Episode 373: TMBA373: Should You Base Yourself in Southern Europe?
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/spainandportugal/ This episode is the first in a series in which Dan and Ian attempt to answer one of the fundamental questions that all location-independent entrepreneurs eventually ask themselves: If I can live anywhere, where should I live?
On this week's show, they will be focusing on two countries in Southern Europe: Spain and Portugal.
To learn a bit more about Portugal, Dan reached out to Dr. Shannon Weeks, a Natropathic Doctor and Applied Kinesiologist, to share his experience about establishing residency in Portugal and his home city of Lisbon.
You'll also hear Ian speak to Dan about a little bit of his own personal story, as both he and his girlfriend have established residency in Spain.
Listen in as Shannon and Dan share their perspectives on visas, taxes, culture and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey podcast, listener. |
| 0:04.9 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, |
| 0:09.7 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, |
| 0:14.9 | more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:17.8 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, check out |
| 0:23.5 | Tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:31.7 | A few months ago when we published an episode about Estonian e-residency, listener Chris Mitchell jumped into the comments |
| 0:39.5 | and asked me if I'd be willing to share my story about how I got my Spanish residency. |
| 0:43.8 | He mentioned that hearing stories from people who have been through the process is invaluable. |
| 0:49.2 | And I really thought that was a good idea. |
| 0:50.7 | So I actually opened up the DC and started poking around and started calling |
| 0:55.4 | people that had been through some kind of permanent residency or residency process in Europe. |
| 1:04.6 | And, you know, it wasn't all nuts and bolts. What came about through these series of interviews |
| 1:09.5 | was really fascinating. And although this |
| 1:12.2 | episode is just about Spain and Portugal, I think at the core of every location independent story, |
| 1:17.5 | there's that fundamental question, which is, if I can live anywhere, you know, where am I going to |
| 1:23.0 | live? Where am I going to call home? And these sorts of questions can really be further complicated, |
| 1:29.5 | and I'll be sharing this in my particular story, is if you've met someone and you want to live |
| 1:34.1 | with someone that has a different passport than you. In my case, one of us has a passport from the |
| 1:40.4 | Philippines, and one of us has a passport from America, and we don't really want to live |
| 1:46.2 | in either of those two places. So a little bit about that story on today's show. So as many of you know, |
| 1:52.4 | I'm currently living in the beautiful city of Barcelona, and I had boss man on the show to interview |
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