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Finally in Florida!

Last week I finally arrived in Pompano Beach, my new home from North Carolina. I drove 12 hours and to be honest I am done for some time with long trips like that. At the beginning of December, I drove from LA to Chapel Hill, NC in three days – 2500 miles and last week another 800 miles to Florida.

Alright, first comparison between Florida and California? In Florida, most of the people live their lives like there is no COVID! Yeah, no masks, no vaccination, no certificates – God Bless the free state of Florida! The only places you have to wear masks are airports, healthcare, and governemnet buildings.

I would like to mention other two things. Drivers in Miami are probably worse than in LA, more aggresive but traffic is probably slightly better here. It’s moving at least. Humidity is present even now in winter. It is nothing crazy but I feel it. However the weather is just amazing. I don’t have to think what to wear. You just need here t-shirts and shorts. In LA in this time evenings are pretty chilly, in South Florida evenings are nice warm with wind that cool you down.

I spent two weeks in LA during Christmas and had a little bit of time so I put together some facts, tips about living in Florida and about the US in general. The website is in Czech language. Please do not judge me for grammar 😀

I am pretty busy currently but I hope I will write more again. See ya!

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I am still alive!

I am sorry guys. It’s been a while I wrote some articles. Honestly, I have been pretty busy recently and there is much news on my side! I got involved in the crypto mining business and I spent the whole summer traveling across the US visiting many farms and I also finished three training courses: bitcoin farm operations, bitcoin farm maintenance, ASIC miner repair. I have to say I am tired of traveling because I had more than 10 flights this summer. I went to Oregon, Washington, Texas, Florida, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Illinois for a very short time. On the other hand, I have seen many new places and cities and to be honest, LA and Miami are the best so far.

The biggest news is I am leaving California next week and moving to Florida! The main reason is I am going to work on several crypto mining projects in Florida. Unfortunately, my lovely California is probably one of the worst states to start a mining business. Surprisingly in Florida on the other hand you can still get very cheap power and we bitcoin miners need a lot of affordable power. I also met many people from Miami metro area who are involved in this crazy mining industry. These circumstances helped me to decide to choose Florida.

On Tuesday next week, I am packing all my stuff and I am going to drive to Miami – my new home! It is almost 4500km. The first stop is in North Carolina though, where I am going to visit my friend from one of the training courses I attended and we will build a container for miners together.

I am pretty curious about life in Miami because I never thought that I would move to Florida lol! Sometimes life does not ask you what do you want to. Hopefully, I will start to share my life and business experiences again from Sunshine State!

Miami – new home from December 2021
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Cost of living in Los Angeles!

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LA, SF, and NYC are probably the most expensive cities in the US. When you are considering to move to these cities you should be aware about the cost of living. Below is my current list

  • lease (2 bedroom apartment including utilities) – $2,000
  • food (I don’t cook often) – $1,000
  • gas – $150
  • car insurance – $50
  • cell phone plan – $40
  • other expenese (gym + some shopping) – $300

Total approximately: $3,540

I bought the used car with cash so I don’t have to pay monthly lease or rent but if I would pay for car financing my expenses would increase to $4,000 per month. We are still talking about I don’t spend for any uselessness. On the other hand, if you would really need to keep expenses below I believe you could share an apartment and pay probably around $1,000 and also maybe cut your food expenses to $500 so let’s say minimum expenses here could be like $2,000 per month. It is not life you would like to live here though.

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Learn English First!

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My little advice for all non-native speakers is pretty simple!

Learn English First! – Before you start the first business in the US.

Of Course, you don’t have to be perfect and fluent but you should be able to communicate and more importantly understand. It will also help you be more confident in business. Look at me I am not perfect, my grammar is probably bad and sometimes it’s still hard to express myself but honestly, I feel already comfortable to run business.

Do you need motivation? Here it goes 🙂

It is almost 4 years since I visited the US for the first time. I was 24 years old and honestly thought that I had pretty good basics of English. I remember how I was preparing in Europe every day for almost 2 months before I went to NYC.

After arrival at JFK, it was a big shock for me. I went to some grocery store and I didn’t understand anything that was cashier telling me.

The second day I was on my way to the nearest T-Mobile store in order to buy my first US number. I spent there a really long time and with big problems, I got my first SIM with US number!

After 1 week when I was really frustrated about my ability to understand, one of my friends recommends me to visit an English school in Manhattan. For the next 2 months, I had been attending this school from Monday to Thursday for 4 hours every day. Later when I was leaving NYC I was able to understand and more importantly talk to someone else!

I studied in this school: https://www.learnenglish.com/

I would highly recommend to anyone who still struggles with English don’t be shy and join some English classes and try to talk to Americans every day. Just use every opportunity to be in touch with English. People don’t care if you are not perfect, they will help you when they see your effort to speak!

In my time in Canada, I was a student in this school

After one year in Toronto, I was able to incorporate my own company, find a bank and open bank account, call to IRS and obtain EIN. Why am I writing this? It’s annoying but everything takes some time but in my example, you can see improvement. First time in the US I almost did not understand. Today I write the blog in English!

What else helped me? Reading books in English! What I would recommend: Start with some easy book or the best way is to read about some topic you really like it! For instance, I like Arnold so I chose his bio. However, you can read whatever you like!