tl;dr: the managed seller auction pickup process is so easy, we could have left the house for the day. 2024 tl;dr: this is a factual account of how selling our…
Part 8: Our Stuff is Now Their Stuff
One of the people in our area (henceforth known as RV) in the Americans and Friends in Portugal facebook group (henceforth AFiP) group mentioned they were using MaxSold to sell…
Part 6. When Do We Leave?
We’ve decided that we would like to move to Portugal. Great! Now how exactly do we make it happen and when will we be able to afford it. We work…
Moving Internationally: Thoughts A Year+ After
tl; dr:/ Moves are hard, intracity or interstate. Moving internationally is the hardest of all. When we decided to move to Portugal, we thought we would just sell everything, get…
On the Road Again
We’ve nibbled around this subject here and there, but the story of our housing situation here in Braga has taken a turn and we just, like this moment, finished moving…
Three Weeks In, Part Three
We left off last time teasing the series of milestones that passed us by on a near-daily basis. A little context: there has been some advice going around in immigrant*…
Three Weeks In, Part Two
So, about that difficult move-in. One thing we’d expected, because we’ve done our research, was that it was going to be cold in our house for some period of time…
Three Weeks In, Part One
It’s been quite a three-weeks! Here are some of the lights, high and otherwise. Sorry for the multi-parts, but this would go way too long otherwise. Think of it as…
Moving Day: Over the Atlantic
It’s funny; I’m old enough to consider the idea of posting something from over the Atlantic some kind of fancy-pants miracle, but really now – it’s just wifi that they…
Moving Day: At the Airport
[Editor’s note: we’ve been a little busy the last couple of weeks; apologies for going quiet. We’ll be returning to some “how it came together” posts a little later, but…
