Guides
The decisions that are the same everywhere
Destination pages answer what a country costs. These answer the six problems every family hits whatever country they pick, and each one names what we could not verify as plainly as what we could.
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Health cover
Health Cover for a Family Moving Abroad
Travel medical insurance, international private medical insurance and the destination's public system are three different products.
Updated August 26, 2026 · 12 sources
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The move itself
How Families Actually Price an International Move
No official source publishes what an international household move costs. This guide shows you how to get quotes that can be compared, and how to read the ones you get.
Updated August 26, 2026 · 13 sources
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Pets
Moving the Family Dog or Cat Abroad
The rabies clock, the certificate windows, the tapeworm rule for Ireland, and what airlines will and will not carry, each traced to the government or airline page it came from.
Updated August 26, 2026 · 11 sources
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Money and banking
Moving the Family's Money Abroad
What each transfer provider publishes about its own pricing, why some foreign banks decline US citizens, what a local bank actually asks a new arrival for, and the order to do all of it in.
Updated August 26, 2026 · 18 sources
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Tax
US Taxes After You Move the Family Abroad
The filing rule that follows your passport, the child tax credit trap the foreign earned income exclusion creates, FBAR, Form 8938, and the state that may still count you.
Updated August 26, 2026 · 22 sources
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Housing
Where Your Family Lives for the First Three Months
The gap between landing and signing a lease: furnished medium-term housing, what landlords ask a foreign family with no local income history.
Updated August 26, 2026 · 22 sources