Most families moving abroad do it in the wrong order. They fall for a place first, book the flights, and then start asking what happens with the kids in September. By then the decision has already been made for them.

The better sequence is boring but it works: decide how your children are going to learn, then pick the country that supports it. The best worldschooling destinations and the best international school destinations are rarely the same places.

Roughly two million families are now educating children while travelling, and the options have matured a lot. Structured online curriculum in the mornings, real world learning in the afternoons, and a weekly co-op with other travelling families is a common shape. Parents who have run it for a year or two tend to say the same thing: two or three focused hours a day gets more done than a full school timetable, especially with primary age kids.

Full time hubs are growing too. Family-focused programmes are running six week blocks in places like the Dominican Republic, and multi-country tracks moved through Vietnam, Taiwan and South Korea this year.

In the Digi Yesmads community, the Parents Only group is where this gets argued out honestly. Phuket suits families who want proper international schools with a nomad-friendly base around them. It suits pure unschoolers less well, and that is worth knowing before you sign a year lease.

Over 65 countries now offer family-friendly remote work visas, so the constraint is rarely legal any more. It is whether the place you picked actually fits the way your kids learn.

Ask that question first.