Good places to live as an internet marketer?



Wicked Ice said:
Well, renting an office space in Singapore is even more expensive. An office space (for ONE person) in city area costs around $2.5k and above.
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you are talking about a cheap ass 100 sq ft area where you can only manage 1 laptop, 1 PC maybe and chair. Last time i checked a decent place with atleast 10 people sitting was around $10K++

Geomark, personally i just hate malaysia as a country. Its becoming a middle eastern country day by day with their stupid muslim laws. Besides that, Malaysian gals are hot and very easy to get laid.
 
Malaysian girls are hotter than Singaporean girls, that's for sure.

vinnythejinny said:
you are talking about a cheap ass 100 sq ft area where you can only manage 1 laptop, 1 PC maybe and chair. Last time i checked a decent place with atleast 10 people sitting was around $10K++

Geomark, personally i just hate malaysia as a country. Its becoming a middle eastern country day by day with their stupid muslim laws. Besides that, Malaysian gals are hot and very easy to get laid.
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jsphfcll said:
i also believe if you leave the united states the irs still taxes you for 10 years...

so are you from the united states?
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The first post mentioned that he is trying to avoid UK taxes, so he is probably from there. :thumbsup:

Like geomark mentioned, the U.S. attempts to tax your worldwide income forever unless you give up U.S. citizenship. I believe Libya is the only other country that does the same.
 
geomark said:
Not sure you really want to set up a company in Thailand. As a foreigner you get ripped. To start with, you need to register 2 million baht of capital (i.e. put nearly US$70,000 in a Thai bank) in order to get yourself a work permit so you can work at your own business. In addition, for each work permit you must also have 4 Thai nationals working for you, or at least shown on your company roster and registered for tax withholding. You also need a bunch of funny articles of incorporation that name 7 shareholders, a registered Thai accountant, and various other permits and fees that you don't want to do yourself so you pay an attorney. It all adds up to about another 200,000 baht. You might also end up blowing some money on a location since your biz must have an address that is for commercial purposes and you usually can't get away with using your home as your biz location.
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Come on dude, you've been living in Thailand longer than me, so you should know it's nowhere near that difficult. Right, Thai companies require a board of 7, and many (most?) don't require anywhere near that. So you simply find someone who has a company with one partner, and five friends as directors. Treat them well, agree to pay their annual registration fees, and they'll usually be more than happy to put you on as a director. Five of the companies' directors are just drinking buddies anyway, so what the hell, throwing you on as a director in exchange for registration fees is a good deal for them. Voila. work visa & permit problems solved.

No need to go through the headache of actually setting up a company, hiring 4 Thais, etc. Then just incorporate in Hong Kong, and have your money flow through there. Why let the Thai govt know how much you make, when on paper, you're just an employee / director of a small Thai company?
 
I would look into dual citizenship first, doesnt have to be with the country you want to live in.. although that would make the entire process easier.
 
Kiopa, I've been here a while and have never encountered a situation where someone would consider just adding me as a company director on those kind of terms. You must have some interesting friends. I was once a real director at a Thai owned company but that's a completely different story since it was a real company with lots of registered capital and Thai employees. Not sure there are many companies that can so casually add a foreigner since the registered capital plus 4:1 ratio of Thais:Foreigners for each work permit is a pretty big obstacle.
 
Netphase said:
The first post mentioned that he is trying to avoid UK taxes, so he is probably from there. :thumbsup:

Like geomark mentioned, the U.S. attempts to tax your worldwide income forever unless you give up U.S. citizenship. I believe Libya is the only other country that does the same.
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i can't read... i never finished middle school... sorry :(
 
clyde said:
Since all your income don't come from HK, you pay 0 taxes.
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Thank you Wickedfire, Hong Kong here I come! Also thinking of opening a corp in Vietnam, I have relatives there where I can open a business through them (business through proxy, yo)
 
vinnythejinny said:
you are talking about a cheap ass 100 sq ft area where you can only manage 1 laptop, 1 PC maybe and chair. Last time i checked a decent place with atleast 10 people sitting was around $10K++

Geomark, personally i just hate malaysia as a country. Its becoming a middle eastern country day by day with their stupid muslim laws. Besides that, Malaysian gals are hot and very easy to get laid.
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Wicked Ice said:
Malaysian girls are hotter than Singaporean girls, that's for sure.
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I hate Malaysia too (the Islamic laws are annoying as fuck) but no, I don't think the girls are hotter here, SG all the way. SG girls are more westernized anyway, so you can understand their Engrissh lol
 
SG girls are ugly, flat-chested, and materialistic. At least to me, Malaysian girls are more down to earth.

This is how a typical Singaporean girl looks like.

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clyde said:
I hate Malaysia too (the Islamic laws are annoying as fuck) but no, I don't think the girls are hotter here, SG all the way. SG girls are more westernized anyway, so you can understand their Engrissh lol
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I heard Vietnamese girls are hot as fuck. They tend to have bigger boobs than most South East Asian women.

amanda11 said:
Thank you Wickedfire, Hong Kong here I come! Also thinking of opening a corp in Vietnam, I have relatives there where I can open a business through them (business through proxy, yo)
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It's funny how I keep hearing the same countries popping out in these threads. You guys have to think outside the box a bit. H.K. and SG are ridiculously overpopulated areas, hence why real estate is so freakin expensive. Why would you want to spend $5k a month on RENT in a tiny-ass apartment?

I lived in Hangzhou (mainland China), which is 2 hour away from HK, for a year and a half and I paid 3000 rmb (roughly $350 USD) per month for a nice 2 bedroom apartment by the lake with all brand new Japanese appliances. (10 mins bike ride from downtown or $1.50 taxi ride). Food is great, people are nice (sometimes overly nice!) to foreigners. There's a good expat community (mainly Americans, Canadians and Australians) and women are hot. Beer is also super cheap!

What I'm trying to say is you can live in mainland China and bank in H.K. Flying from HK to Mainland is very cheap and quick. You can even live in Shenzhen, 1 hour boat ride from H.K. You can stay in Mainland China as a tourist for as long as you want. I've met an Australian (working online also) who had been living there for 20 years as a TOURIST, just kept renewing his visa every year.
 
The visa issue, that gets to be an issue a lot of places. I didn't know that China gave 1 year tourist visas that could be easily renewed.
 
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