Hey, Dan here, and with
a few more days left to the election,
something tells me some of you guys
might want to be joining me here in Europe,
depending on how things go down.
So, I wanted to make a quick video about
the best ways I know of living in Europe.
I'm talking primarily, well completely about
continental Europe here, so we're not including the UK
especially after Brexit, they don't count.
The cool thing about living in Europe is,
it's not very hard.
Unlike Americans and back home in Canada,
which make it very difficult for people to live there,
It's quite easy to get a visa to spend a year
or a couple years, or to move permanently to Europe
as long as you have
basically the qualifications and I'll go through that.
There's a bunch of countries that will allow you to
set up sharp and do it.
Whereas in North America it's pretty hard
unless you have a lot of money to throw around.
So I'm just trying to talk about a couple of countries.
I'm going to talk about Germany, Czech Republic, Spain,
and sort of the Baltics which are like
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
These are the ones I know best
although there's probably options in other countries.
I'm primarily going to assume you don't have money.
If you have something like half a million dollars
to invest in property, then that opens the doors as well.
Countries like Portugal and Spain have programs
or if you buy property there,
you'll get long-term residency for free,
like included with it.
So that's another option, again, if you have money,
there's more ways to do it.
But the primary thing here whether we're talking about
Spain, Germany, the Baltics, is working for yourself.
If you're an employee, you need to get an employer
or employee visa, and to get that you need to generally
show that you're going to be able to do the job
in a way that no one in all of Europe can do.
That's part of the EU agreement, and so
trying to come and move here and just get a job,
it's doable. I know people who've done it,
but it's not the best option.
It's going to be more difficult
and a lot of people who do it end up working as,
like an English teacher which is not a good job,
you'll end up not making a lot of money,
working a lot of hours,
and it's not really a good long-term plan.
So if you work for yourself,
or you want to work for yourself,
which happens to be what I teach, just saying,
subscribe to my channel, all that stuff,
if you work for yourself, the doors are wide open.
You can get freelancing visas in Spain, Germany,
or the Czech Republic which basically means
you're a freelancer, you work for yourself.
So whether you want to work with local people or
work with clients back home or anywhere in the world,
you can do that, and these visas are easy to get.
Personally, I think it's easiest in
probably the Czech Republic, to get it.
Germany is quite easy, and Spain, I don't know.
All these places will have a bunch of paperwork
because it's Europe and they love paperwork,
and stamps and weird stuff, but you can do it.
As long as you go through the paperwork,
you can hire people to help you do it all,
read online how to do it, and you'll get approved.
Then, you'll get a visa and then you'll actually
pay taxes wherever you go.
So if you get a Spanish freelancing visa,
you would live in Spain, you'd have a visa
that would basically let you travel throughout Europe
whenever you wanted,
and you would pay taxes in Spain.
Cool? So Germany, Spain, Czech Republic,
that's kinda how it works, fairly easy.
You do need to show income after the first year,
so you have to be decent at what you're doing,
it varies by country, how it goes,
but they'd basically want to see that you're paying taxes,
so the appeal of the visa, it's very logical.
If I am the government in the Czech Republic,
and I see Dan, and I'm like, "Hi Czech Republic,
I want to come live there," and I say,
"I have this business, I'd like to come,
spend all my money in your country
and pay taxes to you. It costs you nothing,"
it's pretty logical they're going to say yes, right?
So that's the setup for
that's kind of the logic behind these visas,
as well as a lot of Europe has an aging population,
so they really need young people to come in,
and fill jobs and that.
So again, there's a motivation to bring people in,
which is very different to North America.
So North America, we assume it's going to be
really hard to get a visa, but it's actually not
because they want people in.
Now the other option is to start a corporation.
Start a business where you'll work,
not just working for yourself.
So there's a bunch of countries,
the Baltics specifically come to mind,
where if you set up a corporation,
you can get a residency permit as well, based on that.
So Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia are quite good with this.
The only issue is they are cold and small.
Estonia is a cool country, Estonia is the
most efficient kind of government and setup,
like you can vote from your smartphone,
you incorporate online, it's very efficient,
so very low paperwork, but again, it's really cold.
I mean Czech Republic is cold, but it's even more colder.
So those are kind of the main areas I would look at
and then you can just Google to find
more information about each program.
If you're wondering about long-term,
all these visas can turn into long-term residency,
then permanent residency then in theory,
citizenship as well. So if you want to stay,
it's not like you get a one-year visa
then you have to leave. You can keep extending it,
and turn it into a permanent set up,
if you find that you like it over here,
or Trump is still in charge
or whatever else is happening back home.
If you have any questions,
I'm not going to be your virtual assistant and answer,
so leave questions in the comments,
but if it's something that I can tell
you're just too lazy to Google,
then I might just make fun of you with my response,
but otherwise, if it's something that are specific and
I know some of this stuff isn't that easy to find online,
I know it because I've been living in Europe
for four years, I've done a lot of research,
but if there's, yes,
something that you have a question about
or you want to know, leave a comment,
I'll do my best to answer.
That's it, if you decide you want to move to Europe
and that means working for yourself,
then check out my other videos,
check out my website, Dreams Around The World,
and I'll do my best to teach you how to do just that.
Start your own business and have the freedom
to live wherever you want, cool?
Thanks for watching, see you in a future video,
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I'm in Prague, and the Czechs like,
they're kind of nice but I don't speak Czech very well
at all and they're not the most smiley,
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it helps my self-esteem and I feel good,
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