A BROTHER ABROAD

Bali Taxes & Villa Essentials: What Nobody Tells You Until You’ve Already Signed Something I’ve sat across from enough notaries, and enough Sunday-morning panic-WhatsApp-messages-from-friends, and enough sauna and ice bath conversations of “I’m building a villa, and I just got hit with…” to know exactly how the conversation usually starts, and ends. Someone shows up ...

A list of highly recommended books for digital nomads, to accompany you into and through a fulfilling and sustainable life abroad. In nine years living a nomadic life across 65 countries, interviewing and mingling with nomads on six continents, and writing a book about the culture being built, I’ve become intimately familiar with the insights, ...

A tax-friendly, affordable, comfortable base in the heart of South America Most people dismiss Paraguay as a tax-friendly afterthought — too small, too plain to be worth the trip. In reality, it’s the cheapest genuinely livable country in Latin America. Its best neighborhoods rival Buenos Aires’ Palermo and Medellín’s El Poblado. Its tax exemption on ...

Fifteen years ago, after just over a decade playing my part in a war that had already gone on too long and a lot of accumulated “travel abroad” to sandy locales, I was at a happy transition point in my life. A short walk, mere blocks from the Pacific Ocean in San Diego, I was ...

I blew part of the first six figures I ever saw at once on a Vegas trip and a season snowboarding pass with a little fluff in between. I got the next windfall right. The difference wasn’t the amount — it was having priorites and a healthy personal financial management process before the money hit ...