About Bricks & Borders
Bricks & Borders is a global-living and lifestyle design project for people who want more than a two-week vacation each year. It helps aspiring expats, slow travelers, and location-flexible professionals turn big life changes, new countries, new investments, new careers, into practical, step-by-step realities.
What Bricks & Borders is
Bricks & Borders blends long-term travel, real estate strategy, and remote work into a coherent blueprint for building a life across countries instead of in just one. It is built from real moves, real visas, and real experiments in countries like the United States, Colombia, Germany, The Balkans, Spain, and many others.
- A home for guides on visas, residency, and long-stay options
- A playbook for using real estate and remote work to support global living
- A journal of wins, mistakes, and lessons from building a life across borders
Who Bricks & Borders is for
Bricks & Borders is for people who feel “done” with the traditional script and want more control over where and how they live. It speaks to professionals, couples, and families who are comfortable with technology and want to combine stability (the bricks) with freedom of movement (the borders).
- Remote workers and consultants planning a more mobile lifestyle
- Investors curious about using property and geography to support long-term freedom
- Expats and soon-to-be expats searching for practical, lived experience and not just theory
What you’ll find here
Everything on Bricks & Borders is designed to be useful in the real world, not just inspirational on a screen. Content focuses on the “how” behind big moves, with numbers, timelines, and decision-making frameworks whenever possible.
- Deep-dive guides on visas, residency, and relocation strategy
- Real estate and cost-of-living breakdowns across different countries
- Systems for planning multi-country life: finances, logistics, and work
How this project started
Bricks & Borders began in 2025 as a way to document one family’s transition from a U.S.-based life to a multi-country, Europe-focused future. It grew out of years of working remotely, military service abroad, managing rentals, and navigating the paperwork behind cross-border living.
- Founded by Victor, a remote consultant and investor with a background in Reporting & Analytics, Mechanics, CAD Design, Travel, and Investing
- Rooted in real timelines: from Texas to Colombia to Spain and beyond
- Built to turn lived experience into a resource others can actually use
How to get involved
Subscribing gives you full access to all current and future articles, tools, and behind-the-scenes updates on new moves, properties, and projects. You’ll also receive occasional email newsletters so you can follow along without chasing algorithms or feeds.
- Subscribe to unlock the full archive and future posts
- Reply to emails or comment to share your own plans, questions, and experiences
- Use Bricks & Borders as a starting point for designing your own version of life beyond one country