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[TheMetetron]

Latin America is your best bet.

You can't just get residency in Europe or Canada without some sort of ties. Money or "I want to" just won't do it. I didn't have to file a W-9 when I opened my bank account here, but I'm not sure if they just screwed up. I don't intend on ever giving up my US citizenship, but I do take the 80k exemption + housing credit + foreign tax credit. I expect to pay about 10-12% tax total here in Sweden, almost all of it to the Swedish government. But like I said, Europe is pretty hard to get into. Go with Latin America.