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Moving Abroad is Easier Than You Think

While skimming articles online, I came across one about moving abroad.

Sara Burdick
4 min readDec 20, 2024
My front yard, covered in clouds. Photo by author.

I don’t remember where I saw the article, somewhere down a long Google search or on a platform I read; who knows?

However, where I read the article was not the important part; the message was. Basically, the person was telling you/me that it is utterly impossible to move abroad, and how much you need to do and research and again do, and then they told you how expensive it was; the list was exhaustive and went on and on.

I am here to tell you that moving abroad is not hard. I don’t think anything is hard unless you are not willing to put in the work.

It is like anything in life: if you want it bad enough, and it is meant to be, every door will be wide open, and you will not meet much resistance. It will flow, as life is not meant to be hard.

We humans make life much harder by staying inside our heads and overthinking every single detail.

I had no plan to move abroad; I planned to be nomadic the rest of my life, have no home base, and maybe live a bunch of different ways. That is still my plan; even though I have a home right now, this is only for now, in the present moment.

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Sara Burdick
Sara Burdick

Written by Sara Burdick

I quit the rat race after working as a nurse for 16 years. Travel and Storyteller. I live in Colombia. https://substack.com/@saraburdick

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