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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
by jaaron 18y ago
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.
- markessien 18y agoHong Kong is great. I'm planning to work there for a bit a bit in the future.
- alizaki 18y agoSingapore. 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.
- markessien 18y agoBut Singapore is boring lah...
- sho 18y ago"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.
- falsestprophet 18y agoSodomy, including heterosexual oral sex, was illegal in many places in the United States until the Lawrence vs. Texas decision in 2003.
- sho 18y agoYeah, 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enough legal system that you can have reasonable faith that an attempt to prosecute anyone for some ridiculous outdated law would generate enough outcry and derision that it probably wouldn't go ahead.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?
- ichverstehe 18y agoLike, uh, gay marriages.
- helveticaman 18y agoI 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.
- sho 18y agoSo 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.
- helveticaman 18y agoYeah, good point.
- critic 18y agoWould love to hear more about all this. Relevant links, blogs, stories?
- jaaron 18y agoHong Hong also has a growing startup community: http://www.hksua.com.hk/ 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).
- jaaron 18y agoAwesome. When you're in town, check out the Web Wednesday group: http://www.webwednesday.hk http://www.webwednesday.hk And feel free to get in touch with me: http://www.cubiclemuses.com http://www.cubiclemuses.com
- tjic 18y ago> As others have mentioned, visa requirements make this sort of travel impossible No, they just make it illegal.