106 karma · joined January 8, 2013
Personally I thought that Viñales particularly, and Havana to a lesser extent, to be the most touristy places I've ever been. Of the three main streets in Viñales, almost every building was either a Casa Particular or a restaurant catering to tourists. In downtown Havana, the number of Canadians/Australias/Kiwi's/Europeans was incredible, more so than anywhere else I went in Central America.
Almost every daily activity was more difficult in Cuba than anywhere else I went (probably because of the embargo) - restaurants and supermarkets were constantly out of stock, exchanging money was an hour long ordeal...
That being said, if I had my time again, there's nothing I'd change, it was definitely a unique experience
It says quite clearly on the back label on the australian bottles that it's brewed by Coors
edit: beaten to it, that's what i get for loading a whole bunch of tabs when i first get into work...
inflation 2.3% [1]
my interest rate : 4.02% [2]
the number of times i've opened a csv to find that excel has tried to determine the dates, and decided that the year thats being referred to is 1914 instead of 2014...
why not? if I only want to use a small amount of bandwidth per month, why should I pay the same as someone who uses 10 or 20 times as much? (I don't only use a small amount, but that's why i sprung the extra $10 a month to go from 500GB to unlimited)
having grown up with segmentation on both speed and quota, i struggle to understand why there's such opposition to the idea
$40 a day is a pittance
You hit the nail on the head there - the price of a house is what a bank is willing to lend you. I can't see how someone can justify paying 620k for a rundown 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom apartment.
The second interest rates go up, or the price of properties come down, all of these people who are mortgaged to their eyeballs will suddenly find they can't afford to keep them, and the collapse is going to be terrible.
The way I see it, someone has looked at their online/mobile banking, and said "what can we do better here? what are other people in the industry doing?" and seen the way Simple operates, and the general satisfaction of their customers.
It'll be interesting to see what happens from here