yeah, call at delivery... and if no answer drop at ponta delgada... that would be the preferable

anyhow, i figure i gotta get adapted to this new scheme... technically i haven't actually changed my region in madeira, but it's about 12m away from where i was.

i was talking to the landlady's gopher of my previous place and he also was of the opinion that if i had no intention to stay more than 2 years that there was no point in faffing about with registrations

pretty funny

national governments and local governments have no idea how to deal with european foreigners

the fact is that they actually don't care, and most of the time you can just go from one EU place to another, schengen or not, and for the most part nobody is going to bat an eyelid if you don't go get your tax shit organised

they barely even care here in portugal, except if you directly deal with local businesses... the post (CTT) doesn't care... literally only the banks and the telcos care... vodafone was fine giving out a post paid account to me last year based on some shitty piece of paper from financas, and again they ask for this shitty piece of paper even though i have the number and they are not happy with only the number... but most other businesses are fine with just the number, if they ask at all. which most don't

taxation is voluntary

if you complain about it, it's because you didn't bother to learn that it's voluntary