The biggest regret moving abroad isn't about the move itself. It's about what you don't do once you're there. Tourists see more of the country you live in than you do. Because they have 7 days and a plan. You have years and "we'll do it eventually." We lived in Japan. Never skied. Never visited the famous islands. Never did half the things people fly 14 hours to experience. We're in Portugal now. Haven't explored most of the country. Not because we can't. Because we assume we will. Someday. When life slows down. When we have time. But life doesn't slow down just because you moved abroad. You still have routines. Work. Obligations. Mundane daily life. And living somewhere makes it invisible. It stops being special. It's just where you are. Then vacations come and you leave the country. Go somewhere new. Experience that place intensely for a week. Come home. And never do the same thing in the place you actually live. That's the regret moving abroad that haunts you. Not that you left America. That you moved somewhere incredible and lived it like background noise. Link in bio when you're ready to avoid that mistake. ๐๐บ๐ธ #TikTokCreatorSearchInsightsIncentive
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I asked my husband what his biggest regret in our move abroad journey has been and he told me that his biggest regret is that whatever country we're living in, we don't explore around that region enough. So when we were living in Japan, we never went skiing. We never went out to like Fox Island or Rabbit Island and there was so many things that our friends would come over and say, "Oh, over the long weekend we did this thing and we never did those things." So he regrets that we didn't take advantage of the fact that we were there and just actually, you know, spread out and see more things. And I think the same is true in Dominican Republic. There was a couple of times that we went and saw different areas but for the most part we just stayed in our city and we didn't get out and venture out to the other areas very much. And I think the same thing is playing out here in Portugal. We very rarely leave our area and I know Cintra is beautiful but we do have our life here and we just get very stuck in the mundane in the day to day and we don't go spend time out in the countryside or exploring other areas of Portugal. So I definitely agree with my husband's assessment of a regret that we have on our move abroad journey. Fully on board, I think that's partly my fault because anytime the kids have a school vacation or something, I plan a trip somewhere new that I want to go. I kind of perceive like we've been in Portugal so I want to go somewhere new but we should take advantage of the place that we're in and explore the beauty on a smaller scale in the future. I blame the kids. I guess it's the kids fault. Yeah, a road trip with the kids would be kind of a nightmare but we should do more of it.
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