It is not expensive to leave the U.S. Many of the costs people crash out about are just imaginary. Anytime you are saying you HAVE to do something in the moving abroad process, you should take a step back. You absolutely don’t have to do it that way. My family of 4 left the U.S. with 8 suitcases and a one way plane ticket to a country we had never been to. You can leave the U.S. today and be living abroad by tonight if you actually wanted to. Stop creating fake barriers between your dreams and making them happen. 🆘🇺🇸 #creatorsearchinsights
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who convinced you that leaving the U.S. was expensive? Was it an influencer? Was it your uncle who's never left the city that he was born? Was it yourself because you are scared of what's going to happen once you leave? It doesn't matter who tried to convince you. I am here to tell you you absolutely do not need to be rich to leave the U.S. My family of four left the United States five years ago with less than $3,000 in our bank account. We didn't know what we were going to do. We didn't realize that it was going to be a forever plan. And since then, now we've lived on three different continents. Now, would I tell you that somebody with no money should go move to Tokyo, Japan, where we live for two and a half years? Absolutely not. That is the most expensive city to live on the entire planet. And I do not advise anyone who is flat broke to be searching for places in Tokyo. But are there places in this world where you can move if you are on a shoestring budget? Absolutely. And that's the key. You can't be choosing the most expensive locations. If you're telling me you're broke, you're not moving to Denmark. You're not moving to Switzerland. You're not moving to most western European countries. But that does not mean you aren't allowed to leave the U.S. There are many options. And it's about adjusting your expectations with your reality. In order to leave the United States, you need to have enough money to get your birth certificate and your passport. If you have those things and some airline miles from a credit card, you could leave the United States for good. You don't need to have a ton of money in your bank account. You need to be able to get on a plane and physically leave the country. Do not add in a bunch of extra costs. Thinking to yourself, "I need a U-haul. I need to buy a storage unit. I need first and last months rent. I need to add in all these other expenses that you're imagining. You don't need to do those things. End your lease and leave the country." It might sound harsh, but all the money excuses that have ever been thrown at me since I've been talking about moving abroad have all been utter bullshit. You either need to cut your expenses, increase your income, or stop making up expenses that do not exist. You are able to leave the country just not to those super expensive ass ones. Choose some more cheaper and there are plenty of options. A huge problem that I see from people who are thinking about moving abroad but have convinced themselves they can't is that they can't distinguish between reality and Instagram highlight reals. Any option that gets you out of the United States will be safer, calmer, freer. All of the good things that you want from your life can happen abroad. It might just not look like those Instagram stories. And that's okay.
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The life you've built in America isn't the life you wanted. It's the life you could scrape together under constraints of: wages that don't cover basics, healthcare tied to employment, housing costs consuming half your income, constant financial stress, survival mode as default state. You didn't choose misery. You chose best option available within impossible constraints. But those constraints are geographic. Change geography, change constraints, change what's possible. The apartment you can barely afford in America becomes the nice place with breathing room abroad. The paycheck that barely covers survival in America becomes the income that allows saving abroad. The constant stress about one emergency destroying you financially becomes manageable situation where emergencies are expensive but not catastrophic. Same income. Same skills. Same person. Different location. Completely different life. You're not stuck because you lack resources. You're stuck because resources you have don't work in location you're in. Move those resources to location where they work better, and you're not stuck anymore. But moving requires: tolerating uncertainty about how things will work out, being uncomfortable while figuring out new systems, releasing familiar patterns even when familiar is miserable, trusting you can build better life from scratch. Most people choose familiar misery over unfamiliar uncertainty. Devil you know feels safer than devil you don't, even when devil you know is grinding you down. This is why people stay in: jobs they hate, relationships that don't work, locations that don't serve them, lives that feel like slow suffocation. Because at least they know how to survive current misery. Unknown is terrifying even when unknown might be better. But what if you're not choosing between misery and uncertainty? What if you're choosing between: familiar misery that will continue indefinitely, or temporary uncertainty that leads to actually building life you want? When you're in survival mode, you're making choices based on: what's cheapest, what's fastest, what gets you through next month, what keeps crisis at bay. Not what you actually want. What you can manage given constraints. Those choices compound into life that doesn't reflect your preferences. Reflects what you could piece together while drowning. But when you move somewhere your income works better, you're not in survival mode anymore. You have breathing room to choose based on: what you actually want, what serves your family, what creates life you're proud of. That's not small difference. That's the difference between life you're enduring and life you're choosing. Living in America isn't default you're stuck with. It's choice you're making every day by not choosing differently. And choosing differently is available to you. Link in bio for people ready to choose. What would you choose if survival wasn't consuming all your energy? 🆘🇺🇸