- My family moved in 2018 from the US to Thailand and quickly realized it wasn’t our forever home.
- We moved again to Portugal, and with the experience of the first move, we made fewer mistakes.
In 2018, our family of four packed our entire lives into eight suitcases and moved to a new country. Less than a year later, we did it again.
The first move, to Thailand, felt like a dream come true. But the challenges started just two weeks into our new life, when all four of us came down with serious food poisoning and my two kids and I had to be hospitalized. I remember a specific moment in the hospital in Phuket when the overwhelm hit me. As I looked down at the IV in my arm and then over to my 5-year-old daughter in the bed beside me, I wondered if we had made the right decision moving there.
The potential that moving abroad was a mistake was terrifying to even consider. We had…
