Could You See Yourself Living Outside the U.S.?

[al audi]

LMAO some of you are quite comical to say the least let me tell you.

Like yo ya'll naming all these 3rd world countries because when you guys went on vacation and had hotels/resorts and 5 start service enjoyed it, but living life there is different.

Half the places you guys are naming don't even have hot water or electricity 80% of the time.

I'll stick to talking about Russia because that's what I know best but yeah if you're not living in Moscow which cost more than NYC you guys aren't getting hot water not electricity in your apartment half the time. You think the government here is bad? LOL, Putin doesn't care about taxes he'll just have you disappear. 

Sure if the thread said if you're rich and can move anywhere yeah maybe.. but in your current positions majority of the countries named in this thread are definitely worst than the USA.

I believe you

i mean i named London but i imagine its prob even more expensive than NYC

 

[DeadsetAce]

i'd live in Canada or Australia or New Zealand

 

[youngpablo]

I can see myself living in Punta Cana D. R. AFTER I retire tho....

 

[Mr Dink]

Australia.

 

[c hanna]

as long as I'm with family and friends im sure i could live in a lot of places

 

[legalsole]

Naw

 

[dipsetgeneral]

Hell yeah! Most likely Europe in Italy or the UK.

 

[4one5]

.Tokyo. Been meaning to learn Japanese but never really got around to it.

 

[Bend_The_Knee]

Spain.

 

[nerdistfan]

I can see myself living in Japan one day. I've been on two holidays there mainly to watch wrestling.

 

[ronniefieg]

I lived in London from December to July of this past year. While I loved it, and would move back, it's not like it is some paradise. The same issues that exist in the US exist there too. Poverty, racism and segregation were just as pervasive there, except it seemed to be largely ignored while here in the States there is at least some efforts to address these things. Also European capitals are OLD. I know that may sound like an obvious point, but London is Nothing like any large American city in terms of design and layout. It's largely a sprawl of old row houses with pockets of high rises/new buildings built in-between, pretty much a patchwork between old and new. Not saying that it's bad, but it's just different from most American cities. 

Also be prepared to walk everywhere/spend a fortune on tube passes, because owning a car seems almost pointless in London. The UK is cool though. Super easy to get around the country due to their trains, foods from everywhere, tons of massive parks in London and easy access to the rest of Europe. Also, if you like half-and-half in your coffee be prepared to switch to cream or milk, I never could find the stuff while I lived there, probably my biggest issue 

 

[al audi]

good insight Ronnie

at the end of the day America is most practical wouldnt you guys say?

 

[Coromanti]

Living outside the US is actually the goal. Need to invest my skills in my own people.

I'm coming Guyana...I'm coming.

 

[flyeed]

The taxes in a lot of other places are OD. Got professionals making much less than their American counterparts, even when you take universal healthcare and the lower cost of college and other **** into consideration.

If you know the system well enough here, and you're an ambitious person that wants proper financial compensation for your hard work, then this is the best place to be. Obviously still far from perfect though.

 

[tr1ll]

The taxes in a lot of other places are OD. Got professionals making much less than their American counterparts, even when you take universal healthcare and the lower cost of college and other **** into consideration.

If you know the system well enough here, and you're an ambitious person that wants proper financial compensation for your hard work, then this is the best place to be. Obviously still far from perfect though.

With that being said..

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26327114

In which countries do high earners pay the most tax? And where do average earners pay the most?
Income tax has been a political hot potato for decades.
In 1966 The Beatles released their song Taxman as a protest against the 95% "supertax" rate introduced by Harold Wilson's Labour government, which the band had to pay. The top rate of tax in the UK is less than half that now but it's still a source of controversy.
In France, President Francois Hollande's election campaign promise to tax salaries above one million euros (£830,000) at 75% was - not surprisingly - met with howls of protest by the rich, who Hollande once said he "didn't like". His policy was struck down by the courts in 2012 who ruled it unconstitutional but he amended it so that the employer became liable to pay it.
To put this in context, the football club Paris Saint-Germain have to pay nearly 35m euros (£29m) to the government on star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic's net annual salary of 11m euros.
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30,000 euros... not bad for a day's work
Tax rates do vary dramatically depending on which country you live in. The accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) has crunched the numbers for the G20 nations.
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For each country, they calculated how much a high earner on a salary of $400,000 (£240,000) in 2013, with a mortgage of $1.2m (£750,000), would have left after all income tax rates and social security contributions.

