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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: oddhack ✶  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: living abroad - France
Date: 03/22/25 9:59 PM
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The 2 main issues which are troublesome if you do not detach fully from the USA , is maintaining a phone number for 2 factor authentication and whatever comes next , and maintaining your brokerge account.

I see Tello recommended as explicitly allowing expat customers, and it's cheap - added a Tello SIM and text-only plan in preparation for departure to Portugal next month. Will keep my Mint account open at least until renewal later this year - it seems to work fine with WiFi calling / texting.

Citi, Schwab, and IBKR all allow expat accounts AFAIK. I have opened accounts with each and plan to move all my remaining US equities into those before I've been overseas long enough to trigger shutdowns from others. I realize a lot of expats maintain a US mailing address (n.b. forwarding services will not work, in general) and that may work for a while, but expect that it will be found out at the most inconvenient time and would rather not deal with having accounts shutdown out of the blue.
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