poco a poco

poco a poco

Life Abroad (Inside & Out)

What Stayed, What Went

And what we learned to let go.

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Jen Cook
Jan 07, 2026
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A hallway of individual storage units inside a self-storage facility.

Moving abroad often means giving up so much. It’s expensive to ship a household full of belongings, and most of it wouldn’t fit into your new space anyway.

I posted a Note about this recently and received mixed reactions, but most people seemed to agree: don’t rent a storage unit and do…

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