Mexico City - tips for living?
I am about to move my life in Mexico City for 3 month. Can you please tell me in what part of town I should look for an apartment (in the sence that is a safe part of town). I've heard that Polanco and Condesa are considered to be safe part. Is it true? Do you know any houses-hotels, with only apartments to rent? I tried various web sites but the prices listed seems to be incredible enormous. Is it possible that the suite costs 1000 -1500$? Is it safe to use ATM machines? What bank is the most popular? I’ve heard that is not safe to use metro and public transport. How it can be possible? Is it true that it is recommended to use only state taxi? How I can recognize them? How much cost taxi from Polanco to Santa Fe? I am coming from Eastern Europe and I would welcome all suggestions. Thnx in advance! Yassmin
At which bank would you open a bank account in California as an expat (legal alien)?
I'm French, I moved to San Francisco a few years ago. I have accounts at HSBC, Bank Of America and Wells Fargo. Bank Of America did an incredibly poor job at explaining me how the banking system works in the US and how it differs from the one in Europe (you have a credit score here for example, and if you don't take care of it you won't be able to rent an apartment).I feel like Wells Fargo is better. They know better how to explain how things work to people who didn't grow up here and they have a very good iPhone app (the online website is also very good). People are really nice to the point I'm considering closing my account at Bank Of America.HSBC is also very good, especially if you're HSBC Premier. This will allow you to open an HSBC account in Germany and make unlimited and free money transferts between your international account, which was incredibly useful for me when I was student and I couldn't work here yet. The cons of HSBC: No mobile app, the website kinda sucks.If you don't need this international aspect, I'd say go for Wells Fargo.If you can wait a few months, you might want to go with Simple: https://www.simple.com/