# Opened a bank account in a foreign country and realized how good Ethereum is

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1is2n28/i_just_tried_to_open_a_bank_account_on_a_foreign
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Opened-a-bank-account-in-a-foreign-country-and-realized-how-good-Ethereum-is?index=0x67b5c99b70dd1f671fbb8f3906c013acd7a823a408b804be47b0799178d468315c751662
Submitted by macbudkowski.eth on 2025-02-19 UTC, 2 upvotes, 2 comments

## Comments

**ccarella.eth**: Living the expat life I feel this. I can’t get anything done with the banking system in Honduras. I’m lucky that my wife is a citizen and she does literally all the banking and utilities and anything that touches the financial system.

I just got my permanent residence approved though after a year so maybe things are about to get easier… just as I’m starting to think how o can fully exit the system and become a sovereign individual (I see you prospera). 

**macbudkowski.eth**: Isn't it bananas that you move to a country, want to spend money there, and you can't do it because you're not a part of the official financial system?

Unless their goal is to limit the expat activity (which could be a fair goal for some countries), then I think they should lower the barriers as much as possible.