Über Alan Gouffé
If you read standard digital nomad newsletters, they make moving abroad sound like an afternoon errand. They talk about “packing a backpack and buying a ticket.”
They clearly have never stood in a half-packed apartment at 2:00 AM, surrounded by cardboard boxes, staring at a bureaucratic visa email that completely contradicts the email they received last Tuesday.
I was born in the Seychelles, but I spent 13 years of my life growing up and working in Quebec, Canada. Seven years ago, I decided to pack up my entire life and move back to the islands. I’ve traveled through major global hubs since—Singapore, Thailand, the UK, Paris, Kenya, Dubai, Doha, and Frankfurt.
Everyone wants to talk about the destination: the beaches, the freedom, the currency arbitrage. Nobody wants to talk about the physical, mental, and financial toll it takes to actually pull off a global move.
Here is the 100% human reality of what it actually takes to close up one life and start another across the world, the massive mess-ups I made, and how you maneuver through it.
They clearly have never stood in a half-packed apartment at 2:00 AM, surrounded by cardboard boxes, staring at a bureaucratic visa email that completely contradicts the email they received last Tuesday.
I was born in the Seychelles, but I spent 13 years of my life growing up and working in Quebec, Canada. Seven years ago, I decided to pack up my entire life and move back to the islands. I’ve traveled through major global hubs since—Singapore, Thailand, the UK, Paris, Kenya, Dubai, Doha, and Frankfurt.
Everyone wants to talk about the destination: the beaches, the freedom, the currency arbitrage. Nobody wants to talk about the physical, mental, and financial toll it takes to actually pull off a global move.
Here is the 100% human reality of what it actually takes to close up one life and start another across the world, the massive mess-ups I made, and how you maneuver through it.
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