About this episode

Timothy Allen interviews Vance about international living, second passports, and the shifting economic landscape in the Americas.

Second Passports, Plan B Residencies, and the Americas Super Cycle - Vance is the founder of My Latin Life, an immigration agency covering residency visas across Latin America. A Canadian-American software developer, he began travelling after reading Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek and arriving in Playa del Carmen in 2018. Timothy Allen sits down with Vance in Próspera for a practical guide to internationalising your life. They discuss the five routes to a second passport, why ancestry should usually be investigated first, why Mexico often suits Americans while Paraguay appeals to Europeans, and how some Latin American residencies can be maintained with very little time on the ground. The conversation then turns to the larger shift Vance sees taking place across the world: declining confidence in Europe, growing optimism in Latin America, El Salvador's transformation, Dubai's sudden vulnerability, and his belief that the present economic super cycle belongs to the Americas. In this conversation: Why Vance built an online identity around a pseudonym Canada, the United States and discovering geo-arbitrage How The 4-Hour Workweek turned travel into a way of life Choosing…

People in this episode

Host: Timothy Allen

Guest: Vance

Topics covered

• immigration
• residency visas
• international living
• geo-arbitrage
• economic super cycle
• digital nomad lifestyle

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: My Latin Life

Books & works: The 4-Hour Workweek

Places: Canada, United States, Mexico, Paraguay, El Salvador, Dubai, Playa del Carmen, Latin America, Americas

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