Re:Working Remotely From A Tropical Island In Thailand
by socialist_coder on Thursday April 09, 2015 @04:37PM
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Your goal was completely different.
They like living in Spain / wherever else they live. They also like travelling to other countries. They're taking a vacation and working from a new place, for a short time. They don't want to live there.
Re:Working Remotely From A Tropical Island In Thailand
by byoung2 on Thursday April 09, 2015 @05:00PM
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It also may not be possible to live there permanently and work because of visa and residency restrictions. I wanted to move to the Philippines a few years back (my wife is from Manila), but in researching I found it would be difficult to live and work there as a US citizen. There are classes of visa that allow you to live there and start companies (e.g. SIRV [1]), but they usually require a large deposit (~$75,000 USD) and a lot of strict requirements. There is also a retirees visa (SRRV [2]) which is a little cheaper ($20,000 locked in for duration or $50,000 convertible to domestic investment), but you have to be 35 or older (which I am as of 2 months ago).
1. http://philippinevisalawyer.com/?q=special-investor-resident...
Re:Working Remotely From A Tropical Island In Thailand
by gbog on Thursday April 09, 2015 @07:44PM
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I didn't have the goal to be swallowed by China the first time I went there, I just was.
Re:Working Remotely From A Tropical Island In Thailand
by nicholasdrake on Thursday April 09, 2015 @04:41PM
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哇塞！
I say that as a French who decided ten years ago that China was my place, learnt the language, married a Chinese woman and have kids and job in Beijing with no special return plan.