RESOURCES
Tools you’ll actually use.
Practical guides and checklists to help you think through relocating abroad with clarity and less overwhelm. Some resources are free. Some are paid. All come from what we’ve actually used.
START HERE
START HERE, FREE
Two guides we built first.
Before logistics take over, these two help you think more clearly about whether to move and what to ask. Send your email and we'll send the PDF.
Should I Move Abroad Midlife?
A grounded look at the personal, financial, and emotional factors that matter most at this stage of life. Designed to help you think clearly before jumping into logistics.
Questions to Ask Before Leaving the US
A checklist of conversations and considerations most people skip until it's too late. Covers money, relationships, healthcare, and long-term implications.
FLAGSHIP · MOST COMPREHENSIVE TOOL
The Move Abroad Prep Kit
Twenty-one tabs. One interactive planner. The single most comprehensive tool we offer.
Built from what we actually used to plan and make the move ourselves. Covers destination research, financial readiness, healthcare, housing, logistics, the first ninety days, and what comes after. With fields most relocation planners skip, including welcoming to Black people as a destination-research priority alongside cost, visa rules, and healthcare access.
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LIFETIME UPDATES
TOOLKIT BUNDLES
Curated sets, grouped by phase.
Resources we kept reaching for at the same time, packaged for better value than à la carte. Buy a bundle, or browse individual items in the library below.
All-Access Bundle
Everything we've made for the move. The interactive Prep Kit, every checklist and worksheet, and the full Cuenca library, in one purchase.
INCLUDES
The Move Abroad Prep Kit (interactive planner)
All 9 worksheets and checklists
All 10 Cuenca Living Starter guides
Free lifetime updates to every resource
$147
4 toolkits + Prep Kit
Individual price $330 · Save $183 (55%)
Decision Toolkit
Tools to understand cost of living, budgeting, and healthcare realities before committing to a move.
$24
4 resources · individual price $36
INCLUDES
Cost of Living Comparison Worksheet
Budget Worksheet: Current vs Abroad Monthly
Budget Worksheet: One-Time Relocation + First 90 Days
Healthcare Checklist
Relocation Planning Toolkit
Step-by-step checklists to help you plan, move, and settle without rushing decisions.
$29
5 resources · individual price $45
INCLUDES
Housing Search Checklist
Moving Abroad with Pets Checklist
Relocation Planning Checklist
Packing Checklist
First 90 Days Abroad Checklist
Cuenca Living Starter Kit
Local, experience-based resources to help you navigate daily life in Cuenca with fewer surprises.
$47
10 resources · individual price $140
INCLUDES
Cuenca Neighborhood Map
Cuenca Service Providers
Utilities, Banks, and Phone
Hospitals, Pharmacies, Doctors
Pets in Cuenca
Shopping in Cuenca (×2 guides)
Culture and Courtesy Basics
Top Places to Meet Expats
Spanish You'll Actually Use in Cuenca
Expat is a privilege. Immigrant is the truth. We use both honestly.
EDITORIAL STANDPOINT · JONATHAN & KARENThe Full Library
Browse by category.
Twenty-seven resources across eight categories. Free articles for thinking; paid worksheets and checklists for doing.
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Planning & Decision Making
Start here if you're still sorting through whether relocating abroad is right for you.
What Actually Changes When You Move Abroad
ARTICLE
An honest look at what really shifts, and what doesn't, once you relocate. Focuses on daily life, identity, and expectations beyond the highlight reel.
Free
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The Midlife Expat Reality Check
ARTICLE
A counterbalance to relocation enthusiasm. Names the hard parts most expat content skips, especially for people moving in their 40s, 50s, and 60s.
Free
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Should I Move Abroad Midlife? & Questions to Ask Before Leaving the US
FREE PDFS
Both available at the top of this page via email. Two foundational guides we built first.
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Race, Power & Identity
Foundational, not optional. This section exists because most expat content treats whiteness as the default. We're publishing here from our own lives. Jonathan on race, Karen on gender, and both of us on what the move has been like together. Not a roadmap. A starting point you can build from.
Cuenca for Black Expats: Jonathan's Experience
ARTICLE
Cuenca after one year, from a Black man with a specific history. What the move actually feels like, where the harder moments come from, and why I'd still recommend it.
Free
What Whiteness Looks Like in Cuenca
ARTICLE
What whiteness looks like in Cuenca, from a white woman who's been paying attention for thirty-three years. The patterns, the costs, the contradictions.
Free
What Doesn't Get Checked at Customs
ARTICLE
Two views from the same move. Jonathan on race and visibility abroad, Karen on whiteness from inside it, both on the systems that don't disappear when you cross a border.
Free
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Cost of Living & Budgeting
Tools to map what life will actually cost, side by side with what it costs now.
Cost of Living Comparison Worksheet
WORKSHEET
in Decision Toolkit
A side-by-side worksheet for comparing what life costs where you are now versus where you're considering, across the categories that actually move the needle.
