Say the best way to go is to become a perpetual tourist. That is you don't have US citzenship and thus are not subject to it's taxes and other nosy laws. [Not that other government's don't have nosier laws]. Anyway 1. If you don't have US citzenship, how do you get a passport? (Buy it on sale from the Czech republic or what?) 2. Where do you live? I mean I love to travel but after 3 or 4 weeks of it I'm ready to settle down and hibernate for a long while. [Especially now with a wife and 2 sons, I'd last about 2 days traveling :-)] Somewhere were I don't have to get thrown in jail for thinking the wrong thoughts. [Which given the nature of this list most of us do, except of course our NSA monitors :-)] 3. Are the TELECOM connections there yet? I saw this weeks Economist and it looks promising but last time I was in Europe some of my phone connections were less than perfect. [Even parts of the US leave something to be desired]. I personally need a good phone line (especially if I'm hundreds of miles from my customer), and a minimum of 56kbaud link for my computer. 4. Customer interaction. This is a problem, if you work on computer systems that are unique or program custom software for these systems, customer interaction is very important ( and in other areas I'm sure). Yes email, video conferencing (expensive!) help but you either need to be there or have very good VR (which I have yet to see, this doesn't mean much as I haven't seen bad VR yet either). The one plus is that I believe there is still time (5-10) years before the costs outweigh the benifits of living in the US and thus there is time to plan things like what country to live in, which bank to use in the channel isles and let technological advance solve some of the bandwidth problems. Karl Waldman BTW The above shouldn't imply I disagree with Ducan's premise. In fact I have enjoyed his posts and agree with most of what he says, so I guess I should shut up and buy some DUCAN (or whatever) on HEX. P.S. Ducan please post your talk after you get back from London. I will transfer 1000 thornes to your HEX account (if you have one)