You want to live differently.
Let’s figure out what that means for you.
I’ve been living, working, and wandering abroad for over a decade — through 65+ countries, a Bali villa build, a completed book, and enough visa complications to write a separate one. A Brother Abroad exists because I couldn’t find a site that told me what I actually needed to know. So I built it.
You’re in the right place. The gap between “I’ve thought about this” and “I’m doing this” is mostly just information — and a little permission. The good news is that moving abroad is more financially and logistically accessible than most sources want you to believe. Start here.
You’ve moved past “should I” and into “how.” Good. This is where it gets interesting and also where most guides fail you — they cover the checklist but not the judgment calls. Here’s what you actually need to figure out, in roughly the order you need to figure it out.
You’re out here. Good. Then you know the first year is mostly just navigating what you didn’t know you didn’t know. These are the pieces built for people who are past the basics and into the real decisions.
The nomad lifestyle is a phase for most people, not a destination. At some point, the question shifts from “where should I go next” to “where could I actually build something.” This is the territory where ABA’s work is heading — and where the most interesting decisions live.
A Brother Abroad is not a travel blog.
It started as one — a place to document the Everest Base Camp trek, the Balkans by bus, the “Banana Pancake” and “Gringo Trail” backpacking trails most people don’t know exist. That version of the site served its purpose, and then the questions I was getting from readers started changing.
People weren’t asking how to pack a carry-on. They were asking how to actually leave — how to afford the move and life abroad, how to make it legal, how to not have to come back. Those are harder questions, and they’re the ones worth answering.
ABA now sits at the intersection of financial independence, global mobility, and the honest reporting of what living abroad actually looks and feels like — not the Instagram version, not the “quit your job and travel” version. The real one.
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