How to Move Abroad in 1in8b: My Move from Libya to Egypt

I found the route through Spend & invest → More → Moving → Look into working abroad. Paying for that investigation did not move Jana immediately. A year later, a separate decision offered a skilled-worker route to Egypt, with a much larger cost and a choice to leave or stay.

I chose to leave. Jana arrived in Giza at 32 and continued as an accounting / finance professional. Her pay was lower than before the move, and the cost left her with A$452 of debt. At 37, after five years there, she successfully applied for permanent residence.

Here are the steps, the before-and-after checks and the parts of settling that I could actually follow. All visa labels, costs, dates and outcomes below belong to the simulation.

Played in the original English 1in8b.life, v0.8.77 beta, October 29, 2026, with Auto off. The money display remained in Australian purchasing-power terms throughout, so the pay comparison uses the same display basis on both sides of the move.

The life I was moving

Jana was born in Benghazi, Libya, into the richest fifth of families. By this point she had a business degree, an office-job history, a small shop that had closed, and a new job in accounting and finance. The money account follows that earlier route, including the support she received from her family.

At 31 she had A$4,774 saved and was working in a formal finance role. She was divorced and had no children. I had not bought a home, and the old shop no longer existed. This matters: the move I tested did not involve transporting a spouse and children, selling a business or deciding what to do with an owned house.

I wanted to see what the migration controls actually did to this existing life. I kept the current job, declined a new career experiment, and left the money display unchanged so that I could compare the results.

Three similarly placed controls meant different things

Inside the spending menu, there were several ways to go somewhere. Only one began the work-abroad investigation I used.

The original game's random birth country is a separate system again. The optional real-birthplace field at the start is for comparison; it is not a way to set a future destination. Our beginner guide explains those starting controls.

Step 1: I paid to investigate work abroad

At 31, I paused, opened Spend & invest, expanded More and found Moving. The Look into working abroad button quoted A$231. After choosing it, the displayed savings were A$4,542; the following year's breakdown recorded Moving −A$231.

I treat those figures as the interface's rounded displays. The important distinction is between the small investigation cost and the later relocation cost. A$231 was not the price of the whole move.

There was also an unrelated home-purchase offer during this period. It included a contribution from Jana's mother and a large mortgage. I put it off. That kept the migration account free of a new property purchase and its debt, but it was my choice in this run, not a requirement I established for moving abroad.

Step 2: I read the opportunity when it arrived

At 32, a card titled A chance to go abroad offered a way to work in Egypt. It said Jana could apply for a skilled-worker visa and quoted a cost of about A$11K.

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The card compared Egypt's GDP per person at purchasing-power parity with Libya's and described it as about 1.3 times as high. The Leave button's short caption estimated income about the same and increased loneliness.

I read that as the information on this opportunity, then checked the actual result. A country-level comparison is not a personal salary offer. The route also did not give me a separate visa interview, approval screen or refusal outcome to test. In this run, choosing Leave led to an arrival record during that same simulated age.

If your card names a different destination, or offers different conditions, I would use that card's wording. This playthrough does not establish that Egypt is always offered or that the same fee buys the same outcome elsewhere.

Step 3: I checked that Jana had actually arrived

The Life record confirmed that Jana had arrived in Egypt and would carry on working as an accounting / finance professional. Her identity panel changed to Giza, Egypt (moved abroad). The working panel still described a formal finance role and three years in that work.

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I would look for those confirmations before calling an investigation or a decision an actual migration. Paying to research another country and seeing an opportunity are earlier stages.

Keeping the profession also has limits as a conclusion. The screen did not prove that every job transfers, that the employer was the same, or that another character's qualifications would be treated identically. It shows what happened to Jana's working role.

My before-and-after comparison

These checks were taken at age 32, around the departure decision. The pay and money figures use the same Australian comparison setting.

The results were mixed. The commute was shorter and the role continued, but the new pay was substantially lower. The opportunity's brief income estimate did not describe the exact salary I saw after arriving.

I also recorded Health falling from 84 to 80, with an overtime event appearing around the same point. I would not assign every change in a busy year entirely to migration. The comparison helps me see what to investigate; it does not reveal the game's hidden formulas.

What the move actually did to the budget

Jana had about A$10K saved before departing and a small debt afterwards. A later annual record named Moving abroad −A$11K and recorded a net-worth fall of about A$8,135 for that year, with saved earnings offsetting part of the expense.

That later record helped explain something easy to misread immediately after arrival: the past-year breakdown was still showing the earlier A$231 investigation. The current balance had already changed, while the annual summary described its own reporting period. I used the balance, the decision and the later record together.

I would therefore make two separate budget checks in another life. Before investigating, I would ask whether I could afford the research cost. Before leaving, I would read the actual relocation quote and check what would remain for the first year. I would not use the research fee as the whole budget.

Nor would I assume a move to a country with a higher GDP figure must raise my income. Jana's role continued, but her pay fell. Her estimated spending shares also changed; those estimates did not turn the country comparison into a guaranteed improvement in disposable income.

I had no active business or owned home to resolve at the border. The earlier shop had already closed, and I had declined the home offers. A player with those assets has an additional question that this move did not test. I cannot promise a sale price or say that everything will travel with the character.

