Comments by "Matthew Nirenberg" (@matthewnirenberg) on "Nomad Capitalist"
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Generally speaking, any military obligations (except for some countries) only apply if you're resident/living in the country. Just be careful of where you become resident - some places require all who are legally residing to perform military service (except for foreign students), some don't.
If you had a Caribbean passport, any EU passport or South American passport and a residence in the country of the passport, you were able to return home. This is why you need multiple homes as its the passport + the homes that give you options when the SHTF!
As an Australian who's wanted to leave since 12th March 2020, those who couldn't come home are bloody lucky (if they have other passports that let them live abroad) as they're able to live life and subject to permits/visas, work and otherwise freely move around. It sucks having to watch everyone get on with life overseas (with the exception of a few crazy countries) whilst we're likely to have a new "manufactured" crisis as Dictator Dan's (Supreme Ruler of Danistan - formerly Premier of Victoria) permanent powers require a continued emergency for him to extend them within the next month and that requires a real-world crisis (case numbers will probably skyrocket magically as they did at every previous extension).
Most businesses have gone under, the few that survived have a "skeleton crew" of staff, the costs of everything are going up and travel restrictions change with the wind as do the jab requirements (two inside the country, three to enter (if a resident or citizen) - two if a foreigner).
Its likely to get much worse in Australia as NSW & QLD are having horrible floods, diesel prices are higher than all other fuels which is now pushing up food prices. Combine this with the floods, food shortages are likely.
Also note that wages haven't kept up with inflation and cost of living for the last 26yrs in Australia and since the '2020 thing', welfare has skyrocketed which will result in ever higher taxes.
The USA, CANZUK & Western European nutty "2020 thing lets go crazy" countries (Austria, Spain, etc.) are all done, the future is Central & Eastern Europe, the Baltics, the Balkans, Central and South America and the tax havens (Caribbean & Vanuatu, etc).
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If you want options you need to naturalize in another EU country then renounce your Dutch citizenship, then obtain other citizenships. Note that Andrew renounced his US citizenship to be free of the baggage it causes. Oh, the other problem is that many countries are closing their pathways to citizenship and their visa options.
At the same time, many countries are banning everything - fishing, camping, hunting, swords, daggers, bayonets, firearms, owning documents, art and other collectibles older than 50yrs, etc. Clearly they no longer trust the citizenry to have anything, or the governments want that stuff for themselves likely to use in war. I guess such bans also make people poor and reliant on the state, thus easy to control. CBDC's and 15-minute cities aren't far off.
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@arthursondheim2255 I can't go into details as I only know what I saw and what I've personally experienced. Note that these things didn't all happen in the same year, it was over about a 10 year period, so not often but still relevant and when it happened in Central Europe it was 2018.
I've seen it happen in France (at a hotel business centre), a few countries in Central Europe (at a lunch spot the locals frequent - a friend recommended it to me whilst I was there) and the Baltic States (at a hotel lounge and at a hotel business centre), the UK (at a hotel business centre), Singapore (at a hotel lounge).
Basically it can happen anywhere. When a country is either trying to stop illegal work (I'm guessing its usually based on tips and other intel) or when they assume that illegal work is happening but the only way to prove it is to check ID's and see what people are doing.
Its nothing to worry about as if you either have the correct visa, other official entitlement to work (some Commonwealth Countries have some agreements that permit some limited work without a visa for their citizens when in certain other Commonwealth countries), or happen to be a citizen of that country or (if within the Schengen Zone) a citizen of a Schengen country you won't be breaking the rules.
Just remember, if you enter a country as a tourist DON'T do ANY work and you'll be fine.
Every time I've seen these checks being done and some arrests being made I've never had an issue as I have a passport from an EU country within the Schengen Zone, a passport from a Commonwealth nation, a passport from a small country that's little heard of, and, I only work in countries that I have the legal right to do so.
When I was traveling in Central Europe I was working over lunch at a local lunch spot, the police came in and politely asked for ID's from anyone they saw working (laptop, tablet, forms, etc. visible), I simply showed my passport from a country within the Schengen Zone and I was fine as my passport being from a country within the Schengen Zone (the same country that I have a passport from) permits me to work and live in the Schengen Zone. It was one of the only times I've ever been told "sorry for the inconvenience" by the police, usually I just get my ID/Passport handed back to me and they walk away from me in other countries.
When I was traveling in the Baltic States I was doing some work over lunch at the hotel lounge, some guy was on his laptop using the hotel wi-fi. When the police checked ID's everyone could hear the police telling a guy that he was a tourist and not permitted to work and that he was working illegally and that just because work is being done online doesn't mean its not work. They arrested him and that was all I know of that.
