Why we built this.

Ten years ago I was sitting in Hawaii trying to convince myself — and eventually my husband — that there was a different way to live. Not a vacation. A life. Somewhere that cost less, breathed easier, and gave our kids something the school system we were in never could.

He thought I'd lost my mind.

I went anyway. Six of us. $2,500 a month. We figured it out with workaways, residual income, Airbnbs that fit the budget, and more hours of research than I want to count. Planning days were dreadful. We'd pull cost data from four different places, cross-reference housing against transportation, try to figure out if the cheap city was actually cheap once you added everything up. Half the time the numbers were wrong. The other half they were incomplete.

Nobody had built a tool for a family like ours.

So we built it.

The American dream was never built for all of us equally.

And a lot of us have spent years chasing something that was never really on offer.

There's a different way to live. Not perfect. Not without challenges. But real. And in a lot of places around the world — it costs less, breathes easier, and gives your family something you've been told you have to earn your whole life just to maybe get someday.

We found it. We've been living it since 2017. And we built Livcost so you could find your version of it too.

Livcost is what I needed in that kitchen — real numbers, hidden costs included, from someone who actually lived there. Not scraped. Not generated. Lived.

We're Abby and Dion. Nomadic family of 6. 25+ countries. Since 2017. Still going.

This is the tool we wish we had.