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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Valencia, Spain’s third-largest city, has so many nicknames and claims to fame, it’s hard to highlight just one aspect of ...

My high-powered, six-speed Opel was stranded... stopped partway through a turn onto a narrow, cobblestoned street, much to the annoyance ...

I’m headed to David, Panama, in one month to visit one of the most popular investment opportunities that Live And ...

A rental property is the most common way to diversify your investment portfolio beyond borders. Buy an ocean-view condo on ...

Negotiating a real estate deal in another country—both the purchase and the sale—is likely to be different for you than ...

Considering a move to Spain? Here’s my list of things you need to know before taking the plunge on this ...

As a reader of Live and Invest Overseas, you probably have dreams of living in another country, as I did ...

I first visited this expat haven in 2002, and found it sleepy beyond imagination. “I’m not old enough to live ...

The men in my life drink whisky. Lately they’ve been talking a lot about how it’s produced and what makes ...

Recently, a reader wrote to me to ask whether she should buy property in Greece to qualify for residency under ...

Why Europe? It’s been a while since I considered the question… Let’s take a step back today and reconsider Europe ...

Belize is one of my favorite places in the world… My first time in Belize was a press trip. This ...

Last week as shots rang out in Butler, Pennsylvania, the U.S. came within an inch of all-out chaos. Then came ...

For anyone considering moving overseas—but especially older folks—health insurance is a critical consideration. If you think that Medicare will cover ...

If you could live anywhere, where would you go? And, once you got there, what would you like your new ...

You heard it here first: 2024 is going to be big for global property investors. Key to having a profitable ...

From Panama to Paris I flew for the weekend… Then early this morning I was on a plane to Dublin, from ...

Four years ago, I had a total hip replacement at the Veteran’s Administration’s flagship facility in Orlando, FL. In December ...

Cordon Bleu pastry chef, Frédéric Hoël, held up two handfuls of dough, one that you could have mistaken for a ...

Some years ago, back home in Baltimore for the holidays, I caught up with an old friend. Bill had a ...

“I can only stay for about an hour. I have a meeting about establishing a food co-op at 10:30, and, ...

“You’re doing what?!” This was the reaction I got from family and friends when I told them I was going ...

I wrote my first book on retiring overseas in 1987. I was twenty-four years old. I’ve produced many titles on ...

For many people considering a retirement in Europe, one of the things they look forward to is the option to ...

Part of my reason for leaving Canada, the country of my birth, was to explore something different, something unique. To ...

Retiring by the beach is a popular dream of many, but while escaping the 9-to-5 grind on a deserted island ...

Dreaming of escape? Imagining your life somewhere welcoming, friendly, peaceful, and safe… Where the sun shines, your days are filled ...

If you’re not a Panamanian, Panama is a foreign country for you…which means the way people do things here will ...

Lee and Jennifer Scott were ready to retire when their son graduated from college in 2012. “We sold the house, ...

Starting about 35 years ago (yikes), wide-eyed, pony-tailed, and straight out of college, I went to work in the publishing ...