K >1. If you don't have US citizenship, how do you get a passport? (Buy K >it on sale from the Czech republic or what?) Actually, the Dominican Republic is better. You don't really need to change citizenship unless you are from a country that restricts foreign travel by citizens. Picking up a *second* passport is always a good idea, however, and the US has recently changed its regs to permit its nationals to seek naturalisation in other countries without renouncing US citizenship. K >2. Where do you live? I mean I love to travel but after 3 or 4 K >weeks of it I'm ready to settle down and hibernate for a long while. K >[Especially now with a wife and 2 sons, I'd last about 2 days traveling K > :-)] Somewhere As someone pointed out, you need not travel much just be in a country where you are not a citizen. K >3. Are the TELECOM connections there yet? Slowly but surely. Switzerland is good these days. Expense is the main problem. If the Anglo-Saxon conspiracy wins the battle of network non-design (as it seems sure to do) everyone in the OECD will soon have cheap telcoms. K >4. Customer interaction. This is a problem, if you work on computer K >systems that are unique or program custom software for these systems, K >customer interaction is very important If you have the customer in the first place, you can make visits without too much problem. Marketing is more difficult. Slow-scan video for everyone over the nets is close. Things to keep in mind... I don't expect that very many people will use cryptography, anonymous remailers, DC nets, etc to become PTs or virtual expatriates but these tools will have a marginal (meaning "edge" not "small") effect on the process of institutional transformation. The nets themselves are the critical device for weakening national controls. They will sweep aside labor regulations, financial regulations and a host of restraints that keep people poorer than they need be. Oops! Sorry about that. Too much time spent on alt.politics.economics... Duncan Frissell --- WinQwk 2.0b#1165