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Another thing to remember/know about paying with a credit card, many times you will be given the option to pay in US dollars or the native currency. ALWAYS pay in the native currency, as they hit you with a lousy exchange rate. Your bank's exchange rate is always much lower. Also, NEVER get...

For tipping in both Spain and Portugal, 5-10% is the norm, if you do tip. However, especially in Portugal, it is not "required" or expected at most places, but if you do want to leave a tip, Cash is really the only way. If paying by card, they bring the terminal to you, show you the amount...

Things have cooled somewhat in Barcelona. You will see signs, and maybe a little attitude, but as it is past peak tourist season, and you should be fine. Casablanca and Tenerife will have no issues. As to re-entry with the shutdown, I have no experience yet. I am flying to NC on the 30th into...

I have read that statute many times over the years. Please show somewhere within your link, or any other, that I will go to jail, or any other penalty besides a fee based on the going interest rate. There is none. Any crime/illegal act has an escalating form of punishment to deter its repeated...

I am beginning to think that R.I.F is severely lacking on this board. NOWHERE DID I SAY THAT IT ISN'T ILLEGAL TO NOT PAY YOUR TAXES. I said that it is NOT ILLEGAL to not pay quarterly estimated taxes or declare too many exemptions at first, as long as it is correct when you file. FOR THE THIRD...

Again, wrong analogy. Keep getting parking tickets and eventually they will boot you/tow your car which yields more fees, expenses, etc, It is LEGAL to underpay your quarterly taxes. Or not pay them at all as long as you pay everything when you file, along with the penalties. Again, I have...

Try again, as once more, you are wrong. Speeding results in a ticket and a traffic offense, plus points against your insurance. Done enough times yields more penalties, including criminal offenses and a possible loss of your license. Underpaying your taxes throughout the year, or declaring too...

Which I do every year since I live in Portugal but still pay tax in the US. My penalties for underpaying are about $40-50 each year. I make more by keeping my money and then paying the penalties later. No big deal at all. So, your answer is wrong. It is TOTALLY legal to claim more...

Just used my first Super Ignore. No reason to deal with so much hate and vitriol.

As recent visitors to both Hungary (Budapest) and Czech Republic (Prague), I can confidently say that they are protesting against tourists and immigrants. Not like Barcelona and Lisbon, but I did see and feel resentment while visiting both. Not a lot, but it was there and seemed to be growing.

I do at every opportunity. Usually apologizing profusely and trying to distance ourselves from anything Trumpian.

Sounds like Sounds like he is either getting/got a D7 visa (retirement) or a digital nomad visa. Both require that you have enough income to not be a burden to the state. But the income is just a little over minimum wage, which currently about €1100 (roughly $1300US). And you have to prove...

Your information is outdated. The Golden Visa is now €500k (almost $600k in US dollars due to crappy exchange rate now because of Trump - was 1.08 at the start of the year versus the current 1.19) per person, not €250k , and has become "super strict." The political party Chega, which is fairly...

Oh, the stories I could tell. I was an only child and my parents didn't believe in babysitters, so I literally spent every busy weekend night there as a kid. Plus High Point was dry at the time and it was the first bar you hit when coming into Greensboro on High Point Road. Corner of High...

My first paycheck I received from Baskin-Robbins at the Four Seasons Mall went to purchase three albums: Kiss- Destroyer Kiss - Live! ELO - ELO But I always had a constant supply of free 45s as a child throughout the 60s and 70s because my dad owned a bar and I always got the Jukebox castoffs...