Comments by "Marvin Fine" (@torontovoice1) on "Why Westerners Don’t Move Overseas (Even Though They Should)" video.

I think Biden is destroying the country. That's just my opinion
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That's very true, but how can you determine by spending a few weeks in a country what it's going to be like if all of a sudden you have a heart attack and you need open heart surgery? Does your country have one of the top 100 hospitals in the world? Are you willing to travel to another country to get a complex operation where your life is at stake?
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@aipacsucks well I won't argue with that one, I don't know if it's dementia a coma but he certainly in decline. How he got elected, God only knows. But I know it was the ballot harvesting, and getting lots of votes from many people that may not have been vetted or there signature is not verified. It doesn't even make sense! This guy never even did any campaigning, I never took questions from the media and yet he's the most popular person in America! It's completely illogical. Only one problem, nobody's been able to prove it, and in a court you need proof. Conjecture and the balance of probability is not enough to overturn an election. But I'm sure everybody's in a good mood because they're printing money like there's no tomorrow, and the GDP keeps going up because the border is open and illegals are flooding through which is bolstering the economy. What are you going to do with all these people when they start getting sick, old, bringing drugs through the border, and all of the other untoward activities that come with open borders or he is not a good situation
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It's not only in America, most large countries, the bulk of the population don't have passports, because they don't need them. It's hard to believe, but there's many people in Canada in the US that don't travel across borders. You can travel from Canada to the US with the driver's license today so you don't even need a passport so many people don't have them. The other thing of course is that the a lot of people are living from hand to mouth so taking a vacation is beyond their budget
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I think that's very true, but if they are in that financial situation, who wants them? They won't qualify for any entrepreneurial visas or passport by investment. These things normally start at 300,000 and go up to millions. They're not targeting this group of people
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I don't think you'll have a problem if you go to any of these countries unless you're a person of means, or a politically exposed person. It's only then that you're a Target I think. Otherwise you'll just fly under the radar, they just look at you as another tourist coming to their country to spend money and prop up their GDP. They look at you as an asset. I remember once when I was in Jamaica and some people started hassling us, whole bunch of people came up and said leave them alone and they were physical with these people. And I thank them for doing that and I asked him what was their motivation? And they told me that they were farmers for the most part and when the resorts don't have a lot of guests, the owner of the resort tells him he only needs half a load of carrots this week. So when he asks him why, he says because the tourists aren't coming. So the local people see tourists as an asset of the country, an asset to protect and cherish.
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@cerberus8666 they have a Homeland, it's called Judea and Samaria.
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@aipacsucks yes very good points. I'm a Canadian but I don't live in Canada anymore I left 10 years ago. But I'm looking for my next move, probably somewhere in Europe. Many countries are going uphill, and many countries are going downhill. It's best to get on to a country that's on the way up as opposed to one that's on the way down
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@jmadventures9830 the definition of a first world country is any country where the credit rating, the Moody's rating starts with an a. In South America there's only one first world country and that's chili. Most of Western Europe has a plus ratings with the two best ratings being Germany and France but the rest of them are all pretty close. You have Japan, Singapore, of course Canada and the USA and several others. There's also a correlation between corruption and a country's credit rating as well as their ratings on all of the other indexes. I guess it all depends what you're looking for, and what things are important to you. If you're looking for low corruption, reasonable infrastructure, good medical care, then the money has to come from somewhere. And first world countries are a big draw from third world countries which is why a third world countries continue at their current level, while first world countries prosper. Even among first world countries, there's a huge amount of competition for talent. Lots of Canadians move to the US, especially doctors and nurses and PhDs to get much higher salaries. People all over the world are attracted to Canada especially China, the Philippines, Russia, Eastern Europe, Middle East, etc
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@delroywilson9588 I really don't care about cost of living. It's quite irrelevant if you're paying a lot of tax.
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I don't think the author is trying to sell you anything, but rather to open your mind and look at the world as a I think the word he used was buffet. Pick the things that you like about the countries in the world, and choose where you'd like to live, assuming they'll have you
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I don't think the issue was heartless, but rather people thinking they're getting a good deal or their tax money is being well spent, or they feel that they're getting a good deal in their home country. Looking at your comment, I presume you probably don't pay any tax or very little of it. But imagine if you were paying a couple of million dollars a year in taxes, how would you feel then?
