Samone Davis, founder of Soft Life Abroad, at a sunlit, plant-filled café in Almeirim, Portugal — A café in Almeirim, Portugal

Thinking About Life Abroad? Start Here.

Start With the Life Behind the Lessons.

I moved to Portugal after 28 years in corporate America and built a real life there for four years—not a long vacation. I learned what it takes to create everyday routines, navigate the unexpected, and decide whether a place can support the life you actually want.

Soft Life Abroad shares those lived lessons so you can explore your next chapter with more clarity and fewer expensive surprises.

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Four years in Portugal. Forty-five days testing Thailand. Real life—not just the highlight reel.

Design Your Life Abroad

Start With the Life You Want — Not the Country.

Before you compare countries, get clear on what your everyday life needs to feel good. The right place is the one that can support that life—on an ordinary Tuesday, not just on vacation.

Your everyday rhythm

What does a good, ordinary day look like? Think mornings, meals, movement, quiet time, and work.

Your non-negotiables

What must be in place for you to feel well and supported—healthcare, transportation, climate, community, and opportunities to practice your faith?

Your budget

What can you comfortably spend each month, and how much cushion do you want to keep?

Your people

Who do you want close by, and how will you stay connected to family and friends back home?

Write your answers down. They’ll guide every choice that follows—where to look, what to test, and how you’ll know when a place is no longer the right fit.

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Free Destination Guides

Just curious? Grab a free visitor guide and get a feel for how we think — no cost, no pressure.

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Portugal Visitor's Guide

Heading to Portugal to visit — not move? This 3-page PDF covers hotels, cities, the train system, Portuguese phrases, shopping, Wise, ClassPass, and everything you wish someone had told you before landing.

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Thailand Visitor Guide

Visiting Thailand — not moving? This free 3-page guide covers where to stay, getting around (BTS & Grab), QR payments, key Thai phrases, beauty & markets, beyond-Bangkok trips, and the essentials to know before you land.

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Vietnam Visitor Guide

Curious about Vietnam? This free 3-page, research-backed guide covers where to stay, getting around, payments & cash, key Vietnamese phrases, food & markets, day trips, and the essentials to know before you land.

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Before you choose where to test your life, decide what would tell you it’s time to leave. Your answer may change which place is the right fit.

Free Worksheet

What’s Your Number?

Your Life Abroad Exit Plan

Life can change after you move abroad. What would tell you it’s time to leave? This free worksheet helps you think through money, housing, immigration, health, and your next move—while you can think clearly.

Fill it in on your computer or tablet, or print it and write your answers by hand.

Your worksheet is ready.

Take your time working through it. Choose the numbers and conditions that fit your life.

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Want to talk it through? The 1:1 Soft Landing / Move Abroad Clarity Session is optional—your worksheet is yours either way.

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This worksheet is meant to guide your planning. It is not professional advice. Please seek help from a planning professional if you feel you need it.

How the Blueprint Works

Turn the Idea of Moving Abroad Into a Decision You Can Trust.

The Soft Life Immersion Blueprint™ takes you through four practical stages—so you can define what you need, test everyday life in a destination, and decide with real information instead of relying on the highlight reel.

Diagnose

Map your non-negotiables across 12 life categories.

Test

Rotate neighborhoods every 9 days. Run a Simulation Day on your real routine.

Decide

Get your Country Fit Report — built on lived data, not vibes.

Arrive

Land with intention. Capture the moment with Arrival Story™.

Flagship · $497 · Founding rate $297 (first 20)

Test Your Next Chapter

The big decision. Test whether a country can actually support the life you need — before you commit to the move.

Tested first-hand: I used this method myself in Bangkok.

Flagship Tool

Soft Life Immersion Blueprint™
Moving Abroad

You’re not buying a guide — you’re buying certainty before the most important move of your life. The Soft Life Immersion Blueprint™ is a first-of-its-kind decision system built on the Soft Landing Method™: map your non-negotiables across 12 life categories, then test a country in real life. You rotate neighborhoods every 9 days and run a Simulation Day on your actual routine — not the tourist version — and walk away with a personalized Country Fit Report that tells you, on real data, whether a place can hold the life you need.

$497 one time

★ Launch offer: the first 20 get the system for the founder’s rate of $297 — use code FOUNDER20 at checkout.

