Here is something to consider and that is unemployment. If something goes wrong with trading OR you want to enter into a business opportunity OR you want to invest in real estate OR you want a good area to raise your kids OR you want an area where you can meet other professionals then you have to consider the unemployment rate of each area. The Fed has a database called FRED with all the unemployment numbers. Austin has an unemployment rate in the 6s. Miami has an unemployment rate of nearly 13-14%.
The key is not the place, its the 'how' of your money. If you have or make serious money, you do not want your home tax authorities sticking their great big shovel into it. To avoid this outcome you must legally arrange your affairs through a tax haven, using corporate or trust vehicles with your money going into solid banks which are not headquartered in your country of origin or not there at all. Once you can work all that out, where you want to be, can become a question of choice, exotic locales and/or big cities. You are then only watching that you don't exceed the number of days per year you are in your home country to avoid being classed as resident there.
Plano, Texas, hands down. A sushi restaurant at every main intersection. Ten dollar champagne in the grocery stores. Thirteen cents per kilowatt hour electricity. No state tax. Cheap Messican labor for all your domestic needs. If you can't find the kind of woman here you like, well, you don't really like women. Your concealed handgun license in under a month, application to plastic. You can pack heat in your car without a CHL. Serious price competition for gourmet food. Middle class subdivisions so convoluted that no burglar in his right mind would consider getting mousetrapped there. And 'castle" laws that make criminals a sporting activity for aggrieved homeowners. God I do love it so! I plan to die here. But very slowly.
Yeonpyeong Island You can watch realtime what the globalist "operators" are doing first hand there!!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...llery-fire-heard-near-South-Korea-island.html
Do most posters here actually trade or do most just fantasize about what island they would trade from if they actually could trade successfully?