$9
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Budget Worksheet: Current vs Abroad Monthly
WORKSHEET
in Decision Toolkit
A structured way to map your current monthly budget against what your monthly budget might look like after a move, without guesswork or assumptions.
$9
Add to cart →
Budget Worksheet: One-Time Relocation + First 90 Days
WORKSHEET
in Decision Toolkit
Maps the costs that hit only once or only at the start: visa fees, shipping, deposits, setup, and the early-months bridge spend most plans underestimate.
$9
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Housing
What to expect when finding and renting a home abroad.
Housing Search Checklist
CHECKLIST
in Relocation Planning Toolkit
Step-by-step considerations for searching, viewing, and evaluating housing in a new country, with an emphasis on avoiding common mistakes.
$9
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Renting Abroad: What Surprised Us
ARTICLE
Lessons learned from our own rental experience, including things listings don't tell you and expectations that often don't translate.
Free
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Healthcare
Planning for medical care before and after your move.
Healthcare Checklist
CHECKLIST
in Decision Toolkit
A practical checklist covering insurance, prescriptions, medical records, and planning for both routine and unexpected care abroad.
$9
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Pets
For people relocating with animals and trying to plan responsibly.
Moving Abroad with Pets Checklist
CHECKLIST
in Relocation Planning Toolkit
A timeline-based checklist covering documentation, travel planning, veterinary care, and the practical realities of relocating with pets.
$9
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Relocation & Settling In
Structured tools to help you plan, move, and adjust without rushing decisions.
Relocation Planning Checklist
CHECKLIST
in Relocation Planning Toolkit
A timeline-based checklist for the months leading up to a move, with the kind of practical sequencing most generic guides skip.
$9
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Packing Checklist
CHECKLIST
in Relocation Planning Toolkit
What to bring, what to ship, what to sell, and what to leave behind. Built for international moves, not just changing apartments.
$9
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First 90 Days Abroad Checklist
CHECKLIST
in Relocation Planning Toolkit
The setup tasks most people don't think about until they're already overwhelmed. Banking, paperwork, basic systems, social anchoring.
$9
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Where We Actually Live
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Cuenca: Living Here Daily
The deepest section in the library, because this is where our days actually happen. Lived-experience resources for navigating Cuenca, not scraped lists.
Cuenca Neighborhood Map
GUIDE
in Cuenca Living Starter Kit
Every named neighborhood in Cuenca, color-coded, with malls, markets, rivers, and transit landmarks labeled. Also free with a YouTube subscription at @gen-xpat.
$9
Add to cart →
Utilities, Banks, and Phone
GUIDE
in Cuenca Living Starter Kit
How to set up the boring-but-essential infrastructure of daily life in Cuenca, with the steps that aren't obvious until you're stuck.
$14
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Pets in Cuenca
GUIDE
in Cuenca Living Starter Kit
Vets, food sources, walking routes, altitude considerations, and the practical realities of pet life in a high-altitude city.
$14
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Shopping in Cuenca: Home & Goods
GUIDE
in Cuenca Living Starter Kit
Furniture, appliances, hardware, and household supplies. The shops we use and the ones worth crossing the city for.
$14
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Top Places to Meet Expats
GUIDE
in Cuenca Living Starter Kit
Where the community actually gathers, beyond the obvious. Plus a few honest notes on which crowds we've found rewarding versus draining.
$14
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Cuenca for Black Expats: Jonathan's Experience
ARTICLE
Cuenca after one year, from a Black man with a specific history. What the move actually feels like, where the harder moments come from, and why I'd still recommend it.
Free
Cuenca Service Providers
GUIDE
in Cuenca Living Starter Kit
A working list of the people we've used: cleaners, drivers, handypeople, translators. Names we'd actually pass to a friend.
$14
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Hospitals, Pharmacies, Doctors
GUIDE
in Cuenca Living Starter Kit
The ones we use, the ones we'd avoid, what to expect at each, and how to navigate the system in another language.
$14
Add to cart →
Shopping in Cuenca: Food & Markets
GUIDE
in Cuenca Living Starter Kit
Mercados, supermarkets, specialty stores, and where to find the things you can't find. With pricing reality and seasonality notes.
$14
Add to cart →
Culture and Courtesy Basics
GUIDE
in Cuenca Living Starter Kit
Small things that matter in daily interactions, from greetings to volume to timing. The unwritten stuff that makes a difference.
$14
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Cuenca Daily Life: What We Wish We'd Known
ARTICLE
The texture of living here that isn't in the relocation guides. Slower mornings, louder afternoons, and the rhythms that took us months to read.
Free
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Spanish You'll Actually Use in Cuenca
GUIDE
in Decision Toolkit
The Spanish phrases you'll actually use day-one in Cuenca: taxis, mercado bargaining, intercom calls, building guards, grocery checkout, directions. With the local Cuencano words and phrasing real people use, not textbook Spanish. Built from what we wished we'd practiced before we landed.
$14
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