Comments by "Marvin Fine" (@torontovoice1) on "30 Reasons to NOT Move Abroad (Q&A)" video.

  1.  @cineffect  yes I'm thinking about going there too. I already have my EU passport ready to go what country did you like
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  2. You forgot one, waiting six months to see a physician specialist I left Canada for that reason too. Taxe is ok if you are making a lot of money. I was able to get a couple of million dollars for r and d.
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  3. ​ @yingcheng1589 yes they are. But there are some countries that are okay. Cyprus Malta
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  4. ​ @marshallderriek1858 you don't sound like the sixers seven-figure entrepreneur the tender talks about? How do you make a living out in the boonies?
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  5. ​ @sirgalahad2 that's very true
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  6. ​ @alaskanwhiskey how do you make money in Mexico
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  7. ​ @cineffect where did you go?
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  8. ​ @ellenmorse8559 I grew up in Montreal as well. I agree with you completely
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  9.  @cineffect  Switzerland has really high taxes, and wealth tax. To pay a forfeit it will cost around 250 thousand franks. Ouch. Sweden is very high tax as is Germany. France is anti semetic. And has wealth tax. Eastern Europe has crappy weather and high tax.
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  10. Wow what a nice story.
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  11. Hi well this was one of the most entertaining videos that I've watched. You know a lot of this stuff that you talk about is quite dry and if you don't intertwine a few impressions or some comedy, it makes it a bit boring. Yet despite the length of this video, you were able to hold my attention for the entire 26 minutes I think is what it is. That is not the case for other videos that you produced. The topic itself is quite timely, especially because the Quagmire that you describe is exactly the situation that I'm in right now. I think you forgot one though and that was procrastination, and I would describe myself in that camp. Or things haven't gotten that bad yet. As far as Netflix is concerned, their stock went from $600 down to about 200 bucks so they're almost broke now so I wouldn't put too much into that thought. The streaming business is really getting very crowded. I specially found the entertaining the mention where you said person is too young to go and then you gave the example of someone that was 12 years old and said called his parents up and said hey I'm in Argentina now. Well, I think it's comical and however I don't know how you went get on an airplane as a minor. You need some kind of parental authority I think to get on an airplane as a minor. But on balance, I think the biggest barrier to move is not knowing what the new country is going to be like. And then what if you don't like it what do you do, move back to the country that you left because you didn't like it to begin with? Or move back to the first country that you were born in? In my case I'm from Canada, and I left for two main reasons not to mention the tax. The weather is beyond awful, and access to healthcare is beyond horrible. And the frosting on top of course would be the 54% tax bracket that you have to pay if you have a reasonably Good Year on all your income over 250k. So finding a reason to leave Canada is not difficult.
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  12. It sounds like you're doing the right thing. After a while your skills are outdated. Best of luck
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  13. Can you share with us where you moved to, and how things are going
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  14. You know I think this video is a little bit askew. The entire premise of the video for the most part has to do with remote jobs. So there's two things you have to look at number one, how many people work remotely, what percentage of the population have a remote job or can work remotely. I think it's less than 1%. And then when you break that down, a lot of these people are doing things that are not that unusual such as programming desktop publishing and a whole variety of simple jobs that pay anywhere from 50 to $100,000 a year. These are not the six and seven figure entrepreneurs that you're talking about, they're barely making much money. How would it benefit them to go to a third world? I don't see it personally, even when you look at high net worth migration, most of the people are moving to high tax English-speaking countries not the low tax third world countries that you described. Many other professions require people to be residents of a country. Such as lawyers doctors accountants etc. So who are these high net worth people that are earning six and seven figure incomes? They are few and far in between. Yeah I know there are YouTube influencers, people that do drop shipping on Amazon, people that sell books etc. But there's a lot of problems even with those. For example YouTube clicks, if the clicks are from Tibet or Malaysia, they're hardly going to make any money if at all. They need clicks from America Canada Australia New Zealand and maybe parts of Western Europe where Google can charge high prices for clicks. And to be relevant, most of the content is American content. No I suppose there are other types of businesses like yourself but they are really anomalies. Tell me that I'm wrong! Who are these people that have remote jobs making six and seven figure incomes? To begin with, the percentage of people making even 200,000 a year is probably less than 1% of the entire population. Listen I ran businesses promoting work from home and it was a home run for me. So I really like the idea of people working from home, and lots of tech companies allowed people to work from home during covid but they realized that the quality of the work that was being done was not the same. In technology for example, innovation comes from caucusing with fellow peers. We as a people are designed for affiliation. I didn't say that Maslow did. I challenge you to answer this question.
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