Comments by "Jeremy" (@josiah5776) on "Nomad Capitalist" channel.

  1. I'm not wealthy, but I left. Tired of all the stupidity and obtuseness in many different areas. It's not just economics ... it's bad culture, bad ideology and rampant traitism.
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  2. It's so predictable seeing the "patriots" jump in with, "If you don't love it, then leave it." Very narrow minded view. Disagreeing with your government is not treason. Questioning how much money your government takes from you and how they spend it is not treason. Expressing dissatisfaction with how you or your business are treated is not treason. Wanting to live or do business elsewhere is not treason. Wanting the government out of your personal business is not treason. None of that is even illegal. Stop acting like it is. [Cue all the emotionally triggered non-thinkers. Patriot is in quotes, because a true patriot is not a blind dogmatist.]
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  3. The US (and I think English-speaking West) is insanely divisive. If you don't choose a side, you are deemed even worse than the enemy. If you differ in even one small opinion, you are vilified. I got so tired of the constant fighting and conflict over every single thing. The only way to avoid it is to isolate yourself at home, and in the city that isn't possible either. Also didn't like the increasingly bad treatment of men by the legal system, culture, media and government. That led to me leaving long term, with the intent of staying away permanently. Life in the East is much more peaceful and yes, I found a wonderful woman there who I married. I never hear the words "patriarchy," "toxic masculinity," "oppression" etc. Nobody knows who Biden and Trump are and nobody cares. It is wonderful.
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  4. I didn't have big bucks to for a variety of reasons. My own fault through poor choices. However, the Philippines has worked very well for me. Peaceful here and affordable. Yeah, the infrastructure can have challenges sometimes, but still very livable.
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  5. Same here ... not just to have at traditional woman in my life, but also so I don't have to hear patriarchy, blah, blah, blah every day.
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  6. Believe me. Americans do mind paying 1000s of dollars in healthcare every month. They mind it very much. They especially hate paying high taxes after politicians promise healthcare, then having their healthcare costs rise even more. I guess this proves your point about the government spending money responsibly, which the US government certainly does not.
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  7. The vast majority of taxes in Western nations does not go towards roads, bridges and infrastructure. It goes towards entitlement programs, special interests, pockets of the elite and foreign interests.
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  8.  @Sirenbean  If you have a workable solution to fight for a stable economy in your own country, I am all ears. I tried doing that for 40 years. I was destroyed in court, destroyed in the public square and even had my freedom taken away for a time. It was all legal, non-violent methods. You know how much effect I had? Zero. What actions have you taken and how much skin have you put in the game? But by all means, keep trying. I actually hope you succeed. No, I went where I am treated better. Forty years of BS was enough for me. Foreigners don't ruin countries. At least not outside the West. That's a cop out and scripted talking point. Most non-Western countries will not put up with nonsense from a foreigner for even a minute. That is Western thinking.
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  9.  @Theone-586  Ah, a patriot. Happy for you.
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  10. @earlspencer228  Did you also notice how I said "narrow minded"?
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  11. Excellent metaphor!
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  12.  @jackcarpenters3759  I considered Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Philippines. I chose Philippines because: 1) English is spoken there, 2) It had the most friendly visa requirements for Westerners, 3) more availability of options for US veterans, 4) affordability, and 5) more openness to dating foreigners. Yes, there are elements of some of these in all the other countries, and even lower cost of living in some other places ... but the combination of all these worked best for me. You have to do what is best for your criteria. Some men I know went with South or Central America. I highly recommend spending some time in the country you are considering, before making the decision.
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  13. I also moved to Asia. I still get push back from people in the US telling me things are better in the US, when I am personally experiencing the opposite.
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  14.  @matthewnirenberg  You're right. It is difficult to get a job here as a non-citizen, and if you could it would be for low pay. I have seen younger expats here working online, running online businesses, or working remote for Western companies. Others have businesses here, mostly hospitality or dining. However, as you said, most are retired. It is doable for a younger person, but if you lose that financial stream, it's back to the West for you.
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  15. @jessicasmith5728 I wish you the best of luck and much success. I think you are the first American woman I’ve ever heard say this. From what I have seen in the East, I think you will find plenty of interested Asian men.
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  16. @user-ux8hg8bk3e  I went to the Philippines. Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam works out well for lower budget expats, too. On the other side, some Sourh American countries hold appeal. There are also some men who go to Eastern Europe.
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  17. @okamijubei  I am in the Philippines. It's not worse. No gender wars. No DEI. No misandry. Legal system is not against men. No baby deletion. No divorce. Even the most "liberated" women in the cities are pleasant compared to the average US f'nist. Dollar goes a lot farther, too. You will forego some US conveniences, and the food is different ... but if you live in a big city like Manila, you can still have those.
