Soft Life Chronicles™ Presents

Don’t Just Hope for a Softer Life Abroad.
Design It.

Most people move on a feeling. The Soft Life Immersion Blueprint™ lets you test your next chapter — neighborhood by neighborhood, on your real routine — so you commit with data, not just hope.

01

Diagnose

Map your non-negotiables across 12 life categories.

02

Test

Rotate neighborhoods every 9 days. Run a Simulation Day on your real routine.

03

Decide

Get your Country Fit Report — built on lived data, not vibes.

04

Arrive

Land with intention. Capture the moment with Arrival Story™.

"Your environment is the most underrated system in your life."

Find Your Starting Point.

There’s no wrong place to begin. Start where you are and move at your own pace — from a free guide all the way to arriving with intention.

Free

Dip Your Toe In

Just curious? Grab a free visitor guide and get a feel for how we think — no cost, no pressure.

Free Gift

Portugal Visitor's Guide

Heading to Portugal to visit — not move? This 3-page PDF covers hotels, cities, the train system, Portuguese phrases, shopping, Wise, ClassPass, and everything you wish someone had told you before landing.

Free PDF gift

Instant access — the guide opens right after. Free, no spam.

Free Gift

Thailand Visitor Guide

Visiting Thailand — not moving? This free 3-page guide covers where to stay, getting around (BTS & Grab), QR payments, key Thai phrases, beauty & markets, beyond-Bangkok trips, and the essentials to know before you land.

Free PDF gift

Instant access — the guide opens right after. Free, no spam.

Free Gift

Vietnam Visitor Guide

Curious about Vietnam? This free 3-page, research-backed guide covers where to stay, getting around, payments & cash, key Vietnamese phrases, food & markets, day trips, and the essentials to know before you land.

Free PDF gift

Instant access — the guide opens right after. Free, no spam.

$27–$45

Get Lived Experience

Ready to go deeper? Real, four-years-on-the-ground guides for your destination — your first step as an insider.

Destination Guide

Soft Life Bangkok:
The Luxury Girls Trip Guide

30 days across four neighborhoods. The hotels, the beauty spots, the beach clubs, the food, the transport — written from inside the experience, not from research.

$27 digital guide Get the Bangkok Guide →

Instant download after checkout.

Destination Guide

Soft Life Abroad:
Portugal Edition

Four years of real lived experience in a guide that covers what no travel blog will tell you. Cost of living, hotels, culture, transport, language, safety — the truth.

$45 digital guide Get the Portugal Guide →

Instant download after checkout.

Flagship · $497 · Founding rate $297 (first 20)

Design Your Next Chapter

The big decision. Test whether a country can actually support the life you need — before you commit to the move.

Best Value · Bundle

The Arrival Story Experience™

Our white-glove service for the woman who refuses to leave her landing to chance. You get the full Soft Life Immersion Blueprint™ to test your next chapter — plus your Arrival + City Flow filming experience — so your new environment renews you instead of taxing your bandwidth.

$997 save $100

Blueprint ($497) + Arrival + City Flow ($600) = $1,097 if bought separately.

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The Soft Landing Guarantee

Go through the entire Blueprint. If you don’t walk away with absolute clarity on your next move, I’ll refund your purchase in full — I’m that confident. The risk is mine, not yours.

Arrival Story™ — Lisbon

Stay present for your most meaningful arrival moments. We coordinate a professional creator to capture the beginning of your experience — calmly, intentionally, without pressure. Now filming in Lisbon — Bangkok coming soon. Choose your experience:

Lisbon arrival — Alfama rooftops over the Tagus river at golden hour
Lisbon · Available Now
Bangkok arrival — golden-hour skyline and lake at Benjakitti Park
Bangkok · Coming Soon
Arrival Story

Arrival Story:
Bangkok

A defined arrival-focused filming window — the start of your experience (city, hotel, or first stop), captured calmly as short-form vertical video for social. Delivered digitally within 72 hours.

$350 per experience Book Arrival Story →
Arrival + City Flow

Arrival +
City Flow

Your arrival plus early lifestyle scenes you can use over time — an extended window mixing movement, environment, and lifestyle moments, delivered as multiple short-form videos. Within 72 hours.

$600 per experience Book Arrival + City Flow →
Soft Life Arrival

Soft Life
Arrival

For milestone moments that deserve a slower, intentional capture — carefully paced environments and an elevated, calm visual style, delivered as a larger set of short-form videos. Within 72–96 hours.

$800 per experience Book Soft Life Arrival →

After payment, you'll complete a short intake (arrival time, location, preferences) and we confirm availability within 24–48 hours. Filming takes place in public or pre-approved locations only. For meet points outside central Lisbon, a flat travel fee of up to €40 may apply, confirmed in advance and paid directly to your creator. Cancellation policy: full refund 21+ days before arrival; 75% at 15–20 days; 50% for 14 days or fewer; no refund for no-shows. A reschedule may be offered in place of a refund, subject to availability.

Where We Go Deep

The Blueprint Works for Any Destination.

Portugal and Thailand come from years of lived experience; Vietnam is research-backed using the same framework. Every other destination uses that framework with research-backed guidance.

Portugal — Lived Experience
Thailand — Lived Experience
Vietnam — Research-Backed
Mexico — Coming Soon
Ghana — Coming Soon
Colombia — Coming Soon

What the Photos Don't Tell You

You have seen the photos. The beach. The garden. The mountain view from a balcony in a country you have been dreaming about. And maybe you want to move there because you do not have access to that quality of life at home. That is a valid reason.

But here is what the photos do not tell you. They do not tell you that the beach is 90 minutes from the apartment you can afford. They do not tell you what healthcare looks like there — or whether the nearest hospital is a short ride or a long one. They do not tell you whether you will need a car or if public transport actually works where you live. They do not show you where the grocery store is, how far the pharmacy is, or what your daily life looks like when the vacation is over and the real living begins.

And it is not just about the lifestyle. There are so many variables to consider — cost of living, neighborhood safety, wifi reliability, access to the things your life actually requires day to day. If you do not know what your non-negotiables are before you move, you will get swept up in everything a new country offers on screen. And you will land somewhere that looks nothing like the life you actually need.

That is what the Soft Life Immersion Blueprint™ helps you figure out before you pack the bags. Before you sell everything. Before you sign a lease in a neighborhood you chose from a photo. Before you arrive and realize the life you built abroad is not what you wanted — and now you are looking to go backwards to home instead of forward into your future.

At Soft Life Abroad, we are not helping you plan an escape. We are helping you design a move with intention. That means knowing your non-negotiables. Knowing what your budget can actually fund. And testing the real life — not the highlight reel — before you commit.

Written From Real Life.
Not Research.

I'm Samone Davis — founder of Soft Life Chronicles™. I spent 28 years in corporate America before making one of the most intentional decisions of my life: moving to Portugal.

Soft Life Abroad™ exists because I tested everything myself — four years in Portugal, 45 days in Thailand rotating through neighborhoods with a methodology I built from scratch. I know what works. I know what the travel blogs don't tell you. And I built the tools I wish I'd had.

Soft Life Abroad™ supports easing the strain in your core environment life system and getting your bandwidth back.

Golden-hour skyline and lake at Benjakitti Park, Bangkok — captured on arrival Bangkok · captured on arrival
4Years · Portugal
45Days · Thailand
28Years in corporate before the leap
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Don't just move. Move into a life that actually works.

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