"America Was The WORST Place To Live" - Binance Founder REVEALS Why He Fled The US
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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CZ tells Patrick Bet‑David why he chose to base his life in the UAE, calling it “by far” the safest place he has lived and praising its near‑zero crime rates, smart leadership and missile‑defense readiness. He argues that in a world where wealth is increasingly in borderless intangibles like crypto and IP, pro‑business jurisdictions such as the UAE can attract mobile entrepreneurs and capital, while high‑tax regions risk driving founders and talent away.
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| 0:00.0 | Some follow the noise. |
| 0:03.0 | Bloomberg follows the money, |
| 0:04.8 | whether it's the funds fueling AI |
| 0:06.4 | or crypto's trillion dollar swings. |
| 0:08.9 | There's a money side to every story. |
| 0:11.4 | Get the money side of the story. |
| 0:13.5 | Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com. |
| 0:18.1 | Live in there yourself. |
| 0:19.6 | You feel safe living in UAE. |
| 0:21.3 | Very safe. You do. |
| 0:22.4 | Very safe. |
| 0:23.4 | When you think about all the things that you can't buy with money, you can go to a restaurant, |
| 0:30.6 | customer doesn't, you know, the waitress doesn't give you good service, you can buy the restaurant |
| 0:33.6 | and say, you're no longer here, you have that kind of money. You can go to a sports game. You don't like the team's management. You can make a massive offer to the next day and buy an |
| 0:41.2 | NBA team or an NFL team. But when it comes on to security, living at a place, what made you |
| 0:48.0 | pick UAE out of all the places to live in? I mean, it is the safest country in the world. You believe that. By far, yeah, yeah. Tell me why. |
| 0:57.4 | You can, if you drop your wallet on the street and it has like, I don't know, 3,000 bucks in there, you'll come back in a week, you're still there. You'll find it. And people who find it will return it with a cash in there. There's basically zero crime. |
| 1:11.5 | There's no petty crime, no big crimes, etc. |
| 1:14.5 | And the fiscal security on the street translates into financial security, fintech, |
| 1:18.5 | it's just very well run. |
| 1:21.3 | And also the leadership of the country is very poor business, very, very smart, very calibrated, extremely |
| 1:30.3 | visionary. So it's one of the best places to be. |
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