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@delroywilson9588 that's a very good point, but living somewhere doesn't answer your questions like what if scenarios and I also look at rankings before even going to a place. So you can look at best hospitals in the world, corruption perception index, doing business index, know your country index, and I'm sure there's a few I missed. But if I country is on the shit list, I don't even want to explore it let alone visit other than as a tourist maybe
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@delroywilson9588 you know I look at a lot of different inputs as I said in determining where I want to go as a place to live. At some point in time in your life, the quality of life becomes more Paramount than only taxes etc. So I do look at them the taxes in the country, but the cost of living is not really relevant. What is relevant is quality of life, the proximity to where you want to be, the weather, the healthcare, the safety and security, and of course the language. So when you scour the whole world, you don't find a lot of countries that fit that criteria. So you have to look at every particular country and determine what you like about it and what you don't, and with respect to the things that you don't like, are there workarounds. For example let's say the healthcare wasn't that good, you can buy international Private health care and if you needed a medical treatment, you could visit a nearby country where they have the world class healthcare. Of course that wouldn't help you in the case of an emergency, but most of the time you really don't get emergencies, you can usually anticipate it coming. So it's important to do regular checkups, blood tests and all of the analysis that an executive would do on a yearly basis as a physical to give you a complete understanding of all of your benefits and risks of your body. Of course as you get older, these things become more difficult and more problematic, so you want to be either in a country or close to a country where you can get the services. As well, it's not only which country you want to go to, but which country will have you. So you have to look at how many passports you have, and what countries you're allowed to live in based on your passports. So if you choose another country which you don't have a right to live in, you have to look at getting a residence permit or a passport to that country which can set you back a few bucks especially in triple a countries. There really is no perfect country and it's a give and take no matter what country it is so you have to determine what the best place for you would be. There is lots of videos out there about all kinds of countries, and a lot of the people that talk about them have a bias because they want to sell something. In the case of the nomad capitalist, he's like an insurance broker with a lot of different companies available. So that's a good thing because he's selling a service where he will look at your needs and determine the best place for you to go and because he's not getting any kick backs from any other programs, he has no bias other than your best solution for your problem. So I really like that. I'm not trying to plug his channel, but I think that's the reality. When you look online you'll see all kinds of ads for different countries, and right below it you'll see them offering to sell you residence permits or citizenship to those countries and I can tell you for certain that these people are being paid directly and / or indirectly or both. , I'll leave it at that and I'll let you fill in the blanks.
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Oh I love those Trump impersonations. Whenever I get bored of what the Mr h is talking about, and then I hear a trump impersonation, I keep listening. They are funny. I think he should double as a comedian!
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I agree. This idea of taking from the rich and giving to the poor never worked. All it does is encourage people to do tax evasion because they're angry, others looking for ways to exit, and worst of all, disincentivizing people from earning more money than the otherwise could because then they don't want to pay the tax. Very bad. And you have a real left wing that don't want defund the police, they want to eliminate the police because all the police do is arrest black people according to them
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Where did you go?
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@jmadventures9830 I need a first world country I think.
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@delroywilson9588 the number of people that left that made me small at this point, but it's a growing group of people. There was a study done where they called American expats and asked if they want to renounce their citizenship, and 40% said that they did. It was unique about this was they didn't say it was about taxes, because most of them were paying any us tax because of the foreign tax exemption. They were complaining about the compliance issues. But the Americans that are living in the US that renounce are probably paying a lot of tax like in the millions tens of millions and hundreds of millions or even potentially billions. So as time goes on they erode the tax base. And who are they going to get to pay taxes, the illegal migrants that are flowing through the southern border who work for cash? No they need businesses to pay taxes and people have to feel that they're getting a reasonable value for what they're paying. But it's not only leaving the US, people can make small decisions by changing states and earning a lot more of their own money
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@delroywilson9588 The only problem is that there are a number of things that you have to do to make yourself a non-resident, independing on your current situation, it can cost you a lot of money, especially if you want to reverse everything.
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@crazifyit thank you for the response. I'm not sure I can agree with the issue of list not being relevant. But what I can agree with is that outcomes are not necessarily attributed to the list either. So what does that mean, there are a variety of doctors in hospitals and all of them have different levels of skill, and they're all normal people and sometimes even the best doctors screw up operations. They could be overworked tired etc so there's no way to forecast the result of any particular procedure. I think we can both agree on that. But when you have situations well you have complex surgeries, then local hospitals will often defer the procedure to a hospital with more expertise. When you look at the list of hospitals, you can see that people from all over the world go to hospitals that are in the top 10 list. So let's say you had a bone fracture, that's not a complex procedure generally. So they will set the bone and put a cast on. Even a hospital in a third world country probably be able to do a job like that without too much difficulty. But what if he break your wrist and now you need complex hand surgery. That might be a little more complex. But, I think most hospitals would be able to do it. But what if you need a heart transplant, or a complex heart procedure or other complex surgery like cancer etc, then you would generally want to get the best. Getting the best there's not necessarily mean that you're treatment will be successful, no doubt about it but I think you have a better chance. So you talk about boots on the ground. Okay so I go to country x and what do I do visit hospitals. How would I determine visiting a hospital with the level of care could be? Can I go to the front desk and say hey is your hospital good? Obviously not. In most cases, there's no one to even talk to if you went there so I really don't understand how you could assess the quality of healthcare in a particular hospital. Maybe I'm missing something, I'm very open-minded. Can you elaborate a little bit further, because I'm lost trying to understand that your suggestion that you visit to determine quality of healthcare. Thank you
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Why did you choose to buy instead of say Cyprus or Malta?
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@harry12 I'm not in the US, I'm a Canadian. But I left Canada 11 years ago for greener pastures
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It's a pretty small place and I think it goes they're crazy. I think they have a word for it, it's called islanditus.
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At least you can find mititae
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I think it all depends what you're looking for. The United States is a big country, so you can get hot cold, humid dry, and every other weather under the sun. Most countries have a lot less than that. But the healthcare is a real problem in the US I believe unless you're extremely well insured, because the cost can be astronomical compared to many other countries in the world. And yet, despite the fact that the US spends the highest percentage of dollars per citizen on health Care, they have one of the most unhealthiest populations in the world. Got to stay away from those Big Macs, and Southern fried Chicken you eat your veggies do exercise
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