The logistical infrastructure that makes adult life work in America doesn’t automatically transfer when you move abroad, and most people don’t realize what breaks until they’re already gone and suddenly can’t access things they need. Your mail doesn’t forward itself indefinitely. Your phone number stops working the moment you cancel US service. Your financial accounts, utility logins, and streaming services detect you’re abroad and either lock you out or require verification you can’t provide without US presence. These aren’t hypothetical problems. These are “you’re abroad and suddenly can’t pay your credit card bill because the verification code went to address you no longer live at and phone number you no longer have” problems. The people who relocate smoothly set up systems before leaving that handle: mail management so important documents reach you, phone number continuity so two-factor authentication works, location masking so accounts don’t realize you’re accessing from abroad. The people who relocate messily spend first months abroad frantically trying to solve these problems while dealing with time zone differences, language barriers, and accounts that are now locked because suspicious activity flags triggered. This is difference between proactive setup and reactive problem-solving. Proactive happens while you’re still in US with easy access to everything. Reactive happens when you’re abroad at 3am trying to unlock account that needs verification you can’t provide. Most of these systems are cheap or free. They just require knowing they exist and setting them up before you need them. But if you don’t know what infrastructure you’re losing by leaving America, you can’t prepare alternatives. Watch video for specific solutions to specific problems that will absolutely come up if you don’t handle them in advance. Link in bio for comprehensive relocation prep that includes the boring logistics people forget about until they’re problems. What broke when you moved abroad that you didn’t expect? 🆘🇺🇸
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Here are three things I always recommend for anyone who wants to move abroad. Number one, traveling mailbox. I'm going to put my affiliate link right here on the screen. You have to screenshot it to click it. Traveling mailbox is an alternative to a PO box. Not only do they scan the front of your envelopes, but you can direct them to open mail, to scan it to you, to physically send it to you wherever you are in the world. And that alleviates a lot of stress of getting in touch with whatever you need to in the United States. You can get your tax documents. You can get credit cards when they expire. You can see all of your bank documents. All the things that get sent to you in the United States are solved with the traveling mailbox. Number two is Trello. Again, I'm going to put my link right here on the screen. Trello is an alternative of what you're going to do with your phone number, your United States-based phone number when you move abroad. Because I don't know if you knew this, but if you leave the country and you're gone for too long, your phone company will kick you off. This is what happened to us after we had been living in the Dominican Republic for six months. They were like, "You need to come back to the United States or you can't keep having an American cell phone service." So Trello is what you're going to port that number over to in order to get those text messages that your bank sends you when you're trying to log in internationally. They're always trying to send you those verification codes. You need to be able to access those and this is how you do it. Number three is going to be NordVPN. Again, my link will be on the screen. NordVPN is how you can log into those things that will not allow you to log in if you're not in the United States. There are numerous things that I can't log into if I don't pretend I'm in America. So for example, my garbage service for whatever reason does not allow me to log into there and look at my bill and look at if they miss to pick up unless I'm in the United States. So that NordVPN kind of tricks your devices into believing that it's in a different country and then you can do what you wish. It also works great for streaming services or if your employer needs to see that you're in the United States, NordVPN is definitely helpful for those of us who live abroad full time. When you screenshot and click on any of those links that I provided in this video, it does help me. I get a little kickback, so I appreciate that, but they are all services that I personally recommend to my clients and I use personally. So I can vouch for them and say, these are the things you need when you're moving abroad. Set them up before you leave the United States so you know that everything is squared away and that you're set up before you get into foreign soil.
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