Chase the Sun: The Entrepreneur’s Blueprint for Where to Live

I actually think America doesn't have good cities for quality of life. They suck you in and destroy your soul. The only good city in America is really if I hated him, I'd be like, "Oh, bro, you're single, dude. I got a place for you. You're going to find a great woman. Dubai or Miami, brother." Or Vegas. You can find a stripper on only fans girl or a [ __ ] here in my garage. I have five homes. I don't like to actually travel. This is a key thing. I don't like to travel that much, but I I have a rotation which is totally different. So, travel is like hotels. You got to pack your stuff. You're sleeping in a new bed that you're not used to. You don't know if it's dark. You don't know if it's the right temperature. Number one, you got to figure out where you want to rotate to. You will burn out from traveling. Most people will burn out from traveling, having to pack a suitcase, sleep in a different bed. So, I actually try to travel zero days a year. My ideal travel schedule is zero, but just rotate between my five places. So, I have a place in California, a place in Utah, I have two farms, and then I have Copenhagen. So, I just kind of move really I have four. So, but every time I order like a shirt that I like, my concierge team orders four. I just found a book that I liked that that's a good one to have on your bookshelf. It's a book summaries of the top 50 business books of all time. I just last night put it in my Slack concierge team. I was like, "Put these at all my houses." So when I travel, it's to a familiar bedroom. I can travel pretty light cuz every place I go has 80% of my stuff. Okay. My place in Copenhagen has my treadmill desk. The only thing it doesn't really have is my laptop and my phones. That's about all I have to bring. It has a full wardrobe. Like what I'm wearing today, this was in this closet. So the question is, I think every human, even if you hate travel, you should have two homes. I think you'll be happier. I think it's one of the main reasons to have to make money. Every human for the last 10,000 years that's made money has agreed upon one thing, have more than one home. Who here is doesn't really like moving? You like routine. Raise your hand. Okay, you should still have two homes. Who here loves change? High dopamine. Yeah, usually part I think you should have three. I think three is a good number. My grandma said she was German, so she was kind of atheist. She was like Danish people. Did you know 85% of Americans believe in angels and demons? Danish people can't believe that's true. If you're Danish, raise your hands if you believe angels and demons have an active part in human life. One. Okay. Two. If you're Danish and you don't know what the [ __ ] I'm talking about, raise your hand. Most Danish are like, "What the [ __ ] are you talking about?" Have you ever seen that lady that was the White House's She's the White House's official spiritual leader on the White House website and she did that thing where she was casting out demons for Donald Trump to become president. I show that to Danish people and they think it's a Saturday Night Live skit and I'm like, "No, this is actually Anyway, my grandma's atheist." So she always said, "Ty, if I had any religion, I'd be like the Egyptians and I would worship the sun because without the sun, human life ends overnight, right? So I think you should chase the sun." So I have Southern California, which is sunny year round. So I always have a place I can go when the rest of the world is cloudy or rainy, like Denmark in the winter. Then I have one place below the equator. So even California gets a little bit cold in November, December, January, especially like December, January, February. I go to Brazil. So I have one below the equator that I like. If I'm trying to make a lot of money, I probably have a base in one American city. So I'd have small town Copenhagen 1 million people large city US and then I would have some place like Thailand, Bali, Brazil, someplace because Danish people get depressed in November, December, January, February. It's pretty dark here. I can handle it, but I I only come for like 3 weeks and then I leave. So I actually think America doesn't have good cities for quality of life. The best city, the only good city in America is really San Diego. San Diego overall. Who here has been to San Diego? That's not okay. Go to San Diego. It has 100% of people be like, I [ __ ] like this town. It's There's never a human that doesn't like San Diego. It has voted the best weather in the world. It has 330 days of sun. So, you get 30 days of clouds or rain per year. It used to be the internet marketing capital of the world. Like, I moved back there in like 2004. Every big internet person, and there's still a lot of