Thursday, April 19, 2012

Opportunities abroad as an expat

Marginal Boundaries
The number one benefit of living the expat lifestyle in countries around the world is that you are no longer limited by a local mentality. When you stop believing in the lines that other countries and governments draw on a piece of paper to try and define who you are or what you can believe or how you can act and what you can do, you free yourself from all that propaganda and can truly indulge in absolute freedom. With the entire planet as your playground you can go anywhere you want, invest anywhere you want, enjoy a cost of living anywhere you want, and see and experience anything that you want to explore, all of it on your time and at your pace.

Absolute freedom is a dream to most people, casually living their day-to-day grind, going through the motions of waking up to an alarm clock, driving or commuting to work and then spending eight hours a day, 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year for 40+ years as a slave to a society who tries to define them as human beings. But as more and more expats are waking up to realize, this is nothing more than a dream, very much as portrayed in the movie The Matrix. And when you can unplug from that matrix you will suddenly find that there is a great big world out there, full of opportunities. Countries like Chile and Brazil are experiencing economic booms in the 21st century, with an actual shortage of people and an excess of jobs, but you don't hear about it on the nightly news back in the U.S. The only way you find out about global opportunities is by tuning in to the expat channels where other expats are traveling abroad and relaying that information back to the savvy few who are intelligent enough to listen. And if you are one of those who can manage to unplug from the system, you will find yourself with a panoramic field of opportunities laid out in front of you, all of them global in nature.

Once that happens, there is a whole different world to explore beyond the boundaries of what you were told were the limits before. Once you cast off the shackles of modern society to explore the benefits of a free and nomadic lifestyle roaming wherever you want...you'll never be able to go back. It's the expat lifestyle at its finest, full of potential and adventure and excitement. It's Indiana Jones in the flesh. 

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