Please don't take this the wrong way, I upvoted your comment, but I'm kind of relieved that you're suspicious of me if you trust Harbinger, a millionaire pickup artist life coach.

Living abroad or being a nomad is not a dream.

Buses are not dreams, neither are trains and neither are airplanes.

It's a simple matter of getting a passport, buying a ticket and then living in a different country with a low cost-of-living. if you don't already have a remote job, a job teaching English is guaranteed for fluent English speakers.

Traveling abroad makes financial sense by the publicly available numbers and information.

Canada definitely adheres to the second sentence of the post.

Most countries for 500, closer to 1000 for the remainder.

Although about $1000 including housing, utilities, Wi-Fi, food, finally having healthcare and other civil amenities for the same price or cheaper than just housing in the US is a pretty good deal.

It's not the first country I'd recommend, but if you are dead set on Canada, there are certainly worse situations.

You got that right, that's exactly what I recommend.

Teach English in a low cost of living country(or several), save your paychecks for a few years, stop working unless you want to.

Thailand even has a 10 year duration retirement visa where you qualify for it by being over 50 and having ~$100k deposited in a Thai bank, or ~$50k in the bank with ~$40k yearly income https://consular.mfa.go.th/th/content/80939-non-%E2%80%93-immigrant-visa-%E2%80%9Co-x%E2%80%9D-(long-stay-10-years)?page=5d68c88b15e39c160c0081e5&menu=5d68c88b15e39c160c0081e6

Sure, this is the official IRS explanation of the FEIE:

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-earned-income-exclusion

This is the official language of the physical presence test I'm referring to in your quote.

"You meet the physical presence test if you are physically present in a foreign country or countries 330 full days during any period of 12 consecutive months including some part of the year at issue. The 330 qualifying days do not have to be consecutive."

Plainly, it doesn't matter if you were absent from the United States between January 1st and December 31st to qualify, it only matters that you were not present in the United States for 330 of 365 consecutive days that include the current tax year.

You could have been in the US until april, and then outside the US from May until the following april, and that's fine to claim the FEIE and exclude a variable amount of your earned income tax as determined each year by the IRS (currently at $126,500 annually).

By tax year you were only out of the country for 270 days, but out of 365 calendar days, you were out of the country for 335 days from May to April, and that's what counts for the physical presence test.

You're right that this is very different than a foreign tax credit or double tax exclusion based on foreign taxes paid; form 2555, the FEIE, is a completely separate IRS process excluding foreign earned income tax based solely on your physical presence outside of the US.

And it's cool! Ha, I've been using it ever since I left the states.

Various airports.

If you aren't near a particular departure airport, add on $30(common)-$100(rare) to transfer to that airport.

For example, in September 2025, the dates those prices above are from, a flight from New York to Georgia is $19, $22 to Florida, $27 to Texas, $31 to ohio, and $55 to LA.

Nice, congrats.

You're right, digital nomad visas are easy to get after the minimum income requirement if you're going to live permanently in a single country.

There are also tons of countries you can travel to for three to six months without any visas.

What kind of mutual aid projects? There is no end to volunteer projects to enrich local communities abroad.

Building housing, a couple hours at a school, music lessons.

Haha, yup! that is almost word for word what I tell people.

Malaysia is very nice, congrats.