Tag: american living abroad

We’ve turned the first page of the 2025 calendar. January is in the rear view. As I survey the globe ...

We humans invented the New Year and named it after Janus, the Roman god of beginnings. Janus is depicted with ...

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

One of the first places I ever felt a bit settled as an adult was in Vietnam. I moved to ...

Being in a beautiful place during the Christmas season can make the experience even more exciting, enjoyable, and memorable. This ...

“You have nicely transitioned from the ‘escape’ to really belonging and finding home (in Portugal),” observed my sister in an ...

I am self-aware of my personality quirks; I knew that one of my biggest challenges when moving to San Pedro, ...

My mom’s knee had been giving her trouble for years. By the time she finally saw a doctor, there was ...

In the past being rich meant spending a lot of money… But then came low-cost airlines, ATMs, satellite TV, computers, ...

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

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

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

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

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

When I moved abroad in 2001 at age 49, Social Security was far from my mind. Today, with the passage ...

When my children were young and we lived in Paris, we looked forward to our once-a-year trips to the boutique ...

Planning for a retirement that includes spending some or even all your time in another country is an increasingly appealing ...