Take Root Abroad is a planning tool for United States citizens who are moving abroad, built around the parts of the decision that actually cost people money: the true all-in cost, the cross-border tax picture, and a visa route with a timeline that stays current while the rules move.
Start with the free comparison. "Find your country" narrows more than twenty corridors to the ones that have a real route for your situation, because most people are choosing between countries before they are planning a move. Corridors are grouped honestly into viable routes and honest redirects, and the redirects are the useful half: the two most-wanted destinations for Americans, Canada and the United Kingdom, are exactly where someone who wants to settle and keep working cannot easily go. Saying so up front is more useful than a list that flatters the reader.
Each corridor page answers the questions in the order people ask them. Can a US citizen move here, which situation does it suit, what does it really cost, and what is the tax reality. Then the visa routes, housing, healthcare, banking, and the single biggest friction for that country.
Planner adds the execution layer: your phased task timeline from foundation through arrival, document tracking, a currency conversion view that shows where today's rate sits against its own twelve-month range so you convert on evidence rather than on a deadline, and the full cross-border tax picture for your corridor.
Every cost and every visa, tax and legal fact carries its source and the date it was last verified, with a clear flag when a figure is an estimate rather than a confirmation, and a disputed marker where the tax treatment is genuinely contested rather than false certainty. An always-current agent re-checks the rules as they change. The rules move constantly, and planning on a number that quietly went stale is the failure this exists to prevent.
Free Compare is free forever with no card. Planner opens with a 14-day trial that requires no card, and the first charge carries a 30-day money-back guarantee.
It is a planning tool, not legal, tax or immigration advice.
Take Root Abroad is made by Ten Eleven Twelve LLC, founded by Will Simpson in Austin, Texas. There is also a free Bureaucracy Phrasebook covering the high-stakes appointments where no interpreter is provided: the immigration office, healthcare registration, opening a bank account and signing a lease, in the correct regional variant for each country.