Moving Abroad Is About More Than Choosing a Country When you are planning to move abroad its easy to focus on the exciting parts, better weather, beautiful scenery, lower costs, or a slower lifestyle. But deciding whether to move abroad requires thinking about what everyday life will actually look like. Before researching visas, apartments, or plane tickets, there are some bigger questions worth asking yourself first. These questions aren’t meant to talk you out of moving, th

When you imagine moving abroad, it is easy to picture the extraordinary moments. The beaches. Weekend trips. New food. Beautiful scenery. Exploring a place that still feels unfamiliar. But if we actually move abroad, most of our life won't be made up of extraordinary moments. Eventually, there will just be Tuesdays. We will wake up, work, make dinner, buy groceries, clean the house, run errands, take care of our cats, and figure out what to do with the rest of the evening. An

All of the photos in this post we took in Thailand and they are unedited and highlight some less than desirable areas/issues. It is incredibly easy to romanticize a new place. Search almost any destination online and you will find beautiful beaches, charming streets, incredible food, mountain views, luxury hotels, and carefully edited videos showing what life could look like there. The problem is that most of what we see online is a highlight reel. Vacation photos rarely show