About Freedom Abroad
I didn't move abroad. I grew up there.
That changes what I know — and what I'm building here.
The Shift
The conversation around moving abroad used to be about backpackers and retirees. Now it's teachers keeping a remote salary from Lisbon. Architects raising kids in Barcelona. Parents who did the math on healthcare and housing and came up short at home.
These aren't people chasing sunsets. They're making a calculated decision about where their life works best. And the content that exists for them is failing: cost breakdowns without context, visa guides without honesty, destination rankings that ignore what happens to a place when everyone moves there.
I built Freedom Abroad for the people doing the math.
Not a travel blog. Not an influencer channel. A personal passion project by someone who grew up navigating healthcare systems, school enrollments, tax residency, and the psychology of belonging in a place that isn't where you started.
What I Actually Know
Four pillars. One journey.
Growing up abroad teaches you things guides skip. I work across four pillars because the path from “what if” to “I live here now” doesn't fit neatly into one category.
Inspire
Documentary films that investigate what other cultures have figured out. Not highlight reels. Each one asks a question about resilience, adaptation, or belonging that most travel content never touches.
Earn
The piece everyone skips. How do you keep your income when you leave? Going remote, freelancing, building something location-independent. Nobody does this well. I'm trying to.
Live
Visas. Taxes. Healthcare. Banking. Insurance. The infrastructure that determines whether relocation works or falls apart in six months. I built tools for this: cost-of-living comparisons across 1,200+ cities, destination matching, visa guides, interactive tax breakdowns.
Enjoy
What life actually looks like. The food, the people, the random Tuesday that makes you realize you made the right call. Not curated. Real.
Most channels pick one pillar and ignore the rest. Travel influencers do “enjoy.” Finance creators do “earn.” Visa consultants do “live.” I'm trying to cover all four.
Who Built This
I grew up between cultures. Moved abroad as a kid. Learned the language from true crime documentaries with subtitles. Never quite came back.
Commercial balloon pilot by trade. Filmmaker by obsession. The first Freedom Abroad documentary started as a personal project: filming my father's repatriation to Lithuania after decades away. It became a series. Each country a chapter in the same question: what has this place figured out that I haven't?
The tools, the guides, the cost-of-living data grew out of the same process. Every practical question I needed to answer for myself became something worth sharing.
Where the Affiliate Revenue Goes
A portion of any affiliate revenue this site earns is donated to UNHCR—the UN Refugee Agency.
The privilege of mobility isn't distributed equally. Some people get to call it an “escape plan.” Others, fleeing the same instability, get called refugees. Same act. Completely different reception.
I can't change border policy. But if I'm going to help people move freely, I should also help the people who can't.
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A portion of affiliate revenue is donated to UNHCR
Films, tools, and data for building a life abroad.
Built by someone who grew up doing it.