SortedAbroad is an editorial guide for people planning a move from the United Kingdom or the United States to Europe. It exists because the relocation industry is loud, optimistic, and full of affiliate gloss — and because the honest version of moving abroad, the one you'd actually tell a friend at the kitchen table the night before they flew, is hard to find. We publish that version instead.
Each week we file a new dispatch tracing a different origin-to-destination route — the consulate queue, the rental ad nobody warned you about, the form that takes eight weeks to legalise. These field notes are written for the person who has already decided, or is one good answer away from deciding, and who needs the sequence of the move laid out plainly rather than a brochure of sunshine and tax incentives.
Alongside the weekly archive, SortedAbroad offers a free Relocation Toolkit — a printable PDF containing a ten-question readiness audit, a monthly cost-of-living worksheet, a visa-at-a-glance reference card, and a first-week landing checklist — and the Relocation Roadmap, a thirty-one-page sequenced operating system that charts every visa, document, account, and appointment into a single calm timeline across six phases, from the first question to the first ninety days after arrival.
The guide is built for citizens leaving the UK or the USA — the visa pathways, tax notes, and banking scripts are written specifically for those nationalities — and for the destinations that draw them most: Portugal, Spain, Greece, Italy, and the sun-drenched map beyond. It is maintained and reissued as the law changes, so you are never working from stale advice.
SortedAbroad is built by a small editorial team who have moved themselves, helped friends move, and made every mistake worth documenting. There is no relocation agency behind this site, no commission on your destination, and no upsell beyond the roadmap. The aim is simple: to make a chaotic, expensive, once-in-a-decade decision feel legible, paced, and calm.