genius people there. Also, you're near Los Angeles. You can drive up to Los Angeles. So, I think San Diego is really good. Miami is like uh Miami is like New York. I've tried to live there twice in my life. New York's actually a boring place. I'm going to tell you that. People will argue with me. Trust me. New York's [ __ ] boring because if you're an adult, what are you going to do in New York? Go to fancy restaurants, okay? Go to Broadway shows, okay? That's something. But you're not going to do that every night. So, New York is a weird social culture. You're not going to make friends in New York really. Now, maybe you'll make friends with another dude who's not from New York. But then what the [ __ ] You'll make friends with a Danish guy. You might as well make friends with him in Denmark. So, New York's not a great place. Now, if you ultimate goal is you're a money maker. That's all you really care about. I had a business partner once. He's like, "Ty, I don't care about women. I don't care about kids. I don't care about marriage." He's like, "I don't even need to really have sex that often." He's like, "Once a month I'll be good. I want to make money." He goes, "If I'm number two on the Forbes list, I'm going to be pissed. I need to die number one." Then New York is a good place. is the greediest place you'll ever meet. There's nothing greedy. Nothing greeder. It's a $ 1.8 trillion city. So, I think New York is good for those of you who are greedier. Miami is like a no state tax version of California. It's what California should be. It has a better government. But most of you that aren't Americans, it won't matter. You're not going to have to pay state tax in California, right? So, Florida's more pro business. You know, it has better HR laws if you're going to have employees. um better lawsuits, protection for entrepreneurs, but you got bad weather. Miami is slightly a strange place if you live there. It it's slightly strange. If you're going to go to Florida, live on the ocean. I would actually live in South Beach. Even though a lot of people will be schnoody and say, "Oh, don't live in South Beach." South Beach got a good vibe, good restaurants, you can walk everywhere. Most of the United States is not walkable. And New York is kind of walkable, but it's [ __ ] ghetto. As you walk around, you might be murdered. Okay? It's like minor. It's not walkable like Copenhagen. Copenhagen 2 in the morning. You go, if you're a woman, you go walk home. This is the second safest city in the world. Now, I think, and this I'm not going to impose this. I think all of you should have a farm or a piece of land. It's that's another trick that humans have been doing for 10,000 years. So, if I was Danish, I would Denmark has these little farms. I I looked at buying some. You can buy a farm for cheap and you can take the train. I almost bought a farm in Rosskilda. Yo, what's up, man? How are you? Good to see you, Jay. Um, you could take a train from here, be in Ross Gilda in what, 35 minutes, 40 minutes, something like that. I think everybody who has money, I think you should buy a farm. There are some of the best investments in almost every country. Farms don't go down. They now think there might be two billion more people on Earth than last calculated. National Geographic just came out with a thing. So, people are going to need food. They're not. We're not going to grow food in laboratories. It's not going to be the first choice of people. So if you can buy you can buy a farm then you can go like Monday Tuesday Wednesday leave Copenhagen go spend three days on your farm you'll get a lot more work done you won't be distracted you'll make money now US has the best farms in the world so one of the things if you're going to go to America that's a cool thing about America has crazy beautiful farms then maybe live in Chicago outside of Chicago has some of the best farmland in the world okay questions on this I saw somebody raising their hand and then I'm going to go back to Beexter at the and talk about for single guys what he thinks is the best city. But just overall travel rotation questions. You didn't mention Dubai. Dubai. So Dubai is like one of these places like New York and Miami. It's cultureless. Here's the cities that don't have much culture in the world. Las Vegas, trust, Las Vegas, no culture. Miami doesn't have much culture unless you're in like Latino culture. So if you want to go learn Spanish, hang around Cubans, Haitians, then then it's good. What's the culture of Dubai? It's a money. Yeah, but money is not when we say the Okay, for those of you in English, culture means things that are well-rounded, right? If I was in my ruthless greed stage, maybe Dubai. I think for tax benefits, Dubai can help you all who are European. But for social life, you who here