Today we cover Mariana Islands a low tax paradise with legal cannabis
and amazing climate.
Are you a US-citizen looking for a nice place to live with lower taxes, nicer
climate and perhaps legal cannabis?
Something US-citizens often forget is the Territories of the United States.
United States owns a 14 different territories (mostly different islands) overseas.
Five of these territories are American Samoa, Guam,
the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
All very beautiful paradise like islands located in the
Caribbean Sea and in the Pacific Ocean.
What is great for US-citizens is that you do not need any
special visa in order to live in any of these places
the person(who is living in Saipan) we interview for this article simply told us that:
“It's as easy as to move to any other state in the us”
The territory we are going to focus on today is the
island group the Northern Mariana Islands.
Saipan a small paradise island located in the
south part of the world in the Mariana island belt.
It's a small island with very nice beaches
and the same temperature all days of year.
With its nice all year temperature:
low tax, gigabit fiber Internet
The Mariana islands receive great gigabit
internet from a submarine cable operated by docomo
which is owned by the Japanese telecom giant
NTT(which is partly owned by the Japanese state, the proud owners of the
worlds biggest dept(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_Japan)) from the near Guam island.
One of our reporters reached out to Vin Armani
a person who has recently moved to
Saipan with his family and asked some questions:
DNTM:
Great to talk with you Vin, first of what timezone are you in?
VIN:
I'm in chamorro time zone(UTC+10)
DNTM:
Where do you live?
VIN:
I live in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
islands, On the island of Saipan to be more specific.
DNTM:
What attracted you to Saipan and why did you pick it as your home?
VIN:
Currently, the freedom of movement and association.
There are some restrictions on businesses, but there are no lock-downs
here or restrictions on people out in public that are being enforced.
DNTM:
These times of corona are really pushing states to enforce a lot of fear… How is Saipan's export and import? If you want
some book of amazon how long does it normally take?
How is food options can you get the majority of different types of meals?
VIN:
It takes a while to get things from amazon, up to 2 weeks in some cases.
Not everything on Amazon is deliverable here like electronics.
There are sufficient food options for my family and I.
There are many stores with lots of items.
DNTM: That's good, how is the social life on the island?
Is there a lot of expats on the island?
VIN:
There are a handful of expats, but right
now dine-in restaurants, bars, and other places are closed.
There is no tourism right now and it is a tourism-heavy place (mostly from China).
So we have a growing little community around our crypto cluster.
We have made friends. My kids have already made friends here.
We're having a barbecue tomorrow with about 20 people at our friend's house.
DNTM:
How is the homeschooling scene, is there any private schools on the island ?
VIN:
There are private schools on the island.
DNTM:
How is the mentality of the local people?
Are they welcome to foreigners? Open minded?
VIN: They are all US citizens. So we aren't foreigners. The population is heavily Filipino(you hear lots of tagalog )
and ethnic Chinese.
Europeans and those African descent are minorities.
Most white woman I've seen out are Russian (as is my wife).
The local culture is very welcoming to many cultures.
The people are kind and polite.
DNTM:
Hows the climate?
VIN:
It's always the same temperature, sometimes a bit rainy and typhoons during the season.
DNTM:
How is banking in the Mariana islands?
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Sounds like a really nice place to be in. I think its the only place were the people are not affected by the corona virus. Its amazing that they even move around without any lockdowns