From a geomaxing perspective, Asia is optimal for a white person. However, the trade off is career paths are a dead end. The only viable paths are working remotely for Western companies, building your own business, or being retired. Taxes in countries like Japan are high, and the work conditions are bad. Southeast Asia long-term visa and residency options there are surprisingly bad. Unless you're planning to marry, your ability to stay long-term in most of Asia is weak at best.
The main exceptions are Japan and Taiwan, both of which offer pathways to permanent residency in about 3 years. Japan's Highly Skilled Professional visa lets you get PR in 1 year but it basically requires working for peanuts at a Japanese company. Taiwan has the gold card visa which is the best visa in Asia. If you've earned around $65K USD or more in any of the past 3 years, you qualify. This gives you a 3-year open work visa with no job requirement. You can work, freelance, study, or not work at all. Healthcare is the best value in the world for about $30/month because its subsidized by SEA workers. You can convert to PR after 3 years and possibly get citizenship later on if you want.
There is also a possibility for Taiwanese citizenship, but it has lots of cons and I don’t think its worth it. The main downside is mandatory military service for males under 35. The best thing is that you can backdoor into living in China effectively as a Chinese citizen permanently.
My Strategy:
The main exceptions are Japan and Taiwan, both of which offer pathways to permanent residency in about 3 years. Japan's Highly Skilled Professional visa lets you get PR in 1 year but it basically requires working for peanuts at a Japanese company. Taiwan has the gold card visa which is the best visa in Asia. If you've earned around $65K USD or more in any of the past 3 years, you qualify. This gives you a 3-year open work visa with no job requirement. You can work, freelance, study, or not work at all. Healthcare is the best value in the world for about $30/month because its subsidized by SEA workers. You can convert to PR after 3 years and possibly get citizenship later on if you want.
There is also a possibility for Taiwanese citizenship, but it has lots of cons and I don’t think its worth it. The main downside is mandatory military service for males under 35. The best thing is that you can backdoor into living in China effectively as a Chinese citizen permanently.
My Strategy:
- Stack money in Seattle which is the best place in the world to save money through a job. You get HCOL salaries in tech matching California and New York without the state income tax.
- Learn Mandarin with my spare time to hit the ground running. No point in making friends or dating in the US, I will delay gratification.
- Establish a US LLC before leaving to avoid any job gaps. Might do some minor contract work with US companies through it for some extra money.
- Move to Taiwan and retire to geomax once I have 400-500k at 25 through gold card.
- Apply for permanent residency after 3 years. I will skip citizenship for now at least until im older than 35.
- Travel around the rest of Asia with cheap flights if I get bored.