is single but wants to eventually have kids but doesn't have them yet. Like Dubai is where I would curse my enemies. Same Miami. If I [ __ ] hated him, I'd be like, "Oh, bro, you're single, dude. I got a place for you. You're gonna find a great woman. Dubai or Miami, brother." Or Vegas. I think you have to be real care careful with culturless places. They suck you in and destroy your soul. That's what I think happens. They have the safety though. They have what? Safety. Yeah, but Copenhagen safe as safe as Dubai. But let me That's not true. Okay, let let me give you a counterargument. Dubai, you have less chance that somebody on the street will steal your bicycle. Dubai is probably one of the safe place because they [ __ ] chop your head off if you do that. But let me tell you the downside of authoritarian places. Okay, in Denmark, if you have a party, somebody doesn't like you, and puts cocaine hidden, puts it in your bathroom, and calls the police, how long do you go to prison for here? Huh? But let's say you did go to prison, 6 months. You get an apartment, three months. What happens if that happens to you in Dubai? Life. Life. You want to [ __ ] live there? There's a basketball player who went from America to Indonesia. Bali. He brought gummies that have CBD in it. He's fighting the death penalty. [ __ ] those places. Why you want to live? You want to play with fire? You want to make a billion dollars and an enemy doesn't like you? Puts [ __ ] cocaine in your [ __ ] Dude, I've seen too much. Remember what I told you? I'll be a billionaire. If I was a ruthless psychopath and this guy's a becoming billionaire and I live in a country, I'm like, I'll take this [ __ ] out easy. Every country has corruption. America has corruption with lawyers. You get in trouble, you hire the best lawyers in the world, you're going to probably be okay. Look at OJ Simpson. So, America has lawyers that it's like legal corruption. If you have enough lawyers, you survive. Every country has it. Now, the thing about Copenhagen is it's harder to build an empire and somebody take it away from you. You all know what the Jenny index is. Ge Ni, it's an index of the difference between the poorest people and the richest. So, Philippines is like totally [ __ ] up. You got dudes who have India. You got a couple guys. You got to be careful in all those Jenny index [ __ ] up places because what happens is in India they rob and shoot you. How many rich guys have been kidnapped in Copenhagen in the last year? Just how many in Brazil? Why do you think all the billionaires have left Brazil? They're all gone, dude. South Africa. People are like, "Oh, South Africa is so nice." I'm like, "Well, what was our friend Jeremy that went with He went to South Africa with and they were like social media influencers and they woke up with the dudes. What was the guy's name?" Yeah, one of our friends. He went to South Africa, [ __ ] woke up, duct tape around his mouth, dudes with guns that had tracked him back to their Airbnb. So once you make and also with women you have to be careful in [ __ ] up Jenny index places. So like Philippines dudes who are ugly go there and women like them for their money. So Copenhagen there's no gold diggers here for Americans can't fathom. Danish girls themselves are not gold diggers. Put it on the scale of one to 100. Dubai Copenhagen. What would you rank Dubai verse Copenhagen? The difference 100 to one day. 100 to one. Thank you. But you go with your family. When you have a family, you have your kids. You go live in Dubai. There you go. Maybe. Just make sure you're not trying to make a lot of money and have enemies. You have your money. You just live there. I once dated a girl in Copenhagen and I was like, "Can you bring Max Burger when you come?" Cuz I was hungry. So, she brought Max Burger. Then I tried to give her $20. She's like, "Oh." She was like traumatized by that. I was like, "Well, I paid I asked you to get the food." She's like, "Try that in Poland. Ask a girl to buy you food in Poland." Yeah. She give her 20 bucks. You like 20? all my time and work and I here's my invoice. Remember men with money and I sorry for the women. I can't speak to the woman experience cuz I'm not a woman. So some of the stuff I'm saying is just to men. Men with money, you better be careful what country you live in, man. You better be careful. Charlie Mer says, "The most dangerous thing for a wealthy man is a pretty face." So if you're going to be around pretty faces, make sure it's in the right country where they're Now I'm not saying I mean Denmark will have all countries have crazy women. You got to protect yourself. But I'm just saying the ratio is what there anybody know the economic principle of thick and thin markets? Who here likes economics? Okay, you guys need to read