Values-first relocation research
The right place to live starts with your values.
Deep, honest research on where in the world to live, grounded in your values and clear about the trade‑offs.
Values first
Six dimensions of daily life, weighed against what matters most to you.
Honest trade-offs
Every destination profile names the costs alongside the charms.
Lived experience, deep research
Written from years of living abroad and hundreds of hours of destination research.
The destinations
Explore where you might belong
How it works
One compass, three steps.
Step one
Take the Compass
You answer for yourself on six dimensions of daily life, and the Compass does the comparing.
Step two
Read your matches
Your values, set against every destination we cover.
Step three
Weigh the trade-offs
Every match comes with a trade-off, and your results name it up front.
From the founder
Why this exists.
A night of conversations in a London pub in my twenties helped me realize just how much of my idea of a good life was inherited, not chosen. Almost every guide to moving abroad covers the logistics – cost, visas, weather – and goes quiet on what, in my experience, actually determines whether you’ll thrive somewhere. My family is making this same decision right now: we started exploring again in 2023 and expect our search for a second home abroad to last at least several more years.
The journal
