Expats in Asia > Obstacles for an Expat in Asia

The Basics for survival in China.

(1/3) > >>

Pineau:
Since this is a new board and this is the first post I will just start by listing some of the things I think are important to Survival of Expats. There are many obstacles and many things to learn. This is just a partial list an the other mods and members should add to it. But this is what I came up with with my first thoughts. Each of these can become a separate thread.

Visa
Police registration
VPN
Access to your money!
Communications back home. (Skype, QQ, Magic Jack, OBI talk just to name a few)

Vehicle
Travel,
    reading signs and maps.
    navigating the subways and bus routes.
Food
Medicine
Hospitals
Language
Security/Safety
Accomidations
Housing
Culture
Socializing and friends.

 Locating Things, building, offices and stuff --> new thread.

Pineau:
Willy,  I am being told by people in Shanghai and Beijing that the great firewall is in full force an that VPN accounts are being blocked almost in real time. The are blocked just a few minutes after the VPN providers come up with a fix.  There is a new crack down going on since January. +
http://online.thatsmags.com/post/chinas-renewed-war-on-foreign-internet-traffic

How is your VPN working?

Do you know of any VPN servers in Hong Kong?

Willy The Londoner:
Whatever is happening it seems to be working far better these days for me.  It also improved when I decided only to use Internet Explorer browser once connected as well. Websites connected through Google Chrome and Firefox were always getting disconnected.

I use Express VPN and I can stay online for hours at a line without any breaks watching UK News and programmes.

Express VPN give you choices of 40 plus countries and cities to log on to. The one that tops their 'fasted list' is Hong Kong.
It is well worth the 8 dollars a month or so that it costs.

Willy

Pineau:
Ok. It is time for me to return to Guangzhou. I will arrive there in less than a month. I want to try something new in paying for stuff while there.
Everyone in China is using Wechat wallet to pay for goods and services. You can use it everywhere, &-11, Taxi...everything.

So I want to get this working on my phone. All the instructions I have found say to tep o the "me" icon and then open the wallet to add a bank card.
My problem is this. I do not have a wallet when I open "me" account.  Can't add money to you wallet when you don't have a wallet.

Anyone with the same problem? Has anyone solved this problem?

Willy The Londoner:

--- Quote from: Pineau on May 02, 2019, 12:21:18 pm ---Ok. It is time for me to return to Guangzhou. I will arrive there in less than a month. I want to try something new in paying for stuff while there.
Everyone in China is using Wechat wallet to pay for goods and services. You can use it everywhere, &-11, Taxi...everything.

So I want to get this working on my phone. All the instructions I have found say to tep o the "me" icon and then open the wallet to add a bank card.
My problem is this. I do not have a wallet when I open "me" account.  Can't add money to you wallet when you don't have a wallet.

Anyone with the same problem? Has anyone solved this problem?

--- End quote ---

I tried to open a Wechat account using my UK account but was not able too. Your phone will tell Wechat that you are not in China. I needed a Chinese bank account to do so. Its to do with currency controls.

For information a foreigner also cannot send cash notes through a courier to China. it will not get out of your country as every packaged is scanned before dispatch. again strict currency controls.

Willy

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page