Bastien

Banker & current M&A analyst, French Canadian🇨🇦 ✝️with interest in Hiking,Skiing,Maple Syrup,history,geography,organic agriculture,finance and medecine

[riskmaxxing @riskmaxxing]

the real midlife crisis at 30 is realizing you spent your 20s chasing compound interest instead of a 100x

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

Best Cities to Live in Your 20s:

1. Lisbon (cheap, warm, creative)
2. Medellín (energy, weather, cost)
3. Chiang Mai (slow life, fast wifi)
4. Budapest (culture at half the price)
5. Cape Town (nature, ambition, beauty)
6. Tbilisi (underrated, underpriced, unforgettable)
7. Bali (spiritual reset, digital nomad capital, $800/month living)
8. Mexico City (world-class food, art, nightlife, and rent that won't break you)
9. Belgrade (nightlife that outlasts every other city, cost of living that shocks you)
10. Kuala Lumpur (modern, multicultural, impossibly affordable for what it offers)
11. Porto (quieter than Lisbon, just as beautiful, half the tourists)
12. Bogotá (altitude, ambition, and a creative scene nobody talks about enough)
13. Warsaw (underestimated Europe, strong economy, surprisingly vibrant young crowd)
14. Ho Chi Minh City (fast, loud, electric, one of the cheapest cities on earth)
15. Athens (history at your doorstep, beaches 30 minutes out, rent still reasonable)
16. Nairobi (gateway to a continent, startup energy, growing faster than anyone admits)
17. Dubai (no tax, global network, builds your ambition just by being there)
18. Buenos Aires (Paris of South America, culture-rich, remarkably cheap right now)
19. Kyoto (slows you down in the best way, teaches discipline through beauty)
20. Tallinn (most digitally advanced city in Europe, tiny, walkable, wildly underrated)
21. Amsterdam (expensive but formative, teaches you independence like nowhere else)
22. Sarajevo (raw, resilient, beautiful, and one of Europe's best kept secrets)
23. Montevideo (safest city in South America, relaxed pace, underrated quality of life)
24. Almaty (gateway to Central Asia, dramatic mountains, surprisingly modern)
25. Plovdiv (Bulgaria's hidden gem, ancient streets, dirt cheap, zero tourists)
26. Accra (West Africa's most exciting city, young energy, growing creative economy)
27. Kotor (tiny, medieval, on the Adriatic, costs almost nothing to live well)
28. Riga (Baltic gem, stunning architecture, low cost, high quality of life)
29. Medellin proved a city can reinvent itself. Every city on this list will reinvent you.
30. Santiago (most stable and modern city in South America, Andes at your doorstep)
31. Yangon (raw and transitional, one of Asia's most atmospheric and affordable cities)
32. Ljubljana (Europe's most liveable small city, green, calm, criminally overlooked)
33. Casablanca (Africa meets Europe, business hub, culture and coast in one city)
34. Cartagena (colonial beauty, Caribbean energy, living costs that feel like a glitch)
35. Vilnius (Lithuania's capital punches far above its weight, cheap, arty, walkable)

[South Euro 🇬🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹🇪🇦🇨🇾 @South_Euro_]

@0FirenzeThr0ne Brits are the african-americans of Europe

[Bastien @Bas59839579]

@rawaz @WorldPopProject Iraq waste so many $$$ NOT CAPTURING that natural gaz. They should seek western or Aramco Technology....

[VEO @vrexec]

The whole moving to Bali/Dubai/Medellin thing seems much more a European thing than an American thing.

Most Americans would hear that and think "wtf, why?"

In Europe, it seems normal especially with young people.

[AncestralHealth☀️ @AncestralHealtz]

gym culture brainwashed an entire generation into thinking this is peak nutrition

[Lennart🇩🇪 @lennartprimal]

Never Stress = not stressing about unnecessary things

Also avoiding idiotic activities like marathons and ice baths.

But living a completely sedentary lifestyle isn't the way either - hike, swim, fight, train, surf, campn in the woods and go on adventures etc.

Lifemaxx

[🥥 𝙇𝘼𝙏𝘼𝙈 🥥 @TheLatamGuy]

Turns out there are hundreds of foreign girls on Instagram who talk about this same thing happening to them in Rio, Medellin, Mexico City, etc, etc lol

[John @jrysana]

UofT is crazy because it has created like 30% of the entire global economy but is only ranked 23 among universities

[Adrien BA @Adrien_B_A]

I hate Paris

I spent the last 4 days there, but I also lived there for around 2 years in total, so this is not a tourist opinion

Every time I go back, I have the same question:

Why do so many people accept living like this?

