Hello! My name is Laura. When I was younger, I loved traveling in Europe and dreamed of living there, but for a long time I couldn’t imagine how it might be possible. Then, in the midst of the COVID pandemic, my family and I decided to pick up and move from New York City to Barcelona.

In my 20s, I imagined several ways I could move abroad: lucking into a job in a foreign place or retiring with enough money to live in another country, but there were a lot of “ifs” seemed out of my control. When the realities of telecommuting opened a door in my mind that I didn't know existed, my wheels started turning. I could imagine living abroad was possible. Over the many months of remote work and school (for my kids), my husband and I started to form a plan to leave the US and live somewhere new. Without the restrictions of dragging into an office 5 days a week, I had a new dream that we could live in a modernist apartment between the mountains and the sea in Barcelona, my sons could learn new languages, and we could travel around Europe visiting amazing places and having new experiences.

I’m here to tell you how I did it.