I know the pain of the internet with borders.

Paypal phone support literally told me to close my Dutch account and open a new German account so that I can use paypal in Germany. If you can login to paypal from abroad, that is a bug according to them, you're not supposed to be able to login from abroad (like when on holiday) and need to make a new account instead. (I currently start a VPN into NL every time I need to use paypal; one more reason to avoid them.)

In their defense: at least paypal has phone support. Try that with a gmail account.