How would you like to become a perpetual tourist? An ex-patriate? How about leaving everything behind and living the life of your dreams, free of family and friends and everything familiar? It could happen to you?
Most of the guys that expatriate are not very smart. The British are punished heavily with taxes and many of them leave for Europe where they live on savings and whatever work they can find. In Europe, they seek out other Britons and ask about home teams, neighborhoods, people other tourists may know. It's pathetic. Why leave home if you are so miserable you can't function?
Other (mostly men) guys leave their home countries and travel extensively. I've known people who have returned to India only to find they are too Americanized to fit in. Others go to Malaysia or the South Pacific and find themselves bored after a few years. There is only so much scuba diving you can do.
Now, I know many of you will say "But wait! I know So-and-So who is having a great time overseas without taxes or politics!" If you realize what you are seeing, it isn't anything to celebrate. A few guys manage to survive overseas, but it isn't the majority. There are hundreds if not thousands of men who steal or embezzle enough money to live without working, and many of them leave the United States every year. A very high percentage of them commit suicide, or live a life of misery as a deeply depressed alcoholic. The numbers aren't pretty.
I worked for years in high-tech and I knew personally a dozen or so guys who left the United States for the Caribbean. Many of them survived for quite a few years. Now, I see their websites coming down; their personal stories no longer posted for everyone to see. Wherever you live, the taxes will always go up, the government will always hire incompetent meddlers to regulate your life into hopelessness. The gravy train never lasts.
If you do think opportunity is better elsewhere, then pack your bags and head off in search of your fortune. I'm not a fan of becoming an ex-pat. If anything, being a perpetual tourist with business worldwide is the best option. No government is your friend; the women aren't any better overseas, the opportunities aren't any better. Take it from me. I've been an ex-pat, and a long-term tourist. Staying where you are, and being as invisible as you can be is the best bet.
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