Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open borders

Re:Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open ... by rconti on Thursday August 08, 2019 @02:35PM (#20647254)

Argentina strikes me as a strong combination of "desirable" and "open". Virtually anyone can become a citizen, and it's a prosperous enough country, currency decline notwithstanding.

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Re:Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open ... by TremendousJudge on Thursday August 08, 2019 @03:48PM (#20647948)

For people in the US and Europe, South America is more remote than Svalbard

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Re:Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open ... by prawn on Friday August 09, 2019 @01:26AM (#20651556)

For those in the US, it might be 1-2 affordable flights and in the same timezone? Someone elsewhere in these comments suggested Svalbard would be 40 hours and $1200+.

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Re:Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open ... by kmlx on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:06PM (#20649330)

“it's a prosperous enough country” define prosperous please. from my knowledge argentina is a financial basket case since a century ago.

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Re:Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open ... by longlivedeath on Thursday August 08, 2019 @08:16PM (#20650237)

A century ago it was the world's 10th wealthiest state per capita. Right now it tops the list of the upper middle-income group, so is almost a high-income country, and per capita is richer than, for example, Russia.

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Re:Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open ... by kmlx on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:07AM (#20653529)

Exactly. It went from a rich nation to a poor nation, to default, back to poor and free markets, then to progress then again back to the IMF. It’s a classical basket case country.

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