Built Beyond Borders
Built Beyond Borders
Resources

The tools we actually use abroad.

Take the free quiz to find your country, and explore the insurance, money transfer, eSIM, and VPN services we use ourselves. Honest recommendations, never paid placements.

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What we use ourselves

The boring tools that make a move work.

Health insurance

International plans for the first year, then a local plan once you have residency. We'll explain which one makes sense for your family's age and country, and roughly what it runs per month.

Moving money

How we send money abroad without losing a chunk to fees, what a US bank needs from you once you live overseas, and how to keep a clean paper trail for visas.

Phones and internet

eSIM for the landing week, a local SIM once you have an address, and a VPN so US banking and streaming keep working.

Documents

Apostilles, birth certificates, marriage certificates, school records and vaccine records. Start these months earlier than feels necessary. This is the part that delays moves.

Honest recommendations only. If we wouldn't put our own family on it, it isn't listed.