Illustration promoting long-term family life abroad, featuring a colorful design with elements like London landmarks, a bicycle, and families exploring. Includes text about planning, cost of living, visa strategies, and worldschooling.

Helping Families Plan
Long-Term Life Abroad

Cities • Cost of Living • Visa Strategies • Worldschooling
for Families Living Across Europe

Independent travel journal documenting long-term family living across Europe.
World School Family Life explores how families design sustainable lives abroad
by comparing cities, visa systems, cost structures, and worldschooling strategies.

| About This Journal |

A mother and daughter sitting on a picnic blanket in a park, reading a book together. The scene includes a lantern, pink flowers, a toy sailboat, and picnic baskets.

World School Family Life is a worldschooling journal created by Emma, Peter, and Lucy while living across Europe as a family.

Emma is a designer and illustrator documenting everyday family life abroad, while Peter is an English educator focused on practical communication and global learning.

Together, we explore cities, visa systems, living costs, and sustainable worldschooling life for families abroad.

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| Start Here |

An illustration featuring an orange double-decker bus in front of the Tower Bridge in London, with a kangaroo standing on the right and clouds in the background.
City Guides
Best Countries for Worldschooling Families (2026)
Illustration of a museum building with columns, banners, and greenery.
Worldschooling
Free Museums in London : Creative Learning Guide(2026)
A passport, a laptop, and a notepad with an airplane taking off, symbolizing travel and remote work.
Visa Strategy
How Families Stay in Europe for 1 Year Legally (2026 Visa Guide)
Illustration of a small village with various houses, a prominent church tower, trees, and clouds.
City Guides
Best Countries for Worldschooling Families (2026)

| Essential Guides for Worldschooling Familes |

Image promoting a guide on staying in Europe longer than 90 days, featuring a border control scene with travelers and a border official.
A colorful illustration featuring two children engaged in learning activities, surrounded by books, a study table, and a bookshelf labeled with subjects like Math, Science, Language, and Art. Text promotes a guide on worldschooling curriculum framework.
An illustration depicting a family with a mother, a boy, and a girl standing next to a budget planner board displaying costs for housing, groceries, and transport, with the title 'Real Cost of Worldschooling' and a 'Read Guide' button.
Illustration promoting a guide on how to choose the best city for families, featuring a woman and two children looking at a map with a cityscape in the background.

| Recent Guides & Comparisons |

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A scene depicting a woman with red hair holding a green mug, a young girl in an orange sweater pointing excitedly, and a man in a green sweater thinking while holding a cup. The background features books on London, Paris, and Lisbon, alongside a laptop and a map on the table.

The Emma Family Framework

This framework is based on our family’s experience living across multiple European cities while worldschooling our child.
We use a simple framework to evaluate whether a place is truly sustainable for long-term family living abroad — considering city fit, legal stay options, cost structure, and daily learning rhythm.

Explore City Guides →
View Visa Strategies →
Compare Living Costs →

The Emma Family Framework

This framework is based on our family’s experience living across multiple European cities while worldschooling our child.
We use a simple framework to evaluate whether a place is truly sustainable for long-term family living abroad — considering city fit, legal stay options, cost structure, and daily learning rhythm.

Explore City Guides →
View Visa Strategies →
Compare Living Costs →