textbooks. There's a lot of good stuff in thick markets is like, let's say I was trying to sell my social media agency course and I bought a ticket to this event. Is this the thick market of potential clients to buy my services? This lunch right here. Isn't everybody here kind of making money online? This would be the best. If I came in here, I talked to this guy, talked to that guy, I could probably get a new client in 10 minutes. If you go walk the streets of Copenhagen, is that a thick market or a thin market? Thin, right? You might talk to 50 people and be like, "Yo, you want me to run your Facebook ads? What would happen if you walked around to try that tonight at Muse?" Those of you in my private, we're going to go, we're going to go to a club. Go there and try to be like, "Hi, do you need ads?" And we're like, "What the [ __ ] It's a thin market." So, you really have to think about what's the thick market for everything you want in life because it's almost impossible to find a needle in a hay stack. I mean, people go, "Oh, I live in New York." That New York is ranked the worst dating uh city in America. And guys are like, "Oh, man. I just I know how to find the very rare good woman." I'm like, "You will lose this battle." I had a friend, I don't know. He's a private client of mine, really good-looking guy, rich. He is a famous fitness thing. I told him, "Don't go to New York." and he texted me, "Oh, dude, this is the greatest cities. Like, I got a date with two models at the same time. They're bringing their friends." I don't know what happened, but 5 days later, he's like, "Fuck New York. I'm never going back here." There's a saying that Warren Buffett has. When a good businessman meets a bad business model, the bad business model wins. So, when a good-looking dude who has everything meets a bad market for dating, the bad dating market always wins. That's why I tell Rick, don't live in the South. is like 80% overweight rate. So if you say, "Well, I'll be the 20% that lifts weights, eats right, when a skinny body meets the southern part of America, the southern part of America wins." I had a Danish CT, a Swedish CTO, he moved from Goththingberg to Dallas. We're walking around Dallas and I go, "Why are you moving to Dallas?" He's like, "I'm so excited. Goththingberg's too small of a town. It's warm here." First off, we were the only people walking in all of Dallas. There's no crosswalks. We're almost getting killed by a car. No. People are looking at you like you're insane. Like we're homeless guys. I said, "Are you sure you want to live here?" He's like, "Oh yeah, man." He's like, "Don't worry about the bad food. Don't worry about this. I can handle it. I'm in super good shape. I'm disciplined." 6 months later, text, "Fuck America. I'll never go back. I have a lung problem now. Something happened to my lungs that I got from the pollution here." He's a big guy, so he's probably like 100 kilos. He went to like 130 kilos in 6 months. When a in- shaped Swedish guy meets an out of shaped city, the out of shape city wins. Don't think that you're above the natural influences of the marketplace. That's what I mean by stealing your soul. I like to spend time with the Amish. I have a farm in the middle of Amish community. Amish are the nice nicest people on earth. Zero crime, zero depression, zero divorce. They have 500% less depression. Every time I go there in like 5 days, I'm happier. So, I try to go there every other month. So you got to master when you're thinking about the cities. Think 360. You know, Denmark's very is nicer people. The nicest people in the world is Amish. Then maybe Brazilians probably are high. Thai people. They did an index where they ask how often do you experience joy? The happiest places on earth is like Brazil, Thailand, Philippines is pretty happy, but the Amish is like 10 times higher. So I try to structure my travel rotation to think about health, wealth, love, happiness. All four of them. It's got to encourage all four. So I you got to think about your environment on health, wealth, love, happiness. If you just pick new buyer in New York just for wealth, what does it profit a man to gain the world if he loses everything else? Right? There's a lot of guys [ __ ] up right now with women's situation in in Dubai. I'm telling you, there is a lot. And and Dubai has a weird Jenny index. It has almost like slavery. You have like rich dudes, then you have like Pakistanis that make, you know, $1 a hour or something like that. I don't love the vibe. I would visit Dubai. I think for all of you, do you have to actually live in Dubai to get the 0% taxes? [ __ ] I would set up a Dubai company. I go spend like this January there. It's warm. Dubai in the summer is literally I was there in the summer. I went with Gary Vee and Grant Cardone. We