For American families who are done wondering
You do not have a research problem. You have a blueprint problem.
The American Exit is the five-stage method for leaving America with your finances intact, written by a CFP® professional whose family went from decision to touchdown in Costa Rica in ninety days.
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It is 11:40 on a Tuesday night and you have nineteen tabs open.
A visa forum from 2019. A YouTube couple touring a house you will never buy. A blog post about healthcare that contradicts the blog post under it. You have been looking into it for months. Maybe years.
Here is the uncomfortable part: more research will not get you out. Every hour of it feels productive, and almost none of it moves you an inch closer to a plane ticket, because the questions that decide whether your move works are not the ones the forums argue about.
Not which beach town, and not whether the water is safe.
The real questions are quieter and heavier. What happens to your retirement accounts when you leave? Does your state let go of you, or does it keep taxing you from three thousand miles away? What happens if you die abroad with a will written for one country and a life built in another? Which of your accounts will freeze the day the bank notices a foreign address?
Nobody makes YouTube videos about Form 8938. That is why most moves fail on paper long before anyone gets near an airport.
The Exit Blueprint
Sixteen chapters, in the order the move actually happens.
My family used this sequence to get out in ninety days. The book walks you through it in the same order we lived it, with the money architecture most relocation content cannot touch.
Survey
The honest go or no-go. What the move actually costs, in money and in everything else, and the one conversation to have before any of it.
Foundation
The money. What leaving means for your taxes, your accounts, and your state residency. FBAR and FATCA in plain English. The PFIC trap hiding inside innocent-looking foreign funds. Estate and incapacity documents that work in two countries, and how insurance changes when you move.
Frame
Residency paths, document by document, and how healthcare actually works when you land: the public system, private care, and how families combine the two.
Build
The ninety-day landing plan, week by week. Safety and title fraud. Cars, roads, rain, power, and water. Moving with kids.
Home
Community, language, culture, and an honest chapter about the good, the hard, and the real.
Capstone: your first year, month by month, plus a straight-answers FAQ.
Why this book exists
Relocation blogs cannot write Stage Two.
There are good YouTube channels about moving abroad, and helpful Facebook groups, and more than enough people happy to tell you which town has the best farmers market.
Almost none of them can tell you what happens to your money, because that is not their trade. It is mine. I am a CFP® professional, and the chapters in Stage Two exist because I kept watching smart families get the financial side of leaving wrong in expensive, avoidable ways.
The American Exit puts the financial architecture of leaving America in plain English, in the order you will actually need it.
This book is for you if
- You have a family, real accounts, and a real balance sheet. Retirement plans, a house, maybe college funds or a small business.
- You are six months to two years from a move, or trying to decide whether there should be one.
- You want the sequence: what to do first, second, and third, and what breaks when you do it out of order.
It is not for you if
- You want someone to tell you exactly what you should do. That is advice, and no honest book can give it. This one does not pretend to.
- You have already lived abroad for a decade. You have earned your own book.
- You are looking for a listicle of beach towns.
The author
Written at the kitchen table where it happened.
Brennan Vitali is a CFP® professional. He started at Charles Schwab in 2019 and has spent more than a decade in markets and personal finance, most of it around the money side of big family decisions. Then he did the thing this book describes: he and his family left the United States for rural Costa Rica, ninety days from decision to touchdown.
More than three hundred people have used the free readiness assessment that pairs with this book.
The offer
The American Exit
Sixteen chapters covering the five-stage Exit Blueprint, the money architecture, the ninety-day landing plan, the first-year calendar, and a straight-answers FAQ.
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30-day money-back guarantee. If it is not for you, one email gets your ten dollars back.
At checkout you can add the Move Toolkit, an optional companion of worksheets and checklists built from the book's systems.
Questions
Asked and answered.
Is this financial, tax, or legal advice?+
No. The American Exit is education. It explains how the rules and the process work so you can ask better questions. Decisions about your own situation belong with professionals who know your facts.
Is it only about Costa Rica?+
Costa Rica is the case study, and the on-the-ground chapters are specific to it. The Exit Blueprint itself, and the entire United States side of the money architecture, applies wherever you are thinking of going.
What exactly do I get?+
The complete book in EPUB and PDF, delivered on screen the moment you buy and backed up to your email. Read it on a phone, a tablet, a Kindle app, or paper.
How long is it?+
Sixteen chapters, a first-year capstone, and an FAQ. About twenty-nine thousand words. Most people will finish it inside a weekend.
Do I need to be wealthy for this to matter?+
No. The book is about ordinary American balance sheets: retirement accounts, a house, kids' college funds, maybe a small business. If you have any of those, the money chapters were written for you.
What if it is not what I expected?+
Thirty days, money back, no questions. Reply to your receipt or write to hello@theamericanexit.com.
The door is open. Walk through it prepared.
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