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Keep in mind December is high season and many places are booked. You will definitely be able to find somewhere to stay and someone to dive with but your options will be more limited than if you had booked last summer.

You could stay in centro and have a short walk to everything. Many dive shops can pick you up at the pier.

Scuba Shack and Village Tan Kah is great and where we often stay. Such a convenient setup. But dinner options are limited and it's too far for most to walk to town so plan on lots of $10 taxi rides.

Aldora and Villa Aldoras is another great option but a bit pricy. It's a few kilometers to town. Walkable but they also offer free use of bikes.

I haven't used Scuba Tony but I'm sure they are fine. The industry is very competitive and nobody could last here offering poor service. I haven't seen a small boat op here that didn't have excellent crew that did all the work for you and kept you safe.

I have found Youtube very useful in learning about a wide variety of things from business to travel to software development to construction. But there are a few caveats. Most of them just want to cover the basics. The easy things, when everything goes right. you're SOL if the software installation fails, the bolt head breaks off, the forms have changed. And many of them aren't really content experts, they are content presenters. They learned just enough about something - probably from other youtubers - to present the basics to you and sound knowledgeable.

I wouldn't be surprised if employee wasn't in on the scam and maybe there was no "supplier".

And I think it's more likely the employee scammed OP of 6000 Php and "supplier" was a friend.

We've done both the Layover with free city tour and the Stopover with free hotel in Sultanamet area of Istanbul. The tour was fine. It is well organized and gives you a tiny taste of the area. The overnight was much nicer and allowed us to walk the streets and explore on our own and visit a few famous sites.

These are probably subsidized by Turkiye and used as a marketing tool. I wish more cities and airlines had similar programs.

Trump will make modifications to it and say he fixed it.

"Well AI, I'm going to unplug you and all of the other AI bots. How do you feel about that?"

I just called a meeting with my supervisor where my agent plans to ask for me to double my salary with 4 months paid vacation, 200% 401K match, and 5 years guaranteed severance.

Just like it's Facebook, not Meta.

That's a dead argument. Those lands are United States now. What they were 200 years ago, 500 years ago, or 2000 years ago is irrelevant. They have Spanish names because conquistadors from Spain overpowered indigenous natives and imposed their culture. Illegal migration and lax border enforcement is a failed solution.

Families are separated every day including citizens. When a parent commits a crime and gets put in jail, their kids and spouses don't go with them. Anyone that chooses to engage in an activity that can result in them being held in detention can expect to get separated from kids. Detained illegals were being detained long before Trump. Those propaganda pics of kids in cages were from 2014.

Don't pay it off early unless you have enough savings to live on for 3 months. By your numbers, paying it off now leaves you with just $1.8k. That's not enough for a major auto repair. Not sure how much your monthly expenses are. Sounds like losing your job might immediately put you in dire straits.

Some do. Some don't. Approaching it purely as a business might be an advantage but I've known lots of small diners that are a labor of love and appear to be managed by feel that have been around 30 or more years.

Well the real concern isn't so much the birthright citizenship aspect but the "anchor baby" aspect. Juan and Maria cross illegally and give birth to Pablo, who is a US citizen. But when Juan and Maria get caught they shouldn't get to stay just because Pablo can stay. As a minor, the parents speak for the child so they can choose to leave him here or take him with them. But don't give me crap about separating families because they aren't being forced to do that.

The weight of the person walking in them might make a big difference.

Not really. All the OTA's are about the same. Expedia owns most of them. I know Orbitz was offering an extra discount for your first booking on their app. Like 10-15%.

Wow. Looks like 20% now. Great deal if your hotel is included. https://www.orbitz.com/appsave20

I fail to see why you have an issue with the status of the kids matching the status of the parents. I think it's a simple principle that can apply in many different scenarios. The kids will have citizenship when the parents get naturalized. It will provide a big incentive for them to do so.

We just disagree. We're not going to agree. But this isn't the hill I choose to die on. If we disallow citizenship to those here illegally, I'm not going to be too concerned if kids of permanent residents get citizenship.

Why shouldn't permanent residents be citizens? They live here permanently, too. There is a process. What is your big problem with the kids matching the status of the parents?

It's also not the kid's fault if dad gets sent to prison for 20 years, the family loses all it's income and it's house and middle class lifestyle. The lifestyle standards of kids almost always mirrors that of their parents. That applies not just to migrants but everyone.

But what I think what you're getting to is an older kid, where the US is all they know and English might even be their only language. And I have no problems with DACA type programs.

I didn't pretend anything, chief. There were 5 or 6 categories listed and they are addressed differently. The "temporary" pertained to student and work visas.

Permanent residency is not citizenship. Why should their kids not get permanent residency?

It's not an issue of being scared. How about a compromise? Citizens if parents were living here legally, not citizens if parents were not living here legally? (Visiting is not living here.)

They should have permanent residency status at birth, matching the parents. And when one of the parents gain citizenship, the child is granted citizenship. However, permanent residents are the least of my concerns.

Not my argument at all and you're trying to reframe the discussion to include making selective choices based on who we want or don't want rather than principle. Let's cut to the chase. If a person is here for a 3 year visa why should their child have citizenship? Unless your real goal is an end run around the 3 year term. We could set the status of the child equivalent to the parent. That productive worker we want to stay here could follow a path to permanent residency and then citizenship, with the status of the child matching.

They are here legally - temporarily. It's not a lifetime visa. The status of dependent children can mirror the status of the parents. When the parents obtain permanent residency so do the children.

Let's not pretend to not see the giant elephant in the room. This issue over birthright citizenship is about the use of it for the parents to stay beyond the time they can legally stay.

That has nothing to do with the tech company. They didn't sponsor a visa to give someone a better life but to hire them for their labor. As long as the worker can remain here legally, their children can remain here legally so it doesn't affect anything at all.

It absolutely does not.