Two and a half millennia ago, Diogenes called himself a kosmou polites. Nowadays, people who identify themselves as citizens of the world have real opportunities to live, study and do business in different countries at the same time.
It becomes possible thanks to Citizenship by investment programs that were created by local governments to attract foreign investors.
The first such program appeared in Scotland in the 18th century. St Kitts and Nevis pioneered the idea of citizenship by investment in 1984, and from that time global CBI portfolio grew to 20+ different programs.