Take financial losses from others and not yourself Before I moved abroad the first time, I spent weeks researching neighborhoods, learning phrases in a new language, and reading every expat forum I could find. A lot of the information was general and didn’t help much. So I did what I always had to do: go get the data for myself. Sometimes this requires taking losses. I am writing this so you don’t have to. What I didn’t do and what almost nobody does is figure out the financial infrastructure before I needed it. So I learned it the hard way.…