[davidw]

People living abroad who are US citizens will often use an address they're associated with - parents or other close relatives. That's what I did for years. I think there are services you can use too.

In turn, I'm curious why he bothers with Wealth Front rather than just parking it all in a few Vanguard funds. That cash account looks pretty attractive, but other than that...?

[patio11]

I am a huge fan of Vanguard, but Vanguard Japan has strong compliance concerns about providing services to Americans and Vanguard US has strong compliance concerns about providing services to people living in Japan, so I cannot conveniently consume Vanguard services directly.

[cbhl]

There's a link to https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/investing... which discusses this: Vanguard is one of the two Right Answers(TM).

My experience with roboadvisors is that the pretty user interfaces encouraged me to save more. Your mileage may vary.