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Living Abroad Locales [2026]
A destination-discovery web app: a 10-question quiz that narrows 564 places down to the few worth a closer look. I built the app from scratch.
psst, the stickers can be moved: drag them around
Not "which country?" but "how do you want to live?" Ten questions on pace, weather, surroundings, community and dealbreakers, in under two minutes.
Your answers become a Destination Personality blend of Urban Explorer, Coastal Dreamer, Nature Seeker and Rooted Romantic, and you land on a globe already filtered to it.
Spin an interactive 3D globe to wander, or switch to the table to compare. Refine by budget, language, region, expat suitability, country trend and dealbreakers. No login, six languages, CSV export.
Every destination has a 1 to 5 suitability score, a 10-year country trend, advantages and dealbreakers with the reasons why, a link to its official tourism site, and local Substack writers who live there.
Behind it is the Living Abroad Locales Airtable database. Home Abroad started it with around 200 destinations; since joining in May 2025 I grew it to 564 and added new properties: cost of living for a family, official tourism sites, the reasons behind each pro and con, and the synced writers directory.
I also wrote both Home Abroad articles that launched the database and the app. The design philosophy: feel like a beautiful letter, not a SaaS product.
The idea came from the founder of Home Abroad, who also reviewed the app, the database and the articles.
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