A Year (Or Two) Abroad?

Post date: 2021-05-11 07:48:46
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Help me figure out the viability of my current pipe dream - working remotely for a US-based corporation for a year or two, outside the US, with my family (and small dog).

Currently I'm employed and living in an expensive area of the country. It doesn't look like I'll be going back into the office for a while yet, and we have a 9-year-old that we don't necessarily want to send back to school if vaccines aren't widely available for kids.

I'm now thinking about the possibility of taking a year to travel to a country, home school the kid, and work remotely. If I was single this would be a no-brainer and I'd probably already be in Barbados now that I'm vaccinated against COVID-19, but the family and dog bit makes it more complicated.

The current thought, which is probably not all that well-formed given that I've just started thinking about this yesterday, is that we'd head to a Spanish-speaking country (say, Mexico), live there for a year on my income while spouse homeschools the child, we all learn the language a heck of a lot better than we would in our current location, support the local economy, create memories, etc. and potentially save up a bit of cash because the cost of living looks to be half of what we currently pay. We'd store things we want to keep with local family/a storage unit, and we currently rent so the only other property we'd need to worry about is a car which could potentially be sold.

There seem to be a lot of sites out there that outline a lot of the basic facts. I'll definitely need to join some forums and Facebook groups if this goes further. But. A lot of what I'm seeing is young, white, fit people with no kids. My family is also white, but we are fat nerds and I'm visibly trans/queer (FTM), the kiddo has ADHD, and also the aforementioned small dog would need to come chill with us eventually.

COVID aside, is this a dumb idea? "Yes" is perfectly valid. I'm just curious and asking around before I put in a significant amount of time into researching things.
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