If your friends and family want you to stay in the hell hole that is America just for them, you’ve got shitty loved ones. Nobody that loves you would want you to stay somewhere dangerous, toxic, and miserable just to keep them company. Keeping in touch with family is easier now than it has ever been. Your friends and family can just apply for a new credit card each year and use the welcome points for flights to come see you. Love doesn’t diminish by distance. Don’t live your life small just to make other people feel comfortable. If anyone reacts badly about you moving abroad, just remember that says a lot about how they feel about themselves. They can make their own choices. If they want to join you on your new epic adventure, all the better. Until then, pack your bags and FaceTime them while you’re waiting for your flight to board. 🆘🇺🇸 #creatorsearchinsights

The hardest part about moving abroad is absolutely leaving the people you love. I know a lot of people think that it's the logistical stuff about how to get approved for a visa and where to move, but it is absolutely not. It is definitely leaving your friends and family and taking that lead into the unknown because you don't have certainty that everything is going to work out. And so you're leaving a situation with people that you love without any assurance that on the other side is going to be something better. The most important thing to remember about moving away from people that you love is that people who love you back will find a way to keep the relationship working. And it's not all on you just because you decide to move. People decide to move all of the time, whether it's to a different city or a different state or in your case a different country. But your loved ones can absolutely come visit you. Your loved ones can absolutely keep in digital contact. You can have FaceTime dates, you can email on a regular basis, you can text message, you can send voice notes, you can keep picture albums where you send each other your daily comings and goings. It's up to you and the other person to maintain the relationship. And if they love you as much as you think that they do, which is what's keeping you from not wanting to leave an entire country, then I would hope that they would maintain that relationship on the other side and allow you to do what your heart is pulling you to do and exit America. Despite the fact that it's difficult to move abroad and pull away from your loved ones, I highly recommend that you consider doing it if you're on this side of TikTok because it's on your mind. And if you want to figure out where's the best place for you to live, make sure you book an exit plan consultation with me and I'll help you figure out what your logistics mean in terms of visas that will allow you to move there. That's how I help Americans leave the chaos of the United States and find their new homes abroad by matching up your preferences and your reality with where we'll take you. I want Americans to really start normalizing choosing yourself over being a martyr for just staying in a situation that does not serve you anymore. As you move to the new place, what you should do is set up some boundaries with the people back home and make sure that they know when you're available. Make sure that you have the weather app on your phone and they have the weather app for your new location on the phone so that you can see what time it is and what the weather is at all times in each other's locations and that allows you to know when are the appropriate times to call. I'm not going to say that it takes no effort to maintain these relationships because it is definitely effort and it should come from both sides. One of the things I always advise my clients is that when you do move abroad, you should constantly be saving for those unexpected trips back home that you might need to make. Because at some point, something is going to happen back home that you're going to feel compelled to be present and you don't want to be blindsided financially by that. So there should always be a sort of fund that you are putting money into to make sure that if your friend has a baby or someone's unexpectedly in the hospital that you can and should rush home and be there and don't feel like being trapped on the other side of the planet is some sort of reason to not be a present loved one. You can absolutely go be a present loved one when those situations occur, just make sure you're planning for it well in advance and they should do the same. If they know that you could have something that happens on the other side of the world that they need to be there for if you're having a baby or something medically happens with you and they need to be there immediately. They should have a little flush fund that they're creating to make sure that they can come see you either when they want to or because they kind of have to to be a present loved one, it goes both ways during the vast majority of your time living abroad, you can come up with creative ways to stay in touch and show your love to those people that you have technically left behind and they can get creative with you as well making sure that you guys know that you're thinking about each other and that is what love really is. It's just showing that you're thinking about them and putting in that effort to stay in contact and keep that relationship going even though you're far apart.