Wider Community Collaborations

The extended network of writers, platforms, and resources that overlap with the cross-border financial topics covered on this blog.

Important: Nothing on this page is financial, tax, legal, or investment advice. I disclose every advisory or commercial relationship below. You are responsible for your own decisions and for verifying anything that affects your taxes, your money, or your residency. When stakes are high, talk to a licensed professional in your country.

About this page

The other landing pages on this site are tightly curated. This one is broader: it pulls together the wider set of communities, voices, and platforms I find useful for cross-border financial life, even when they’re not a direct fit for any single post on this blog.

If you want the tighter curated lists instead, see The Cross-Border Tax Insider for tax decision content or Cross-border collaborations for the recommended tool short list.

The cross-border tax planning category

The tool I’m closest to in this category is Taixable, where I serve as a business advisor (disclosed in every post that mentions the platform). Taixable’s positioning is around the Validated Rules Model — every rule in the platform is sourced and reviewed before it’s used in a calculation. The Decision Report and Pro subscription are the two products most readers of this blog will care about.

Other tools and providers exist in this space. Big-4 firms remain the right choice for the highest-stakes engagements. Independent international tax professionals — particularly those certified in your specific source and destination jurisdictions — are the right choice for moderate-complexity ongoing work. Structured tools like Taixable fit the middle ground where you want a clean, repeatable analysis without a five-figure engagement.

The framework for picking among these options is in this post.

Banking, FX, and the operational layer

The platforms that show up regularly in posts here:

• Wise — the default starting point for multi-currency accounts and transfers
• Local banks in your country of residence — there’s no escape from needing at least one real local relationship in the country you live in. Pick the one that’s actually accessible to non-citizens (this varies a lot by country)
• Brokerages that accept non-resident clients — a much smaller list than people expect. Verify what your specific situation looks like rather than assuming the brand-name brokerages will work for you

The opening your first international bank account piece covers the practical sequencing.

Communities and voices worth following

The cross-border financial conversation happens in a few main places:

• The expat-focused subreddits on Reddit — uneven quality but occasionally useful for country-specific operational questions
• Country-specific expat Facebook groups — the best source for “how do I actually do X in country Y” knowledge
• Bogleheads forum for US-citizen-abroad investing questions specifically — strong on the technical investing-from-abroad angle
• The relevant tax authority’s official social channels — for catching rule changes early

I’m deliberately not naming individual creators or influencers. The cross-border tax space has a high volume of confident-sounding content from people with no relevant credentials, and I don’t want to send readers toward voices that might be wrong on the specific question they’re trying to answer.

The other writers on this blog

Two collaborators contribute occasional posts under pseudonymous bylines on topics close to their experience:

• Sarah Chen — offshore real estate and personal finance for non-residents. See her recent piece on non-residents buying property in Spain
• Marcus Holloway — practical mobility, banking abroad, family logistics. See his piece on setting up healthcare in your new country

Topics I deliberately don’t cover

For completeness, the things this blog and these landing pages do not cover:

• Specific investment advice for individual securities or portfolios
• Crypto-specific tax content (the rules are too jurisdiction-dependent and change too quickly for general writing to be reliable)
• Citizenship-by-investment programs (a separate area with its own specialists)
• Highly speculative tax-shelter strategies

If your question is in one of those areas, the right next step is a specialist who works in that specific niche, not a general cross-border blog.

Other landing pages on this blog

• The Cross-Border Tax Insider — curated reading on tax decision modeling
• Cross-border collaborations — recommended tools and platforms
• Free resources and offers — free tools and limited promotions

Get in touch

For anything not covered above, see the contact page.