Jana Sanchez (center) shows clients around Den Haag on May 19, 2026. Public radio program The World covered the growing wave of Americans building lives overseas, and our co-founder Jana is part of the story. The piece follows several Americans who made the leap, including a Texas couple who relocated to Leiden after the 2024 election, a lawyer who found a new sense of home in Senegal, and a family navigating life in Denmark. It also looks at the numbers, citing a 2025 Gallup

Lalita and Nico landed at Schiphol before most of Amsterdam had finished their morning coffee. Three months later they have an apartment outside Utrecht, a new business, a new industry, and a growing vocabulary in a language that is slowly unlocking something deeper for Lalita than she expected. They came for a better life, and now they're building it. Of course, this move has been one of the hardest things I've ever done, and has set us back financially. But I'm glad we are

Chris didn't plan to become a driver in the Netherlands. He planned to save his family. With two LGBTQ+ kids in Oregon watching the political climate get worse, a second Trump administration wasn't an option they were willing to live through. In 44 days, the family packed up everything, sold what they could, and boarded a plane. They landed 14 days before his oldest turned 18. Why did you decide to come to the Netherlands? What were your other options? There were multiple fa

Hannah Edwards is a graphic designer in Eindhoven. She used the DAFT Visa to bring Edwards Digital, her businesses she operated in the USA, to the Netherlands. Why did you decide to come to the Netherlands? What were your other options? When I was in college, I studied abroad in Germany for a year. That planted the seed. I’d technically lived abroad before, and I always wanted to do it again, but then life kept moving forward. I met my husband, we had two kids, and the drea