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The Actual Cost of Expat Life in Tokyo: A Family of Four’s Budget Revealed
For me Japan started as nothing more than a destination which I thought would be a great experience. I had not considered it from an expat point of view until we arrived and started spending money there. The affordability of day to day living in Tokyo really took me by surprise, and it got me…
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The Actual Cost of Expat Life in Costa Rica: A Family of Four’s Budget Revealed
Costa Rica is a popular expat destination due to a variety of appealing factors. These include easy entry requirements, beautiful surroundings, friendly people and low cost (allegedly). We spent two months in Costa Rica and would highly recommend it to anyone seeking an expat living situation. I have done posts recapping our budget and reflections…
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Breathtaking Sticker Shock Of Guam
Travel Log: Day 111 (10/16), Guam We were all up pretty early today, 4:30am for me. Due to that we got school started on time and had a mostly normal school day. We did take a break before the final two subjects to go walk on the beach. It was really nice in terms of…
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September Budget In The Red
I always get excited when budget time rolls around, and I was particularly interested in this month. September is the first full month we have spent in Japan, which is our most expensive location (not counting Guam). If I had been allowed to peek ahead to the result of any one month’s budget before the…
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August Gap Year Budget Review
We have concluded another budget month while slow traveling internationally on our family gap year. I’m excited to crunch the numbers and see how our projections are matching reality. It’s the chance to prove or disprove that this approach of slow travel is sustainable over the long haul. Either way it’s useful data. The month…
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July Gap Year Budget
July is our first full month of travel and is our first chance to see if the financial aspects of this trip are going according to plan. We projected expenses for the places we are traveling using numbeo, but the accuracy of that in practice is a complete unknown to us. Being in Costa Rica…
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Did We Just Achieve FIRE?
Market Runup The US and international stock markets have been on a great run following the lows seen following the tariff announcement. With new record highs I wanted to check in on our progress toward at-home FIRE. At the time we left on our international trip, we were at FIRE for international travel but not…
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One Big Beautiful Budget Blowout
Travel Log: Day 4 (7/1), Costa Rica Budget Numbers Today it rained almost the entire day. The day started with coffee and a marathon budget session for our June budget. The way we run our budget is that at the end of the month we take the projected expenses and income and then plug in…
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I’ll Show You Mine (Budget)
With tariffs bringing chaos to the market, this is an entertaining time to take a look at our budget for the upcoming premature FI experiment where we will travel internationally for a full year. I find the budgeting aspect of this interesting because we have different moving parts that we don’t normally deal with in…
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
