Too far away, for one. Too different for most people, too, I imagine. Even to move to Guadalajara, Mexico, you are only a couple hours flight from Houston but

Too far away, for one. Too different for most people, too, I imagine. Even to move to Guadalajara, Mexico, you are only a couple hours flight from Houston but you still need to have a remote job and have some interest in being in a different culture and learning Spanish which is kind of a luxury. I only ended up here by accident. I don’t think I would have had the balls to just move to another country without a serious push. In my case I was burned out, took a low paying software job in Guadalajara, and ended up meeting a girlfriend who helped me situate with friends and a community. I was terrified of getting another software job in Austin that I hated as much as my previous one. It was a chain of luck and circumstance.