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Thoughts and articles on the intersection of work, life, and travel. How we make the best use of our time, enjoy life to the fullest, and make travel a priority in the balance of competing draws on our money and attention.
If you never seem to have enough money for travel but a billion other people on the planet do, what’s wrong with this picture? Why don’t you have a travel budget that can pay for your vacations? It probably means that something else is a bigger priority. After all, a travel budget is simply…
This post on how to move out of the US went up in 2024, before inflation and unemployment started rising, national parks started closing, and planes started crashing regularly. It was updated in 2025 after all the dire predictions starting coming true. Sales of my living abroad book spiked bigtime this week as I…
Moving to a new country is an adventure that often comes with its own set of challenges, chief among them being culture shock. This phenomenon encompasses the range of emotional and psychological reactions people experience when immersed in a foreign culture. It typically starts with an initial honeymoon phase, during which everything about the…
Do you need to rent a mailbox because you no longer have a physical home in your country of birth? Do you need to maintain residency for banking and a driver’s license but you’re nomadic or are based in another country? After you’ve found a cheap place to live in another country, it can…
Ever since I started this budget travel blog back in 2003, I’ve written regularly about safe travels and the perception of travel risks. Even though people—especially Americans—generally face more deadly risks at home than they do abroad, people who don’t travel much think it’s a big scary world out there and they have to…
There are plenty of cheap apartments to rent around the world, just fewer and fewer in the USA–or in Canada, Australia, and England for that matter. You don’t have to live with unaffordable housing, but you might need a big change of address to get back to sane prices you can really afford. This…
