Tag: ‘Expats Overseas’

When it comes to moving overseas, the ability to acquire long-term residency is one of the first considerations you need ...

Is Belize safe? I get asked this all the time. Belize can be a wonderful, sun- and fun-filled place to ...

One part of culture shock I cannot get over, no matter how many years I’ve been in Greece, is the ...

A couple weeks ago, I joined a few colleagues for the 2025 Top 14 Retirement Havens Webinar. On January 10, ...

White-sand beaches, swaying palm trees, warm turquoise water, year-round sunshine… The Dominican Republic is steeped in true Caribbean charm. This ...

In all my 40 years of experience covering the live and retire overseas beat, one country has stood out above ...

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

Once a sleepy fishing village, Cascais became a sunny playground for people from Lisbon, just 30 minutes away. In fact, ...

Dreaming about reinventing your life somewhere sun-drenched, safe, warm, welcoming, affordable, and adventure-filled this new year? We’ve got you covered. ...

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

With great anticipation we await the launch of our 2025 Overseas Retirement Index, coming next week… I can’t divulge the ...

Costa del Este is Panama City’s most exciting neighborhood. It stands out for being the only master-planned community in the ...

’Tis the season to remember All the faces and the places that were home... ’Tis the season to remember And ...

Madeira is an archipelago made up of three main islands (Madeira, Porto Santo, and the Desertas) that float 1,000 kilometers southwest ...

"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd ...

“Gosh, I am old.” This thought came to me unexpectedly the other day. The term “old” can have negative connotations. ...

My family moved to Cascais sight unseen. We had spent time in Portugal on several occasions but never with the ...

As we prepare for our upcoming Live And Invest in Europe Virtual Conference, I’ve been getting in touch with contacts ...

Belize is an English-speaking and affordable tropical paradise on the Caribbean that has been attracting retirees, snowbirds, and entrepreneurs for ...

The moment we decided to pack our lives into suitcases and make the leap across the Atlantic to Portugal, I ...

After our Live And Invest in Spain Conference in mid-September, we hosted our Elite Members for special activities, the first ...

There are things we take for granted living in the United States, Canada, and other developed countries… Things that tourists ...

The key to living long-term overseas… and to escaping home at a moment’s notice if you need to… is residency ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wanting a vacation house or investment property in another country is one thing. Being able to afford it is another. ...

Rising costs of living in the United States are a serious threat to quality of life... particularly for people on ...

I’m in Spain again, much to my delight, for our first-ever Live And Invest In Spain Conference. Some sunshine, seafood, ...

With election madness ramping up, even a cursory glance at the headlines serves as a reminder of how volatile and ...

I first met Phil Hahn in 2010. He had already founded one successful oceanfront development in  Belize and was moving ...

Today I’d like to speak with you about   a little-known escape in Belize… Over the past few years, amid the ...

Laura Washburn, a chef originally from California, and her British husband, Ian, moved to the village of Fourcès, in the ...

The lure of island life is hard to resist… Be it Treasure Island, Fantasy Island, or Gilligan’s Island, for generations ...

“Wow. This is really something.” It was the late 90s, and I was sitting at a palapa in Playa del ...

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

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

We give a lot of virtual ink to Latin America. That’s because it’s nearby to North America, from where most of ...

If Panama is on your retire overseas radar then doubtless you’ve heard of the mountain town of Boquete. Home to ...

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