I'm an American often in China for my job. If you want to be in a tier 1 city rent relative to income is insane even compared to Canada (and by extension the US). If you're a foreigner in a skilled profession who can secure a job there, this would be pretty easily avoided as your salary will typically be far above average and housing likely even paid for by the company sponsoring you.
The downside is that the expectation of workers and office culture is also drastically different than in the US. Your savings also won't go as far should you ever choose to leave. Mandarin is pretty difficult to learn, particularly for reading characters which is more or less essential to get around New areas efficiently.
People are surprisingly quite nice to foreigners. I've never had a problem with the complete lack of privacy personally, since everything in public is tracked/recorded crime is incredibly low. But I have the ability to make that choice while others don't, so I can get why it's an issue for some. It's a weird contrast from the US where the police are most certainly not your friend and the government is too disorganized to help even when they have all the relevant information. The urbanism is everything you'd imagine it to be, even in tier 2/3 cities it's incredibly easy to get around without a car. If I weren't tied to my family in the US I'd likely consider spending a few years working there while still young. But even then it would be hard to justify such a huge pay cut from US engineering salaries.
They definitely won't, the prices will just go up to match the rents. Last time I was there the line was insanely long, raising prices certainly wouldn't deter the majority of their customers.
I've always been able to decline overdraft when opening a bank account in person. Banks argue the fee is preferable to the embarassment of having the transaction declined, but with how often credit cards flag fraud the embarrassment when it happens is practically zero.
What's wrong with IONOS? Their VPS prices are some of the best out there and reliability has never been an issue for me.
Containers are often simple enough you don't even need a guide. I don't trust myself to configure anything on the host system correctly, and using Docker containers completely solves concerns of conflicting dependencies during updates. I personally avoid hosting anything that isn't available with Docker anymore. It's just too much work for a worse result.
How? I've been noticing buffering the last few days with 1080p60 videos and up even using the suggested app version in Revanced.
The sad part is that some people have unwillingly had their DNA shared. My parents both did it without me knowing so now they already have my information too.
Browsing this post on China Mobile now, everything is working fine.
Personally I wouldn't trust it even though so far there have been no problems playing online with official firmware on a modded console. It's possible they could detect it in theory and Nintendo does not take unauthorized use lightly, even if you purchased the game and Nintendo online subscription legitimately.
And the same people who are likely to vote for whoever his fascist successor ends up being.
They've gotten a bit better with this lately I think. Although it has certainly gotten slower over the years, my A52 4G is definitely still usable despite being released over 4yr ago as a mid-range phone.
It's definitely a bandwidth usage thing, given their reputation for being informal in communications they could have been a lot nicer about that.
It's really disappointing to see this from them, they were one the best priced VPNs out there claiming to respect privacy. Their support was also super helpful with my questions about their datacenter static IPs.
Normally Trump does what's best for the ultra wealthy, but de-dollarization of the world economy appears to be good for nobody in the USA. I have no clue what they're trying to do, I suspect he's just lost it and there's nobody left to tell him these tariffs hurt his croneys too.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if we're already too far along to save the dollar's position globally. Globally that's probably a good thing, but for any of us in the US it's decidely not.
Ya I don't know about other people's maintenance teams but I avoid calling mine whenever possible. They always get mud and dirt on the carpet after they enter, but more importantly I don't like people I don't know entering my apartment while I'm not there.
Has anyone seen customs ever actually search an electronic device before? I travel internationally nearly every month and have never seen this before, even in China.
Ya at least you can opt out of overdraft entirely unlike the banks using your money for irresponsible 'investments'. I have no idea why anyone has overdrafting active on their accounts beyond it simply being the default option, even for a $5 fee it's a total scam.
Thank you for clarifying that this removes the requirement to spend the money where it was allocated. This answers my question and could indeed be worse than a shutdown.
Most MAGA Republicans would rather a shutdown than giving in to Democratic points. The alternative wasn't Democrats getting one or two of their points in the budget in exchange for it passing, the alternative was a government shutdown.
I fully agree that when the Democrats have power they do absolutely nothing with it, but in this case I fail to see how they could have gotten any of their points in.
So although passing this budget was obviously terrible, how is it worse than no budget at all? No budget followed by a government shutdown would be the ideal case for Trump and Elon to take yet more power from Congress. The Democrats aren't in any good position of power right now so expecting the budget to include any of their priorities is unrealistic.