I know in Australia, ING bank don’t like Wise, I think they see it as money laundering as they called me up one day asking why I was transferring through Wise? I told them it was to send money to my girlfriend in Thailand and they seems ok with it at the time, but a month down the track I was working away from home and went to use my card and it wouldn’t work. I checked my account and I could see the funds there but said $0.00 available balance, as they don’t have physical banks only way to contact ING is via phone and not on a weekend, so had to wait until Monday. Meanwhile I found an email that went to my junk folder from ING saying they were closing my account, I had a certain amount of time to withdraw my funds and that after that date they will close my account. When I called them on Monday they would not explain to me why, saying they didn’t have to tell me why they were closing my account other than I went against the terms and conditions of the account. Which made me think of the phone call a month earlier and why they asked me why I was using Wise.
I found out the other day that some road signs are easily missed. I was in Surat Thani driving through town on a 2 way street which suddenly had cars having parked on both sides of the road facing towards me, then a car started flashing its lights at me, quickly realised it turned into a one way street and did a quick u-turn and then looked back and saw the smallest ‘no entry’ sign in amongst other signs.