I am currently in the vicinity of Monaco (Beausoleil, FR) as I am visiting the inlaws. The inlaws and the wife are all born/raised in Monaco for several generations but they only have French citizenship, not Monegasque. The wife has friends who are monegasque and if you happen to have this citizenship then essentially the state pretty much subsidises your entire life. Housing that is rented out to foreigners for like 25K a month is essentially rented out to Monegasques for like 1K a month sort of thing. Also I am travelling regularly to this area, mostly visiting the inlaws but also I do import/export︀ and commodity trading and MC is full of trading houses and this offers occasional networking︁ opportunities (but low added value in my opinion as I've never seen so many fake-it-till-you-NEVER-make-it︂ people than what I see here in MC) But as most of us here on︃ this forum won't have Monegasque citizeship, my personal take on it is that Monaco is︄ NOT a real tax haven. Sure you don't pay income tax, but you pay for︅ it in real estate. So this is the place to perhaps come to when you︆ are old and have already made your money elswhere during your younger years. But if︇ you are young and hungry, this is most definitely not the place to find your︈ riches. You will just be yet another faux-riche, owning no assets, leasing various goods to︉ build an image and not really have much else going on. That said, I'd probably︊ still choose MC over a Carribean location!!