Trader Nirvana???

Quote from vanilla2:

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serious? cause i'm not just looking for any beautiful dusty ghost town, a granule of soul is necessary too.. i'll check it out on my way to portland this summer if you mean it. we loved sawtooth valley. man what an amazing scene. the old part of arco idaho was a dream... like out of a david lynch movie. maybe a little too sparse though.
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could i make a name like that up out of the blue? :) wide open spaces "where the skies are not cloudy all day." where the men are men and the sheep are nervous". :Di recommend it only if you like a whole lot of nothing. Hell's Kitchen, Wy has the market cornered on a "whole lotta nothin'" lol.:D
 
on an earlier post someone mentioned Canada. I disagree. Most people here would love to leave. Think of 10 months of cold, crappy weather, and 2 months of uncomfortably high heat and humidity. I too am considering moving, but only a warm place. Or at least if it's cold, that there's some skiing or some other activity to do other than shoveling my damn driveway.

oh, did I mention Canadian taxes are soooo high, and you can't write off your mortgage, etc.... don't get me started....
 
Quote from lescor:

Move to Canada, you get an extra 50% on your profits because of the exchange rate. Many things are the same price here in Canadian dollars as they are in the US in American dollars.

I'm looking at a new 1800 sq foot house in a nice neigborhood for under $200k cdn, that's $130k usd. A new vehicle is probably 25% less here becuase cars, like many things, are priced to the local market, not based on how much it costs to make them. I could live a decent middle class lifestyle on less than the poverty line in NYC.

If you really want to stretch your dollars, try eastern europe.
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If I buy a car in Canada, as an American citizen, do I have to pay canadian taxes or US taxes? Also, when I drive the car accross the border, do I have to pay import taxes?

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Taxes aren't that bad. If you register them as capital gains you only have to pay on half of the amount and cap gains tax is pretty low.
You can't write off your mortgage, but you don't get taxed on the profits when you sell your primary residence.
Cost of living is low compared to most places in the US.
The equvalent salaries are also low to make up for that fact but if one trades in US equities and does okay it goes a long way in Canada after the exchange etc.

The weather does kick your ass though. Mine is still hurting.

My $.02.




Quote from canuck:

on an earlier post someone mentioned Canada. I disagree. Most people here would love to leave. Think of 10 months of cold, crappy weather, and 2 months of uncomfortably high heat and humidity. I too am considering moving, but only a warm place. Or at least if it's cold, that there's some skiing or some other activity to do other than shoveling my damn driveway.

oh, did I mention Canadian taxes are soooo high, and you can't write off your mortgage, etc.... don't get me started....
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