We all have to live somewhere. In legal terms this is called our “domicile.” And it is the most serious privacy and freedom risk we face. Jurisdictional arbitrage involves legally using the benefits of jurisdictions to our advantage. South Dakota has long been used as the optimal US state for Americans to have nomad residency. Friendly to virtual mailboxes for state ID, welcoming to RVers and nomads, and with no state income tax, South Dakota is built to allow people to go about their lives with minimal interference.

If you are an American with the ability to travel and be a nomad, then why be domiciled in a place that doesn’t respect you? Privacy enthusiasts, in addition to freedom seekers, have for years made use of South Dakota residency. Unfortunately the current landscape of advice on South Dakota is of poor quality. Outdated information, “bro science” Reddit posts, and misleading suggestions even from trusted expositors of South Dakota have created a quagmire of bad information that can at worst severely harm our prospects.

I created this course to fix that.

Designed through careful study, practice of the process, but more importantly in consultation with Dallas of PrivacyPost.io and WorldPost.io, who does this for a living and knows more about the process than any other human on earth, the Definitive Guide to South Dakota Residency seeks to get you from A to Z of SD residency with utmost efficiency and with recognition of the hundreds of caveats that each can mess things up for you.

Residency is just the start. We start by walking through the residency process step-by-step, proceed to common pitfalls and strategies, and then explain how to use South Dakota for business and internationalization. There is an entire module on living as a ghost nomad: some of the most thorough physical privacy advice I have ever made public. Along the way hundreds of tidbits of advice–the result of helping hundreds of clients–and years of speaking directly with the South Dakota government is shared. The end result is an invaluable resource and the Definitive Guide to the topic.

The last lawyer I hired charged $300 for a single hour of expertise. While we’re not offering legal or financial advice in course, we are offering a kind of highly-specialized information that requires an immense amount of work, its own billable hours, and vetting to get right and to present correctly. Becoming a nomad is going to require shelling out a bit of money throughout the process. We know people who, acting on bad nomad residency advice, have lost four-figure sums at a time. When you consider your savings from implementing a strategy like this, not the least of which is erasing state income tax, then access to quality information becomes worth its weight in gold. It has certainly required a lot of work to gain it.

-Gabriel Custodiet Watchman Privacy Podcast