Nomad Countries

People ask me where to go in Asia like there's one correct answer. There isn't. There's a city for the person who wants community, a city for the person who wants quiet, and a city for the person who just wants to stretch every dollar as far as it goes.

I've had the same conversation at least fifty times in airport lounges, co-working spaces, and Telegram groups. Someone made serious money in crypto. Then they discovered how much of it their government expected back. The answer, almost always, is: more than they expected.

Everyone asks me what the first step is. I used to say "book the flight." Now I say something different — because I've watched too many people book the flight before they were ready, and come home six weeks later more lost than when they left.

I used to pay 32% income tax. Then I moved. Not to a beach — well, eventually to a beach — but first to a spreadsheet that changed how I thought about where I live and why.