We help people move abroad. AMA about visas, costs, and the mistakes that trip people up.
Hi r/AmerExit, we’re StartAbroad.
We founded StartAbroad after spending years living and working internationally ourselves. We’re two Americans who have each lived in six countries and we originally moved abroad for career opportunities.
Our most recent move was to Costa Rica, where we moved as digital nomads instead of for a location-specific job. During that experience, we realized how difficult and fragmented the support is for people trying to move abroad on their own. Whether you’re a retiree, remote worker, family, or digital nomad, a lot of the process feels confusing until you are already in the middle of it.
We wanted to build the kind of relocation support we were used to receiving as employees relocating internationally, but for regular people making the move themselves.
Today, we help hundreds of Americans every year move to Portugal, Spain, Costa Rica, and Panama, the countries we specialize in.
We help people with visas, housing, banking, shipping, buying cars, pet relocation, timelines, costs, and navigating the bureaucracy that tends to trip people up.
Most of our team has personally lived abroad, and we’ve guided 800+ clients through the process with a 100% visa approval rate for qualifying applicants.
Ask us anything about moving out of the US and in our target countries: visas, timelines, costs, mistakes to avoid, housing, taxes, pets, or banking. We're set to start answering questions at 18:00 Central Time!
EDIT: Thanks r/AmerExit this was fun! Feel free to leave comments below and we will pop in periodically to answer if you missed us this time.