A Moving Experience: The High Stress of Safety Abroad

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One of the disheartening things about returning to places in Europe where one has lived for decades — not years, mind you, but DECADES — is that no one wants to deal with Americans anymore. By “no one,” I specifically mean European banks.

It started with FATCA in 2010 and the OECD actions that followed, exacerbated by the US Tax Act of December 2017 and the bureaucratic…