Own The World By Abhii Dabas

Where should you live abroad at different stages of your life?

Abhii Dabas, founder and CEO of Intric Global, has evaluated property and lived or worked across 75 countries. In this episode, he shares where he would choose to live at 30, 45 and 60, and why the answer changes depending on your career, family, finances and lifestyle.

At 30, should you prioritize opportunity and put yourself in a city like New York? At 45, do schools, safety and stability matter more? And at 60, should taxes, healthcare, cost of living and quality of life drive the decision?

We explore some of the best countries and cities for living abroad, including Singapore, the UK, Southeast Asia, Georgia and the Philippines, as well as what Abhii has learned from evaluating countries on the ground rather than relying on rankings and online research.

Abhii also explains why choosing where to live is about more than tax rates or property prices. Community, culture, safety, opportunity, family and simply feeling at home can matter just as much.

If you're considering moving abroad, retiring overseas, becoming an expat or building a more global life, this conversation offers a practical framework for deciding where you actually belong.

In this episode

• Where Abhii would live at 30 to maximize career and personal growth
• The best places to consider at 45 when family and stability matter
• Where he would retire at 60 based on lifestyle, taxes and cost of living
• Why Singapore remains his deliberately chosen home
• Why Southeast Asia can offer exceptional value for families and remote workers
• Why Tbilisi, Georgia deserves more attention
• What online research gets wrong about choosing a country
• Why emotional factors matter as much as financial ones
• How remote work has changed where people can build their lives
• Why community can matter more than borders
• How to test a country for one or two months before committing to a move

Timestamps

00:00 - Why changing the playground can change your life
00:54 - Where would you live at 30, 45 and 60?
01:41 - What evaluating 75 countries taught Abhii
02:12 - Why the UK still stands out
03:48 - Why Singapore feels like home
04:53 - Why choosing where to live is emotional too
06:09 - What two very different international moves reveal
07:34 - Why Southeast Asia offers so much value
08:23 - Where to live at 30 for maximum growth
09:52 - How to approach your first six months in New York
11:34 - Where to live abroad at 45 with kids
13:01 - Best retirement destinations for lifestyle and taxes
15:44 - Best countries for a family on $5,000 a month
16:47 - Why Tbilisi, Georgia is underrated
18:17 - What online research can't tell you about a country
20:07 - How politics and culture affect where you live
22:24 - What could make Abhii leave Singapore
23:27 - How remote work changes where you can live
25:17 - Why community matters more than borders
26:47 - How to test a country before moving abroad
29:18 - Why Abhii deliberately chose Singapore
30:35 - A simple framework for choosing where to live

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Ask a business family why they want a second residency and they'll say it's about the business. Sit a little longer and the answer is always the children.

Abhii Dabas sits down with Tess Wilkinson, Director of Education Services at Henley & Partners, and is joined by residency specialist Yudhi Mapara, to map where the global education decision is heading — and the exact point where it becomes a capital decision.

What they cover:

• Why families are now making the education and residency decision together, not a decade apart
• The shift from the Big Four (US, UK, Canada, Australia) to the "Big 14": Italy, France, Germany, Spain, the Nordics and Southeast Asia
• Why 90% of Henley's education clients in H1 2026 were US families relocating to Europe, mostly to Swiss boarding schools
• The EB-5 deadline: why 30 September 2026 is the last date to lock in grandfathering protection before likely fee increases on 1 January 2027
• How an EB-5 for a minor makes the student visa problem disappear
• The reported $100,000 fee on US OPT work authorisation — and what it would do to enrolments
• Coaching a 10-year-old for a top US university, seven years out
• In-state vs international fees: roughly $250,000 vs $48,000 for four years at a UC
• Sons vs daughters: why families set different rules for different countries
• What to study in an AI world (and why Henley won't pretend to know)
• Emerging destinations: Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, the UAE and Europe's English-taught degrees
• The Henley Opportunity Index — and why Switzerland tops it overall

Resources mentioned:

Henley Opportunity Index: https://www.henleyglobal.com/publications/henley-opportunity-index
Global Indian Family Report (INTRIC × Henley & Partners): https://intricglobal.com/en/insights/blog/global-indian-family-2026-where-should-global-indian-families-invest-live-and-educate-their-children-in-2026


About the guest:
Tess Wilkinson has over 25 years in international education and leads the education team at Henley & Partners, working with families on school and university placement from kindergarten to postgraduate across dozens of countries. She lives in Portugal.

