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Most people calculate the cost of leaving. Nobody calculates the cost of staying. That's the problem. You see the price of plane tickets, visa applications, shipping containers. Those costs are visible, concrete, scary. But the cost of staying? That's invisible. It compounds slowly over years until you look back and realize what you paid. Not in dollars. In time you can't get back. In health you can't recover. In relationships you couldn't sustain. In opportunities you never took. Not deciding to leave IS deciding to stay. And staying has costs you're not acknowledging. You think you're "waiting for the right time" or "gathering more information." But what you're actually doing is choosing - every single day - to accept the hidden price of staying. These aren't hypothetical costs. They're real. You're paying them right now. Every year you stay is another year of that payment. And unlike the one-time cost of moving abroad, the cost of staying never stops accumulating. The reasons to leave your country aren't just about what's wrong with America. They're about what staying is costing you that you're not accounting for. When you actually add it up - the hidden toll on your body, your relationships, your future, your kids' childhood - the cost of leaving starts to look like a bargain. Link in bio if you're ready to stop paying invisible costs and invest in a move instead. ๐Ÿ†˜๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ #creatorsearchinsights

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Sometime before you make the decision to move abroad, you will spend time justifying your reasons to stay in the United States. So in this video, I want to talk about the eight hidden costs of staying in America that people sometimes don't talk about so that you can reflect on these hidden costs and decide if it is worth it for you to stay in the United States or if you are going to make the decision to ultimately move abroad. Number one is the time cost. Life is passing you by. You can't change the fact that time is moving forward and you spend most of your time doing things you don't want to do. You're spending time in survival mode. Number two is the health cost. Chronic health problems come from sleep deprivation and stress that exist in the United States. And that's not even to mention the unhealthy foods because of all the toxins in them that are being put into your body on a daily basis. Number three is the opportunity cost. You don't get to do the things that you want to do because you're so busy doing the things you have to do. And that makes you miss opportunities that you would like to be spending your time on. Number four is the relationship cost. Your kids are growing up and you are not spending the time with them that you want to be. And your relationship with your partner is strained because you don't get to spend date night or time with them during the day because you're spending so much other time just trying to make a living. Number five is the retirement cost. Right now you're either saving for retirement and therefore enjoying your money less or you're not saving for retirement and you're realizing that your money is not going to go very far in your retirement years. Whereas abroad that money will stretch a whole lot further. Number six is the safety cost. Whether you like to admit it or not, everything you do on a daily basis is less safe because you're in the United States. So whether that's going to the mall or going to church or going to the movie theater. Those activities are less safe in the United States than they are anywhere else in the world. Number seven is the freedom cost. Americans actually lack a lot of freedoms that the rest of the world have and they don't really realize it. You don't have the freedom to leave your employer because you feel tied to it because of the healthcare crisis in the United States, if you leave the employer, all of a sudden you're left without healthcare. You also don't have the freedom to do what you want and not have regard to your safety. So like in the last point, you don't have the freedom to go to the mall and be insured that you are not going to be gunned down or go to that concert and be insured that it will be a safe experience. That's a huge lack of freedom in the United States. And number eight is the generational cost. You are teaching your kids that this trauma that's being inflicted on them is okay. You are allowing their bodies to become less healthy by ingesting the toxic food for the duration of their life. These eight things are very real costs of choosing to stay in the United States. So if you're ready to stop making that choice and ready to move abroad, I'm Veronica and I help Americans do just that. I've lived on three different continents with my family of four and now I teach Americans how they can escape the chaos of the United States and stop paying that price just because you were born in America.

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