The offer is now in hand and the details are being worked out. This will be a complicated move in many ways–the transfer of our precious puppy to our daughter, completely new benefits and banking along with finding a new home and moving our possessions across a sea. We started our finances moving in the right direction with an HSBC account here and one to come locally in China. We will be able to move money back and forth (within China guidelines) and pay bills in both countries, of which there will be many complex transactions involving dual taxation. Oh joy!
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Reality setting in
The financial arrangements for living in China are complex. I can see we will be learning how to be paid in RMB, pay China taxes, etc. I made a great connection today with HSBC premier account services. Sounds like a great global solution.
“Twenty years f…
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain
This was the quote that Thom shared with me as we made our decision to jump off the cliff together into the great unknown of moving abroad to a country we have never even visited.
“…nothing so …
“…nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.” Mark Twin
Travels with Melinda 