Own the World is the show for investors who refuse to be limited by geography, hosted by Abhii Dabas, founder of INTRIC — a private cross-border property investment and intelligence platform across 70+ markets.

INTRIC: https://intricglobal.com/en
Follow Abhii on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhii-dabas/

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The global Indian family is quietly rewriting the rules of wealth, residency, and where life actually happens. For high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth Indians, the old playbook of simply sending money back home is giving way to a far more deliberate strategy built around optionality, global mobility, and long-term family planning.

Abhii Dabas is joined by Yudhi Mapara, Associate Director of Private Clients at Henley & Partners, to unpack what is really driving this shift. Yudhi works with globally mobile families across international real estate and cross-border investment markets, helping them think through residence, citizenship, wealth preservation, business expansion, succession, and education planning.You'll discover why younger founders and legacy family businesses are approaching global diversification so differently, why Dubai has become much more than a tax story, and why Portugal remains a major residency destination even as the rules change.

The conversation also reveals how Indian families are thinking about the US, Switzerland, Italy, Thailand, Mauritius, Malaysia, and other markets through very specific lenses, from education and lifestyle to retirement and business expansion.We break down the biggest mistake Indian investors make when buying overseas property before understanding the Indian regulatory framework, including how a Dubai mortgage can accidentally create a serious FEMA issue.

You also hear why the smartest families are no longer starting with ROI, but with a clear five- or ten-year family objective that determines the right jurisdiction, structure, and investment path.If you are considering overseas property, residency planning, or simply want to understand where Indian capital is moving next, this episode gives you the framework to think more strategically and avoid expensive mistakes. Essential listening for investors, founders, family offices, and anyone building a life across borders.


Timestamps

00:00 - The global Indian family and why capital is no longer moving in just one direction

01:58 - Yudhi Mapara joins the conversation

04:04 - Who today’s Indian HNW and UHNW clients really are

04:43 - From traditional NRI thinking to global mobility planning

05:42 - First-generation founders versus multi-generation family businesses

07:30 - Under-45 entrepreneurs versus legacy patriarchs

09:22 - Why clients often start with a simple product ask but need a strategy

10:34 - The US remains the top education destination, but specialization is growing

11:49 - Why families are planning earlier and reacting less

12:49 - Education, business expansion, and optionality versus tax alone

14:54 - Why Dubai still attracts Indian families

15:53 - Why Portugal has become a major residency and lifestyle destination

16:57 - Why citizenship is not always the end goal for Indian families

18:29 - How property purchase fits into residency planning

19:46 - Countries where property is the pathway to residency

21:02 - The common FEMA mistake: overseas financing before Indian advice

23:53 - Why buying first and asking later creates hard compliance problems

24:30 - Start with family goals, not investment ROI

25:57 - Unexpected growth in retirement migration

26:27 - Thailand, Mauritius, Malaysia, and other retiree-friendly options

28:25 - Closing thoughts on planning, experts, and the global Indian family repo

The conversation also reveals how Indian families are thinking about the US, Switzerland, Italy, Thailand, Mauritius, Malaysia, and other markets through very specific lenses, from education and lifestyle to retirement and business expansion.We break down the biggest mistake Indian investors make when buying overseas property before understanding the Indian regulatory framework, including how a Dubai mortgage can accidentally create a serious FEMA issue. 

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The next great property opportunity may not be found by looking at today's prices. It may be found by looking at where people, talent, capital, and opportunity are moving next.

Cath Quiambao and Abhii Dabas explore how to identify emerging property markets before they become obvious to the wider market. They unpack the forces that make markets compound, from talent migration and infrastructure to government policy, demographics, governance, and foreign capital.

They also examine the wealth migration flywheel: talent arrives, capital follows, services deepen, and markets mature.

Using Singapore, Dubai, Bali, Canada, Thailand, and Georgia as examples, the conversation explores how different markets move through different stages of the cycle, why headline property prices can be deceptive, and how investors can distinguish genuine structural opportunity from hype.

