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Going Abroad

Eleven cards on a long stay in another country: papers, money, the road, housing, language, work, what stays behind and whether you come back.

Take it for a long relocation with visas and work, not a short holiday trip.

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How to read it

The spread is laid out as two shores with a crossing between them. On the left are you and what stays behind; read those two together, because what is left always pulls back. The middle is the crossing itself: papers, money and the road, the three places where such trips most often fall apart. The right shore is life over there: how the country greets you, language and people, housing and daily life, work or study. The last two cards are the trial and the outcome: return, stay, or move on. If what stays behind outweighs the whole right side, the trip will be shorter than planned.

Positions

  1. You and your decision

    The state you leave in: whether you are running from something or going toward it.

  2. How the country greets you

    The first thing you meet on arrival and whether it matches your expectations.

  3. Papers

    How the formal side goes: visas, permits, deadlines and possible refusals.

  4. Money

    Whether your means cover the first months and where the shortfall comes from.

  5. The road

    The move itself: how it goes and what complicates it at the last moment.

  6. Housing and daily life

    Where and how you will live there and how much strength daily life will take.

  7. Language and people

    How fast you enter the other language and find people of your own.

  8. Work or study

    What will occupy you there and whether your previous experience is recognised.

  9. What stays behind

    The people, work or home that stay and will keep pulling you back.

  10. The main trial

    The hardest thing in the first six months and what you are underestimating.

  11. How it ends

    Whether you return, stay or move on, and what decides the outcome.

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