did a world tour. We landed in Dubai. The car that was supposed to pick me up in the summer, they're like, "No, no, we can't drive to you." Why? Cars stop. Just the engine gets too hot, the car just goes, "I ain't going to [ __ ] drive." Just turns off. It gets like 50° 50 Fahrenheit or 140 American. So, I'd set up Dubai for the taxes, but also I look, Portugal is not that bad. Portugal is a good place. Any of you thought of Portugal? Lowest mental illness countries in the world. What do you think it is? Brazil and Portugal. If people speak Portuguese, they got a little mental illness. I saw this. I've been doing jiu-jitsu a long time, like more than a decade. Brazilian dudes will like get in a fight at a club, beat you up, and then be like, "Come to my party tomorrow." They like become your friend the next minute, right? Uh, are you Brazilian? You look kind of, you could be Portugu. So, Brazil and Portugal, what places have the highest mental illness in the world? This is a huge neutral empirical study, unbiased. What do you think? No. No. Where are wars? Where are wars? Where are wars? Where are wars? Where are wars? What place has wars right now? There's three places that have active wars. Russia, Ukraine, high mental illness. What's the second place that has war? Pakistan, India, Pakistan is the highest. What's another place? Israel, Palestine, all the Middle East is crazy high in mental illness. Now, that I'm not racist. I have Russian friends, but I'm just saying I don't like to play the odds incorrect. I'm an odds guy. I think everybody here, you want to make a lot of money, you just start playing poker. Poker is better than chess. Chess is not real life. In chess, the best player always wins. You do the right moves. I used to train with this guy Fabiano Kana. He's number two in his or number three in history. It's better than Bobby Fischer. These guys go 10 years without losing. Do you think that's how business works? No. Cuz there's a luck element to business. There's a luck element to business. So let's say business is 60% skill, 30% luck, 10% pure randomness. If you're born without HIV, you already get one point of luckiness. Like 100,000 kids or whatever in Africa are born with HIV on day one. It's going to be hard to make money when you're fighting health problems your whole life, right? So I'm just the probability guy. I only in my uh sales team they when they open a deal that they're working to close a high ticket deal they they have odds it's going to close and guess how high the maximum they can pick is 60%. I if I meet a sales dude who's like oh 90% I'm going to close this deal. I'm like you don't know how the world works. At best you have 60%. So everywhere I'm trying to live I know living in Copenhagen is a gamble. If I could live parallel lives would be the best. So I live one life where I'm pure in Dubai, one pure in New York, one I'm in Copenhagen and one I'm on my farm. But how do you do that in real life? So you have to be a simulation machine and the best way is just to use numbers. So I literally look okay mental illness of the social group. Okay, I don't want to live in the Middle East. I don't want to live in Eastern Europe is really high. It's like triple the odds. Every three people you meet that have mental illness, Brazil will only have one. When a smart person meets a a society that has high psychopaths, you will lose. You're not going to be able to pick through. People think, "Oh, I'm so good at reading people." [ __ ] I think I'm one of the best in the world at reading people. I can only get it right 60% of the time. If you're the best in the world, you can only get it right 60% of the time. So, you go and you start dating in New York City. Large cities attract psychopaths for sure. All high dark dark triad traits are attracted to large cities. Cuz in large cities, you can hide. If you live in little [ __ ] Rosskilda and you're a psychopath, it's such a small town, people will figure you out. If you live in Manhattan, you can kill somebody where a lot of serial killers are often times more often than not in huge cities. So anyway, okay, question then we got to we're going to break. Yeah. You're in Danish. Yeah. You've been my student since you were how old? Long time. Like five five years, I think. And how old are you now? 21. So when you were 16. Yes. Yeah. So, let's say you're Danish and you're thinking about like optimal uh the optimal frontier. Yeah. And you let's just say you want to have a net worth. Let's just say it's like 10 mil. Yeah. Would you try to go elsewhere like Dubai to attain that net worth quicker and then move back to Denmark or US? US. Okay. Or would you also just think, you know, I'm just going to stay in Denmark for my entire life. Just 50% taxes. It's going to be not that. You got to be, if you