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Starting Fresh: Living and Working in RotterdamAustin Willingham has lived in Rotterdam since June 2025, spending roughly $680 monthly on rent, insurance, groceries, and transit.
- After graduating college, Austin Willingham moved to Rotterdam on a DAFT visa to work as a freelancer.
- His total monthly expenses, covering rent, health insurance, groceries, and transportation, amount to about $680.
- He shares a two-bedroom apartment with his partner and a roommate and intends to stay in the Netherlands for at least five years.
- Living abroad offers him greater freedom and work-life balance while he develops his relocation business and builds an online community.
I like the freedom. This is coming from a privileged place, but I truly feel like anywhere outside the United States, it's about being able to breathe and have a work-life balance. That's what I love most about living abroad, even though I'm working for myself, there is still this balance and there's not this societal pressure of needing to prove myself all the time.— Austin Willingham in an interview with CNBC Make It; discussing his views on freedom, privilege, and work-life balance abroad.
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