All of us:
* Those content to stay at home.
* Those thinking about a safe exit procedure if thing get worse.
* Those planning to leave and expand their international lives.
* Those that have already left and are adapting to our changing world.
* Those that are already diversified internationally according to well engineered planning.
All of us face daunting changes in the coming years. Life will not get easier for the world at large. At best, in some locations the changes may effect you less. The trend of much of the world toward over-regulation will not subside until after many existing governmental structures collapse. That collapse has started, desperate measures are being enacted,
What we know: there seems to be no possible tool that can shore up the crumbling foundations of our current monetary systems. All these coercive international agreements being enacted by failing economies are being stacked on top of already onerous agreements. No attempt has been made to shore up the foundations of governments. In fact any rational arguments for governments as an insurer of citizens rights are being removed from foundational principles, so rewards for career bureaucrats can be added on top of collapsing international structures.
The weather on the island was perfect. Two slightly paunchy, middle age men sitting in lounge chairs on the beach were introduced by a waiter bringing their drinks.
“This is so much better than snow, slush, and women dressed in so many layers you can’t tell what age they are,” Said the first.
“True, true” said the second, “you know so much more about their personalities when you see them in a bikini.”
“How did you break free to come here?”
“I had a rags business, I sold up-scale clothes to teenagers and their insecure mothers. There was a fire and everything was lost. I settled for a million dollars with the insurance company and decided to take a month off down here: before going back to rent a better building, in a better part of town, with new inventory. How about you?”
“I had a clothing store too. There was a hurricane and everything was a total loss. The government bailed me out and gave me five million dollars to restart. I’ve decided to dedicate my life to finding the perfect place to rebuild. It will have to be a place that has my preferred clientèle; so I’m immersing myself in seeking optimum wine, women, and song.”
The other retailer looked at him with respect, “How do you start a hurricane?”
Perhaps the life style that would make you most fulfilled is raising a family in a low stress, healthy environment with an improving economy. Maybe, as the old routine goes, you want to spend 90% of your life pursuing wine, women. and song — and waste the rest of it. You may even view a low cost of living in a paradise with high speed Internet the peak of civilization. What are you waiting for, a hurricane?
Let’s put the two together. The over-developed countries are becoming more complicated and are approaching fairness by driving everyone but the favored into an equally dependent poverty. The developing world is full of opportunity, low stress, and has beautiful homes in beautiful areas at lower prices.
Have you traveled to view these countries, not in tours or sequestered with other expats, but to compare potential homes? Go, get a bank account outside the confusion and confiscation. Get residency where you might like to dwell outside of pollution and constant aggression. Visit Belize, Uruguay, Thailand and other bargains. Visit the lands your ancestor’s wandered and fought over. Travel, read some more, and start on the road to a second citizenship; where your children won’t be conscripted at a political notion, and your retirement funds confiscated or converted to declining value government bonds.
If you think I’m nuts, print this page, bookmark it on your computer, and revisit it in two years. If I’m wrong and the whole world is then wonderful, remain in your cave. If I’m right, and it’s not too late to leave, take what you can salvage and run.
Or, for very little time and money, you can start the process now. Enjoy your visits to paradise, and your exposure to a lovely world that has been hidden from you by hoarding fear-mongers. They are hoarding your life to their benefit.
Start digging an escape tunnel before you need it. For instructions look to ground squirrels who are smart enough to have more than one exit from their home. You can also read our free reports and articles.
Consider me a hurricane, and your life savings and independent cash flow a bail-out. Spend some time on the beach, in the mountains, or on a new, larger farm where your knowledge will pay dividends. Make that new ranch large enough for many generations: generational asset management. Centuries in the future your progeny may rest under trees you planted in a country that is still growing.
This is a natural time of year for research and thinking about the future –your future. Merry Christmas to all; come back to visit with the new year. I’ll have some specific recommendations for you then.
Bill Freeman