The moment you’ve been waiting for… your European residency card has finally arrived! 🇵🇹🎉 Well… almost. Because sometimes the card doesn’t actually make it to your house. No knock. No delivery notice. No little piece of paper explaining where it went. Just a tracking update confidently declaring that your residency card has entered another dimension. 😂 So begins one final bureaucratic side quest: figuring out where the card went, getting an appointment with AIMA, going to the office to retrieve it, and potentially discovering that you’re expected to pay a fee for the unsuccessful delivery attempt you didn’t know happened. After everything it takes to get residency, it almost feels appropriate that Portugal gives you one last administrative obstacle before handing over the prize. 🇵🇹 But when that card finally lands in your hand? Worth it. Follow Goodbye America, Hello Europe for the parts of moving abroad nobody remembers to put in the brochure.

I went back to the States for 2 weeks and honestly forgot how much I missed some of this stuff 😅 Hot wings that actually hit. Free refills. A random Dairy Queen on the side of the road. A cold SweetWater 420 on a hot day. Europe has a LOT going for it, but some things just ain't the same. That said? I'll take the tradeoff every single time. Drop a comment 👇 what's the ONE thing you'd miss most about the USA if you moved abroad?

What's the thing you'd regret NOT doing in Europe before you're too old to enjoy it?

@Lily Stewart has joined our community. I met her at a retreat in Spain and she has just come over from Colorado. She must have some great insights into the Digital Nomad Visa and finding the right place to live in a new, foreign country. Welcome Lily! 😃

What's actually stopping you from booking the trip? Not the fake reason. The real one.