🐍 Snake lessons (No, not “how to be a snake”)

by | Aug 25, 2021

When I was 5 years old, I went out to play on the verandah of our suburban Brisbane (Queensland Australia) house. There were two green snakes.Now from this distance I remember them as “big,” but they were probably less than a metre long.My mother had...

🤫 It pays to be paranoid

by | Aug 24, 2021

Sometimes I get too enthusiastic, carried away talking about secondary residency and citizenship. Then someone brings me up with a bump and a question like, “Why would I want that?”Think about it: People cannot choose their place of birth and cannot...

People are ripping each other apart

by | Aug 23, 2021

Almost every government around the world looks inept and heavy handed against the Coronavirus.Central bankers seem at their wit's end.Banks are sitting on trillions of dollars of losses, while regulators have actually asked the public ‘please do not withdraw your...

Fast-track or Slow-track?

by | Aug 20, 2021

I have heard many horror stories about labyrinthine bureaucratic processes in connection with visas.In fact I was just reading an email about the processes for getting resident visas in Portugal. The writer went through a long list of options, requirements for each,...