The thing about life after leaving America that's hardest to explain: You don't get to have both. You can have proximity to family and friends in America. Or you can have safety, affordable healthcare, time, and peace abroad. Not both. That's the trade. American friends don't understand why you'd choose distance. Because for them, family proximity isn't competing with anything existential. They're not weighing "see grandma every week" against "kids don't practice hiding from shooters." They're not calculating "attend every wedding" against "afford to go to the doctor." For them, staying is default. The costs are invisible because everyone around them is paying them too. But once you leave and stop paying those costs, the trade-off becomes clear. Yes, you miss people. Yes, you miss moments. Yes, there's grief. But you're not trading presence for nothing. You're trading it for a version of life where your nervous system isn't in constant survival mode. That's not a vacation. That's not temporary. That's a permanent recalibration of what you're willing to sacrifice for what you need. Link in bio if you're ready to make a trade your American friends won't understand. ๐๐บ๐ธ #creatorsearchinsights
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Here are three things my American friends don't understand about my life living abroad. Number one, I'm not on vacation. This is my real life. I know it might seem like I kind of do a lot of fun things. And part of that is because a life abroad allows you more flexibility with your time. You're allowed to design your life from the ground up. And so that life looks a lot more casual and have a lot more free time to do the things you want to do. That's why I've been able to go to the gym more often. That's why I've been able to spend more time with my kids because I designed my new life that way. But it's not a vacation. It's just how life looks when you choose a life abroad. Number two is that this is not a phase. This was not something that we needed to just do temporarily to have a fix on the fact that there's chaos going in America right now. This is something that we are going to do forever as a lifestyle. We've been on three different continents over the last five years. And we're just going to keep choosing new places as we see fit. But never again, will that place be the United States of America? That place was absolutely toxic for our family, for myself. It was just not a place that we will ever go back to. So this will be life for the rest of my life. And number three is that this is a sacrifice. Living abroad is tough. A lot of the times I miss my friends and family. And I am lonely sometimes. But it's just that the sacrifices are worth it. The trade-offs for the safety and the calm and the freedom that we have abroad are worth those sacrifices. So for anyone who's thinking, oh, she must have had it easy. She must not have had concerns about missing her friends or family or feeling like she's missing out on stuff back here. That's not true at all. I feel like I'm missing out on stuff all the time. And I do regret not being able to be there for certain things. It's just that it's worth it for me to send my kids to school knowing that they're going to make it home at the end of the day. And I would trade any sacrifice for that safety that I've given to my children by moving abroad. I'm Veronica and I try to share an honest take about my live abroad experience so that I can show other moms in the United States that they can do this too. Because the more moms I can help get your children out of the United States, the more I'll feel like I've done my job. I've helped as many people as I could escape that chaos and give their kids the safety abroad that they deserve. If you're ready to say goodbye to the United States and find a new country that will be safe for your family, there's links to work with me in my bio.
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