Tools · Freedom Runway

How many months of geographic freedom can your savings actually buy?

Pick a city where the cost of living is on your side, plug in what you've saved and any side income, and see the real answer — not the Instagram version. Everything is calculated live in the browser using our global cost-of- living data.

· Live from our city database· 60 seconds· No signup

Everything you could deploy right now if you had to — cash, brokerage, HYSA. Not retirement, not equity.

Search any city worldwide. Data pulls live from our cost-of-living index.

$/ month

Anything you already earn remotely — freelance, small product, part-time contract. Use 0 if none yet.

Your Freedom Horizon

Solid year

You are 6.8 months away from full geographic independence.

Based on Lisbon, Portugal at an estimated $4,150 per month all-in, offset by $500 of side income.

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Lisbon · monthly all-in

$4,150

Rent ≈ $2,834, everything else ≈ $1,316. Benchmarked against $5,000/mo in NYC.

Monthly deficit after side income

$3,650

Every month you draw this from your $25,000 in savings until side income catches up.

Localized savings multiplier

1.20×

Your $25,000 behaves like $30,120 of NYC purchasing power in Lisbon. A dollar goes further here.

How the math works. Monthly cost for the target city is derived from our cost-of-living index (NYC = 100) against a $5,000/mo NYC single-person baseline. Deficit = target monthly − side income. Runway = savings ÷ deficit. Directional planning only; visa, taxes and healthcare aren't included. FX rates are approximate and refreshed manually.

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