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Best Value · Bundle

The Arrival Story Experience™

Our white-glove service for the woman who refuses to leave her landing to chance. You get the full Soft Life Immersion Blueprint™ to test your next chapter — plus your Arrival + City Flow filming experience — so your new environment renews you instead of taxing your bandwidth.

$997 save $100

Blueprint ($497) + Arrival + City Flow ($600) = $1,097 if bought separately.

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The Soft Landing Guarantee

Go through the entire Blueprint. If you don’t walk away with absolute clarity on your next move, I’ll refund your purchase in full — I’m that confident. The risk is mine, not yours.

Personal Help

1:1 Soft Landing / Move Abroad Clarity Session

Want to bounce some ideas off someone who has lived abroad? Talk with Samone about the life you want, the questions you’re working through, or what your next move could look like.

These conversations are based on my lived experience and personal planning. They are not legal, immigration, financial, or medical advice.

Thank you—your question was received.

I’ll read it personally and reply by email. This is an inquiry, not a booked session; we’ll talk about whether a session is the right next step when I reply.

Tools I Use Abroad

Make Everyday Life Abroad Easier

These are tools I personally use or recommend to make managing money, movement, and everyday routines abroad easier.

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Wise

Manage your money while traveling abroad. Send, receive, convert, and spend money internationally.

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ClassPass

Here’s 5 bonus workouts when you join ClassPass, on me! 😊

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Arrival Story

Arrival Story:
Bangkok

A defined arrival-focused filming window — the start of your experience (city, hotel, or first stop), captured calmly as short-form vertical video for social. Delivered digitally within 72 hours.

$350 per experience Book Arrival Story →

Arrival + City Flow

Arrival +
City Flow

Your arrival plus early lifestyle scenes you can use over time — an extended window mixing movement, environment, and lifestyle moments, delivered as multiple short-form videos. Within 72 hours.

$600 per experience Book Arrival + City Flow →

Soft Life Arrival

Soft Life
Arrival

For milestone moments that deserve a slower, intentional capture — carefully paced environments and an elevated, calm visual style, delivered as a larger set of short-form videos. Within 72–96 hours.

$800 per experience Book Soft Life Arrival →

After payment, you'll complete a short intake (arrival time, location, preferences) and we confirm availability within 24–48 hours. Filming takes place in public or pre-approved locations only. For meet points outside central Lisbon, a flat travel fee of up to €40 may apply, confirmed in advance and paid directly to your creator. Cancellation policy: full refund 21+ days before arrival; 75% at 15–20 days; 50% for 14 days or fewer; no refund for no-shows. A reschedule may be offered in place of a refund, subject to availability.

Before You Move

What the Photos Don't Tell You

You have seen the photos. The beach. The garden. The mountain view from a balcony in a country you have been dreaming about. And maybe you want to move there because you do not have access to that quality of life at home. That is a valid reason.

But here is what the photos do not tell you. They do not tell you that the beach is 90 minutes from the apartment you can afford. They do not tell you what healthcare looks like there — or whether the nearest hospital is a short ride or a long one. They do not tell you whether you will need a car or if public transport actually works where you live. They do not show you where the grocery store is, how far the pharmacy is, or what your daily life looks like when the vacation is over and the real living begins.

And it is not just about the lifestyle. There are so many variables to consider — cost of living, neighborhood safety, wifi reliability, access to the things your life actually requires day to day. If you do not know what your non-negotiables are before you move, you will get swept up in everything a new country offers on screen. And you will land somewhere that looks nothing like the life you actually need.

That is what the Soft Life Immersion Blueprint™ helps you figure out before you pack the bags. Before you sell everything. Before you sign a lease in a neighborhood you chose from a photo. Before you arrive and realize the life you built abroad is not what you wanted — and now you are looking to go backwards to home instead of forward into your future.

At Soft Life Abroad, we are not helping you plan an escape. We are helping you design a move with intention. That means knowing your non-negotiables. Knowing what your budget can actually fund. And testing the real life — not the highlight reel — before you commit.

About Soft Life Abroad™

Written From Real Life.
Not Research.

Soft Life Abroad™ exists because I tested everything myself — four years in Portugal, 45 days in Thailand rotating through neighborhoods with a methodology I built from scratch. I know what works. I know what the travel blogs don't tell you. And I built the tools I wish I'd had.

Soft Life Abroad™ supports easing the strain in your core environment life system and getting your bandwidth back.

Bangkok · captured on arrival

4Years · Portugal

45Days · Thailand

28Years in corporate before the leap

Start With the Life Behind the Lessons.