expatriate

If you're rich enough, you'll lose ~35% of what you have if you decide to expatriate.

As far as I can tell:* This is on a site for expatriate women in Japan.

I am pretty damn sure they're not making some sort of provision for expatriate citizens, either.

You have to fully expatriate and renounce your citizenship.

And the biggest challenge of all is that your old culture rarely dies cleanly, so you're never quite sure if you're doing the right thing by becoming an expatriate.

They're not needed, or they could've been phrased much more neutrally, if the goal is merely to compare and contrast two expatriate experiences in Thailand.

The only way to escape is to expatriate and relinquish citizenship at an American embassy.

This issue periodically makes the rounds in expatriate communities, and I think panicked blog posts outnumber actual enforcement actions by about 10,000 to 1.

If you're doing a lot of convoluted business dealings, I imagine it could be a hassle, but for a regular professional expatriate employee I have not found it complex.

Nobody is saying or implying that American expatriates are, as a general rule, renouncing their citizenship.

In the modern economy, where they can replace most workers with machines or outsource most work to China, or even renounce their citizenship and live as an expatriate in Hong Kong, they have all the leverage.

As a Sardinian expatriate, I must say that this would be a practicable course only when you have a stable and steady cachet of clients; and then only if you are content with having almost "remote-only" technological collaboration.

I understand your opinion that the numbers of Americans who have renounced citizenship for tax reasons is "nontrivial," but I hope I make clear, as an American who has lived overseas among many other expatriate Americans, and who still keeps up regular contact with many expatriate Americans who derive all their income from overseas work, that I think the reported numbers are indeed trivial.