Xbeta--it's possible, but not super easy. I don't know that I can give you a lot of advice, since your life is bound to be so much different than mine, but I c

Xbeta--it's possible, but not super easy. I don't know that I can give you a lot of advice, since your life is bound to be so much different than mine, but I can tell you what we did. I own a small business (14 employees, <1MM in revenue) that does essentially technology-oriented bookkeeping. I'd say we're a startup, except that we're bootstrapped and capital comes from customers, not from VCs--not sure if that excludes us or not. A couple of years ago, my wife and I decided to move with our 4 children to Sweden for a year, where she has two sisters. We wanted our children to be able to speak Swedish, not just English, and I wanted to see the world a bit more. (I actually commented on a hacker news piece while there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8731296 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8731296) Things got a little crazy when we found out before we moved that she was pregnant with number 5--and that if we moved he was going to be born in Sweden. We had only 10,000$ saved up, but we decided to take the plunge knowing that I could work remotely on my business here and I had 60k income. Note that her being a dual citizen was critical--we knew she would be able to take advantage of the free health care. It was an awesome year, with some powerful struggles--living above the Artic circle in a foreign country made me look at things in a whole new way. The three things that made it possible were 1) We had a support group (her sisters) in Sweden willing and able to help us 2) I had a remote job and 3) she was a citizen. We came home broke, and I lost a few customers by not being able to focus as easily, but I have no regrets. My company didn't go bankrupt, both me and my children now speak fluent Swedish, and we have an amazing circle of close friends that we would otherwise never have gotten to know. I can't say it's easy, but the moment my wife & I decided _as a team_ to do it, I knew it was possible.