Replying to @auglocqnuk The obstacles you describe as preventing you from moving abroad are real. They're just not immovable. They're uncomfortable to move. Different thing. Massive barrier sounds like: immigration laws preventing you, government blocking your exit, literal impossibility of leaving. Those would be immovable obstacles outside your control. What most people call massive barriers are actually: would have to cancel subscriptions, would have to sell car, would have to live with less stuff, would have to change spending patterns, would have to do uncomfortable things for period of time. Those aren't barriers. Those are choices you're not willing to make. Valid to not want to make those choices. But be honest that you're choosing comfort over change, not that change is impossible. The test is simple: if someone offered you $50,000 to relocate within 6 months, could you do it? If yes, then obstacles aren't preventing you. Your unwillingness to be uncomfortable without payment is preventing you. Most people can identify exactly what they'd need to do differently to create financial room for relocation: cut discretionary spending drastically, sell possessions, downgrade housing/car, eliminate subscriptions, build income stream, redirect every available dollar toward exit fund. They know the pathway. They just don't want to walk it because walking it means: temporary significant discomfort, doing things differently than everyone around them, being judged for choices that look extreme, tolerating deprivation while building toward goal. So instead of saying "I don't want to be that uncomfortable," which sounds like choice, they say "there are massive barriers," which sounds like external constraint outside their control. One is owning that staying is choice. Other is absolving themselves of responsibility for that choice by framing it as impossibility. But you have more control than you're claiming. You're just not willing to exercise that control because exercising it requires doing things you really don't want to do. American system is designed to keep you comfortable enough that you stay while uncomfortable enough that you keep consuming. That narrow band of tolerability is trap. Breaking out requires either: getting so uncomfortable you can't tolerate it anymore, or choosing temporary extreme discomfort to escape permanent mild discomfort. Most people stay in the band. Tolerable enough that leaving feels unnecessary. Uncomfortable enough that they're constantly stressed. Never quite bad enough to force change. The obstacles you're facing are: your own choices about what you're willing to sacrifice, your attachment to current comfort level, your unwillingness to do things that feel extreme, your resistance to being uncomfortable even temporarily. All of those are within your control to change. You're choosing not to change them. That's a valid choice if you own it. But stop calling it massive barrier when it's actually preference. Link in bio for people ready to move obstacles instead of declaring them immovable. What obstacle is actually a choice you're unwilling to make? ๐๐บ๐ธ
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This commenter feels that there are massive barriers between themselves and being able to move abroad. And I hear this kind of thing a lot. People think that there are really big obstacles preventing them from moving abroad. But I would argue that almost all of those obstacles are self-created. Now, part of it is systemic and the United States wants you to be stuck. They want you in constant survival mode. But a lot of it has to do with choices that you have made in order to survive in that system. And the thing is, you can make different choices. You can choose to do things against the status quo that would allow you the wiggle room to be able to move abroad. Being able to say no when the system wants you to say yes is difficult. It is a barrier, definitely. But you have freedom of choice and you can do it. You can cancel every streaming subscription. You can downgrade all of your technology. You can get rid of all of your stuff and live a more minimalistic life while selling things to free up cash. You can change how you use transportation. You do not need to have a massive car payment and insurance payments. You can start using public transportation. That might mean moving to a different place or getting a different employment situation set up. All of those things can reduce your costs. They might be uncomfortable, but they can get you out of survival mode and get you into a place where you have the wiggle room to move abroad. So I'm not sure what the obstacles this person feels is preventing them from moving abroad. But whatever obstacles you feel like you have that are preventing you from moving abroad. I think that you would find that if you really look at it, if you have done everything in your power to create the financial room in your life necessary to be able to move abroad, you haven't taken those steps. You haven't created a new income stream that would qualify you for 95 remote work feces. You haven't created a new passive income stream that would qualify you for 54 passive income feces. And those are things within your control. If you would stop scrolling on this app and go take action. I know I want you to watch my videos. It does help me, but I want you more to disconnect from all the things you're doing right now that are occupying your time. and preventing you from living the life you deserve abroad.
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