What are additional points of interest when mapping motivations for a long stay abroad or emigration?

Additional points of interest

Once you have created a good overview of core purpose and motivations for leaving or not leaving abroad, also check the following points of interest:

• do you share enough overlapping reasons with partner and children? Are there no (suitable) alternatives to emigration to still achieve what you want?
• give a value to all your motives for leaving and rank your motives according to those values: what is most important to you, what is also important but less essential. Keep those motives in mind when orienting yourself on where to live and where to live, and compromise on less important aspects.
• save the list you make somewhere online so that you can look at it again in later moments of doubt or phases of homesickness.
•  above all, make that list your own, personal list. Do not base it too much on what you have heard from other emigrants, fans of a particular country or vacationers who always go to the same location. Reeds emigrants will generally name the downsides or setbacks less, stories are colored, going on vacation is not the same as emigrating.
•  it is always good to make yourself aware of the pitfalls surrounding emigration. But at the same time, don't let yourself get too discouraged. Realize that on blog sites, on emigration forums and in TV programs it is mainly the "failures" that get attention.
• some returnees indicate that they have not or not sufficiently realized that the problems they encountered before leaving in the Netherlands were caused by their own character, dissatisfaction with themselves. You don't solve that by emigrating, your own personality naturally moves with you and doesn't change that quickly.
• if you get the idea that the decision will be in the direction of "doing it", start keeping an emigration diary; write down as much as possible: the tips and practicalities, but also the considerations, the choices, the doubts, the emotions, the successes, the arguments. With your diary, also collect the articles, blogs, lists, tips, advertisements, etc. that give you inspiration.
•  if the regulatory burden in your country of residence is one of your motives for wanting to emigrate, try to familiarize yourself in advance as much as possible with the written and unwritten rules in your intended new country of residence. Watch documentaries, read books or delve into background articles that zoom in on that topic. And ask yourself if you are comfortable with those "different" rules, in your new daily life.

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"Emigration creates a new starting position, you are freer to tackle new things, to explore. You are not stuck in your current profession, waiting to retire."

France emigrant