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Choose
Pick places based on everyday livability, not just travel appeal.
Practical guides for longer stays abroad
Live somewhere new for a while—without turning it into a move.
Slow Nomad Guides creates calm, practical books and tools for people who want something between a vacation and a permanent relocation: a more livable way to stay for one to three months at a time.
Five-stage method
12 decision tools
Free reader resources
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Ordinary life, somewhere new.
The first guide
The Slow Nomad Handbook
How to live abroad for 1–3 months at a time—without moving there.
The Slow Nomad Method
ChooseLiveSet UpSettleMove On
The core framework
The five-stage method is the heart of the brand.
Slow Nomad Guides is built around a reusable system for longer temporary stays: decide well before you go, get settled with less friction, and leave with the stay complete—not unfinished.
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Live
Estimate the true lifestyle cost, including home-base overlap and mobility.
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Set Up
Handle arrival, housing, routines, and practical setup without chaos.
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Settle
Test the neighborhood and shape an ordinary week that actually works.
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Move On
Leave cleanly, keep the lessons, and make the next stay easier.
Books
The first Slow Nomad Guide
The Slow Nomad Handbook
How to Live Abroad for 1–3 Months at a Time—Without Moving There
For readers who want something between a vacation and a permanent move: a calm, method-driven guide to choosing a place, living comfortably, setting up ordinary life, settling into a routine, and moving on well.
Designed forlonger temporary stays, not fast travel or full relocation
Inside12 illustrated decision tools and three illustrative case studies
Best used withthe free worksheets and planning resources linked below
CHOOSE
LIVE
SET UP
SETTLE
MOVE ON
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Reader Resources
Free companion tools for The Slow Nomad Handbook.
The handbook explains the system. These reusable worksheets give readers clean copies of the planning tools—without an email gate, login, or additional purchase.
Choose
Destination Scorecard
Compare everyday fit across twelve practical criteria instead of relying on travel appeal alone.
Printable + Fillable Versions →
Set Up
Your First 72 Hours
A practical sequence for the first three hours, first day, first three days, and the end of week one.
Download the Checklist →
Live
Four-Layer Budget
See the complete lifestyle cost: Living Abroad, Travel + Mobility, Ongoing Costs at Home, and Contingency + Buffer.
Download Budget Worksheet →
Settle
Neighborhood Livability Test
Test the routes and routines that determine whether a neighborhood will actually work for a longer stay.
Download Neighborhood Worksheet →Free Bonus Planning Pack
Stay longer with a better plan.
This is the best place to start before publication: a compact planning pack for the early decisions that shape a longer stay well before booking, arrival, and routine-building.
- Stay Snapshot — define what this stay needs to do for you.
- Before-You-Commit Check — pressure-test the details that can create expensive friction.
- Ordinary-Week Sketch — plan the routines that make a neighborhood livable, not merely attractive.
This is an additional bonus, separate from the handbook’s reader resources. Those resources remain available without an email signup.
Get the pack + launch note
Free 30–90 Day Stay Planning Pack
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About Slow Nomad Guides
Travel books for the life between a vacation and a move.
Slow Nomad Guides is a publishing imprint focused on temporary living: staying long enough to build routines, understand a neighborhood, account for the full cost, and experience a place beyond the itinerary.
The approach is practical rather than aspirational-only: better decisions before the stay, less friction after arrival, and systems readers can reuse from one destination to the next.
Reader resources are general planning tools, not individualized legal, immigration, medical, insurance, tax, or financial advice. Verify changing requirements and provider terms with current authoritative sources before travel.