Which begs the question of where you would run to.
HK vibrant, low tax, but too densely populated for my taste, sitting duck for any pandemic type event, also potentially short on water. Still if they do have a pandemic, perhaps apartments will become more affordable... Rodgers says air pollution is bad... and then there is the sea level thing.
Switzerland: Nice somewhat reasonable tax place (35% of rent, I understand)... and no income tax return if you elect to pay based on rent. Rather expensive to live, they might give you citizenship in 9 years or so, if you are deemed sufficiently Swiss like... However, currency not what it used to be... and Switzerland too threatening quantitative easing... seems involved in competitive devaluation.
Singapore: Don't know enough about it, understand quite clean, but somewhat anal in enforcing the laws, might be why it is clean. Still high density city scape at sea level. Very, very close to semi Islamic Malaysia.
Canada: High taxation, possibly more stable money, resource based economy. Can get citizenship by making $400K loan for 5 years. Very tied to the US as a market. Canada will suffer with the US economy... but overall probably a safer better bet than the US. I also understand they have an import duty on gold, depending on the form it is in (some exemption for canadian maples).
But, yes, would have been easier to do years ago... Taxation of departing expatriates tighter... and USD much more potentially weaker... also real estate harder to sell now. |