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  18. Chivalry is dead in America because: 1) Women told men for decades that they didn't want it 2) Getting called a "creep" on social media 3) False accusations
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  19.  @live.life.on.purpose  Ah yes. Usually narcissists themselves calling others narcs. Yes, adapting to learn new skills is critical. Even more so today than ever before. Multiple income streams, if possible. Try not to be tied to one country ... if possible.
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  20. I left also. Have not regretted it.
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  21. Have you ever lived outside the United States? You will find many, many, many people who refute your statement. It used to be that way, but not anymore. Yes, the USA is still a safe haven when compared to some other nations, but it is not longer the shining light. Most of the people who come to the USA, do so because of proximity and ease rather than optimal choice. I know of scores of foreigners who came to the US legally, were shocked at the expenses and godless culture, then departed again at the first opportunity.
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  22. @flynnjp19  I really do hope you are right. I am watching and staying flexible. Expenses are just one side of the coin for me though. I'm sick of the woke culture and DEI. That might change too.
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  23. @hcadena3874  Exactly. Most of those pontficating wisdom about the US standing in the world have never been outside the US, except maybe a few day's vacation in Cancun. Yet, they are experts.
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  24. ​ @LostintheUS-2032-OceaniaKim I believe you are 100% spot on about cognitive comfort.
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  25. Both my parents were German citizens legally in the US on immigration visas when I was born. I have held US citizenship my entire life. My parents were both naturalized 3 years after I was born.
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  26.  @MgtowRubicon  Well played!
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  27.  @earlspencer228  That's exactly the kind of emotion before logic I was talking about. Throwing out traitor when no treason was committed. Dogmatic hyperbole.
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  28. @earlspencer228 Wrong. You're the one showing ignorance by assuming everyone else should think like you and that everything the US government does or says is patriotic.
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  29. @justanothercommentercarryo8367  You stated it much better than I could 👍
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  30.  @llmm7181  You are correct. It is bubble thinking.
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  31. @flynnjp19  Also, I don't have a whole lot of faith in the American electorate to not flip-flop in four years and vote back in all the stuff they voted out last November. I've seen it happen many times. Hope I am wrong about that too.
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  32.  MyTruthTriggersYou  Exactly. You are under no obligation to justify or explain yourself. If your choice pisses off someone, that's their narrow-minded problem.
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  33. @mikeogden5256  How do you figure? I'm not being flippant. Genuinely interested in your thoughts. This isn't a setup.
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  34. From my experience, people don't even want to leave a less well off country like the Philippines to come to the US. That speaks volumes. Safety from persecution in the USA ... hah! Try being a male here. Sure, it's not genocide or camps like in some places, but the legal system is massively biased against men. A man can be imprisoned on the word of a woman alone, with no evidence. A man can be gutted financially at the whim of any woman with whom he was unfortunate enough to get into a relationship. If you're a white man, you are last in line for most jobs or opportunities. The media, culture and government are overtly hostile towards men. Property rights are a joke, considering the tax system.
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  35. I didn't hear any mention of how the legal system in the West is stacked against men, especially family and divorce law. That was a big reason that convinced me to leave the West. I will not marry or co-habitate in a Western nation.
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  36. This is my situation too. While I can still make it on retirement in the USA. I can make it a lot better in other countries.
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  37.  @afrikanheritage99  Gotta be careful. The US has agreements with most other nations for foreign banks to report any accounts held by US citizens on a regular basis. Personally, I wouldn't advise trying to buck the US tax system if you still a citizen. Just my 2 cents.
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  38. I am making preparations to expatriate from the US, but not giving up my citizenship. I still love my country and would never think of taking any illegal or treasonous actions against it. I served 27 years in the military, some in combat. I get the "you need to stay and fight" speech from about 1/3 of the people who know my plans. Ironically, some of them already living overseas themselves. It is a very emotional and non-pragmatic mindset. In my mind, I served my nation and simply wish to retire elsewhere now. I still pay taxes and am not doing anything wrong by US law, or even shady. But, you cannot escape the people who keep saying "stay and fight."
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  39. Westerners can be some of the most arrogant, one-ideology-fits-all people on the planet. Not only ignorant about things in other parts of the world, but also completely unwilling to consider or learn.
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  40. The US government coerces foreign banks to report on the assets of all American citizens or suffer heavy fines on all their own US assets. Freedom!
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  41. Funny how it's all a one world order and global economy as long as it benefits them, but the serfs need to remain on the manor.
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  42.  @lazapololapolo9824  Getting multiple passports would be my #1 advice to young Western men today.
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  43.  @lazapololapolo9824  Totally agree!
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  44. @user-ux8hg8bk3e  I've never been to Thailand, but a lot of expats like it. Cheaper there than Philippines, but everyone speaks English in the Philippines. Not so much in Thailand.
