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What are the financial benefits? Lack of state tax? There are states with no state tax (check if they have correspondingly high property tax, they usually do): https://www.aarp.org/money/taxes/info-2020/states-without-an...

Everyone I know from PR moved to the states when possible, but then again, I wouldn't know people who moved the other way.

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It's not just state tax. It's also capital gains tax. In the right circumstances, there's no capital gains tax on appreciated assets. This is why some cryptocurrency investors are moving there.

not this year ;)

Lack of federal income tax I believe

Holy shit really? Catch me in PR next year then.

More seriously, is this something that's true of territories in general. I was reading the other day and was kinda disappointed I can't even visit most territories.

Which ones can't be visited?

I know we can go to Guam, PR, what territories can't we visit?

Most of the ones that are "uninhabited" here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_St...

Some of them have very good reasons, for example at least one was a nuclear test site. One of them is visitable, but you basically have to sail a private boat (I wonder if a rental is fine) from Hawaii to reach it and iirc need to get permission ahead.

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