Workflows
From the quiz to a decision
Most households go from "we should think about moving" to a chosen destination over about 6 weeks. That timeline assumes evenings and weekends, not a full-time project. Couples with strong disagreement add another two. Couples already aligned can collapse it to three. The map and quiz between them support every stage of the path.
The stages
- 01Take the quiz
Nine questions, two minutes. The output is a ranking of countries against your stated priorities. Treat the top three as candidates, not as a verdict. The bottom of the list is also informative — sometimes more than the top.
- 02Read the top country in the Atlas
For each candidate, the Atlas country article covers visa, taxes, healthcare, cost of living. Reading it is the difference between "Portugal sounds nice" and "Portugal's D7 wants this much passive income, and I do not have it".
- 03Open the map for the chosen country
On the map, country-level becomes location-level. Use the filters, the choropleth, and the POI layers to walk from country to region to a shortlist of three to five locations. Expect this to take two or three evenings, not one sitting.
- 04Bulk-import any listings you have already gathered
If you started by collecting real-estate listings before the quiz, this is the moment to bring them in. Their clusters often shift your shortlist in a way pure filtering does not.
- 05Visit
Plan a scouting trip with the visit planner. Annotate on the ground. Re-rank the shortlist on the flight home — while the trip is still fresh, not after a week of catching up at work.
- 06Decide with the compare table
Open the compare table, print it, walk through it with a partner. Pick. A decision that gets deferred indefinitely is a decision that gets made for you by inertia.
- 07Roll into the relocation checklist
The checklist for the chosen country is your next playbook. The map's job is done. Open the checklist within a week of deciding, before the momentum cools.
Checkpoints — what you should see at each stage
- After quiz: top three countries with match percentages, and a quiet feeling about whether any of them surprised you.
- After Atlas reading: each of the three either confirmed or ruled out. Usually one of the three drops at this stage.
- After map filtering: three to five candidate locations inside a single country.
- After bulk import: a pin map that either confirms the locations or surfaces a cluster you had missed.
- After visit: an updated shortlist with on-the-ground notes attached to coordinates.
- After compare: a chosen winner and a backup. The backup matters more than it looks.
Where workflows usually stumble
Another stumble: comparing too many locations too early. Five on the compare table is workable. Ten on a printout is paralysing. Cut hard before opening the compare view.
Last one: treating the visit as optional. Two of the six weeks should overlap with at least one trip. Decisions made without a visit get reversed at roughly one in three. Decisions made after a visit, about one in ten. The trip pays for itself even when the answer is "not this one".
Frequently asked
Can the workflow be done in a weekend?
The map work can. The trip, the Atlas reading, and the conversations with a partner cannot. With a real deadline, plan for two long weekends with a trip between them. That is the tightest the workflow runs without quality loss.
What if my partner has not done the quiz?
Run it twice and compare results. The disagreements often reveal which dimensions you were both undervaluing. The map step then works the same regardless of whose quiz output you start from.
Where do consultants fit in?
After the compare table, not before. A consultant briefed with a clear shortlist and trip notes can do in one hour what they would otherwise spread over three.
Verified · 2026-05-26