About Abroad
Research for the biggest trip we'll never sell you.
Mr Hudson designs travel. Abroad answers a bigger question — where a life should happen next — with the same discipline, for the same community.
The story
This started at our own dinner table.
Abroad's founders are a married couple. One is Dutch — he left the Netherlands for London in his early thirties; his husband made the same kind of move from the US — by way of Canada — and became British somewhere along the way. London is where they met. The moves since, they made together — Switzerland when a career called for it, Madrid because the life there appealed, then London again — and every one was decided the way couples decide anything that matters: over dinner, with the same questions going around. Which country recognizes what. What the tax treaty actually says. Whether the life on the other side of the paperwork is the one you wanted.
Mr Hudson has served gay men and the wider LGBTQ+ community for ten years — a travel publication first, and for the past five a luxury travel designer for clients who notice when research is thin and ask questions brochures can't answer. Those clients' conversations kept ending the same way: "honestly, we've been thinking about leaving altogether." Some were mid-career, wondering if the work could come along. Some were done working, wondering where it's safe to grow old. Some just wanted to know the door was open. All of them were doing the biggest research project of their lives with the worst tools — and the most important trip they were planning was the one nobody was researching properly.
The method
Verified, dated, and honest about its limits.
Abroad tracks nine countries to full depth, and says so plainly rather than pretending to cover the world. Every claim in a Dossier is checked against primary sources — statutes, official gazettes, government fee tables — and carries the date we checked it. Where written law and lived practice diverge, we corroborate with practitioners in-country, in writing, and label which is which. When professionals disagree, you're told they disagree. And when we're the wrong product for your case, we say that too — it's the cheapest thing we ever tell you.
The full argument for doing it this way is the founding essay.
The brand
Part of Mr Hudson.
Abroad is built and run inside Mr Hudson, an independent affiliate of Coastline Travel Group. The travel brand handles the beautiful part — including the scouting trips that turn a shortlist into a decision. Abroad handles the part that has to be true.
Start somewhere
Two ways in.
The free monthly briefing, if you're still circling the question. The Abroad Dossier, when you're ready to answer it.
Twenty-odd questions, $495, and research begins today.