Is there any website with information on the average cost of living per area in US? I think most of areas outside NY, CA wouldn't differ much compared to EU. I was checking (detached) house prices in the US (TX, FL) some time ago and prices there were not so high in comparison to Italy or Greece for example.
Yes, use: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/comparison.jsp I could move back to the city where I was born in Europe and we would save 70% on the cost of living, compared to where I live now. We are actually thinking of this... Maybe not for good but just for a few months per year.... The OP is trying to move in the wrong direction... Of course there are cheap places in the US, but who wants to live in rural Kansas, swampland Louisiana or 3rd world Detroit?
You are welcome. The Legalzoom list doesn't include it, but if you can start a business and employ at least 10 local people with 1 million bucks (in some badly needed areas only half million, thus my mentioning of half-millionaire) you also qualify for a green card. Just for the sake of fun, let's say you do have a half million. You could start a small trading firm here, have a secretary, a driver, and a few traders* on your payroll and you could get the greencard. Everyone loves a job creator.... *I wonder if you could use the money as the firm's trading capital and the traders would be paid only from profits? That way you don't even use up the money.
First of all, banks in the U.S. do not hire the way you suggest via looking at someone's track record nor do any other financial institution unless you've already worked in the industry as a professional trader for another financial institution. Also, like I said, there's more to your story that you're not revealing. You didn't mention in this thread you had left Brazil already or left another country and was living in Austria. Now you're seeking to live in the U.S. as a retail trader. Then you initially stated in this thread you didn't know anyone in the U.S. and now you state in a follow-up message post that your wife has a cousin in the U.S. but you don't want to ask for a favor. I will be clear this time...its impossible to get into the U.S. independently the way you seek unless you're very rich or very famous that knows someone that can get such for you beyond you just being a "tourist". With that said, I get it...you're moving around from country to country for whatever reasons after quitting as a doctor of 5 years for whatever reasons. To do such implies you have money. I'm sure you have read the U.S. immigration info and you must have read about being sponsored. What's wrong with you just paying your wife's cousin to sponsor you and your wife ? It only makes sense why you don't go that route...did you have a falling out with the cousin or your wife had a falling out with her cousin or you've had a falling out with your wife or you're in some kind'uv trouble and you don't want those sponsoring you to be involved (implicated) or whatever. Yet, I doubt you're in trouble because you wouldn't have asked about sending your trading records to a professional trading firm because that would be the last thing you want to do. As you can see, I've mentioned the word "sponsor" several times above...that's a big hint and it doesn't involve sending your trading record to someone. The other option, not a good option if you get into some kind'uv financial problem, legal problem or health problem after arriving...illegally living in the U.S. but keeping the address of whatever trading account you have. Thus, you would need someone back at that address to forward to you all your mail or you change your address to one of those legal mail box and they forward your mail to you on a monthly basis for a fee. I don't recommend this option especially since you stated you're married and I'm sure your wife is traveling with you. By the way, next time you open a trading account and you decide to move to another country and you can't get them to accept your new address (info from your other thread)...time for you to get a new broker or find someone you trust in the country of the address you used to open your trading account that will be willing to allow you to use their address as your resident address just for brokerage reasons. I know for fact this works very well because I do such currently for one of my bank/investments accounts in another country. For the record, if you're just someone like one of my friends that's a world traveler and likes to live in the country for 1 - 2 years before moving to another country (he's lived in 6 different countries as a master carpenter building custom armoire) and is a citizen of two of those countries...its extremely difficult to do such as a retail trader unless you're very profitable and you have a very good tax accountant. Anyways, as suggested, there are ways for you to get into the U.S. legally but you don't seem to be interested in those ways or you seem to be avoiding them beyond the crazy thought of sending you're trading records to a professional financial institution in hopes that they would hire you (essentially sponsoring you)...that will never happen unless you're already a famous/successful professional trader or famous/successful private retail from another country that has connections within the professional financial industry. P.S. Many famous professional traders (e.g. hedge fund managers) residing in the U.S. and owning property in the U.S. while not a citizen of the U.S...they are being sponsored by the firm they work for, they know someone important or they started their business here and employ U.S. workers. They all still maintain an address in whatever country they're a citizen.
Thank you... Now I seem to be getting some information that I didn´t have before... The reason I mentioned I didn´t know anyone close in the US is because I´ve never met my wife´s cousin and she is not that intimate with this cousin (to give you an idea, she never met her cousin´s husband and they´ve been married for several years now and they rarely speak to each other)... In a nutshell, they aren´t close to us... And since she (the cousin) is Brazilian and he (her husband) is Italian, I thought they would NOT be able to sponsor us, given the distant family relations. In the USCIS website,it says that: "You may be eligible to get a Green Card as: "a family member of a green card holder, this includes spouses and unmarried children of the sponsoring green card holder" (That´s why I said that even if I asked them for the favor, I thought they wouldn´t be able to help us.) But you say it´s possible to pay them to sponsor us, and if this is so, it would be a great way to do what I want to do. Regarding the Broker issue... The reason I kept IB are their low commissions, but I agree with you that the address thing was pretty ridiculous, even though that was the only real problem I´ve ever had with IB and that´s why I´m taking a look at Light Speed Trading. P.S. I don´t know why this would be relevant, but I left Brazil already and have been living in Austria since I left there.
The wetlands of Louisiana is one of the truly beautiful places on earth with great music, food and people. If you want to raise crops rural Kansas fits the bill, and as far as Detroit...well.... I hear it's coming back.
Looks like you´re not one of the "desperate Americans" dying to get out of "horrible America"... LOL I´ve never been to Texas... I heard great things about Houston and having lived in communist Brazil, I have to admit I´m curious to see people "open carrying", as recently published in the news about the new laws in Texas... Regardless of people´s opinion about this, whether they think it´s right or wrong, I just love to see with my own eyes things that are completely different from what I´m used to... And I already wrote down the"main features" of Louisiana, Kansas and Detroit... LOL Thanks you!
Thanks, I think I have seen this one before but never used it. I usually compare house prices but this one is better due to actual user input.
I don't want to get into who wants to live where, specially because OP didn't classify it, the point is, cheap places are cheap for a reason. Hey you can buy a house for $1000 in Detroit... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/cheap-detroit-houses-auction_n_5148152.html But if I were to pick a fairly random place in the US, I would make sure it has google fiber internet which is cheap and incredibly fast, you know, for trading purposes. I heard google fiber is still not available in the swamp lands....