An independent research desk covering the costs, logistics, and lived realities of full-time travel. Honest city verdicts. Real monthly budgets. Every claim carries a footnote.
Three formats, all sourced. No advice without a citation.
Long-form city assessments — the median rent, the visa friction, the line items that surprise nomads in month one. Lisbon. Mexico City. Medellín. Tokyo. Each one synthesized from public budget shares, government data, and recent forum threads.
The numbered series. One city per issue, one ledger, every category line. "Lisbon · March 2026 · $1,847 median." No rounding. No first-person travel claims.
Short tactical pieces. Pre-departure checklists. Tax-residency walkthroughs. The brokerage accounts that don't freeze when your address goes non-resident. The kind of thing that costs $300 to figure out the hard way.
Our pre-departure checklist — the five tasks expats most regret skipping in the 30 days before going full-time on the road. Free, source-cited, no spam.
One short research note per week. Sundays. Sourced. No drip campaigns, no upsells. Subscribe with the same form on the checklist page.
Every long-form piece we've published, organized by city and topic. Browse the archive →
Port de Provenance is the French shipping term for port of origin — the entry on a customs manifest naming where a thing came from. The brand thesis is named directly after the work. More on the methodology →