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Scouting trips are a very effective marketing campaign from travel agents and government immigration programs. They have convinced you that a tour group visiting a city for a day or two is going to help you make a decision about where to move. All you are doing by taking a scouting trip is engaging in expensive procrastination. You waste a bunch of money on a not very fun vacation while also delaying your decision to actually move. Instead, decide to move, pick a city based on all available data, and then move. After six months of living there, you may start to pick up on little things that annoy you, start tracking those and if after a year that place doesn’t feel like a winner, try again with a new city. A scouting trip will just make you dig your heels in the sand on the city you pick and you’ll refuse to pivot when things get hard because you invested so much in picking that city. 🆘🇺🇸 #TikTokEncyclopediaContest

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I'm going to be so for real right now. Scouting trips are the biggest lie this industry has ever sold you. The whole idea of scouting trips came from the fact that they were trying to find a way to monetize the fact that you were leaving. All the original scouting trips were being done in group tours to sell you the dream of living in certain countries. And that was very effective to get retirees to move to their countries. And that idea has now just stuck. As someone who moved out of the country five years ago, I'm here to tell you that scouting trips are just expensive procrastination while making you feel productive. There is no way for you to take a scouting trip and learn actual things about the country about what life will be like there. If you happen to take that scouting trip during optimal weather conditions in that country, you're going to have a much more positive outlook on that country than you would if you get there and it's just torrential downforce. But the reality is that place might have torrential downforce, you just didn't see it during the time you were there. Or maybe there's a certain season where bugs are out in force, but you weren't there during that season. So that didn't bother you on your scouting trip, but the reality is, unless you live on that block or within that neighborhood, you having that life is not going to happen. Your life as an actual resident of that place looks so, so different than what it looked like on your scouting trip. And I'm here to tell you, after having lived in three different countries, that you go there and you don't start to experience the annoyances until many months in. Six months plus into your journey until you start picking up on those little annoyances, the things that you just dismiss before, all of a sudden you're like these people drive like maniacs or the neighbors park so rudely or I can't believe she's doing that. You try to deal with the bureaucracy and you want to hit your head against the wall with the access to information that you have now at your fingertips and the experts in the field that can help you match to visa programs all around the world, you don't have to go on scouting trips. That literally just takes money out of your budget that you could be spending on a nicer place to rent or a nicer car when you're there, and it would feel wrong, even though I'm a travel agent to sell you a package to go look at that place when we know that that's the right place for you. I would rather you have more money in your budget, go enjoy that country and live your best life in the new country. I can help you in a week's time. If you book an exit plan consultation, I will meet with you, batch all of your logistics to visa processes globally, and then a week later you get a report of exactly where you should move. Not just where you should, but where you can, which visas allow you to actually move there.

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