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Looking at the fuel prices in Texas really got me thinking...

Vettel, Raikkonen, Hamilton, Kobayashi and Alonso are few I know for sure don't live in their home countries anymore. If you had the choice, where'd you live?

Norway? I love the scenery. But the taxes are sky high though. Probably swiss.

Monaco


BTW fuel prices in the US are a bit deceptive to Europeans. My wife commutes about 100 miles a day for work, I work mostly at home but also out of my car and average around 150 miles a day with highs of about 300 miles in a day. Most areas outside of the north east US are very spread out compared to Europe.

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Switzerland.
Beautiful, clean, good efficiency, and of course no income taxes

Me too

I'd share my time between Tokyo, London, Tuscany and a town-sized place somewhere in SouthEast Asia. Sod the tax, I couldn't waste life in Switzerland or Monaco.

Do any current drivers live (i.e. main home and where they pay tax) in their home nation? Rubens did. Of those I know about only Webber isn't in a tax haven. Renault/Lotus drivers were always told they have to live in the UK. Fred and Kovi both lived in Oxford, Petrov in that area too.

Alonso - Switzerland (and Italy)
Massa - Monaco (and Brazil)

Vettel - Switzerland
Webber - England

Hamilton - Monaco (and Grenada!)
Button - Monaco (and Jersey)

Kimi - Switzerland

Rosberg - Monaco
Schumi - Switzerland

di Resta - Monaco

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Somewhere in the French Riviera. I love seeing pictures, movie clips etc of the area.

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Since when did they fly their cars? I thought they were drivers.

Scotland.

If I was making the kind of money an F1 driver makes, even the Di Resta's, I'd stay at home and pay my taxes without complaint because it's home. As long as I had enough money to be comfortable I'd be fine.

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On the top step.

What is enough? You can as well donate 95% of such a high income and still have enough for comfortable life. Probably with more money comfortable life will mean haveing luxury sports car?

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Switzerland, or Canada. although i hear Canada are pretty strict when it comes to taxes and visas etc.

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So Kamui has a contract for Ferrari in WEC? Kinda makes this bit a tad pointless..

I hate to blow that fantasy for you, but we do pay income tax in Switzerland - and probably more than you think. Of course, it's all relative and may as well be next to no tax if you're in those kinds of salary brackets. But the first three adjectives are definitely correct.

BTW, Schumi and Coulthard live in the next town over from me, and Kovalainen lives 15 mins away in Geneva. Hamilton did as well until he moved to Monaco earlier this year - he found Geneva a bit sedate for his tastes.

When you consider how much of the year the F1 drivers will spend away from home, it would be well worth splitting the rest of your time between home and somewhere like Monaco to minimise your tax liabilities.

I thought Nando had moved back to Spain.

He has because he said he didn't care about the taxes and just wanted to move back home

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Switzerland. Looks like a beautiful place to get some peace and quiet between races, and with the ability to travel anywhere and do anything when excitement or glamor is in order, that's the type of place I'd want to call home.

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I would never leave my own country. Owning property, is entirely a different subject. Since, I'm from India, I'd probably have myself a lavish penthouse in Goa.

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Monaco baby, really like the place.

Liechtenstein.
It's the Alps, has a certain thing about taxes, and is close to basically everything in Europe.

If I felt I have too much money to be healthy, I'd support my country by buying a house very close to where I live now (we're talking a maximum of 2 kilometers here) and stay in my home town whenever I have the time.
Alternatively, I live in Liechtenstein and just have a summer house in Finland (where I'd end up spending a lot of time anyway).

My Home Country Canada. noone would know who you where there, i like the sound of that if i was an F1 driver.

Forgot about Liechtenstein... more companies than people

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So Kamui has a contract for Ferrari in WEC? Kinda makes this bit a tad pointless..

+1.

Nicest place in Europe to live I reckon so long as you have the money. Plus you can hop in the car and visit several different countries without much effort if you're bored on a weekend.

Only downside = you have to be fluent in at least 5 languages not to look like a total outsider. I'm pretty sure they all speak about 17 languages by the time they are 2 yrs old.

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I'd miss home too much and I love Scotland. If I had enough money to be comfortable (as in nice house and a nice car, doesn't have to be a Ferrari, nice stuff in my house etc) then I'd want to live in the country I love.

Maybe that's just me.

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I have a cousin, who is from Peru just like me, and has been living in switzerland for the last 20 or 25 years. He tells me with full confidence that it's the "most boring country in the world". Otherwise he likes the beauty of the sights, the safety and the orderliness.

Home. With all your family and friends around you. I couldn't really stand living in some place like Monaco, even if it was a tax haven

Also, Alonso moved back to Spain a couple of years ago. Saying something along the liens of, he wanted to be close to friends and family.

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Your cousin is 100 % correct (also about the sights, the safety and the orderliness)

Yep Alonso moved back to Spain to be closer to family (not long after his divorce I think) - the move is supposed to have cost him around €30m in extra tax.

The Lake District, will have enough to live on a run a little smallholding.

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I could not see moving away from my home country, Finland and i have lived in France, Lille, plus Berlin over 3 years combined.
That naturally means silly Nordic taxes and such, but if i had Kimi's salary... i think i would manage.

Kimi has a few houses, but his two "homes" are in Switzerland and Finland.
But I think his taxes go to the Swiss bc he spends the "majority" of his time there.
But he spends a good amount of time in his home in Finland.
I can't remember the city it's in, but it wasn't the one in Helsinki.
It was between Helsinki and Turku I believe, it looks like a big log cabin IIRC.


But they have the highest gun ownership per capita, how could it possibly be boring?

Sure I saw in one of JYS's documentaries where he explained why he left Scotland in the 70's for Switzerland - the main reason was that he was getting taxed at a rate of 97%. Nothing wrong with patriotism and wanting to pay your fair share of taxes but 97%!. No one should have to have their patriotism tested like that, or be thought worse of if they move to better the deal.

Kimi has multiple houses in Finland.
One 14.5 million euros house in Helsinki, another apartment house in Helsinki center, one in his home town Espoo and i believe that a log cabin is in Porkkala.

Say no to starbucks....

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I'm fairly certain that the "log cabin" house is not in Espoo.
I want to think it's in Piikiö, but google doesn't suggest that this is true.
That's where Jenni is from though, so it would make sense if that's where it was.

Yeah you are actually right. Just fixed it above. I remember seeing interview of Kimi in that house and for some reason connected it with Espoo.

That was the 70's though. I think tax in the UK for people earning over 150K is around 50% now. Still huge but if you earned millions then you aren't going to miss it either.

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