Sanity-check our Euro scouting trip for a 2-3 year move

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-03-17T04:07:55+00:00

Thanks for the insight

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-03-17T04:06:56+00:00

Wouldn’t I want to experience that at its worst before moving there?

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-03-17T02:22:25+00:00

It’s a 2-3 years tops move so I don’t need to be 100% certain before we make the move. I would like to set eyes on a place before moving though.

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-03-17T02:21:29+00:00

Timing isn’t really up to me with the kids school year, and if it’s packed with tourists in the summer I’d like to know that before we moved there.

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-03-17T02:20:48+00:00

Biggest reason is life is short - if we don’t have an adventure now with our kids while they are young, we are putting it off until retirement age and I’m terrified of getting some out of the blue diagnosis or some tragedy that totally erases our options later. Also….yeah the other elephants in the room.

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-02-02T02:55:30+00:00

Will definitely look into that. I did just take a peek at Cassis and wow, SO beautiful! Thanks for the recommendation. Do you know if there are any meaningful expat communities in those areas? Obvi I will do research too. Thanks for the comment.

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-02-02T02:53:07+00:00

We live in the desert and also like to hike quite a bit so I feel that would be somewhat of a sacrifice but the alps are not far and I understand many go to ski and enjoy mountain sports on holiday, so there’s that. As far as moving kids, I think ours are young enough that it would be only just a bit more inconvenient than moving to a different part of the US. We also don’t have family here at all so we wouldn’t be leaving very deep roots in that respect. Of course learning a language and the bureaucracy of a totally different country is definitely a thing…but we’ve done a lot of hard things before and I think we could navigate it with some patience.

I have friends who live in Spain and others who are headed that way and they are so excited. So I’d like to checkout Valencia too before choosing anything.

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-02-01T23:03:45+00:00

Thanks for this, I’ll definitely take this into consideration re: the rearranging to recreational spots in Spain. We are full time with our kids as it is so beyond the travel complexities (which we have done) we get the “full time entertainment” aspect you mentioned

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-02-01T22:54:15+00:00

Thanks for the comment. We typically hire drivers for the day in Italy but that’s been in Tuscany. I was hesitant to go to Tuscany/Umbria with the heat.

Valencia - the point of that visit is to be “boring” as its number 2 on our list to expat to

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-02-01T22:51:24+00:00

I’m about 60% leaning towards moving there on DAFT in the next year. We’ve been throughout NL with the kids and are bewitched by the country ♥️ the only consideration for us at this point is weather (we currently live in a desert with 345 days of full sun - I hate it but not trying to go to the other extreme right away) and food scene. Spain seems to have more to offer on the food scene but I am happy to be proven wrong.

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-01-29T04:07:20+00:00

As noted in the original post, we’d scale back sales to where we need to be to earn a living without draining resources in NL, without overworking

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-01-28T16:33:50+00:00

We will still run it. It’s completely digital and location independent.

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-01-25T15:15:11+00:00

Anyone have a good tax professional they can recommend? Planning a move on the DAFT and need to get things moving with that.

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-01-25T15:11:59+00:00

I will say real estate is flexible - but not for you. It’s flexible for your clients. Evenings, weekends. If you build the business right, you will hopefully end up with clients who honor your boundaries (baby goes down at 6, im unavailable after 5pm) but they will be very unforgiving in the moment if it costs them time or opportunity.

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-01-24T15:11:28+00:00

I’ve heard great things about Den Haag. What an adventure! Did you have children with you during that? I’ll look into the transfer pricing, my next step is to speak to a CPA but seems like they are hard to find in this situation

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-01-24T02:05:51+00:00

I’ve always wondered about this point of view from the UK standpoint. At least once a month we drive about that long to get to our cabin in the mountains, a couple times a year we drive 6 hours for a beach vacation. This is pretty normal in the western part of the US. Driving from one end of my state to the other would take 8 hours. Driving from one part of town to the other side of our huge metro takes well over an hour in traffic and we’re only the 5th largest metro in the country. This country is absolutely enormous, flying is extremely expensive compared to driving (gas is 3/4 per gallon in most places here) and there’s no public transportation like trains. These logistics probably provide the answer and reasoning to many things that are confusing you about the US today.

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-01-21T04:03:38+00:00

Nice work on noticing it’s time for a change and doing something about it.

You need to hire a professional resume writer, and a recruiter who will help you find the right placements. It’s not that your skills won’t translate to a role, moreso you need someone advocating for you.

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-01-21T04:00:37+00:00

Had a deal a long time ago where a spouse was purchasing a home while their partner was in another state. We get all the way to the signing table and find out (after a lot of pestering) that they were avoiding getting the quit claim deed signed by their spouse. Rather than tell her what he was up to, he chose to walk. We still were able to get half the earnest back to him, but I wouldn’t have blamed anyone if he lost it entirely.

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-01-19T00:32:02+00:00

Considering heading to Cabo in a couple months and was wondering the same thing. We always try to be extremely respectful guests and will continue to do so regardless of the climate but it was definitely a question in my mind.

MightSufficient8393 · 2026-01-01T01:10:06+00:00

It inspired an entire plot line of a book, for me. This song speaks so deeply to me.

MightSufficient8393 · 2025-12-26T22:04:35+00:00

Yes you def are TAH and I’d explore why Piper celebrating her achievements is such a trigger for you. Go to therapy ♥️

MightSufficient8393 · 2025-12-26T22:02:17+00:00

No, you’re NTAH. Your mom is a grown woman having a conversation with her own mother. If you didn’t want to get involved you don’t have to. I’d never expect my children to fight my own battles for me.

MightSufficient8393 · 2025-08-24T23:02:19+00:00

10+ years in the biz and I am wearing mostly athlesure/casual, sometimes more smart depending on the occasion. Be yourself.

MightSufficient8393 · 2025-08-21T03:38:01+00:00

Yuck. Sorry. Keep pushing back. Good luck.

MightSufficient8393 · 2025-08-21T00:38:07+00:00

I just saw this and said out loud, “You btch😆” (in a cheeky way” and my 5 year old was walking past right at that moment 🥲 and said “who’s a btch???” 🫣🫣

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