Now only need to get rid of a shit-load a lot of some MORE paperwork. The main bureaucratic stuff is done, but there’s still enough to get “entertained” for the next month, while in Portugal, specially 2011 taxes in advance (grinds teeth). Apparently getting OUT of Switzerland is even more of an exercise than getting IN. For anyone who thought that odd loop of “you need a permit to get a job BUT you need a job to get a permit” was screwed-up (and somehow reminiscent of the chicken-egg thing), getting out involves a few more variables: Taxes, Insurances, Permit and whatsoever, and there’s quite an odd dependency FAILs in-between. Of course the last ones you are able to close are the ones you have to pay every month, so if some department has their stuff stuck for a while, you keep paying all your lovely insurances and some pseudo-service (cough*Billag*cough*tv-tax*cough) bills every month (being there or not), until everything is sorted and your work/residence permit is finally collected. And someone should remind this people (please!) that probably the taxes we pay should be enough to cover those pesky 25 CHF we have to pay for every lovely freaking form. And there’s more than enough of them. Hmm, why am I ranting so much today? Oh, spent the afternoon filling forms…
Enough of boring crap, but I couldn’t be creative enough to make paperwork stuff sound interesting.
Now, for everyone wanting to know how it feels to see all your stuff (specially if you accumulate A LOT for 8 years) in a month, it feels OUTRAGEOUSLY GREAT, kind of a huge relief, you actually feel free from those things, which is exactly what they are. If I started cringing for material things (even if some are nice gadgets (that I used once or twice)), then I guess I should be worried with myself.
So today, after finishing selling/donating EVERYTHING in this hectic 4 weeks, and some cleaning to the huge mess the flat ended up, this is how my ENLARGED apartment looks like now 
So, more stuff coming soon. I have work in progress and some personal projects finally moving forward. Also, Incorporating offshore will be within a few weeks. Quite curious how much of a pain it will be or not (more paperwork, yeah). Apparently can be done in one to three days, but I prefer to stay skeptic
I definitely have to make a review of my new travel bag (which I’ll be living off, basically).
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