Where do YOU want to live? Living in the BEST place in the World (Hint: it’s not the U.S.A.)

No bad right?

According to many survey only 10% of people love where they live.

Small percentage right?

What about Living in Your Dream Location Doing What You Love…?
(the ultimate life goal not by chance my first blog post)

What about you?

Do you live in a fantastic place…or in a ugly one (or a so-so if you are lucky)?

Pick one:

  • Fantastic
  • So-So
  • Ugly

Let me set it straight: there are no reasons to live in an ugly place that you hate….not even a So-So one.

No reasons.

No fantastic jobs, schools, family, the dogs…nothing.
No reasons you waste your live in a ugly place.

Keep reading and let’s move to your dream place…

The reasons why most of the people live in horrible places (and you might be one of them) are  three (or better two and half)

REASON #1: Their job

Is this what’s stucking you?

Have you ever noticed that most of the jobs are concentrating in horrible and/or super expensive places?

Think about it…wherever you are…think about how many people live in horrible metropolis in the USA, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

I personally visited dozen of these metropolis. People commuting 2-3 hours EVERY DAY, often for a miserable salary, doing a miserable job.
Living in a place where everybody is there only to work, so super expensive, especially the real estate, two-three sometimes five times more expensive than in other beautiful places.

Why is this happening?
Why, excluding some few exceptions, our society cannot offer us a good balance work-life?

Simply speaking because such balance does not exist, unless we create it (!).
If we live in a nice place we will be attracted by the “nice” things of the place (e.g. beaches, mountains, social life. night life etc.) that will drag away time from working…and our society doesn’t want that…correct?
They want to tie us up with a six figures mortgage/students loan for 30 years, two or three expensive cars, credit card debts so we are forced to show up every single day in the office.
Making enough money that we may feel it’s not worth it to leave our job but that are not enough to leave it (I love the way Chazz Palminteri explains it  in A Bronx tale).

That’s why if you are in this situation you have to more than ever cut the costs and invest to reach asap financial independence

REASON #2: Because they think it is normal

I do NOT think it’s so NORMAL

Most of people think it is normal to live in an ugly place working 12 hours a day Again the society…go to school…get good grades…get a job…pay your bills…get a 30 years mortgage…die

Where is the having fun, growing as person, enjoy a sunset, follow a passion, just THINK ?

Open your eyes my friend…wasting your life in a crappy place doing something you hate IS NOT NORMAL

We have only one life and that’s not suffering that we are supposed to spend it.

REASON #2.5: Because of the family

Remember them?

I call this the second and half reason.

Why not the third?

Because it might have sense to live in a so-so place if you were born there and so you find it pleasant (i.e. you don’t know any better). Or maybe your family lives there and the love for them is big enough to forget about the place you live.
Anyhow…watch out and don’t find it as an excuse to justify your inertia.
You know well what you like and what you don’t …don’t make the mistake to live a life in a perennial state of denial. I have seen too many people literally wasting their existence pretending to be happy and sadly dying after a miserable life.

Don’t be one of them.

Let’s take some actions.

So where do you want to live…and why?

In my view the best place should have the following characteristics

  1. Safe
  2. Clean
  3. With accessible and cheap good health care
  4. With amazingly good weather
  5. Cheap
  6. With great food With beautiful scenery
  7. Culturally attractive
  8. With decent balance of business, academic opportunities
  9. Not extremely far from loved ones (family, friends?)
  10. People and foreign language friendly

Though isn’t it?
According to this list few places have all or most of these characteristics.
The whole USA is out, some places in Asia can be ok, same for Central and Latin America, many European places definitively are good candidates.

Wait a second…USA is out!?

Should we all move to Europe, Central and Latin America or Asia (!)

Well…yes…

Listen…I traveled and lived in three different continents and ten different countries …and the answer is YES….

The ol’ USA…the American dream doesn’t make the list…

USA is (or can be) an opportunity…not a destination.

Good to stay there to reach financial independence because the average salaries are higher than the rest of the world and the opportunities abundant…but after you have enough money it’s better you run away from it and very quickly afterward.

Why I say that?

Try to live in the USA without a job and get sick or even with a job and getting SERIOUSLY sick….

No insurance, no health care coverage…you are totally ruined…you might lose everything in a hearth beat for a medical bill and die sad and poor..so no way…bye bye USA at least until the system will be less screwed..

Europe is a great alternative, great food, culture, generally good weather, free and averagely good quality healthcare, cheap flights, relatively short drives to travel within the old continent, mostly secure, great education facilities, very affordable education (free until high school and generally 2-6,000E per year top university (a fraction of the USA one)…with some few exclusions).

Basically a great alternative to that nice beach in Costa Rica (or Mexico, or Thailand, or… you name it) that can be relaxing to recover decades of 9 to 5 cubicle slavery but pretty boring after one week.

Step out from your mental limitations for a moment….the world doesn’t end 20 miles from your home.

Believe me.

There are much better place to live than where you are right now and taking our stuff and leave will be much less traumatic than you think.

Let me tell you my personal case:

  • after 1 weeks most of your friends and acquaintances will have forgotten you
  • after 1 months most of your relatives will do the same
  • after 2-3 months YOU will start doing the same and stop missing your favorite food, church, sport team, bar etc and will replace with new ones

Besides (and this is a big BESIDES) with all technology and social networks (Facebook, Whatsapp, Skype, instagram, wechat, messenger, LINE and other dozens) you will be in constant contact with your friends and relatives, even more than when you were at home
(I am not kidding…I have more contacts with my friends thousand of miles away than they have with other friends who live few meters away from them).

So…let’s pick the best place in the world

If you are in your 20’s and close to jump in the workforce please take a minute to reflect

Do you really want to spend the rest of of your life in a cubicle in the same place where you where born?

Don’t.

Just make the jump, take that flight, cut the umbilical cord, try that start up on the other side of the world…don’t look for safety…you will have time to look for safety.

Run away from ugly and boring place Pick the place of your dream and go…even jobless

If you are in your 30’s-40s capitalize on your skills, you will have great potentialities and possibilities to move out, ideally with a great contract. Don’t underestimate yourself, that’s the age you can give your kids a great exposure worldwide, don’t limit them to one place, one city, one country even thought you think your country is the best of the world there is still time to go back there.

If you are in your 50’s and played smartly with your finances you can say goodbye to your corporate life and downshift.

Belize? Why not?

Costarica? why not Spain, Portugal or South of Italy?

Florida?

To end up paying the insurances and hospital lobbies $3000 for a flu if you are jobless?

…no thank you…

Taking the jump is easy, eyes opener and rewarding (often also in monetary terms).

Don’t waste one more minute surrounded by ugliness and sadness, a great world is waiting for you.

I promise it.

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