Except to live in the new country you have to pay the fees and own actual property. An average fee to get the paperwork costs $25,000 per person, then the expense of having to own property.
You make it sound so easy, unfortunately you have not told the complete truth.
if El Papanatas were to actually speaks a single Truth, his toungue would shatter from the reverberations.
he rarely utters anything even remotely like a common truth, but in this case he has come close, but then theres always The Truth lurking in the shadows.
renouncing your citizenship does NOTHING if the Secretary Of State declines to accept that renunciation and stamp the forms with the seal.
US citizenship these days is as "voluntary" and serfdom (the real kind not Abandonintellect's failed attempt at Newspeak) since they demand from us their taxes and submission, no matter what country we live or work in as long as they keep their hooks in.
did you know for 4example, that you can be prosecuted for smoking weed in amsterdam?
ohh it's true.
18 usc it's a pain in the ass but it's all there.
traveling to another nation in order to engage in activity which would be illegal in the US does not evade US law... whether you go to mexico to have sex with underage prostitutes (not naming any names *Cough**abandonconflict**Cough Cough**) or to smoke dope on the beaches of jamaica with your bros, it's all the same.
you also have to pay the federal income taxes no matter where you live or work, irrespective of any local taxation that might occur.