The $800 Corporation
Eleven years, one Seychelles corporation, zero payroll tax: the legal architecture, the real costs, and what it does to your Social Security check.
The Life Insurance Nobody Will Help You Leave
Everyone will sell you cash-value life insurance and everyone will tell you not to buy it. Nobody will help you get the money back out. The exits, the tax traps, and where I landed.
Four Passports and Nothing to Hide
Two Americans, four identical blue passports, and a Bangkok immigration officer with her hand out. Why the one thing I have never managed to travel lighter on is proof I'm allowed to travel.
The Passport Fight You Already Lost
The visa service sent a stranger on a motorbike, and I handed him both our passports. I'd do it again tomorrow. The fight to keep your passport data private was lost years ago. The real leverage is somewhere else.
Border Police Ask? Short Answer. True Answer. Stop Talking.
Border agents aren't your friends, but they're not your enemies either. What they are is an authority with broad discretion. The correct strategy is boring, brief, and completely honest.
You're Not Self-Insuring. You're Gambling.
"I self-insure" shows up constantly in nomad forums, usually from people who've never had a claim. Self-insuring is a real strategy. What most people are doing isn't that—it's just hoping nothing happens.
Of Course There's a Mall
More same same than different. Big companies own most of it. Maybe we're living in one big mall?