No air conditioning, too much insecurity, public transport that sucks, tiny overpriced apartments, noise, stress, dirt, and the feeling that the city is slowly eating your nervous system

Also, the two usual excuses don’t hold

1. If you are an entrepreneur, you say: “I need to be close to the ecosystem”

Nah, if you want a real global tech ecosystem, go to San Francisco or Shenzhen

Don’t stick to the BPI-subsidized environment

If you want to build in France with a better life, go to Nice: sea, mountains, airport, security, food, light, Italy next door, Monaco nearby

2. If you are an employee, you say: “Salaries and jobs are better in Paris”

Sometimes, yes

But €2,500 net per month in Paris is not a good salary

It is survival with a dedicated path to becoming the kind of guy who runs during the week and takes drugs in techno clubs on weekends to escape his 9 to 5

You pay insane rent, sweat in the metro, sleep badly, queue for everything, and live surrounded by communists and wokists

I don’t buy it

Please explain to me

[RŌNIN @ronin21btc]

A Brazilian girl asks the sobering question:

“Is anyone actually happy in the UK?”

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

Best Cities to Live in If You Want to Actually Enjoy Life:

• Tokyo Japan — safety cleanliness world class food and endless things to discover
• Barcelona Spain — beach architecture nightlife food and perfect Mediterranean weather
• Melbourne Australia — coffee culture arts scene nature and a city that just works
• Zurich Switzerland — clean air high salaries mountains and an unbeatable quality of life
• Copenhagen Denmark — cycling culture happiness design and a work life balance that shames the world
• Singapore — futuristic safe multicultural and positioned at the center of everything in Asia
• Vienna Austria — classical music imperial history cafes and one of the most livable cities on earth
• Lisbon Portugal — affordable sunny hilly charming and full of soul that newer cities just don't have
• Amsterdam Netherlands — canals cycling freedom culture and a city built entirely around human beings
• Montreal Canada — French charm North American opportunity world class food and festival culture year round
• Medellín Colombia — eternal spring innovative energy mountains and one of the greatest urban transformations in history
• Dubai UAE — ambition luxury tax free income and a skyline that feels like science fiction
• Berlin Germany — creative freedom affordable art scene history and a nightlife unlike anywhere else
• Cape Town South Africa — mountains ocean vineyards and arguably the most dramatic city setting on earth
• Kyoto Japan — temples bamboo forests slow living and a culture that still remembers what peace feels like
• Porto Portugal — river views wine tile covered buildings and a warm unhurried way of life
• Seoul South Korea — technology street food fashion culture and a city that never sleeps but somehow never feels exhausting
• Tallinn Estonia — medieval old town digital innovation clean air and one of Europe's most underrated quality of life secrets

[Lennart🇩🇪 @lennartprimal]

Slow down. Don't take life so serious. Have fun. Enjoy life. Do the things you want to do.

Lifemaxxing

[Mads @europemaxxed]

Tutto Passa Summer

[£lliot @goodweedytwine]

Hot take maybe but if you want to be successful you shouldn’t be living in Canada. Everything is structured for mediocrity and society is unambitious

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Let me get this straight

Peter Thiel was an early Silicon Valley donor to Trump, who currently sits as President of the United States

He hand picked JD Vance, who goes on to become VP and is still in that position

His friend and former cofounder, Elon Musk, is the richest man on the planet and is about to do the biggest IPO ever in history

His fund was one of the earliest backers of Space X, amongst many other successful investments

Literally everything he wished for has happened. Everyone he wanted in power is currently in power.

But, he is now leaving the country to move to Argentina. What am I missing here?

[David Hunter @DaveHcontrarian]

The stock market is in what I believe is a historic,final parabolic leg of a 44 yr secular bull market.I am raising some of my targets as follows: SPX 10,000, Nasdaq Comp 36,000, DJIA 67,000, RUT 4000, QQQ 950, SMH 800, gold $7000 & silver $200. My other targets remain unchanged.

[chris @chrislevan24]

life hack: work at a u.s company but in toronto.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Private equity and similar finance jobs pay extremely well but there is a hidden cost to the massive paycheck

Unless you know how to create boundaries and maintain clarity, it will slowly eat away at your mental health from work pressure and the demanding nature of the role

[NIK HUNO 🦉 @NikHuno]

london taught me speed. brussels taught me diligence. moscow taught me resilience. scandinavia taught me design. puglia is teaching me something none of them could: that I don't need to be productive to be valuable. that sitting on stone steps eating bread and oil at 3pm is a legitimate use of a human life. I rejected this kind of slowness for twenty years. called it laziness. turned out to be the thing I was looking for.