The Move Abroad Retreat · coming soon
Come and do the hard part with somebody.
A bank account opened. Apartments seen with your own eyes. Neighborhoods walked at nine in the morning and eleven at night. Six rooms, not twenty-five.
A working week
Not a holiday. Better.
The retreat isn't open for booking yet. Here is what it will be. For people who have decided to move and want the hard parts done with somebody beside them. Hosted by me, with our relocation team and the agents and lawyers of our brokerage behind the week.
There are good meals and one properly unstructured day. The rest of the days are working days. It's also a week spent with a few other families making the same decision, and several of the most useful conversations happen at dinner rather than in an office.
October, November, March, April and May
Offices are open, agents will actually show you apartments, and you can walk a city in the afternoon.
July also runs and costs more, because accommodation roughly doubles in peak season and administration slows for the summer. The premium is what the week costs to run, not a markup on demand.
The week
Six days. One plan.
Arrive, orient, first counter
The city on foot, the plan for the week, and for anyone with a NIF already, the first appointment in the diary.
The bank
Accounts opened where we know the branch and, usually, the banker. This is the morning that decides whether the rest of the week flows.
Apartments, seen
Viewings under the brokerage licence, neighborhoods walked at two different times of day, and the questions to ask before a lease is a lease.
Schools, health, the small chain
Schools and health centers seen, the registration chain explained at the counters that do it, phone and utilities sorted.
Open day
Yours. A second viewing, a day in a town you're curious about, or nothing at all, which is also a data point.
The debrief
Everyone's file, in order: what's done, what's next, and the dates that now exist. You leave with a plan you didn't have on Monday.
Not open yet
Be first when it opens.
The retreat, and personal planning trips on your own dates, open later. The waitlist hears first, before anything is announced publicly.
You don't have to wait to start. The Binder and the course cover the NIF, the documents and the order to do things in, and the live Visa Clarity Session answers your questions in real time.
Not there yet?
Start with the quiz.
A dozen questions, and a straight answer about whether a trip is the next step or a decision is.
Take the readiness quiz