Mistakes are Costly

Moving is always expensive.  If you move down the street, you have to cancel your cable service and register your new address -- they charge a connection fee, etc.  However, moving internationally is expensive in ways that most people don't think about.

It's the hidden costs: the ones you incur when you make mistakes.  It's the groceries you buy erroneously -- like thinking you bought a delicious beer when in fact it'll tear your guts out ...ahem Falcon Beer.  Or earnestly buying an unlimited weekly T-bana pass for your wife who then only rides it twice (sorry!). Getting hungrily stuck in a hipster urban deli without any lunch option for less than $25.  You end up shamelessly licking every corner of that plate to get your money's worth and end up hating the fact that you paid way more for too little just because you're in a trendy neighborhood.

We aren't hung up on designer anything.  I could care less about designer clothes, food, or hip neighborhoods.  We aren't trying to be fashionable -- we don't have the money or the mindset to even attempt it.  So when we buy the wrong item or order from an expensive menu there is a little part of us that inwardly cringes with the slightest regret.  Instead of freaking out though, we just look around and think - -well, this will be "an experience".  Sure it's a crappy cafe and we're stuck in a dark corner but we'll remember this tasty piece of cake. Or, hopefully, we'll never remember the lunch that left us hungry and our wallets empty.

In the end, it's the mistakes that are costly and unfortunately, those are difficult to avoid at the moment.  Newbies always make mistakes.