This is the reason expats are happier than the average American. It’s not just because there are no school shootings or mall shootings. It’s not only because we have access to healthcare and childcare. When we move abroad we get to design our life from the ground up. Every choice we make gets to be about what we want and desire. The alignment that comes from moving abroad can’t be duplicated if you stay in the United States. 🆘🇺🇸 #TikTokEncyclopediaContest
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There's a huge benefit of moving abroad that nobody really talks about, and that is that when you move abroad, you are designing your life from the ground up, from scratch. So we talk about all the ways in which our lives change when we move abroad. But part of the reason that it changes so drastically and to our own benefit and why we're so happy with the new lives that we create is because we choose every single detail of the new life. In your existing life, in the United States, it's really hard to do that because you're built into a system that has so many expectations of you, everything from societal expectations to your own family. You will never be able to choose everything from the ground up because you will have all sorts of feelings entangled in that with your family situation, your neighborhood situation, your kids friends situation. Everything is going to influence your decisions about where you live, how you act, what jobs you take, every single thing is based on your existing situation. But when you move abroad, you get to design everything. But when we moved abroad, we had this idea that we wanted to live directly next to the kids school. We wanted to make it so that the kids could wake up as late as possible and still be on time to school because that would change our morning routines. One of the big stressors in the United States was our morning routines because we commuted into the private school that we had chosen, which was not close to the fancy neighborhood we had chosen. But when we moved, that all changed and all of a sudden our kids got more sleep and our routines became slower and we were more calm because we didn't have that grind to adhere to because we designed it differently. And now we've done that in all of the countries we've lived in. We did that in Tokyo where we were super close to the school. We picked our house based on the schools that we were applying to. Here in Portugal, we lived three blocks from the school. Our kids probably lived closer to the school than virtually anybody else because we have designed it that way. So they get to sleep in. My daughter woke up at 753 today and her school starts at 820. So she can wake up, still have breakfast, get dressed and make it to school on time because we've made our life that way. That's what designing your life enables you to do. It allows you to change how your day looks and you get to choose everything. Choose the neighborhood, choose the school, choose exactly what you want your life to look like. Do you want a car? Do you not want a car? Make it however you desire it. So when you hear other expats or immigrants who have moved abroad talking about how happy they are with their new lives. Remember, they're happy because they chose everything and they made the life that they wanted. Just them, nobody else, nobody else's expectations inflicted on that new life. They are happy because it was entirely based on their choices. And the expats who tell you how miserable moving abroad clearly made bad choices. So not everybody knows how to design a life that they desire because they don't realize what it is that they actually want. So there are sometimes flops and those people are very vocal on this app and all over the internet telling you how moving abroad is a terrible mistake. But they just don't know how to make good choices for themselves that would lead to a life that would be very happy based on those choices. If you don't know me, I'm Veronica. And five years ago, I took my family of four out of the United States out of that chaos and decided to live fully abroad. And for the last five years, we've been able to live on three different continents. I now teach Americans how they can leave the United States and create a happier life somewhere abroad. I help you match your reality with the visas around the world that will take you so that you can start designing that new life.
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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? 🆘🇺🇸