You can withdraw through a bank account that has the same name etc... after 180 days and sometimes less as far as I know, PayPal has already been known for doing this with anyone doing anything they don't like (not necessarily forbidden by them)
Investing in sites might be a good idea and I don't mean investment sites offering a certain profit but trading sites offering stocks for BTC but that might be profitable or not depending on how the site works.
1) the long confirmation time since most sites ask for 3-4 v confirmations to process the transaction 2) the long needed to download the blockchain for the first time when using original client.
I consider bitcoin true money, it has the same value given to money (can buy things with it or get money to buy things), in my country i can't buy goods directly with it but can exchange it.