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  45. @ethanwoodall8525  It's exactly what you said. Everyone has different criteria of what they are willing to put up with, what they are willing to do without, and their income streams. I reached a cumulative point over 40 years that I finally had enough of the West's overt hatred of men, so I went somewhere that I am treated better. The negatives outweighed everything else.
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  46. Western countries are huge dangers for arrest for not toeing the ideological line ... and false accusations against men.
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  47.  @vanpho7741  Flying a flag upside-down is a valid signal that shows no disrespect. In fact, it is a warning to others to open their eyes to danger. Believing the words of every politician in a suit invites tyranny. I fought for US interests in Iraq as a US Army soldier. Voluntarily. I don't feel disrespected.
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  48. @justanothercommentercarryo8367  Plans B and C ... Godspeed to you as well.
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  49. Whatever Trump does will only be reversed again four years later when all the obtuse, ignorant sheep vote the opposing party back into office. Count on it. The forced divisiveness is also what made me leave. If you don't endorse Republicans in all ways, you're called a Marxist. If you don't endorse Democrats in all things, you're a right-wing religious extremist.
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  50. Most of the American expats I know are conservatives. Many of them even served in the US military.
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  51. Aren't the Greens in Germany also pushing for this? If that's not true, please feel free to expound.
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  52. Same in the USA.
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  53.  @hengguanlye6303  I left while it was still blue land.
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  54. My first child is a product of the US public school system. Despite all my efforts to the contrary, he is an ignorant and arrogant example of all the worst woke, liberal and godless ideologies within the United State. I am not letting any of my other kids near public schools.
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  55. Whatever Trump implements will just be undone when the ignorant, sheep-like voters predictably elect another liberal into office in the next election. I've seen it over and over again in the last 50+ years.
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  56.  @wddlaw  Yeah ... there are ways.
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  57. Why should it be illegal? Make a case for what you say.
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  58. This "sheeple" dynamic is mirrored in the USA, although not yet to as great an extent. People will willingly let you shackled and cuff them, rather than give up Big Macs and lattes. Weak men are the worst offenders. They will put up with bashing, condemnation, emasculation and any other manner of indignity just to maintain what they believe to be status quo.
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  59. It's true. The USA is so massively divisive that it has become impossible to interact with anyone without politics being injected. What's worse, is that people want to force you to pick one of only two options they believe exist. Binary thinking everywhere. No other options considered. Fail to pick one and both turn on you. The politics is heavily divided along gender lines, with the conflict simmering just shy of an all out gender war. I grew so sick of it that I left the USA to live on the other side of the planet. Nobody here knows (or cares) who Trump, Harris or Biden are. Being an expat now, I am a bit amazed at how my thinking on candidates has changed. As Andrew stated, the conservatives are usually more anti-expat. I am more interested in status quo now. Andrew's comment about foreign women in their 20s being more mature than US women in their 40s also rings very true.
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  60.  @rbfarrell1  I get the same question from Filipinas. They see US women as both godless and self-sabotaging. Most are horrified that they so easily end their unborn.
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  61.  @MarinaLaroche  Well stated. While I utterly despise feminism, I don't apply that label to every woman ... I apply it to the actions of women who display the traits.
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  62. @pawlieblog7967  💯
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  63.  @quailduk902  Check your reading comprehension. I said I left already.
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  64.  @PrayerWarrior4  That's true. You need some money at least. You don't need millions, but you do need a decent stream of at least a few thousand a month.
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  65.  @roberttjostelson3916  I went to the Philippines. I like it here and it has worked out well for me. I know other who have gone to Thailand and Cambodia. On the other side of the ocean ... Costa Rica, Peru and Mexico. None of these guys are millionaires.
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  66.  @Dan-l2y2r  I've heard Portugal is very nice. Wishing you all the best there. I see the situation in the US much the same way as you.
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  67.  @Jughead24  The "proud" part is the patriot, who is somehow morally superior for remaining in the USA ... and wants to let you know it. I run into people like that sometimes. What they don't seem to grasp is that the US taxes citizens no matter where you live ... so you're always contributing. You can just live wherever you want.
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  68.  @Jughead24  I also served in the Army for 27 years and I agree with everything you said. I was fervently patriotic for a long time. I am still patriotic, but it is tempered now by realizing what I can and cannot change. I actively tried to effect change for many years, both through political and social means. It didn't work. Too many people think differently from me today and have different values. The democratic way the US is set up, makes it their country too. The US culture has become very traitist and I don't have the right traits ... so I went someplace where some of those traits don't matter and others are actually looked upon with respect.
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  69. @tommylebowitz8566  Traitism is judging others (both negatively and positively) based on the physical traits a person is born with, rather than ability or character. DEI is a prime example.
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  70.  @tommylebowitz8566  Maybe elitism?
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