Don’t be fooled. Panama may be small in size but it offers a world of options when it comes to ...

I’ve just finished class with Renata, a pediatrics resident who is going to the United States for a one-month observership. ...

Resident global real estate investing expert Lief Simon—also, coincidentally, my husband—and I have been shopping the globe for real estate ...

Go to school... get a job... work hard for a few decades... retire... then die. For as long as I ...

When we made the decision to purchase the finca known as Los Islotes, Life and I had years of experience ...

You hear from me every day in these dispatches on some aspect of living and retiring overseas. One day I’m ...

Looking for an old-world retirement, rich with history, café lunches, wine on the terrace, and the kind of laid-back, cultured ...

In October, I’ll be in Porto, Portugal, for my annual Offshore Wealth Summit. One of the topics we’ll cover is ...

Kathleen and I just came back from a scouting trip to Turkey, where we put boots on the ground to ...

Europe is a continent of myths and legends. Whether it’s the “banshee,” the wailing old woman of Irish folklore who ...

I’ve been a fan of Europe for a long time. My husband and I met in Ireland, and later moved ...

Panama offers international-standard health care, and medical tourism is a booming industry here. Panama City is home to Hospital Pacífica ...

Mexico is one of the most promising markets for overseas property investment. It’s home to several well-known cities that, due ...

The historic town of Aveiro, situated on the west coast a little less than an hour's drive from Porto, is ...

Editor's Note:  This is an extract from my book, “At Home At Los Islotes”. Revealing the behind-the-scenes story of Lief ...

It's hard to imagine living the good life anywhere in Europe without preparing yourself for some sticker shock... But here ...

“At least it’s Paris we’re going back to…” I sighed to my husband and daughter as we packed up to ...

Autumn in Europe is all about harvest and local food festivals, with events taking place all over the Continent. Pick ...

Living in Northern Cyprus means gorgeous beaches, great food, and rich culture. Plus, it is an underrated retirement destination. And, since ...

Is moving to Cyprus a good idea? So the legend says… She was born in the waters of Cyprus—Venus, the ...

For our honeymoon, Lief and I rented a car in Istanbul and drove the Turkish coast south to Troy. This ...

If you’d like to live within easy reach of all the cultural attractions and conveniences of Barcelona but avoid the ...

When it comes to expat havens, Belize makes sense for a handful of boilerplate reasons… It’s English-speaking… There are easy ...

I first found out about Northern Cyprus from Lief Simon back in 2018. I’ll admit that I didn’t know much ...

Mexico is home to more U.S. expats than any other country, with as many as 1.6 million currently living there. ...

On Tuesday, Lief and I arrived in Izmir on a mission to explore Turkey’s Turquoise Coast… From there we drove ...

There's something in the water, or maybe I should say there's something about the water... I moved from the northeast ...

In January 1994, I moved to Argentina. By that time, I had already done short stints in Chad and Kazakhstan. ...

Baby Thomas James Delehanty arrived into the world in 1963 Arizona. A couple months later, having been adopted, he became ...

Arriving in Panama and getting situated can be an overwhelming experience for some people. Getting your bearings straight, figuring out ...

For close to 30 years, I’ve been warning people of the risks of hanging all your hopes on any one ...

One-third of Americans would like to move out of the United States, according to a recent poll. This means that ...

I like places with big pasts. Few places on this earth have a bigger past than Izmir. Originally called Smyrna, ...

Portugal is hard to resist... We've named thin-sliced corners of this beautiful, sunny, friendly, safe, welcoming, and affordable country as ...

Mark Twain summed up behavior like this: "The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon ...

In the last issue, I began telling you about the biggest aspects of moving overseas—the things that, in my experience ...

Should you really be thinking about retiring to a new country? That is… who should consider this idea? Surely it’s ...

What if you could go anywhere, do anything, and spend your time and your money any way you wanted? My ...

“I am still surprised by the reactions I get when I tell people I live in Medellín, Colombia,” says Wendy ...

Renovating a property overseas is something many of us dream about. But I can't go any further without asking you ...

Warren Knox caught the travel bug back in his military days. His career brought him to several unique and interesting ...

“I’ve wanted to live in Thailand since I was 12 years old,” says Bart Walters. “My uncle was in the ...

I give a presentation for our annual Live and Invest in Europe Conferences… sharing my “expat story,” as we refer ...

I consider overseas real estate to be the most valuable commodity in the world and the number-one investment opportunity in ...

Jacelyn Holmes is a part-time expat. For six to eight months per year, she lives in Nafplio, a seaside town ...

“I retired when I was forty-nine, thirteen years before I’d planned,” says Lee Harrison. “And it wasn’t because I’d struck ...

In these dispatches each day I tease and tempt you with pictures of the glorious new life you could create ...

By Western European standards, Spain is a big country. In this part of the world it’s second in size only ...

We held our first ever Live And Invest in Spain Conference in November last year, and I eagerly look forward ...

In the context of Europe, Spain is fantastically affordable. Many North Americans have this perception of Western Europe as being ...