I have no insight on anything to do with your specific circumstances but can provide a bit of insight into leaving a country in general.

Earlier this year my wife and I moved our family to the UK from the US. Our biggest hurdle was finding employment that offered sponsorship for a visa. My employer offered to sponsor for the max term of 5 years which we happily took as after 5 years you can apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain and stay without a visa. The next hurdle was paying for the visas. 5 years all at once was about $35k IIRC. Thankfully we had been talking about wanting to move for awhile now and saved for the effort. Restarting life also came with significant expenses as you’ll likely be living out of a suitcase while apartment whatnot gets everything resituated.

TLDR; find target countries, save a lot of money, find a job that’s sponsors, be patient and take each day as it comes.

I didn’t realize HDDs are taking a hit now… I’m moving overseas and opted to move my sever with me instead of rebuilding since ram alone is close to 1k now. I didn’t price HDDs at the time cause they are only 4 years old… Sure hope they hold on for another few years…

Agreed. This is legit so cool, but I just don’t have a use for it myself.

Immich is set up because I really like the image processing for things like seeing a timeline of my son’s pictures as he grows up. Pretty nifty addon to all that.

https://youtu.be/hgcFdUIOf5M

I’m pretty sure this is the video I used to setup mine awhile back. I have my deluge docker networked into Gluetun. Everything else flows normal.

Vote for the unlisted AirVPN because extremely easy to use, very moderate pricing, and specifically why I needed it, port forwarding.