Tag: ‘Expats Overseas’

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Don dreamt of escaping this country for years. He couldn’t take the craziness anymore… The corruption, the political turmoil, the ...

My husband was a wine distributor when we lived in Illinois, and we spent many vacations in California’s famous wine ...

The expat community has expanded quickly in Medellín, Colombia, since Virginia couple David and Carole Wallis first arrived. Over the ...

If anyone had told me eight years ago that today I would be living in Colombia, I would have laughed. Back ...

We started the afternoon with a chef’s selection of three pâtés accompanied by a bottle of Chardonnay… Beyond the front ...

A few weeks back from a whirlwind scouting trip in Spain, and I’m still keeping the culture alive here at ...

I'd say that this world of ours is a pretty great place to be. I make the point in case ...