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01-06-20 02:52 #15118
Posts: 3497Originally Posted by BananaBoi [View Original Post]
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01-06-20 02:28 #15117
Posts: 107Originally Posted by BananaBoi [View Original Post]
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01-06-20 02:04 #15116
Posts: 6306Originally Posted by BJtemp [View Original Post]
Bangkok is the other scary SEA city to invest in as it will be sitting below sea level by 2030!
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01-06-20 02:02 #15115
Posts: 3497Originally Posted by BJtemp [View Original Post]
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01-06-20 01:55 #15114
Posts: 107I meant USD10-15 per sqft to build, based on my research.
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01-06-20 00:30 #15113
Posts: 107Originally Posted by Smoothy [View Original Post]
The major drawback of Jakarta for me is food. Local food looks unappetizing to put in mildly. While there I survive on mostly on western fast food. KFC, Domino's, Pizza Hut. Even at KFC they don't do chicken quite right, but at least eatable. Jonisteak's Wagyu steak is good, although I don't think any the meat they give you is the cut shown in menu.
The land title restriction is a show-stopping problem. I have no one to do this for me, and am still studying the strata title law. Can I have someone own the land, and enter a 9999 year lease for 0 dollars? Can I park the land title with the government? I feel I can trust the govt more than an individual, because logically the spirit of the law is to prevent foreigners from controlling the land, not that government is intending to rip off foreigners. I hope to go into the Land Use department to see if any such arrangement is possible. Will also need to talk to a lawyer.
Overall I just think Indonesia needs to bring in foreign investment and foreigners if they want to modernize. People think of colonial times and think foreigners coming in is a bad thing; it really isn't. Singapore is so rich today mainly because it modernized, and dare I say, westernized. China has done the same thing. So what if foreigners make some money in the process? Foreign investment creates tremendous wealth for the country and its people; everyone wins.
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01-05-20 20:20 #15112
Posts: 3497Originally Posted by BJtemp [View Original Post]
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01-05-20 19:14 #15111
Posts: 720Originally Posted by BJtemp [View Original Post]
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01-05-20 16:04 #15110
Posts: 107Originally Posted by SeanEZ [View Original Post]
I usually stay at Classic, or Red Planet, or this time at Heef. All around Pasar Baru. I'm there for pussy but one can only do it so many times a day. You got to do some other tourist stuff.
Truth of the matter is I like Jakarta and will go on a monthly basis. Am contemplating buying a little place there.
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01-05-20 15:06 #15109
Posts: 720Originally Posted by BJtemp [View Original Post]
Are you there for pussy or sightseeing? If sightseeing Central and South Jakarta are cleaner and generally more developed than Kota Mangga Dua area of the North.
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01-05-20 14:01 #15108
Posts: 25Originally Posted by BananaBoi [View Original Post]
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01-05-20 11:18 #15107
Posts: 121Originally Posted by BJtemp [View Original Post]
You would think the capital city would be better. I mean, compare against Bangkok for instance. Maybe they'll make a nicer new capital city:-the.
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01-05-20 11:05 #15106
Posts: 121I decided to try social media, specifically Tinder. Having no luck on that thing. What puzzles me is that these women either don't talk or if they do, it's in one syllable. You ask them a small question as a conversation starter and I just get a "why" or something. I guess these are not all working women, otherwise, one could just ask for their rate directly.
These tinder matches just go nowhere for me. Not liking it. Even conceptually, you can like a person but you can't really message them and have to depend on them randomly coming across your profile and liking it without knowing that you liked their profile. (I know, a subscription "solves" this problem they created. But it narrows down the pool so much if we're talking only about paid subscribers.) I got their "gold" subscription or whatever.
I think I'm done trying to get girls using social media. Too much time and effort for not enough gain. Twitter had slightly better results in Jogja. I also understand other people would have a different experience based on their background / demographics.
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01-05-20 10:57 #15105
Posts: 3497Originally Posted by BananaBoi [View Original Post]
That being said, I still don't worry so much about the police shakedowns at the traffic stops. The most they will want is about a million rupiah (about 70 USD) and I consider that just to be one of the prices that have to be paid while in Indonesia. It's not something that happens very day or even every month. I guess it could happen to me more often, but I don't go out late at night that often anymore.
In Thailand, I have been at Soi Cowboy and also at Nana when the Thai police raided the place and shut it down. On those occasions, it was a total no effect at all on me because the police simply kicked us out and didn't hassle us at all. The only negative effect on me was that they closed the places down so I lost an evening of fun. The Indonesian police raid at a place like Sari Ayu is a totally different deal. You do not want to be in a place like Sari Ayu if it gets raided by the police for drugs because that could possibly be real trouble.
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01-05-20 10:39 #15104
Posts: 107Why is infrastructure of Jakarta, capital city of 1 billion people, so shitty?
I just returned from Jakarta; am preparing my report. Mainly dealing with pictures, which takes a a bit longer to sort through. But I want to raise a separate question first.
As I travel through the city, I saw one shitty neighborhood after another. At many spots right at the center of the the city, even next to the museums and govt buildings, there are building ruins. I have not seen one true "nice area" in Jakarta, and decent-condition buildings are few and far in between. I went to Mangga Dua mall; inside the mall is OK, just outside the mall... shitty.
The sewage gutters are mostly clogged by garbage. The area around Classic is pretty old and run-down as well. It flooded after the new year eve rain.
Why is the city so run-down?! Where are the nice areas in Jakarta (if they exist)?