Replying to @thats_close_enough Americans will spend $200 on a bulletproof backpack for their 8-year-old and call that normal. Not alarming. Not dystopian. Just... normal. "Better safe than sorry." "Every little bit helps." "At least I'm doing something." You know what else you could do? Move to a country where bulletproof backpacks don't exist because they're not needed. My kids go to school in Portugal with regular backpacks. Because the threat they're designed to protect against doesn't exist here. Not because Portugal has better security. Because Portugal doesn't have a mass shooting problem. The fact that an entire industry exists to profit off your fear should tell you everything about how broken the system is. But instead of leaving the system, you're buying products to survive within it. That's not protection. That's acceptance. Link in bio when you're ready to stop accepting this as normal. 🆘🇺🇸
@nomadveronicaTranscript
When we lived in the United States, I remember when my kids school announced all of the precautions that they were going to have in the classrooms in the event of a shooter. They talked about how they had these disposable bathroom things in a bucket that they were going to keep in a closet. And they required us to bring in some comfort supplies that they were going to keep in bins in the classroom in the event of a shooter. And they also required us to write them a letter that was like a comforting letter in the event that they had to stay trapped in their classroom when one of these emergencies was happening. Now there's been an entire industry created around school shootings. I mean, not just bulletproof glass, but they've got rooms, entire safe rooms that you can pull out of the corner. They've got all sorts of locking mechanisms and ways to wedge the door shut. They've got products for our children, including bulletproof sweatshirts, bulletproof backpack shields that they can keep in their backpack to protect them from an active shooter in their school. I read this post one time on social media of a mother who was so proud of her son and how he responded to the active shooter drill at his school, where she was bragging about how with the fake gunmen, the teacher acting as a gunman came to his classroom, her son jumped on the guy and started wailing on him. And she just thought that was hilarious. She was giving him accolades for how brave he was. And the comments were all just so positive. They were all talking about how proud they were of this little boy for his actions. And as I read that, I was just sad and felt terrible that the coping mechanism of a parent is that they have to think about how wonderful it is that their child would go attack a shooter. But we shouldn't have to think about how our child would respond in those situations to begin with, letting our kids go through this trauma and finding all these ways to justify that trauma by creating an entire industry of products that we are saying is going to make it better instead of just fixing the problem. Anyways, I don't have to think about this so much anymore because I moved my kids out of the United States five years ago, but it is still just as devastating to watch these school shootings happening on the news from afar because they happen so often. But if you're ready to leave the United States and get your kids to a school where that will not happen, you can work with me one on one and there's links in my bio to do that.
Download Transcript
Related Videos
If picking a new country was as easy as comparing crime statistics and educational outcomes, than obviously that country would be overrun with expats. The best countries to move to are not one size fits all. Before you get your hopes up about any particular country, I suggest you take a step back. Determine your visa eligibility first. Some countries are trying to attract retirees. Other countries are welcoming digital nomads. And there are countries only looking for wealthy expats. Your income type and amount will determine what countries will take you. Schedule your exit plan call if you’re ready to stop daydreaming and start packing. #creatorsearchinsights
You say you want to leave America for another country, but you never do. Here is exactly where you can go, an island paradise with friendly English speaking people and no paperwork required. Yet, you still won’t go. We’ve gotta change your mindset about leaving America. It’s not healthy to just keep saying you want to leave but never doing what you say you want. You can absolutely move to another country and I will show you how. 🆘🇺🇸 #TikTokEncyclopediaContest #creatorsearchinsights
There are a lot of people who love the idea of moving abroad. There are fewer people who are actually ready to make it happen. If you have been stuck researching how to move abroad from the US, how to leave America, where to live overseas, or how to move abroad with kids, but you still do not have a plan, this page is for you. A lot of smart people get trapped in analysis paralysis. They keep consuming more content because it feels productive. But more information does not always create movement. Sometimes it just creates more confusion. You do not need fifty more tabs open. You need the right order of steps. You need a strategy that fits your life. You need someone who understands how to move from vague dream to actual plan. I help Americans who are tired of researching moving abroad and ready to start taking action. Follow if you want practical guidance, realistic next steps, and a clear path toward living abroad. 🆘🇺🇸
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? 🆘🇺🇸