Where to Hide?

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With “Spring sprung” we have our weather eye to the coming year, or three.  Asking – as any reasonable person would – Where is the safest place to deploy hard-earned assets to save you money purchasing power and get it to the “Other Side” of whatever comes next?

Some of the traditional hidey-holes have changed so we kick off the emerging focus with a look at some of the choices out there.

When you couple the outlook with some of the headlines about Iran and a possibly divided Ukraine to come, and then add in some weather outlooks, a muddle-through appears.  Apparition-like for now, but even a foggy aim-point is better than none at all, we reckon.

Toss in the ChartPack and there will be plenty of thinking points for the rest of the weekend, we’re sure..

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27 thoughts on “Where to Hide?”

  2. Good discussion on real estate on the PN side.
    While tax deliquincy fortfeiture of property probably isn’t something Ure readers on cash basis spend a lot of time thinking about, perhaps they should. The taxing authority employees will still be in business when the bank and brokerage aren’t. My take on this is that the real estate holdings need to be backed by enough physical PM to pay taxes for the length of time you intend to stay. For elderly property owners with ag exemption, that entails a modest amount of metal Dinero. For someone in an urban high rent district, you are talking about a big pile of Eagles. Don’t overinvest in urban real estate, if you intend to make Ure stand there.
    I had a vivid dream a few nights back that fits in with this meme. The dream was 1st person with muted color, that was chopped up into short segments, almost like a documentary. First scene, I’m diving deep with a young man who recovers a body of a young woman wrapped in plastic in cold water, at considerable depth. I’m not a diver, so sensations were bizarre. Second snip. I’m in the hospital room where the woman has been resurrected. She is thin with either a late 20’s or early 30ish hairdo, and is smiling and happy. Last snip, I see menu’s from restaurants with prices from the 30’s. I have filed the dream under the category – Resurrection of the Spirit of the Great Depression.

  3. Well I woke up this morning and got myself a Beer, the futures’ uncertain and the end, is always near..let it roll Baby, roll. -Doors

    MrMojorisen for breakfast ? gonna be one of those days..Its frigging Snurrying outside this AM in SE Pennsyltucky..huminnahuminna

    April 15th is a Duesday this year, annual anal rape of the Citizens of this here once great nation.
    Infrastructure is shot, Military/Pentagon leadership- satanic & gay, cant win shit.
    Public Schools failing to worthless, Healthcare sux baby chunks compared rest of World.
    Popo none existent since soros sponsored DA’s been supporting chaos in major cities around country.

    Self serving pols in DC too busy feathering their own nests to bother with lowly taxpaying SERFS = YOU, Me, US.

    Yeah – Im gonnna skip rest of Beer, and go straight to the Rock..

    I have seen the ENEMY – and it is our SYSTEM.

    Great Darkness before the Great Dao – thinks we bee approaching it..

    * What youse all think about Alien Ai on Mars – said to bee effecting everything in Solar System. Expert on Western Esoterism Sciences mentioned it being turned off for 3 days back in 70’s – He got a call from .mil guys asking what he thought and like how ? He mentioned that it was the planet of passing (nibiru?) that passed directly between Mars and Betelgeuse for 3 days. Still trying to process, wrap head around that. One thing is for sure, there are frequencies effecting our planet and inhabitants that we are ignorant to..
    Rapid Eye Movement – https://youtu.be/fgE_Ffc4I8A?si=tHUHYf77OCo7Ly6e

    ** Learn and deploy the right freq, unmask/See a “scaly”

  4. Where to hide? Maybe not here if you are retired. Consider Panama, Costa Rica, and Portugal in particular for pensioner’s visas. Some, not all, Medicare Advantage plans would protect you abroad. Panama and Costa Rica import food, but staples are local and cheap. Not sure about Portugal but in LIsbon in 2024 supermarket prices were less than in S. Florida. The big savings are in rent and/or property purchases. If you are not in tourist zones and not in big cities, a couple should be able to live for less than $3,000 per month in any of these countries.
    Yankee persecution could happen, but I think it less likely than civil disturbances here in the USA.

    My own quest continues. The Baltics next week (summer hideout), Mexico (Lake Chapala area) in July, Canada, France, and Spain in August-September.

    • Retired, I can live on 1K a month in the USA, and very comfortably on less than 2K a month! I like the idea of a bolthole overseas, but unless you’re a citizen of that country, you’re a foreigner. Your rights are far fewer, especially if you don’t know the language, the culture, and a few good local friends(like the police chief and mayor). There are the challenges of getting around too, with foreign licenses and other paperwork. This all presumes that you have money in some portable and liquid form.

      Overseas, you’re one step above a refugee. It can work and work well in good times, less so in bad times. It did work out well for Ed Snowden though. Make sure you bring valuable skills or other assets to trade as necessary.

