapore is boring lah...

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Re:Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget. by sho on Sunday February 01, 2009 @01:00PM (#461080)

"VERY cool govt + system"

You have got to be fucking kidding me. Yeah, oral sex is illegal, that is "VERY cool".

Maybe the biz aspect works for you, and the MRT is good, but I just have this very nasty feeling about governments like that.

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Re:Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget. by falsestprophet on Sunday February 01, 2009 @03:52PM (#461338)

Sodomy, including heterosexual oral sex, was illegal in many places in the United States until the Lawrence vs. Texas decision in 2003.

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Re:Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget. by sho on Monday February 02, 2009 @03:22AM (#462059)

Yeah, but at least America has a free enough press and a transparent enough legal system that you can have reasonable faith that an attempt to prosecute anyone for some ridiculous outdated law would generate enough outcry and derision that it probably wouldn't go ahead. Or if it did, it would be overturned, as in the law you quote.

Singapore, who knows?

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Re:Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget. by ichverstehe on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @07:38AM (#463898)

Like, uh, gay marriages.

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Re:Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget. by helveticaman on Sunday February 01, 2009 @04:04PM (#461365)

I asked my friend, who is a former Singaporean police officer, and he says that oral sex law isn't enforced. Same goes for anal sex.

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Re:Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget. by sho on Monday February 02, 2009 @03:17AM (#462057)

So why hasn't it been struck off the books?

I distrust any government that keeps such laws around just in case they need something to get you with. Overcriminalisation, I think it's called. Not that I have a surfeit of trust in other governments but you get the point.

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Re:Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget. by helveticaman on Monday February 02, 2009 @03:36AM (#462069)

Yeah, good point.

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Re:Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget. by jaaron on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @01:43AM (#463635)

Awesome. When you're in town, check out the Web Wednesday group:

http://www.webwednesday.hk

And feel free to get in touch with me:

http://www.cubiclemuses.com

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