Tax & finance
Tax-friendly residency, special expat regimes, worldwide-income optimisation. Where your money actually grows, not just where it lives.
See Portugal's NHR successorFind where you'll actually thrive.
Stop cycling through the same five countries. Nine questions, 31 countries, real data — you'll know which ones actually fit your life.
Thirty countries. Ten dimensions of life. Two minutes.
Detailed comune-level map: Italy only · Quiz: all 31 countries
Sample ranking — answers cycling
- #1Italy74%
- #2Austria71%
- #3Singapore66%
- #4United Arab Emirates66%
- #5Estonia62%
Based on alpine climate, EU passport, low taxTry yours →
Sourced from
- ISTAT · 2024
- Open-Meteo · 1991–2020
- OECD Tax · 2024
- EF EPI · 2025
- WHO UHC · 2023
- IEP GPI · 2024
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Pick what matters most to you. We'll show the top three countries instantly.
What matters most?
Select a dimension above to preview the top three.
How it works
Know your non-negotiables
Climate feel, budget, passport, family — and what you'd refuse to give up. Nine questions, two minutes.
Hard limits cut first, scores second
Countries that can't work — wrong visa path, incompatible climate, no banking access — are excluded entirely, not just marked down.
Walk away with a clear direction
Top countries with match scores and plain-language reasons. Explore the Italy map when you're ready to go deeper.
Why people are relocating right now
Most moves don't come from one reason. They come from two or three overlapping ones. The quiz figures out which weigh heaviest for you.
Career & employment
Career growth, sponsored employment, skilled-worker pathways. Where to build the next 5–10 years professionally, not just the next 12 months of lifestyle.
Preview what's comingFamily & lifestyle
Schools, healthcare, daily rhythm. The shape of the life you'd actually be moving toward, not just away from.
Explore ItalyIndependence
Remote work, freelance freedom, financial independence. For when your income isn't tied to a place — but you'd still rather live somewhere worth living.
Explore the UAEPick the pillar that matters most, or take the quiz and we'll figure out the weights.
Ten dimensions of life.
Each scored 0–10 from open data.
Visa
Gov. portals · 2024
e.g. Portugal 8.4 · USA 3.0
Income tax
OECD · 2024
e.g. UAE 10.0 · Belgium 2.1
Property tax
Lodestar KB · 2026-Q2
annual + purchase + capital-gains rolled into a tier
Cost
Numbeo · 2024
e.g. Portugal 7.1 · UAE 3.4
Climate
Open-Meteo · 1991–2020
e.g. Italy 9.5 · Thailand 4.0
Healthcare
WHO UHC · 2023
e.g. Italy 9.0 · Mexico 5.4
Safety
IEP GPI · 2024
e.g. Singapore 9.5 · Brazil 4.6
Language
EF EPI · 2025
e.g. Netherlands 9.6 · Vietnam 4.3
Jobs / internet
Ookla · 2024
e.g. UAE 9.2 · Indonesia 5.1
Family
UNESCO + IB · 2024
e.g. Italy 8.7 · UAE 7.0
Banking
Wise · FATF · 2024
e.g. Portugal 9.0 · Russia 1.2
Thirty countries. Five regions. Four tiers of data depth.
- T0 Italy is the pioneer. Granular comune-level data, 8000 places, live map.
- T1 Top destinations. Country-level live metrics. Maps shipping over the next quarters.
- T2/T3 Twenty-three more. Notify when a country goes live.
Interactive Map
🇮🇹 Italy nowDrill into any country — place by place
Once you have a country shortlist, zoom in: filter by climate, cost, healthcare, safety. Pin places, compare them side-by-side, ask AI a follow-up. Currently available for Italy — more countries shipping next.
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Layer by layer
Climate normals, cost of living, healthcare, internet — switch data layers to find what matters to you.
Place profiles
Click any dot for full stats, AI-generated context, and nearby alternatives worth considering.
Shortlist & compare
Save anywhere to your shortlist and compare side-by-side before committing to a visit.
A note on method —
Every country is scored from open data: climate normals 1991–2020 from Open-Meteo, tax statutes from OECD, language proficiency from EF EPI, safety from the Institute for Economics & Peace.
We weight them geometrically — a single weak dimension can't be balanced out by a strong one. Hard deal-breakers (no Schengen, no banking access for your passport) exclude rather than penalize.
The match score is our model talking, not a verdict. Use the map to look closer.
New: property-tax dataset
Beyond income tax, every country card now carries a verified property-tax tier (annual ownership tax + purchase transaction + capital gains + wealth tax). Sourced from OECD, EU Taxes in Europe Database, Global Property Guide and KPMG. Half-life is ~12 months — tax codes change at fiscal year start, so we re-verify quarterly.
Questions
- Who is this for?
- Anyone seriously considering an international move — remote workers, families, retirees, founders. You know you want to leave; you just haven't found where you'd actually feel at home.
- How is this different from just asking ChatGPT?
- ChatGPT gives you an opinion. We give you a score from open data: climate normals, OECD tax tables, WHO healthcare index, Ookla internet speeds. Every number has a source. The quiz learns your trade-offs and ranks accordingly — no generic 'Portugal is great' advice.
- How do you score countries?
- Ten dimensions (climate, cost, tax, visa, healthcare, safety, language, internet, family, banking), each scored 0–10 from open data. We combine them geometrically, meaning one bad dimension really matters — it can't be averaged away. Hard deal-breakers exclude a country entirely.
- Will more countries get a detailed map like Italy?
- Yes. Italy is our proof of concept — 8,000 places, comune-level climate, prices, internet, demographics. Portugal, Spain, and UAE are next. Subscribe in the atlas to be notified per country.
- Is the data current?
- Climate normals are 1991–2020 (the WMO 30-year standard — the most meaningful baseline). Tax, visa, and language data refreshes annually. Every number shows its source and year inline — nothing is hidden.