      • One the realities of living abroad, particularly in the poorer countries, is the need for “fixers” — sometimes lawyer types, sometimes more informal. But with half a brain, you go in with your eyes open after talking with both locals and previously arrived ex pats. And you don’t make a long term move without first making a shorter term reconnaissance!

        I had written off all of Mexico because of crime statistics but was just invited to Lake Chapala where a former colleague just bought. She’s fluent in Spanish and generally savvy, so I’ll take a look there.

        If I look more in Costa Rica, it will not be anywhere near San Jose or Guanacaste –high homicide and robbery rates. But other places in CR are much safer. In the USA you can go to New Orleans (homicide rate 54/100K) or Nantucket County, Mass. (0 for many years.) As in real estate, it’s “location, location, location.”

        But how do you know what rights you really have right now in the USA and what your food, tax, personal security, and employment situation will be in six months? Expatriation is a selective solution and a gamble — not for everybody and not guaranteed to be superior to a homestead in East Texas, Pennsyltucky, UP Michigan, or New Mexico.

        By the way, I haven’t noticed anything from “Ecuador ExPat” or Bernard Grover in Jakarta for a bit. Are you still around?

        • Hi MarcR. You are more than welcome to visit Costa Rica again.
          We are still here living on less than $2500 a month for two people. That includes property taxes, car fees and import taxes. We still eat out a couple of times a week and have a trip to the USofA each year business class. All for $2500 a month. I don’t see me doing this in the USofA having priced things out last trip up there. Car insurance and house insurance is nuts.
          Still have the same expats showing up for the Men’s Lunch each week and the Ladies still meeting up for cards each Friday at Bazooka’s Restaurant. Lots of things to do.
          Life is very nice and laid back.
          Cheers

  5. It taint Rocket Surgery. Lot’s of hidey holes exist. What is this store of value for? Does it have ancillary benefit. Would it be liquid (enough) under the very scenario where you want (need) both, security and liquidity? Does it function only in the world of today, or without internet, or power, or not? Do we like holding it in our hands Precious? These things we wonder.

    ATL : gorgeous morning. The Master Loon has moved in on our shore. My fish, being chocolate doughnut fed, are robust. The bait fish must be moving in at the dropoff? I have seen a couple Crawdads, a few (tens of thousands of) minnows and the ducks are … ducky. Here comes spring. Immerse out of doors when you can.

    (out of business) Egor

    • I dunno which is more unbearable… flocks of roosters crowing presunrise, or the eerie laugh of the loon at dawn. Heard one first at camp when 12yr/old. Councilors warned us the night before we would hear them in the morning. Still gives me goose bumps to think about it.

      • I guarantee the sound the geese make, once they nest and a coyote moves in for an embryonic meal, is far more unbearable than either.

        The ganders attack the coyote and make ghoulish noises which sound like they could be made by no living creature. The sound is very loud, deeply disturbing, and carries for miles.

  6. https://youtu.be/D8Ad2kzAzak?si=ZO-EFRJNVrKJU4yM

    From demographic collapse to deindustrialization, from social fragmentation to global capital shifts—this is the full picture they don’t want you to see. Gaza, Covid, BRICS, digital currencies, the tech exodus, and the rise of Africa and Asia—it’s all part of a coordinated transition.

    This isn’t a conspiracy. It’s a playbook.

  7. Trump caves on China Tariff to save Apple rumor was Bessent was going to resign if he didn’t walk tariffs back- obviously insiders got the word looking at aapl call volume Friday. DOGE and Tariffs won’t solve the debt problem leaving only War. Taibbi said we would know 6 months into his term if he would be the greatest Prez ever – he’s done IMO.

    • trump and republicans will be responsible for the largest deficit increase in the US history, again. republicans are lying about the cost too claiming that an extension of the tax cuts costs nothing so they don’t have to count it.

      $5.5 Trillion in borrowing for tax cuts. $52 Trillion over 30 years.
      https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61327

  8. RE: Hydrogen Peroxide
    I get Dr. Frank Shallenberger, MD, newsletter, “Second Opinion”
    (P.O.Box 8051, Norcross, GA 30091-8051)
    He advocates H2O2 low level IV for almost everything, and also uses ozone therapy. Also blood drawn and exposed to strong UV to kill germs and re-introduced to the body to train the immune system. Great success curing advanced Sepsis this way. I see no reference to a website in his newsletter, and it of course is a commercial enterprise to sell you his reports and supplements, but it contains interesting and useful information. Dr. Shallenberger left California and now lives and practices in Nevada.

