What would your life actually cost there?
I have moved between countries my whole life. When I tried to work out where to live next, and when I could stop depending on a salary, no single place could answer it. So I built one.
The gaps, and what Fireplot does about each
01Headline rates mislead
Advertised tax rates skip social security, local surcharges, and deductions. Your real burden is often 10 to 20 percentage points away from the headline rate.
✓Real progressive brackets, social security, and special regimes, per country.
02Built for one single filer
Two incomes, family deductions, and family-sized costs change everything, yet tools that model a household are rare.
✓Solo, couple, or family. Each earner taxed individually, then combined.
03Comparison stops at the border
Every country has good local calculators. A single place to compare countries on equal terms barely exists.
✓One engine, one set of assumptions, every country side by side.
04Tax is only half the story
Low tax with high rent can leave you with less at the end of the month.
✓Disposable income: tax, social security, rent, and living costs together.
05Sources scatter and disagree
Government sites, forums, and articles quote different figures, and they age fast.
✓Every figure traces to a public source, with its last review date shown.
06Money and visas are split
Visa income thresholds decide whether a plan is even possible, but visa guides and tax guides never meet.
✓Visa eligibility and income thresholds checked in the same view.
Fireplot is not an optimizer that picks the "best" country. Money is a condition, not the reason you move. Fireplot shows whether your numbers work.
Who built this
Independent
Self-funded, no investors to please
Free core, always
Pro features sustain the project
Built from lived need
By someone who crosses borders for real
I grew up between Japan, China, Greece, and the United States before settling in Belgium. Fireplot is the tool I needed to answer this question for myself. Questions, corrections, or country requests? Get in touch.