We moved to the Dominican Republic without visiting first. And everything went wrong. The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth places we rented were all disasters. Because the problems you encounter living abroad aren't the kind that scouting trips prevent. They're the kind that only show up when you're navigating real life. A scouting trip shows you tourist infrastructure. Living there shows your resident reality. And resident reality is messy. But it's also solvable if you're willing to adapt instead of quit. The difference between people who move abroad successfully and people who go home after three months isn't preparation. It's persistence. Do you treat problems as proof you made a mistake? Or as logistics you need to solve? We could have taken ten scouting trips to the DR and still wouldn't have known about the landlord scam or grocery store volatility of products or the bureaucracy nightmare. Because those things only happen when you're actually living there. And you only get good at solving them by solving them. Scouting trips don't build that muscle. Living does. Link in bio if you're ready to build resilience instead of trying to eliminate risk. ๐๐บ๐ธ
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People who want to figure out how to live abroad will figure it out, regardless of if they take a scouting trip. When I moved my family of four to the Dominican Republic in 2020, we had never been there before, we had no idea what to expect. I wanted to move to a particular city because I had seen a YouTube video of a school in this city. But when I booked the flight, I booked it to an airport that was nowhere near where the school was, and I had to scramble to figure out ground transportation to the actual city I was intending to go be in because I didn't research it. I just was going on a whim. And the number of things that happened that would have possibly turned someone else away from the country entirely. Definitely piled on. We did not have some smooth sailing adventure that has me coming from a place where I'm teaching you after some perfect move abroad experience. We had many disasters. We had places that leaked and had mold in them. We had places with bug infestations. Like literally in the wicker on the bed, there was mites everywhere infested in one of the houses. There was mosquitoes that were tearing up our bodies to the point where we were bleeding from all of the itching. There was a place that we rented that turned out to be next to an Airbnb and the music was bumping all night long. We lived at one place where every single night when we closed up the house for the night, the smell would be so musty and it just smelled damp and disgusting. We lived at another place where ladies of the night were basically doing their job at the poolside when my kids wanted to be at the pool. Yet we persisted and that's because we wanted to. I want you to realize about all these different scenarios that we went through is that none of them would have happened during a scouting trip. If we had been staying at the hotel near the city that we wanted and it was all arranged and perfectly curated by a travel agent, these things would not have happened. They happened because we were living a real life in that place and that's the difference between a scouting trip and what happens when you actually just full on go and move somewhere. That's why scouting trips are so pointless. If you're ready to stop procrastinating, you're a mover broad and actually do it. Definitely join my 2026 Global Life Accelerator. That group coaching program will teach you everything from how to create income, what to do with your stuff, how to pick the country, how to logistically get yourself to that country and how to set your new life up in another country outside of the United States. The link to join that program is in my bio and I can't wait to help you move abroad in 2026.
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