  9. The only ‘place’ that makes sense puts you on the edge of the dirt, all over. How else can you have access to 75% of the Earth for almost free travel (beyond your initial investment anywhere from 10K to 1MM +). We traveled 4000nm essentially without cost beyond food, have lived afloat for less than shopping in Cali, and have made friends and neighbors among the shoreside community. The ‘law’ says we have to move on, but the next ‘alongside’ should be little different and we are free to move to another spot.
    There is always zero ‘safety’, total risk, 100% responsibility required, and the sea has no agenda. You pays yer money, you takes yer chances.
    Out there, few will even know you are there. People can’t grasp the vastness unless it is experienced. The insignificance of your existence is on display every moment.
    Stiks

    • Stiks, Were I 20 years younger, I’d be in your wake. In my 80s, it’s a bit late to acquire the necessary skills and proximity to ERs does matter. Woulda, coulda, shoulda. So, in the meantime I read Ed Robinson’s Trawler Trash series and have started on Matt Bracken’s Rebel Yell books while traveling by air looking at potential hidey holes. No place is safe, but some places less dangerous than others. And some places are sufficiently interesting and challenging to make one accept more than minimal risk.

      Nothing is certain but death and taxes — but my guess is that you are in a better tax situation than most of us.

      • No house, no car, a bank account to take the SS checks for two, a Schwab acct with mining stocks from thirty years ago, most of which have lost 95%, some are soaring now but still not close to even. We don’t dine out (no restaurants), don’t buy alcohol, walk as much as possible, swim, nap, read, nap… did i say nap?… and do something every day to make sure the boat is ready to go. 79/76 so don’t let age be an issue. There are ways, usually involving younger crew, but there are ways. Fiji would be a place that is moderate for immigration.
        Taxes on two SS incomes and nothing else? ZERO. We filed because there might be a DOGE refund, and you have to file to get that . Meanwhile, we are up to date and no bad feelings.
        I understand when it might be too late. I’ve been sailing since I was ten, built several boats, rebuilt several, so this is simply the latest. Voyaging is just a state of mind. If I was looking for a bolt hole now I’d be checking out Kosrae, 5deg north, uses the dollar, as big as Maui but only 6000 people. Even has an Ace Hardware. Hot and rainy, but lots of food and friendly people.
        Stiks

  10. re: “Spring Sprung”
    feat: Shower Inspirations

    Folks,
    This past Wednesday, April 9th heralded a refreshing spring cleanse of Washington swampland with issuance by President Trump of his EO titled “Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads”. The White House website gushed forth in detail about the national change of course. Here is a link to the WH Fact Sheet on the matter headlined “President Donald J. Trump Makes America’s Showers Great Again”:

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-makes-americas-showers-great-again/

    Such a moment brings to mind the dry humour of that great “Seinfeld” S7, E16 episode “The Showerhead”. Jerry and Kramer suffer bad hair effects when they can’t properly rinse soap out using their newly installed low flow showerheads.

    My daydreaming started to run away with an idea that George would supply his new pond with a waterfall. Then I stumbled across a post on “Reddit” from descabezado, a self-described acoustic geophysicist. He advises as of that time of his posting, our science does not yet offer an equation quantifying waterfall sound spectra. He suggests this state of being relates to complexity of the problem as well as requirements for an economic payoff. Here is a link to the “Reddit” post:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/qsz3cy/

    Maybe the above sounds like a lot of nothing. However, Jerry and the gang made a lot of money from their “Seinfeld” tv series all about nothing.

  11. Where to hide?

    Since gold was called to convert the system to fiat it’s likely fiat will be called to tokenize the system.

    Pre-1929 generally everyone simply lived in the economy. Post 1929 everyone has to have a bank account and Social Security number/EIN to participate in the economy.

    Tokenization, I guess, would make each of us a part of the economy.

    But if the Grantor of Dominion and bible are real/truthy it’s likely the Return will take place just before A.I. becomes sentient. How long until A.I. becomes truly sentient, if ever?

    Plan on tokenization and private property being abolished once and for all.

    • They didn’t have to. ADD and ADHD were completely manageable in children by applying the board of education to the seat of knowledge.

      • That is exactly how it worked in BCN household.

        Had more than one elementary school “Teacher” try to tell us we needed to put our Son on adderall/ritalin. I would send him back to school next day with can Coke in his lunch bag..fckrs!
        Hell the Boy didnt start adderall till University – We required him to take it under Doctors supervision. He took it for less than a year, then ended up selling it into study drug market at University. A baaaad Boy indeed.

        * Personnel opinion – upwards of 80-90% of the youngsters I met at Med School and Residencies (His Wife is OB/GYN Surg.) were/are on the spectrum(slightest) and qualified for adderal/ritalin . thinkz it might run in families..

        That same kid is a Pediatrician today in Connecticut.

        • My eldest was a handful – Principal told me he had to be on Ritalin. I told her that wasn’t going to happen. She said the only alternative was that I give the school written permission to use corporal punishment whenever deemed necessary.

          Seriously…

          “Either fry your child’s synapses with a stimulant drug designed to elevate one who suffers from chronically low blood pressure, and which affects permanent changes in the patient’s brain synapses and their function, OR let us hold the threat of a paddle over your child (as it was held over my head, my father’s head, his father’s head, etc.)

          The School Board knew corporal punishment snapped even the most inattentive child back into sharp focus. Drugs are just easy, and pass both responsibility and blame to the parents.

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