Growing Old Somewhere Else: Where Western Retirees Move Abroad, and What They Actually Find There
Several million people collect their pensions far from the country where they earned them. Sunshine and the cost of living explain most of the departures, taxes less than you’ve heard, and health care nearly all of the returns.
Read the articleWork Anywhere, Live Nowhere: Where Digital Nomads Go, and What the Law Makes of It
Tens of millions of people are said to work online from a country other than their employer’s or their clients’. Some 60 countries have created visas for them, which most never use — a geography of a lifestyle built on a price gap, and an inventory of what it asks its followers to overlook.
Read the articleDying Somewhere Else: Where to Move for a Good Estate Plan, and Why Moving Is Almost Never Enough
Some 20 developed countries no longer tax inheritances, and others openly court large fortunes with custom-built regimes. But the tax on passing wealth along is the stickiest of all — a world tour of the destinations, and an inventory of the rules that actually decide the bill.
Read the articleZero Percent: Where to Move if You Invest in Stocks or Crypto, and What Leaving Doesn’t Solve
Some 30 countries don’t tax individuals’ capital gains, and several openly court holders of stocks and bitcoin. But the rule that a gain is taxed where you live when you sell comes with expensive exceptions — exit taxes, dividend withholding, professional-trader reclassification, and U.S. citizenship.
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