leaving america

Only A Fool Tries To Survive By Acting Like A Vegetable

“Only a fool tries to survive by acting like a vegetable – staying rooted in on place when the political and economic climate changes for the worse. When the going gets tough, the mentally tough go elsewhere, the way your forefathers once did…” Doug Casey, ‘Getting Out of Dodge’, ‘International Man’ While Doug Casey can […]

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Retire Overseas – 7 Reasons An American Should Consider An Offshore Retirement

Why in the world would any American choose to leave the relative comfort and prosperity of the United States to retire to what many would consider to be a third world country. I mean, after all, America is the land of the free… the hope for prosperity. Immigrants from across the globe have gone to […]

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IRS Gains More Power Over You Through Your Passport

It’s tax time in the US again as the filing deadline of April 15 is just around the corner. It takes a lot to feed the government beast and the IRS is very serious about getting all that they consider due to them. Recently the IRS was armed with a few more weapons to keep […]

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Why Pick The Dominican Republic For Your 2nd Passport?

We seem to have two different groups of readers when it comes to 2nd Passports and immigration.  The first group has already read and researched the advantages of securing a 2nd passport and have already decided to add this important tool to their back up plan.  For them, the services offered through the PassportDR link […]

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New Fast Track Immigration Program – Answering The Big Question

More about the fast track path to residency and naturalization.  Based on some questions and comments we have received about our earlier immigration post, I think we should delve a little deeper into the whole question about the new fast track program.  We have seen one question pop up several times.  “Is that 6 month thing […]

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New Fast Track Residency Program Benefits Expats – Big Change

The Dominican Republic has been making reforms in order to attract foreign nationals looking to retire and invest in the country. Today we will chat with one of our immigration consultants about one of those changes that may be a game changer benefiting new expats. This is the first in our “Interviews With Immigration Consultants” series of […]

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Over Time Look What’s Become of Us

It’s a sad state of affairs when societies have been demoralized to the point that a citizen’s self-worth is determined by their amount of consumption. “I am what I do or I am what I own” tends to be the modern day belief of one’s value. In spite of what you think as long as […]

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Continuing Our Southeast DR Road Trip – Another State Of Art Highway Project

We see evidence in the news everyday that many countries are struggling and facing financial turmoil, yet we continue to see ample evidence that the Dominican Republic continues on its upswing.  As we were traversing the mid-south to southeast regions of the Island, we stumbled on yet another one of the many new road construction […]

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Forbes Article Blasts The DR – Funny How Different Perspectives Can Be

I just saw a posting on one of our DR Escapes youtube videos that I felt was worthy of a little more analysis.  The writer obviously has done some research to form his perspectives and opinions, however I would challenge our readers to form their own opinions after thinking about it.  The point of this […]

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Who Is Richer? He Who Has The Most OR He Who Needs The Least

Lifestyle…. It’s all about lifestyle.  That is an interesting question, don’t you think.  Who is Richer?  The man that has the most OR the man that needs the least.  Two sides of the same coin?  I don’t think so. Most of us were programmed to chase the dream.  Earn, Earn, Earn.  Accumulate, Accumulate, Accumulate.  After […]

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