want to make real money, you got to be a little more sophisticated. Remember what Albert Einstein said? You should make life as simple as possible, but don't oversimplify it. So if you want to have high net worth, would I want to be 100% Denmark? No. You're fighting [ __ ] 50% taxes. You're fighting super high labor pool, expensive labor. You're fighting Yantalon a little bit. I I would, which for those of you American, Yantalon means like don't try to be better than other people. So I would have for sure I'd have I I think America's for money, it's not even close. Dubai is still a new town. Dubai has a has a has a 160 billion or something GDP as a city. New York City has 1.8 trillion. So if I'm just going for money, you're going to go to New York over Dubai cuz I'm a math guy. One thing that I think is wrong with the whole influencer space in business. Everybody's listening to tone of voice. I some I have a guy in my company who always tries to convince me with tone of voice. I'm like, dude, I'm not listen. You can't go. Well, listen ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you why Dubai is awesome. I'm like, numbers, [ __ ] Lay out your case with numbers. The L I can tell you this if you those of you who want to be billionaires, the biggest difference between millionaires and billionaires is millionaires use words a lot and billionaires are just numbers, guys. They're thinking about number. They're quantifying everything. They're quantifying every part of their life. So, if I do the quantified numbers, US has the most self-made billionaires. It has the lowest regulation. For Europeans, you can set up a zero tax structure. I wouldn't date at all when I was there. That'll be the hardest part for you because whenever you go to a new country, the other sex is more exotic. I will be careful with American women. Hopefully, there's not many American women here to get mad at me, but I would be real careful. And then I'd probably set up somewhere warm. Brazil. Brazil is a great place to have a kid. I have my son is half Brazilian. Brazil is the nicest people. I was his mom. I I dated her for years. And I remember being like cuz my American parents are like crazy. Like they yell and spank all Danish wouldn't understand this, but like America I think I got hit every week of my life growing up by my stepdad. I'd say once a week on minimum. Uh Danish that's pretty What would you do? What would happen if you did that in Denmark? You get maximum sentence seven years probably if you hit your kids every week. But um Brazil I asked her I was like do your parents argue? She goes, "You know, I just thought in my entire life, I've never heard my parents raise their voice." Even Brazilians are like, "Oh, so I would set up for you. I would be probably be Denmark, US, San Diego. San Diego's good. I should be getting paid by the city of San Diego to promote San Diego. San Diego and like Sa Paulo or Buenocidis maybe, but the Buenos is more stuck up. What was the last question then? We're we'll go upstairs. Uh regarding kids, uh do you move together with them and homeschool them and how does kids would get affected in that lifestyle if you I asked Chachbt this question the other day. I had a debate. I was like name one to 100 probability your kids will reach their maximum potential from all school models. every number one was moving to multiple countries continually rotating and them having like private tutors that you pay for. It was like gave it like a 98 out of 100 that like regular school gets like a 70. Even like a gifted school, you don't think your kid imagine your kids growing up traveling to three different cultures that expands IQ. Languages go up. You you're you're not a close-minded person. [ __ ] your creativity would no homeschool. You got to be careful your kids don't turn into non-social people. But just every day have them in Brazilian jiu-jitsu on Monday, football on Tuesday. You can just put them in clubs, sports. That's the best. And and look what Aristotle Aristotle was the mentor of Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great had a good life. I mean besides dying at 32 but but we remember him in history who call him the great. His dad hired the smartest human on earth Aristotle the founder of science we call Aristotle. And he traveled from age 14 with personally teaching and training Alexander the Great. And and Alexander the Great traveled all over the world. So there's no this whole thing, well then they can't make friends. Yes, they can because you're rotating around. Kids are flexible. Adults aren't. So your kids, you can have friends in Denmark and then you leave for three months. That's what I would do. That I mean Chad GBT said that's the highest probability of having the highest IQ and EQ, emotional quotient for children.