Is this normal? I've stayed in 2 different hotels and 1 apartment and all had serious soundproofing issues. I can hear my neighbor talking audibly talking next door as if he's in the same room. Supper irritating.
Are the walls made of cardboard or what? Is this normal everywhere? How do you not go insane?
Is ti possible to 'leanfire' in Europe on €700k?
Sometimes I get perplexed, even disheartened by mostly American subs "3m NW. Can I Fire in Spain?" (I can't even believe they're real, or maybe just looking for an ego massage?)
And also most of the posts seem to discourage people and are always extremely negative.
"500k? Not enough. Wait until 700k. It'll be more comfortable."
"700k? I wouldn't just yet. Work a few more years and that 700k will be 1 million."
"1 million. Close, but I'd be targeting 1.5 million to be safe"
Anyway in this case:
38.
Single.
No health insurance costs.
650k invested. 50k cash buffer.
Possible? Anybody doing it or have done it?
I've seen quite a few people push Paraguay as a good DN base to have a favorable tax set up, mainly due to its easy residency process.
Now though, things have changed.
You used to be able to put 5k in a bank account and get permanent residency, now you only get temporary.
There are now other requirements such as mandatory reporting of crypto wallets.
You now need to prove local income in Paraguay, with residency providers pushing tax set-ups and structures which sound like outright tax fraud.
There is now a hard cap of 200 people per day that can be processed. If you go to the residency processing office, even at 4am there'll be lines outside, and all spots will be gone.
A huge influx of mostly Brazilian, then Argentinians and Boliviana is putting much of the strain on the system.
And the rules keep on changing and becoming more onerous each year. Can you trust what things will be like in the next few years. Absolutely not.
What was once a very quick and straightforward process, is nor much more slow and complicated. And in my view not worth it.
On order to bypass much of the requirements you can "invest" 200k in the country, but for that amount you could even get an EU visa! (Not for a third world country... If you've ever been to Paraguay you'd know.)
Just letting people know. Don't believe what you read online as lost of it is now outdated. Or the info comes from people trying to sell you Paraguay residency so there opinion will of course be biased in order to sell it to you.
Before it was a very simple set up, now it's much more onerous, slower, and overall less attractive.
I get extreme foreign body sensation and eye irritation ONLY after exposure to strong sun. Even just a very short while. I also have dry eyes, but nothing causes symptoms like this.
Does this happen anyone else? I'm wondering if it's dry eye or something else.
AI stocks have gone parabolic in the past couple of months. It seems everything remotely is related (such as ai infrastructure, construction related, cooling systems) has been going straight up. Meanwhile other stocks that are posting great results are doing nothing (eg. MELI, SOFI).
Memory seems crowded now, everyone piling on smaller stocks that have been flat for ages, and now gone up 300% in the last couple of months because they're memory related. Reminds me of the shitco/spac/EV bubble of 2021.