When I was in Singapore I was having tea at the hotel lounge with those I was traveling with when the police did their ID checks - had no issue as it was obvious we weren't working unlike the guys 4 tables over who were clearly working and who didn't have visas (it was easy to over hear the arrest as the place was quiet and the policeman spoke rather loudly the moment he placed them under arrest).
People forget that hotels and business centres are still bound by the same rules as anywhere else in whatever country they're in. Most places expect people to understand that a business centre is for work and should a person only want to check emails, they should be very clear about that when inquiring about access and use of a business centre. Also people need to remember that hotels will monitor their business centres and wi-fi to ensure that only those permitted to work perform work - serious penalties can apply to hotels that let people work illegally.
All nomad capitalists need to always play by the rules. When people don't and countries catch them, they'll get in serious trouble and the rules will tighten for everyone else. Its literally the old "one person ruins it for everyone else"!
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That would just make the problem worse. Its the same thing in Australia. The government encourages foreigners to buy property - the catch is they must be rich. So along comes the auction, locals bid reasonable prices, then comes a representative of the foreigner who instantly bid $300,000 more, the property sells to the foreigner. This happens a few times and a house worth $280,000 in reality suddenly is listed for $1.2 million.
No locals can buy a house.
If you build more, the problem gets worse as prices skyrocket as more foreigners buy the houses. These houses usually sit empty or get filled with foreign workers as if a business has space for "skilled workers" to board, they can apply for more "skilled worker" visas. Companies always prioritise foreign workers as they know they can exploit them as they don't know their rights. The govt don't care as the things considered skilled work literally include "tractor driver", "animal carer - chickens", "livestock feeder", just to name a few.
I personally know plenty of locals in both Australia and New Zealand who've be screwed by this garbage scheme that the governments want. It comes down to one thing - the governments want all the taxes from the foreign money they get from letting foreigners buy up everything and the "skilled workers" take all the jobs, rotating in and out due to the short length of the "skilled worker" visas.
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@carlosvalero7638 I've seen you spam this stupid comment on all the recent Nomad Capitalist videos. Clearly you're a leech who lives on welfare from the govt, so you don't want your money to dry up because you'd then have to actually work for money.
Why should anyone pay taxes? After all they work hard for their money and are already forced to spend close to half their wage on living expenses, when you factor in half being taken by the government, they're left with nothing. What did the government do to earn that money? Nothing.
Also, we get nothing for our taxes in the high-tax countries. Anyone who's in the top 3 tax brackets has to 100% pay-to-play. What I mean is you have to pay for everything, there is nothing in the way of 'public' services that you can use, you're forced to blow thousands of dollars each year on private health insurance or face even higher tax penalties (higher than the private health insurance).
You are banned from seeing a public doctor once you have private health insurance so you're paying a lot to see a doctor and should you need to go to a hospital you're stuck going to private hospitals.
Your driver licence and annual vehicle registration, as well as your council rates (a type of property tax) pay for the roads, as does the fuel excise (fuel tax), so that's already paid. Oh and all new roads are toll roads so you're paying twice for the same road, except the tolls are forever as the govt love the sales tax they get from every toll so they infinitely renew the toll operator contracts.
You can't send your kids to public school as that's only for the poor leeches, you have to send your kids to private schools, the same private schools the govt and the leeches whinge are 'elitist' and should be closed.
Your power, water and gas bill all pay for the utility infrastructure and for all the parks and gardens - its literally itemised on the bill.
You want to have a hobby, well that means doing govt courses, getting government licences, doing mandatory update/refresher training, and having to register all your sport equipment for any sport deemed 'hazardous' (rock climbing, bushwalking, hiking, etc.) or where the equipment could be used as a weapon (anything involving bats/clubs).
You don't even get a free passport for all the taxes you get forced to pay. A passport is like $500 but nope, the government demand you pay for that as well.
What exactly do we get for our taxes? Absolutely nothing!
Oh and the real kicker... its NEVER enough, the scum always want more. Look at Australia for example, they're now getting ready to increase all the current taxes and they're preparing to introduce new taxes because the place is completely broke. The worst part is the government have just announced they're about to start several projects that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars that they don't have. Funny how that's timed to match the higher and newer taxes. Current rates there (incl. the most basic living expenses being considered as a tax) come out to 75% of your annual income, maybe it'll be 100% by Christmas 2025.
So tell me, you leech, what exactly does anyone get for paying their taxes, because normal members of society expect to NOT be extorted infinitely, and they expect to see what their money is spent on, and for taxes to reduce as the problems are dealt with, yet that NEVER happens.
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