"Urban" includes second, third, and fourth tier "cities" with low populations and no fleet of Ubers today. There won't be a market for automated ride share for most of the US.
Because it's only a matter of time before the virus will be in Berlin (if it's not already).
Nobody is suggesting people should quarantine themselves in Berlin, but avoiding crowded spaces, not touching your face and frequently washing your hands doesn't seem at all unreasonable.
It sounds like you mostly tried to compare the food in Japan with the food you have at home (obviously as you need a frame of reference), but I think the food the Japanese excel at really just doesn't have an equivalent in Romanian cuisine, so it's hard to compare.
Bread just isn't eaten that much in Japan, so obviously it's not as good as in Romania (which is once again far behind bread from Germany or France). Cheese is another product that just isn't quite as popular in Japan (in most of Asia for that matter, which is probably due to an overall much higher percentage of people with lactose intolerance) and doesn't have the same history and cultural significance cheese and other milk products have in Europe.
The sushi you get in Japan (and many other fish dishes for that matter) is far and beyond anything you could find in Romania for comparison, which is once again because fish just hasn't played the same important role in the history of Romanian food.
Yakitori is maybe something you can compare, because you find a lot of grilled goods at corner bistros in Romania as well and usually the quality in Japan is far beyond what you can get in Romania.
Ultimately what I'm getting at is that most countries probably excel at some foods and not at others. The further they are apart geographically and culturally the harder it gets to compare them I think.
Well, that's why the original commenter mentioned exposure. You don't invest all your money into just one market. The idea is once again for things to balance out at the end of the day/year/decade.
Invest into multiple emerging markets, chances are they won't all do bad at the same time, especially if they are in different parts of the globe (take India, Brazil and Indonesia for example), put some into an european index fund, etc.
You seem to be most comfortable with the US market, so the bulk of the assets you decided to invest in equities go there, say 70% and to make things easy put 15% into Europe and 15% into emerging markets. Now you have some diversification, but could still feel comfortable enough to not be worried about your money disappearing over night.
Brazil is a disaster. In LA Chile has a quite stable economy and cautious banks (but it could be a pain to bring money into the country because of this).
I'd look to Sony's compact series. They seem to go for small-ish displays without compromising on specs (see both the already released Z1 as well as the upcoming Z3)
Unlike other manufacturers, the international editions of Sony phones have all of the HSPA+ and LTE bands to work well on AT&T and T-Mobile and these days you can get back the extra upfront cost of buying an unlocked phone with monthly savings. International unlocked phones also generally qualify for Sony's boot loader unlock program. And you often can even get a good deal from a SE Asian gray market exporter.
La Línea de la Concepción, the border town next to Gibraltar. Not a very nice place to live (Gibraltar is awesome and super safe though, but expensive).
On the other hand, there are a bunch of nice places around the area that are pretty safe and beautiful (Guadiaro, Sabinillas, Manilva, or larger/more expensive you have Sotogrande, Estepona)
But yeah, La Linea is an absolute dump, wouldn't be caught living there (the smells, the people, the pollution, horrible!)
Yeah, you're absolutely right. If you're working in Gibraltar and can't afford living there or want to live in Spain I would definitely recommend some of those or at least Santa Margarita. You can get a villa in Spain for the same price as a small one bedroom apartment in Gibraltar.
* While the median wage is a 1000 euro there are a lot of people that make a lot less than that ( < 500) and also quite a few that make a lot more.
* Expensive cars are the number one status symbol in Bucharest and Romania. People will often still live with their parents or in a run down apartment, as long as they can drive through the streets with an expensive car, so their budgeting priorities are a bit different from what you expect.
* There is a lot of unreported income and tax evasion in Romania as well as criminal activity, so on top of the high income inequality mentioned above, there are also a lot of people with high incomes that never figure into statistics and such but can afford luxurious cars.
I was thinking the same at first, but when you think about, the defining feature of a digital nomad is that he moves from place to place and doesn't permanently settle somewhere, so I can see how this isn't quite as important as cost of living.
After all, if you don't like it in a place (or you're not happy with the public services) you can just up and leave.
Having said that, it'd still be nice and make the data inherently more useful to have additional data such as the quality of/access to healthcare (though I'm not sure how easy it is to quantify that) or crime rates.
Sounds like a majority to me.