Girls' Guide To Living Abroad

Girls' Guide To Living Abroad

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🌎 The Ultimate Tool to Find Your Dream Life Abroad — Based on Your Personality
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🌎 The Ultimate Tool to Find Your Dream Life Abroad — Based on Your Personality

Introducing our new filterable, scrollable, delightfully obsessive database of 277 destinations around the world: EXCLUSIVELY FOR SUBSCRIBERS

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Kaila Krayewski
May 02, 2025
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Hey friends —

You took the Destination Personality Quiz (and if you haven’t yet — what are you waiting for?). You found out you’re a 🌴Coastal Dreamer, 🧗Nature Seeker, 🌆Cultural Maven, or 🐓Rooted Romantic.

Cute! But what do you do with that?

Well. Let me show you.


✨ The Living Abroad Locales Database

304 destinations.
Curated by me, tagged and structured with help from my very smart digital sidekick, and refined through a whole lot of coffee-fueled deep work.

This isn’t your average “Best Places to Move Abroad” list.
This is a living, breathing, filterable tool that helps you figure out where you’ll actually thrive.

Each destination is tagged with real-world data like advantages, drawbacks, languages spoken, religious makeup, regional info, and personality match — so you can stop guessing and start zeroing in.


💡 The Real Magic: Filtering

This isn’t just a scrollable spreadsheet — it’s a decision-making tool. You can filter by:

🌍 Region, 🗣️ Language(s), 🕊️ Religion(s), ✅ Advantages, 🚩 Disadvantages, and 💫 Destination Personality.

So if you want to find:

  • A nature-filled town

  • With strong Wi-Fi

  • No tourists

  • Spanish-speaking

  • That matches your Rooted Romantic soul?

Done.

Or maybe:

  • A walkable, family-friendly place

  • With great weather

  • In Europe

  • With no visa stress

  • That feels like your kind of rhythm?

Also done.

🔥 Pro tip: Most people aren’t just one personality type.
You might be a 🧗Nature Seeker and a 🌆Cultural Maven. Or maybe you’ve got a 🌴Coastal Dreamer heart with a 🐓Rooted Romantic moon. (Hi, same.)
Try filtering by all your vibes for the most personalized, powerful results.


🛠️ Quick Preview: What It Looks Like

Here’s a peek behind the curtain:

  1. Click on the Airtable link below

  2. Create your free account

  3. Peruse the database

  4. Filter by your preferred lifestyle factors

  1. Mix and match conditions for your dream lifestyle

What you’re left with is a refined shortlist of destinations that actually make sense for you — not just ones that look cute on a beach reel.


🧠 What’s Inside the Tool? A Quick Breakdown

This isn’t just a pretty list — it’s a full-on decision-support system. Here’s what you’ll find inside:

  • 🌍 304 destinations, from cities to surf towns to jungle retreats

  • 🌎 Coverage by region:

    • Asia: 77

    • Europe: 72

    • Africa: 43

    • North America: 26

    • South America: 23

    • Oceania: 20

    • Middle East: 21

    • Central America: 9

    • Caribbean: 13

  • 🗣️ 129 unique languages spoken

  • 🕊️ 48 religions represented


✅ What the “Advantages” Tags Mean

🏖️ Beach Access — Swim spots, surf, tropical islands
💸 Low Cost of Living — Budget-friendly housing, food, lifestyle
🌿 Nature & Outdoors — Mountains, parks, jungle, hiking, diving
🚶 Walkable — Compact layout, good sidewalks, no car needed
💻 Digital Nomad Hub — Coworking, fast internet, expat freelancers
🎨 Cultural Richness — Heritage, historic sites, art, museums
🏙️ Urban Convenience — Transit, healthcare, shopping, amenities
🕊️ Peace & Quiet — Low noise, safety, slow pace
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family-Friendly — Safe, schools, activities for kids
☀️ Climate Appeal — Sunny, temperate, or escape-the-winter places
🤝 Community Feel — Friendly locals, expat circles, welcoming vibe


⚠️ What the “Drawbacks” Tags Mean (aka what to watch for)

💰 High Cost of Living — Expensive rent, food, or services
🛂 Visa Challenges — Difficult/uncertain visa processes
🐌 Slow Bureaucracy — Red tape, delays, admin pain
🏥 Healthcare Gaps — Limited medical access or infrastructure
🌐 Poor Internet — Inconsistent or painfully slow connectivity
🚨 Safety Concerns — Petty crime, instability, or violence
🧳 Overtourism — Crowds, rising costs, tourist burnout
🏝️ Isolation — Hard-to-reach, socially or geographically
🔥 Climate Extremes — Intense heat, cold, storms, fires, etc.
🗣️ Language Barrier — Few English speakers / hard to integrate
🌫️ Air Pollution — Health-affecting air quality


🧪 What You Can Access Right Now

If you're a free subscriber, here's your next step:

👉 Upgrade your membership — and yes, it's 100% free to try.
Substack gives all new paid subscribers a 7-day free trial, so you can test the full database, poke around, run your dream filters… and if it’s not wildly useful? Downgrade before the trial ends. No charge. No pressure.

But if it is useful (and it will be)?
Keep going. You’ll get full access, future updates, and all the juicy tools I’m building next.


🤝 Want to Help Improve It?

If you’ve lived in one of these places and think a tag could be tweaked, or you want to nominate a destination that’s missing — I’d love your input.

Drop a comment below with:

  • Suggestions for new destinations to add

  • Edits or corrections to existing tags

  • Local insights I might have missed

This is meant to be a living, collaborative resource — so let’s make it better together.


🔐 When You Upgrade, You Unlock:

  • Access to the full Living Abroad Locales database

  • All future destination tools and deep dives

  • A shortcut to your next "yes"

  • And a lot of satisfaction for supporting this project in a big way


TL;DR

You have a dream of living somewhere else.
This database helps you figure out where that somewhere actually is — based on your lifestyle, not just a vibe.

Scroll down to get your hands on it — hit upgrade and unlock the whole thing.
I hope it gets your wheels turning. Or your bags packed. Or at least your browser tabs open.

KKxx

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