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Life20 Mar 2026 5 min read

On moving abroad with only a backpack and a reason

What it feels like to relocate with intention rather than accident.

Travel Growth Europe

Relocating is the easy part. People act like it's this enormous mountain, but booking a flight and finding an apartment is the easy part. The hard part is sitting in that new city on a Tuesday evening and wondering if you made the right call.

I'm not there yet. I'm still in the planning phase, the spreadsheet phase. But I've been thinking about what it means to move with intention — not just following work or following someone else — but going somewhere because you decided you belong there.

That's the version I want.

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