The first years were also about distance and new people

After arrival, the overall relationship bar and the individual descriptions gave me a reason to look beyond income. Jana's mother and Nabil had changed from on good terms to distant. I selected Family & friends as the yearly focus at 32, having used Focus on work before the move.

The later record contained small events that made the new setting feel more like a place to live. At 33 there was an awkward misunderstanding despite sharing a language. At 35 Jana spoke to family back home by video for Eid and received a voice message from her mother. At 36 she started a club with people from back home, and a neighbor brought food to welcome her.

By the age-37 check, Relationships was 63, and both her mother and Nabil were on good terms again. I cannot separate the effects of the focus, the events, time and the other changes in the life. I can say that the initial distant labels were not the final state I observed.

There were financial setbacks too. At 33 a simulated currency crisis reduced the purchasing power of savings by 15%, with about A$333 recorded as the loss. At the age-34 check Jana had A$3,768 saved and pay of about A$1,773 a month. These are events in this fictional life, not a forecast about Egypt.

Later I tried a balanced fund, which experienced a market loss, and rent also rose. I have put the investment figures in the money article's later follow-up so they are not confused with the one-off migration bill. By the time I checked residence, several things besides the move had affected the balance.

Permanent residence came at 37 in this life

Five years after the move, a card asked whether to apply for permanent residence. It said Jana had lived in Egypt for five years, described paperwork and review, and quoted A$1,246. The outcome was described as depending on work and record.

I applied. The Life record confirmed permanent residence during that same simulated age. After the application, the identity panel read Libya · permanent resident of Egypt. My bank balance changed from A$6,682 to A$5,436, matching the quoted application cost.

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The card's explanation was that permanent residence removes visa renewals and makes changing jobs easier. I did not separately test a renewal cycle or a job change after approval. Although the description mentioned review taking months, the game reported the successful result within age 37; I did not observe a month-by-month process.

I also did not test Egyptian citizenship. Jana's nationality still appeared as Libyan. Five years and A$1,246 describe the opportunity in this life, not a universal rule for every game country.

For a different completed-life example, Ivan's saved story records arrival in Germany at 26, permanent residence at 31 and citizenship at 39. That is a separate character and country. It is useful precisely because I should keep those stages distinct, rather than turn his later citizenship into a promise for Jana.

Could I go home or move again?

I inspected the menu after arriving. At 32, Look into going home was listed but unavailable, with the Moving section saying it would be available again in two years. I would read the current waiting message before treating an unavailable button as a broken save or a permanent restriction.

At 35, the same section showed three active possibilities: moving closer to work for A$2,054, researching work in yet another country for A$342, and looking into going home for A$514. These were current menu quotes in Egypt, not the original A$231 Libya investigation fee.

I did not select a return or a second international move. The menu demonstrates that later options appeared in this run. It does not establish which country the next investigation would offer, whether it would succeed or what work I would keep afterwards.

What I would check before another move

I would pause with the departure card still open and note the city, profession, savings, debt and the people around the character. If necessary I would use Set aside to inspect the main screen, then Open it again to answer the decision.

I would compare the actual fee with spendable savings and keep the pay estimate separate from the country's statistics. Once the character arrived, I would check the identity and Life record, then read the salary, commute, debt and family descriptions again. Several changes can arrive together.

Finally, I would follow the life for a few years before deciding what the move meant. At 32 I was mostly checking whether Jana could afford it. At 37 the record also contained calls from home, a club and a neighbor at the door. Those are part of the outcome I would want to remember alongside the money.

Questions about moving abroad

Can I choose any country I want?

The card I tested offered Egypt or Stay. It was not a country selector. A later menu allowed another investigation, but I did not test its destination. The random birthplace settings at the beginning are a separate matter.

Do I need a university degree?

Jana had one, was already in a formal profession and received a skilled-worker opportunity. That does not prove a degree is required for every route, or that a degree guarantees one. I did not test an otherwise identical character without university.

Will I lose my job when I move?

Jana continued in the same profession with the same displayed years of experience, but with different pay. That is one observed result. I would check your own arrival record before assuming every job continues.

Can I take my spouse or children?

This run did not test that situation: Jana was divorced and had no children when she moved. I cannot turn her solo move into instructions about family relocation or consent.

Does permanent residence mean I changed citizenship?

Not in the result I observed. At 37 the identity panel still named Libya as citizenship and added permanent residence in Egypt. A later citizenship stage was not tested for Jana.

Is this how I move a save to another phone?

No. This article follows a character moving between countries inside one life. For changing browsers or devices, use the game's separate tools described in the save and transfer guide.

Evidence and scope: one original-English v0.8.77 beta playthrough, current world and birth-weighted draw, followed from Libya through arrival in Egypt at 32 and permanent residence at 37. Auto remained off. Screenshots retain the game's original text and pixels; only surrounding interface areas were cropped. I did not test visa refusal, moving a family, sale of a home or business, a second international move, return home or Jana's citizenship application. The official introduction describes the broader simulation; the detailed route, fees and outcomes above come from my observed record.