Optionality Report

Originally 🇵🇱. Europe summers, LatAm winters. Thoughts on countries, money, real estate & Plan B options.

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In poor countries, the uniform is the only power most people will ever get.

So they use all of it.

Where you sit. When you speak. Whether your paperwork is "complete" today or never.

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@DIDIREDPILL This looks AI. Pretty wild wearing only a t-shirt in Poland in November. Tough guy.

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@thekevinjon 100%. I literally never watch videos, just listen to them.

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@BuySellBA The best!

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Sometimes you arrive somewhere, fall in love with it, and just want to own a piece of it.

That’s what happened to me with Dalmatia - Croatia.

Did the research, bought the seaview land.

Prices have roughly tripled since.

I promised myself I will never sell it.

[Alessandro Palombo @thealepalombo]

When AI makes almost everything cheap, what stays scarce?

Land with water, sun and a climate people want to live in. Ideally, land that can feed itself.

The more I talk about this, the more I think optionality will soon mean this too: living on your own land, able to switch off the internet and still be self-sufficient.

After my trip to Porto and many conversations on this, I mapped the regions with a Mediterranean climate against what a hectare of farmland costs today.

For now, Europe's best value sits in Alentejo, Dalmatia and Languedoc. Tuscany is the most resilient, but the market has already priced it in. California and the Cape, and potentially Central Chile, come next.

This land can also earn a yield: solar, water rights, robot-run farming, olives and vines. And resilience plots for people who want their own water, energy and food, a trend I can already see coming.

Would you invest in land chosen this way?

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@Dutch_DeFi Exactly!

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One of the biggest mistakes is optimizing for the country.

You should be optimizing for the life.

The country is just infrastructure.

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@Shakarez Poland is years ahead of most other EU countries on payments and shipping. Miss it every time I’m elsewhere.

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@LibreInTheSouth Agreed. I have a backup for each of my favourite bases.

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Not many things can surprise Argentines back home. They’ve been through it all.

Yet this guy is shocked by what he sees in Oslo - Norway.

People in developing countries still see Europe as the promised land.

A growing number of Europeans now see Latin America as the utopian alternative.

Both places have real strengths and real problems.

You don’t have to pick a side.

Summer in Europe, winters in LatAm, money from American customers.

Doesn’t get better than that.

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🇳🇴 Un Argentino viajó a Oslo, Noruega y dice que es un asco.

"Es un asco esto, parece Detroit. Son todos negros de m... Lleno de musulmanes. Hay muchos putos también."

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How is the health system in Uruguay? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!

The Bad
It’s similar to many European systems. If you’re not seriously ill or dying, they generally don’t want to see you — even if you pay for a consultation (around $100). If you’re basically fine, they’ll often just say so and imply you shouldn’t have come. That’s the cultural mindset here: prioritize true urgency over routine visits. You gotta get insurance.

The Ugly
There isn’t really an ugly side. Most health professionals in Uruguay are happy in their roles. They take the job seriously and take pride in what they do. Tourists get free care at the public hospitals in case of accidents.

The Good
If you start a business in Uruguay and pay social security, you become eligible for the mixed public-private healthcare system. That gives you access to mutualistas like COSEM. For roughly $10 extra per month, they’ll send a doctor to your house when you’re sick. Getting a doctor at home when you need one is hard to beat.
Urgent-care hospitals tend to stay relatively empty because they only accept genuine emergency cases — they turn away non-urgent people.
If you like to get Blood exams every months, you better pay USD500 mo. at Hospital Brittanico!

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@micz1313 Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła…

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Poland will take over your feed again today.

Biggest patriotism display on the planet.

Happy Independence Day, Poland! 💪❤️🇵🇱

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@JoeyMannarino On behalf of all Polish people I’d like to say: you’re welcome.

We finished communism in Europe.

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@Van_Diemen_ @hispanicnomad Back then I still really enjoyed Ubud. The Gili Islands were a true gem. Proper quiet and beautiful before everything got discovered.

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@Van_Diemen_ @hispanicnomad Funny thing is I went in 2005 as a “super cool backpacker” and already thought the place was cooked by mass tourism.

Guess the golden age keeps moving depending on when you first arrived ;)

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I thought German bureaucracy was done surprising me. I’m an EU citizen, just not German.

Driving Poland → Germany, Schengen checkpoint anyway. Late for a meeting. Twenty officers searched the car whether I agreed or not. Found the pepper spray I keep in the car. “Illegal here. Hand it over and you can go.” So I did.

Two months later the state takes me to court. €1,500 on a lawyer. I won.

A year after that, another letter: fine for destroying the spray they confiscated. Officers’ hourly wages plus another €200 on top.

No idea why anyone lives there voluntarily.

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@mickpll @Graffiti_PN @marcinfijolek @Domanski_Andrz @MF_GOV_PL @Obywatelska_KO Najpierw to bym się wziął za opodatkowanie zachodnich korporacji z miliardowymi przychodami i minimalnymi podatkami.

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@ZEER0HOUR Education first, not multiculturalism first, seems to be doing better.