Time Zone differences and crappy internet access will mess you up. I don't mind hacking until 4AM, but it gets to ya when you need to be on the phone that late when everybody in your apartment building is asleep. After long exhausting business phone calls I feel like I need to leave the house and go for a drink; try doing that at 6AM without feeling like a junkie.
I found most places in Asia to be too distracting or too removed from business life. In places like Bangkok you will be hanging out with tourists and teachers, laid back crowd. In Hong Kong or Singapore, it's too fast, too over-paid and too British and annoying; you will be very self conscious and/or lonely if you're not hanging out with MBAs and other well-paid careerists.
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Time Zone differences and crappy internet access will mess you up. I don't mind hacking until 4AM, but it gets to ya when you need to be on the phone that late when everybody in your apartment building is asleep. After long exhausting business phone calls I feel like I need to leave the house and go for a drink; try doing that at 6AM without feeling like a junkie.
I found most places in Asia to be too distracting or too removed from business life. In places like Bangkok you will be hanging out with tourists and teachers, laid back crowd. In Hong Kong or Singapore, it's too fast, too over-paid and too British and annoying; you will be very self conscious and/or lonely if you're not hanging out with MBAs and other well-paid careerists.