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I Live Better In Tbilisi Than I Did In The US – Here’s How Much It Costs | Relocated

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I Live Better In Tbilisi Than I Did In The US – Here’s How Much It Costs | Relocated

Mike Swigunski is a 33-year-old nomadic entrepreneur who moved to Tbilisi, Georgia from the U.S. He is able to take advantage of tax benefits from living abroad and a low cost of living that allows him to work as little or as often as he likes, and he still manages to make $275,000 a year. As a result he has traveled to 100 countries, can afford a two-story apartment, and has a private chef come six times a week to cook for him.

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I Live Better In Tbilisi Than I Did In The US – Here’s How Much It Costs | Relocated

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29 COMMENTS

  1. The very last thing places like Tiblisi, Lisboa or also Amsterdam need is getting flooded by digital nomads earning tons of money and making it impossible for the locals to keep up with the ever-increasing costs of living (rents in particular). Yuck. Plus, Tiblisi is already being flooded by Russians fleeing conscription and Ukrainians fleeing the war. Just a new form of colonialist carelessness.

  2. I went to Georgia. It's a nice country and the local are very friendly. However there is health issue that many people are not aware of it. Years ago Independent scientists and doctors conducted an study on infections illness. The country has more than 1000 stray dogs in the 3 biggest cities: Tbilisi, Batumi, and Kutasi . These animals have many kind of dangerous parasitic infections. Many times the person sick doesn't have any symptom. According to the doctors the percentage of people infected is very high, making an endemic situation. Tourist need to be careful when eating out in restaurant . Since the standards of most developing countries are many times no the best to avoid infections. The independent scientists reported to the authority about the problem, but it looks like nothing was done .

  3. I'm retiring there in April 2023. I'm teaching myself Georgian and I've already memorized all the numbers and The Mkhedruli

    alphabet; next I'll be learning words and phrasing, so I should be relatively good with the language by April. The alphabet was

    the most challenging, writing and memorizing all the characters, but doing that before learning the words will make the words

    come much easier. There is all the info you need to do this online – for free.

  4. making 275K by working a U.S. Job and living in a cheap 3rd world country is OF COURSE going to be easy, but wait till he finds out that the typical Georgian only makes about $5000/year.

  5. That's a lot of exaggeration. Georgia is a small country, and in just a week, there is nowhere else to go. It's boring because the cultural arts club is not developed. There is only private insurance for medical insurance, and the medical staff is also outdated. Exaggerated images are not allowed.

  6. this US expats are displacing the average people from their cities because having a special visa and a mid salary in US is over 5 times more than an average georgian. This is happening in Portugal, Thailand and countries that allow this benefits charging the taxes to the average people, And this is not going to be good in the long term

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