Tag: At Home Abroad

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

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

More and more people are catching on to the idea that better lifestyle and investment opportunities can be found beyond ...

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

Panama has some of the best expat beach towns anywhere in the world. Whatever you want, you can find it ...

"I've had enough of your Caribbean vacations for this year!" This is the response Bill Piatt got from his wife ...

The following questions about how to retire overseas, which we receive every day, are often preceded by, "I feel a ...

Since the pandemic, Americans have flocked to Portugal in record numbers. From 2017 to 2022, the number of Americans living ...

Portugal’s landscape offers everything from quaint seaside towns to bustling urban centers. You could wake up to the sound of ...

Portugal’s Silver Coast, or Costa da Prata in Portuguese, is best known for its ancient towns with cobblestone streets, breathtaking ...

We rank Mexico in our list of the best places to live and retire overseas. Mexico has some of the ...

Belize is a beautiful, safe, welcoming wonderland of wide-open spaces and sugar-sand beaches. An idyllic place offering both quintessential escape ...

Imagining a new life in a new country then globe-hopping to find the paradise with your name on it is ...

Belize is many things... many of them diminutive. It's a tiny country with a small population. Density is low... and ...

Lief and I are packing for our return to Panama. When the kids were young, these repositioning events involved a ...

“I was sitting in Primavera Restaurant, a beautifully renovated, harmonious little place, enjoying an authentic Italian meal. There was live ...

The morning I met Dalys, she presented herself like a solider reporting for duty. Arms at her side, head high, ...

Imagine… Tall, lazy palm trees swaying in the breeze behind you… Cool, powder-soft white sand between your toes… And, out ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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

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

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

Although firmly on the map as a world-class retirement haven, parts of Panama are still relatively undiscovered. The country’s Veraguas ...

I’ve made four international moves across three continents with two kids, a dog, a turtle, a husband, and one fast-growing ...

Two decades living overseas, in Ireland, Panama, and France, have taught me... 1. Patience... the kind of patience you learn ...