About: Tom Frost
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- In 1979 the only foreign country I had been to was Canada. I was selected as a Rotary Youth Exchange Student to spend my junior year of high school in India. Needless to say, it was an amazing year and started a life-long enchantment with living abroad. I am now 46 and have a wife and four children (18, 20, 21, 23) and the adventure continues. We have lived and worked in Japan, Mexico and Argentina. I work for myself, my wife is a published writer. We have never had a corporate or government transfer package and have always done everything ourselves when it came to moving to a new country. We have changed careers several times and have never had a 5 year, 2 year or even a 12 month plan. We are not trust-funders or recipients of a huge windfall. We have had our fat years and our lean years but through it all have been careful with our money and always made travel and education a priority for us and our children. We have educated our kids both in the U.S. and overseas (my wife, Maya Frost, wrote the book “The New Global Student, Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition and Get a Truly International Education) We like to dig into our host country, get to know our neighborhood and as much as possible live as locals (way cheaper). We try to travel internationally as little as possible and instead explore the country we are in via ground transportation. We have rented, bought and sold property abroad. We have lived on teaching visas, temporary 12 month visas and short term tourist visas. When people ask how long we are going to stay somewhere, our standard reply is “temporarily forever”. “Home” is where we are at that moment.
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