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How to use this site
There's more than one tool here because there's more than one way to approach this decision. Find the one below that matches where you actually are right now.
"I have no idea where to start."
Take the Find Your Fit quiz. It walks through your priorities — budget, climate, tax situation, healthcare, pace of life — and matches you against every published destination.
Take the quiz →"Just give me one specific, quick suggestion."
Answer three questions (climate, budget, visa priority) and get a single written recommendation, chosen from whichever destinations score best against your answers.
Get a recommendation →"I'm deciding between two specific places."
Put any two countries or U.S. states side by side — tax treatment, visa rules, healthcare, and monthly budget defaults, pulled live from our research.
Compare two destinations →"I want real numbers for my own budget."
Enter your current monthly costs and see how they stack up against a destination’s defaults, line item by line item.
Run the calculator →"I want to browse everything you’ve researched."
Every published country and U.S. state, with full profiles covering cost of living, healthcare, visas, tax treatment, and more.
Browse all destinations →"I want the deep dive on tax, visas, or slow travel."
Longer-form guides on international and national tax strategy, tax-residency rotation, working remotely abroad, and slow travel — including country-by-country retirement account tax treatment.
Read the guides →"I keep running into terms I don’t recognize."
FEIE, territorial tax, totalization agreement — plain-English definitions for the terms that come up throughout the site. Also linked automatically the first time a term appears in an article.
Open the glossary →None of these are mutually exclusive — most people end up using two or three of them together: a quick recommendation to narrow things down, then Compare or a full guide to go deeper on the finalists.