> I didn’t realize how much of a headache switching countries can be
Indeed, and in some areas, it's easier to make the move with the government, than getting all the for-profit services to accept your country change.
For example, Sony/Playstation straight up refuses to change the country on your account, so even though I lived in Spain for more than 10 years, Playstation Store is still in Swedish and using SEK, and when I reached out to support they told me to create a new account if I wanted to change the country.
Google is another company where moving countries is really disorganized. I still get emails in Swedish, and a "payment/billing account" (different from "payment method") is still somehow locked to Sweden and cannot be changed or removed.
To actually get the residency with the government, I basically had to queue at the police station for some hour, then go to the bank and then I'm 100% done with my move. I'm surprised how much easier it was to deal with the government about this move, than companies that I actually pay money to...
I would be very tempted to invoke GDPR in this situation. Company's have an obligation to hold accurate data about you[1], which clearly neither Google or Sony are currently doing if they think your payment account is in Sweden, or your local currency is SEK.
[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...
"Understood, we have now processed your complete account removal per GDPR. Please create a new account with us soon. Good luck." =)
This is a half-joke, half-serious possible near future thing with LLM-based support agents.
"Don't worry about returning any unused intellectual property! Complimentary large lavatory models are on their way."
Microsoft is incapable of switching countries as well. I can't use Azure because of this.