i think where you filled your tax returns in the recent years is what might matter. if you had no taxes to declare and filed no tax returns you should be fine. in the end, becoming tax resident elsewhere is not a problem. BUT another country, usually your home country, MIGHT challenge you and you will then have to prove where and when and how you got your income and where you filled your taxes and even then they might want you to pay taxes there, as linked above. i think California put some presence test into play that you might become tax liable even︀ if you only visit. so always check out countries where you are and where you︁ were. unless challenged you will be fine. keep in mind there is always chance you︂ will be required to pay taxes in more than one country. there is nothing preventing︃ one country having claim on you if you if you filled taxes elsewhere. also when︄ challenged, usually "center of life" comes to play. so if you decide to move to︅ UAE and pay no taxes but you own a home in UK or have a︆ family in Germany, that will most likely be considered you center of life and you︇ will be paying taxes there.
ps: as posted above by Martin, always have a residency︈ that you can point to and say that is your center of life.
