Tag: Featured
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You’re standing at the airline counter. Both passports are in your hand. The agent is waiting. Your brain freezes. Which one? WHICH ONE? If you hold two passports, you’ve definitely had this moment. Even experienced dual citizens get turned around the first few times. But here’s the thing: it’s actually simple once you get the…
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I’ve sat across from families who’ve built extraordinary wealth — eight-figure, nine-figure or more portfolios, multiple businesses, real estate across different markets. By every conventional measure, they’ve won. But when we start talking about the future — where their kids will live and grow up, what happens if tax policy or the social climate shifts,…
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A friend of mine has a daughter in high school who wasn’t connecting with her math teacher. Instead of accepting this limitation, she hired an english speaking Brazilian PhD engineer over Zoom—someone who genuinely loves math and charges what amounts to a modest fee in U.S. dollars. After a few months of personalized instruction, that…
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I did the math: 8 hours at work, 2 commuting, 8 sleeping. That left 4 hours a day with my family — one-sixth of my life. So I left my high-paying Seattle job and took back 40 years of my life. Now I work an hour a day from anywhere — and actually live.
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The first time I traveled alone with my children through a U.S. airport, my daughter was strapped in a stroller and my son could barely toddle. I remember standing in that security line, watching it snake endlessly ahead of us, and thinking: This is going to be hell. I was right. In the United States,…
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We still use language from the Cold War to describe a world that no longer exists. First World. Third World. The terminology implies a hierarchy that made sense in 1975 but has little to do with how millions of people actually live today. The Moment I Knew When we first moved into our apartment abroad,…
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Tired of trusting politicians with your family’s future? Discover how simple moves — a fallback place, foreign income, or wealth abroad — give you freedom they can’t screw up.
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The Ceremony You Didn’t Expect Picture this: You walk into a British embassy in a foreign city. The Consul General greets you personally at the front gate—not with bureaucratic coldness, but with warmth. He escorts you into a private room that’s been prepared and dressed up specifically for this moment. The room is formal. Your…
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The Jet-Setter Fantasy When most people imagine global diversification, they picture a very specific type of person: Eduardo Saverin renouncing US citizenship for Singapore. Peter Thiel quietly securing New Zealand residency. Tina Turner giving up her American passport for Switzerland. Multi-millionaires. Tech founders. Icons. It feels like a game designed exclusively for the ultra-wealthy—people who…
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The Endless Loop You wake up. Check your phone. The headlines flood in: another political scandal, rising tensions overseas, economic warnings, a tragedy that dominates every conversation for weeks. You tell yourself you’ll disconnect, but the pull is magnetic. Notifications keep coming. Conversations at work, at dinner, with friends—they all circle back to the same…
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Most people see immigration, residency, or citizenship as walls designed to keep them out. But the truth is, the global infrastructure is already in place — not as walls, but as doors. The only shift required is learning how to open them. Every country has its own immigration rules: who can enter, who can stay,…