You'll learn:

• Why prices can be misleading when currencies, taxes, and regulations change the real return
• How migration creates demand before it appears in property prices
• Which demographic, infrastructure, and policy signals matter most
• How to recognize when a market is still benefiting from a structural tailwind
• The warning signs that a market has become too crowded or difficult to invest in
• Why the best opportunities may exist where demand is forming, rather than where demand has already peaked

For founders, investors, entrepreneurs, and globally minded professionals, this is a framework for thinking about where to put your capital, career, and attention next.

The key question: Are you looking at where people are today, or where they will want to be tomorrow?

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Most investors believe they're diversified because they own different assets. But what if those assets all depend on the same currency, government and legal system?

In this episode of Own the World, Cath Quiambao sits down with investor and entrepreneur Abhii Dabas to explore why the next generation of wealth isn't just diversified across asset classes—it's diversified across jurisdictions.

Abhii explains why countries should be treated like positions in a portfolio, shares the five questions he asks before investing anywhere in the world, and discusses how safety, growth, income, lifestyle and optionality shape better long-term investment decisions.

Whether you're building your first international portfolio or already investing globally, this episode offers a practical framework for thinking beyond traditional diversification.

Topics covered:

•  Why owning multiple properties isn't true diversification 
•  Currency risk and government policy 
•  Investing across jurisdictions 
•  The 5-part country evaluation framework 
•  Lifestyle investing vs purely financial investing 
•  Identifying structural opportunities instead of following trends 
•  Building a globally resilient portfolio 

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For this episode of Own the World, Abhii Dabas sits down with Intric COO and co-founder James Puddle for an unfiltered conversation on one uncomfortable reality:

The global real estate system isn’t working the way people think it is.

After spending more than 20 years inside the industry building agencies, leading international expansion, and working with developers across Asia, Europe, and beyond, James has seen the same problems repeat over and over.

What we cover:

• Why running more events stopped working — and what changed
• The gap between what developers assume buyers want and what serious investors actually need
• Where trust breaks in a cross-border transaction (and why it usually happens after the sale, not before)
• What developers see on Monday morning with traditional tools — and what they should be seeing instead
• Why the real estate industry needs the equivalent of Stripe or Booking.com — and why it doesn't have it yet
• What it looks like in five years if Intric gets this right

In this conversation, Abhii and James unpack why traditional real estate models are struggling, what international buyers actually want, and why global property still lacks the infrastructure other industries already built.

They also go deep into the vision behind Intric and what it could take to create an operating system for global real estate.

Topics include:

• Why developers keep missing international buyers
• The 6–9 month education gap nobody talks about
• Why cross-border trust breaks down
• Why more technology hasn’t solved the problem
• What agencies and developers are still getting wrong
• Why real estate needs infrastructure—not more marketplaces
• How AI may reshape global property investing

If you invest, build, sell, or operate in real estate, this episode offers an inside look at where the industry is heading—and why the next decade may look very different from the last.

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What does it really take to invest in real estate across borders—and what happens when it goes wrong?

In the first episode of Own the World, Cath Quiambao sits down with Abhii Dabas, a global property investor and founder of Intric Technologies, who has invested across 12 cities worldwide—and learned some expensive lessons along the way.

From failed developments and misleading yields to the reality of cross-border investing, Abhii shares what the industry gets wrong—and how investors can make smarter, more confident decisions.

They also unpack why global real estate is still “stuck in 1975” and how Intric is building an AI-powered platform to connect global capital with real asset opportunities—making it easier to discover, analyze, and invest anywhere in the world.

If you’re thinking about investing overseas—or already have—this episode will change how you approach it.

What You’ll Learn

• The biggest mistakes investors make in global real estate
• Why “good deals on paper” often fail in reality
• The gap in cross-border property investing (and why it still exists)
• How to evaluate demand, yields, and exit strategies properly
• How AI is transforming global property investing
• Why community and trust matter more than data alone

Key Moments

00:00 – Introduction to Abhii Dabas
00:58 – Investing across 12 cities (and what went wrong)
02:31 – Why failures didn’t stop him
03:14 – What’s broken in global real estate
06:28 – Insights from 35 countries
08:58 – Why no one has solved this before
12:03 – What Intric actually is
14:04 – The power of community in investing
20:35 – How AI powers smarter decisions
22:29 – The future of global real estate

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