Most of the complaints are that being an expat US citizen is:
1. a right pain in the ass, because you have to fill US taxes even when you don't reside in the US, work with the US, and haven't set foot there in years.
2. a right pain in the ass because you have to declare local welfare as income to the US government
3. a right pain in the ass because taxes being so much simpler in most other countries means accountants is a much rarer career very much specialised for extremely high income, far beyond your means, and most of them don't know and can't help with US taxes anyway
4. a right pain in the ass because things like FATCA means most financial institution have decided it's just not worth interacting with US citizens and will refuse to deal with them — this can make it very difficult to function at any sort of level especially as countries progressively increase their cashlessness
5. a right pain in the ass because even if you decide you've had enough and decide to renounce it's expensive and complicated
I'm sure I'm missing a bunch as I'm not a US citizen let alone a US expat.
1. a right pain in the ass, because you have to fill US taxes even when you don't reside in the US, work with the US, and haven't set foot there in years.
2. a right pain in the ass because you have to declare local welfare as income to the US government
3. a right pain in the ass because taxes being so much simpler in most other countries means accountants is a much rarer career very much specialised for extremely high income, far beyond your means, and most of them don't know and can't help with US taxes anyway
4. a right pain in the ass because things like FATCA means most financial institution have decided it's just not worth interacting with US citizens and will refuse to deal with them — this can make it very difficult to function at any sort of level especially as countries progressively increase their cashlessness
5. a right pain in the ass because even if you decide you've had enough and decide to renounce it's expensive and complicated
I'm sure I'm missing a bunch as I'm not a US citizen let alone a US expat.