Would you use real street addresses in several countries?

Member since 19 December 2025

damnmorningstarNew member19 December 2025 08:21:44

Hi everyone,

I’m juggling life across a couple of countries at the moment, bank in one place, work in another, family somewhere else, and one thing that keeps coming up is where things should be sent.

Ignoring what currently exists for a moment:

If you could have real street addresses in 2–3 countries (not P.O. boxes), and anything that arrived there was instantly visible to you online… would you actually use that, or does it sound like overkill?

I’m especially curious:

- What would you personally use extra addresses for (banking, taxes, business, packages, something else)?

- Or do you prefer to keep everything tied to one “home base” and avoid extra complexity, even if life is spread out?

Trying to figure out whether people see multi‑country addresses as a useful tool or just another thing to manage.

gwynj Bulgaria Expert

Member since 30 June 2020

gwynjBulgaria Expert22 December 2025 07:46:45

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@damnmorningstar

Welcome to the forum. I'd guess most of us would suggest that you keep life simple and have everything work, home, family, bank, doctor, etc. in one place. :-)

In any case, these days, it's pretty easy to find ebanks/emoney options (Wise, Revolut, N26, etc.) which are fairly location independent. And most institutions (bank, brokerage, utility companies) will usually send estatements/ebills instead of physical paper, so again fairly location independent. You can't really post yourself or your family, so there's no sending stuff involved... and work too rarely needs to send you physical mail (email, online conferencing and collaboration platforms, etc.). So, actually, of the things you mentioned, I don't see any of them generating mail to go anywhere! :-)

A mail forwarding service (with a real physical address rather than a PO Box), can be useful occasionally. But it costs money, and most of us don't really need one (let alone two or three).