my partner is chilean. i moved to chile (i'm not assuming this is startup chile, just giving my story) when she got a job here (many years ago). i found a job

my partner is chilean. i moved to chile (i'm not assuming this is startup chile, just giving my story) when she got a job here (many years ago). i found a job when i arrived (actually, not such a great job, it turned out, but i survived). that wasn't to join an accelerator, and it was moving with someone, but it wasn't so hard. moving to another country is both easier and harder than you might think. it's easier in that really, it's just not hard. i mean, you just do it. like falling off a log. it's harder in that, over the much longer timescale, living in a different culture affects different people in different ways. but the only way you can find out is to do it. what i am trying to say is that i would not let worrying about the NEW things put me off. it's not too hard / if it is too hard you can do something else. BUT i would still worry about the OLD things - what you might be losing. for example, would you be leaving a partner or, say, ill family behind? that's the kind of thing you can see and understand now, and decide on. so i would think about what i would be losing. those are known things. if you're not losing much, then go for it. the new can't be predicted and there's no real reason to think it will be bad... ps i have always been careful financially (and lucky in coming from a middle class background), so have always had savings to fall back on. i guess that is something i simply assume; ymmv there.