They assume this person is married with two children, one of them aged under six.
These are their findings. In each country, the wage earner takes home the following proportion of his or her salary.
Italy - 50.59% (takes home $202,360 out of $400,000 salary)
India - 54.90%
United Kingdom -57.28%
France - 58.10%
Canada -58.13%
Japan - 58.68%
Australia- 59.30%
United States - 60.45% (based on New York state tax)
Germany - 60.61%
South Africa - 61.78%
China - 62.05%
Argentina - 64.02%
Turkey - 64.64%
South Korea - 65.75%
Indonesia - 69.78%
Mexico -70.60%
Brazil - 73.32%
Russia - 87%
Saudi Arabia - 96.86% (so you take home $387,400 out of the $400,000 salary)
In most of these 19 rich countries (the 20th member is the EU) the take-home pay is between $230,000 - $280,000.

But one important thing to consider when comparing the top rate levels of tax is the threshold where the rate kicks in, because the differences are massive.
"In the UK, the 45% top rate of tax kicks in at an income level of around $250,000 (£151,000) compared to Italy where the top rate of 43% comes in at $125,000," says Ben Wilkins, a tax partner at PWC.
Outside the G20, the Danish government taxes workers at 60% on all earnings over $60,000.
Most of us can only dream of earning a salary that would attract the top rate of tax, so what about ordinary earners?
It is difficult to compare tax rates. Income tax is only one tax - most of us will pay other kinds of tax, like social security, and those with children might get some tax relief.
The statisticians at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have done some analysis of average salaries.
"At the top end of the distribution we have Belgium where single people pay 43% of earnings in income tax and social security contributions (or national insurance), followed by Germany with 39.9%," says Maurice Nettley, head of tax statistics at the OECD. "The lowest rates are paid in Chile at 7% and Mexico at 9.5%."

These tax rates apply to single people with no children, on an average salary for their country.
Belgium- 42.80%
Germany - 39.90%
Denmark - 38.90%
Hungary- 35%
Austria -34%
Greece - 25.4%
OECD Average - 25.10%
UK - 24.90%
USA - 22.70%
New Zealand - 16.40%
Israel - 15.50%
Korea - 13%
Mexico -9.50%
Chile - 7%
The following tax rates apply to married couples with two children.
Denmark - 34.8%
Austria - 31.9%
Belgium- 31.8%
Finland -29.4%
Netherlands - 28.7%
Greece 26.7%
UK - 24.9%
Germany - 21.3%
OECD average - 19.6%
USA - 10.4%
Korea - 10.2%
Slovak Republic - 10%
Mexico - 9.5%
Chile - 7%
Czech Republic - 5.6%
In Germany the rate drops from 39.9% to 21.3% because of generous child tax credits. Across the OECD, tax rates drop by an average of 5.5% for married couples with children. Greece is the only country where you pay more tax if you are married with children.
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Of course, the point of paying taxes is that the government is supposed to provide services for that.
"In a lot of the European countries tax rates and social security contributions are high but the provision of benefits by the state tends to be very generous compared to countries in other parts of the world," says Nettley.
"If you fall ill or become unemployed the state will contribute and there are also generous pension arrangements."

Looks like the places everyone wants to go to the taxes are a bit higher.

 

[waitwut]

lowkey maybe vancouver canada seems pretty cool

my idea of it is like a major city where laws are a lot less relaxed tho and plenty of bad women im probably totally wrong tho

any one here lived or had a long stay in cali and vancouver? would love to hear about it

 

[sonoftony]

I'd relocate to:

Madrid
Vancouver
Buenos Aires

 

[the natural mystic]

Cape Town South Africa(dear lord the women)
Namibia
Amsterdam
Trinidad and Tobago (dear lord the women and beaches)
Ghana

 

[al audi]

With that being said..

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26327114
Looks like the places everyone wants to go to the taxes are a bit higher.

no wonder ppl wanna evade taxes and ish......................

 

[Xennial]

I can as long as it's a place with an abundance of white women.  Also depends on their internet speed there and developed country most likely so they'd have decent infrastructure

 

[cashbanks]

Cape Town South Africa(dear lord the women)
Namibia
Amsterdam
Trinidad and Tobago (dear lord the women and beaches)
Ghana

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