One of the biggest barriers to moving countries is the pressure to choose perfectly the first time. What if you pick wrong? What if you regret it? What if you waste time and money on a place that doesn't work? Here's what actually happens: you learn what matters to you through experience, not research. I didn't know casual public friendliness mattered until I lived somewhere without it for 2.5 years. I didn't know family willingness to move with me would influence my choices until my parents wouldn't join me in the Dominican Republic. I couldn't have researched my way to those insights. I had to live them. Moving countries isn't about getting it right forever. It's about getting it right for NOW. Dominican Republic was right until it wasn't. Japan was right until it wasn't. Portugal is right until it's not. That's not indecision. That's responding to information you couldn't have known before living it. Your first move teaches you what you actually need. Your second move applies those lessons. Your third move refines further. Link in bio when you're ready to move and adjust instead of researching forever. 🆘🇺🇸 #TikTokCreatorSearchInsightsIncentive
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I want to normalize being willing to move countries multiple times. I know there's this sentiment that the decision to move abroad has to be like one final perfect decision, and that if you're going to commit to moving out of the United States, it's going to be one and done. But I've now lived on three different continents with my family of four, and I do want you to understand that there are so many dynamics at play when it comes to choosing a country, and then within that country choosing a city, and then within that city choosing a neighborhood, and then within that neighborhood choosing a street, all of that plays into what your experience is going to be like when you move to that country. And you could end up hating a country because of the exact street that you chose to live on, and that will just make you want to move countries entirely. When in fact, moving cities might be enough, or maybe even just neighborhoods might be enough. But in your move abroad journey, you're going to learn things about yourself, and figure out things that you like and don't like about living in a place that you could not have anticipated before actually living there. People all the time are shocked that we decided to move away from Japan after living there for two and a half years, but after that amount of time, it really started to wear on me that out in public, there just was no friendly interactions. They are the type of culture that very much keeps to themselves. And after two and a half years, even though we spoke Japanese and lived in a Japanese neighborhood, I didn't have any Japanese friends. And we didn't have just casual smiling and little banter out in public like I would like to have, because my day isn't consistent of going to an office and interacting with those people. My day consisted of errands and being out in the city, so the fact that I wasn't having social interactions while I was out there in the city really started to feel isolated. And so we move to Portugal, where people greet you all the time, and you're constantly having little conversation, because everybody treats everybody like they're just neighbors, and we can all have those friendly banter conversations just passing each other on the street. That's a huge shift in perspective that I would not have known until I had lived through it for a long period of time, because how you're treated as a tourist and how you're treated when you live somewhere is entirely different. My point is don't delay your decision on moving to a new country, because you're trying to get it perfectly right. Be willing to go, live there, have the experience, and then pivot if it's necessary, because moving countries multiple times is an adventure. It's nothing to be ashamed about. It doesn't mean you got things wrong. It's just the next step in your journey.
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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? 🆘🇺🇸