As extreme wealth taxes gain steam in the United States, the ultra-rich are planning escape routes, even if they never end up using them. Californians will vote in November on a measure that would impose a flat 5% tax on the state’s more than 200 billionaires. Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page moved assets
This As They Told It essay is based on a conversation with Christine Casady, a 75-year-old American retiree. It has been edited for length and clarity. My husband is an avid traveler and because of that, we have traveled extensively for almost three decades. Ten years before I retired, we started taking longer trips and
This essay as told is based on a conversation with Koyo Murata, 25, founder and operator of Villa ASO guest house in Taiki, Mie Prefecture, Japan. His words have been edited for length and clarity. I grew up in a quintessential rural town in Japan with about 8,000 people. My elementary and middle schools only
Growing up, my sisters and I didn’t have opportunities for family trips or exciting travel adventures. Mom didn’t know how to drive and dad was away all week as a salesman. An exciting and adventurous family trip for us was going to the grocery store when Dad finally got home on Saturday (if we were
The most exciting bet ahead of the World Cup quarterfinal match between England and Norway will not be placed on DraftKings. Norwegian Air Shuttle proposed a bet against British Airways in an Instagram post after the matchup was set earlier this week. The challenge would pit Scandinavia’s second-largest airline against the UK’s flag carrier. “Hey
In June, three of my friends and I embarked on a long, ambitious, and sometimes exhausting road trip from Wyoming to Seattle. We had planned to stop at four national parks in six days and spend a few hours in each. We knew from the beginning that we wouldn’t be able to see everything in