• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      It’s a few hundred dollars to get to Asia, less to Europe, and usually less than $100 to fly from country to country after that for 3 to 6 months at a time, visa free or filling out a ten minute e-visa application.

      stack that up against $1,600 a month for an apartment in the states, plus insurance and car payments and all that bullshit, traveling is the vastly cheaper option.

      do not evade taxes, get educated.

      If you live outside of the US for 330 or more days out of the year, you qualify for the FEIE, Foreign earned income exclusion.

      you fill out one more IRS tax form at the same time as all your other tax forms, and you don’t pay up to $120,000 in US income tax.

      That’s the US tax code and is in no way tax evasion.

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        My bad didn’t realize how easy it is for anyone to have a few hundred laying around then fly to a new country every couple of months. It’s hard enough to move across a state let alone the planet. What visas do you expect to be able to acquire with such frequency? Work visas? Do you need to find a new job in a new country every few months? Pay double taxes for the first year? Learn 10 languages to find work? Have no friends family or belongings? Or instead of working should people be saving up all the money required to do this while paying all those US costs you’re saying are so high? How does a work visa work if you go the savings route? How do you find housing every few months? Blindly apply to places and hope you don’t stumble into a slumlord situation? Only monthly agreements? Where are you finding plane tickets from the US to Europe or Asia so cheap (this one is an actual question I want to travel and need to know)? If this plan works for you honestly that’s amazing I’m happy for you live your best life. But honestly who exactly do you think a majority of people are that they can just stand up one day and fuck off to the other side of the planet like they’re picking out new clothes?