I continue to be blown away at the amazing opportunities that are out there for young people. You don’t see this when you are doomscrolling or worse, paying attention to mainstream media where everything just looks bleak.
While I do believe the world is de-globalizing in some ways, there are also still many interesting business opportunities and awesome places to visit. Especially if you have nothing to lose, are willing to leave where you grew up, giving up everything you know to travel and start over again. Especially with the continuing technology trends, plenty of remote work jobs (still) and the ever important value of smart people who are reliable and do what they say they will do. The bar is pretty damn low right now.
My Twitter friend Rogue Frontier gave some great advice here:
"Becoming a multimillionaire at any age is easy.
Here are the literal steps:
1) Move to Vietnam. Rent a mansion in a rural province for a $346 a month.
2) Find an online, W2 job to cover your rock-bottom costs of living, while living in absolute luxury, and being legally exempt from taxes on your income.
3) You are allowed to do 4 things:
a. Work on your business.
b. Read.
c. Work out.
d. Start a harem
4) Do nothing else till you're making $50,000 a month.
5) Rotate with a new country of your choice every 3 months to void all territorial tax
The end.
Do this and you'll:
a. Have endless time to work on your craft.
b. Enjoy it, because your brain will have nothing else to latch onto.
This is the most surefire, near-guaranteed way to become successful. Everyone is doing it.
Most people turn 20, move to Kansas to live in a run-down, over-priced shoe box. They get $100k in debt for a liberal arts degree, only to graduate with no knowledge of how to optimize US tax law.
Address the root causes. Leverage an advantaged tax structure. Live overseas as the sole pathway to reduce expenses to under $1,000 a month, while profiting, tax-free, from a W2 job.
Even with just a $50,000 a year salary with $1,000 expenses per month, you save $38,000 a year to investment into your business.
Here's one half of the mansion I rented out for exactly $346 per month in rural Vietnam at age 23.
It had a wrap-around garden, a literal cave with trees and dead bear skins fermenting in alcohol, three stories, three separate tea rooms, and a terrace balcony. And this is ONE side of the total property for less than $400 a month!
You can do this in most any developing nation beyond the USA. I most recommend Vietnam to start, Georgia to bank, and the home nation of whatever woman you eventually marry to invest long-term, America or otherwise."
Source: https://x.com/RoguesPhilo/status/2074659739338735729
While this advice is pretty specific and not for everyone, I think it works at any age. I actually know more than a few people who have followed this path and succeeded in real life. At least the generalities of Rogue Frontier’s advice. My good friend JohnnyFD has been living this for the last 2 decades, now residing between Thailand and Ukraine (minus the harem thing as he is just not that kind of guy, in a good way).
I’ve long mentioned the brutal financial strain I’ve been under from my real estate investment travails in 2025 and 2026. I am a practitioner of geoarbitrage myself by using Canada & Taiwan to reset cost structure in summer of 2026 for 2.5 months. Reducing expenses dramatically. In Canada, basically at 68% of the costs of the USA and in Taiwan to the tune of 1/4th the costs of living in the USA. Buying myself time as my other investments and projects come into fruition. Valuable time to rest, rethink and regroup. And not lose any of my hard earned quality of life while doing it.
It's a smart way to rebuild your life. Get back some momentum and restart. Especially if you are young. Or Older too. Geo-arbitrage is an incredible and overlooked lifehack.