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In Bucharest I have my own small practice for twelve years. I sign the drawings, I talk with the authorities, I am responsible. This is normal life for an architect.

Last year my husband and I bought a villa on Koh Samui, in Lamai, and this year I redesigned the terrace myself, of course. Friends in my office laughed when I told them I compared the plans of maybe forty villas on https://thailand-real.estate/ before we flew to see three, and I measured the terraces before the bedrooms.

Then I learned how it works here: in Thailand I am simply a client. A Thai licensed architect signs, the local contractor builds, I only discuss. First weeks it was strange, now I find it relaxing, almost a holiday from my profession.

For members who work in regulated professions and moved abroad: did you try to get recognised in the new country, or…

I am a freelance translator, Dutch, French and English, 57, and most of my work comes from two agencies in Brussels. From next spring my husband and I will live half the year in Pilar de la Horadada, south of Alicante.

We picked the house on https://alegria-realestate.com/ because the small second bedroom looks onto the garden, and that room is now going to be my office. The internet is fibre, the agencies already said they do not care where I sit.

Two ways I see people do it:

one main base, Belgium, and Spain as long holidays with work;

or a real split, six months and six months, and then everything has to be organised twice, bank, health, phone.

For members here who work across two countries: which one did you choose, and what made you decide?

When I started comparing VPNs, I didn’t expect server networks to matter this much, but they really do. Speed, stability, and even access to content all depend on it. While researching, I checked https://toggle.org/servers right in the middle of comparing options, and it helped me understand how different locations affect latency and connection quality. A well-distributed network makes it easier to switch regions and avoid slow or overloaded servers.

Іноді здається, що для нового образу обов’язково потрібно придбати багато речей. Насправді достатньо переглянути те, що вже є в шафі, і спробувати поєднати звичні речі по-новому. Велике значення мають взуття, сумка, прикраси та навіть спосіб носіння одного й того самого одягу. Якщо ж хочеться додати щось актуальне, перед покупкою краще подумати, з чим ця річ поєднуватиметься. Наприклад, плануючи купити модну сукню жіночу, варто одразу уявити кілька комплектів із наявними аксесуарами. Так легше уникнути спонтанної покупки та поступово сформувати гардероб, у якому кожна річ має своє місце.