Tag: move overseas

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

Whether you’re just visiting or just moved to this beloved retirement haven, you might be overwhelmed by what to do ...

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

If you’ve ever spent time in Portugal you’re likely familiar with the beautiful clamshell-shaped, traditionally copper-hammered cooking devices called cataplanas. Aromatics ...

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

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, over 31 million Americans claim Irish ancestry. They make up a large proportion of ...

In 1989, Italian schoolteacher Mauro Morandi was sailing between Corsica and Sardinia when the engine of his catamaran gave up. ...

When you're planning a move to a new country, it helps to surround yourself with supportive, like-minded people. Your fellow ...

I’ve been a fan of Europe for a long time. My husband and I met in Ireland, and later moved ...

In the last issue, I began telling you about the biggest aspects of moving overseas—the things that, in my experience ...

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

I give a presentation for our annual Live and Invest in Europe Conferences… sharing my “expat story,” as we refer ...

We held our first ever Live And Invest in Spain Conference in November last year, and I eagerly look forward ...

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

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 ...

The following questions, which we receive every day, are often preceded by, "I feel a little foolish asking, but I'm ...

Two years ago, I bought a preconstruction condo in Northern Cyprus. Today, that condo is worth double what I paid ...

Unless you’re very lucky, your friends and family won’t understand. When you tell them you’re thinking about moving to a ...

Buying real estate in Portugal is one of the best things that you can do right now. It has grown ...

I’m a native Californian... such a native Californian, in fact, I was actually born in Hollywood. I always lived in ...

I made my first international move, from Baltimore, Maryland, to Waterford, Ireland, with the support of my longtime employer. He ...

We often get questions from readers about currency risk when moving overseas… Concerns about currency exchange fluctuations are valid, especially ...

The ideal life for many is being able to take a short drive from home to the beach, or from ...

The world is alive with opportunity. Specifically, in the context of the conversation we carry on in these dispatches, the ...

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

All the calendar days of a new year in front of us... Each one begging to be filled with discovery. ...

Twenty years ago, Vicki and I spent our first Christmas in Paris, France. We stayed in Paris all that winter ...

"Do you know where our passports are?" my husband asked, sounding slightly panicked over the phone. I was away on ...

After 32 years of marriage and four children, my husband and I were retiring to Belize in six weeks... Being ...

The first and perhaps most important step you must take to make sure that you arrive where you want to ...

You make three decisions in life that matter. You choose what to do to support yourself. You choose who to ...

Last week I enjoyed three days online live with more than 100 Live And Invest Overseas readers interested in exploring ...

Going Solo In Belize Belize has made concerted efforts to grow in sustainable ways. It's one of the reasons that ...

Move overseas and you join a distinguished clan. Think Marco Polo, Rousseau, Einstein, Hemmingway, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, ...

What does 2023 hold in store for you? Do you approach it with trepidation or enthusiasm? If you’re reading these ...

Why... how... and where.Those are the three big questions to answer as you consider the world map in the context ...

Panama or Belize? When considering the best places to retire, many people dream about living abroad in a warm, tropical ...

For tourists and foreign residents, Cuenca's Christmas Eve Paseo del Niño parade, or Passing of the Child, is a colorful, ...

When the first Western-born sailors reached the island in 1508, they were greeted by an estimated 10,000 Maya inhabitants living ...

One of the many things to figure out in your new life overseas is how to vote back in the ...

I lived in Panama for eight years, in Panama City… which lies on the country’s southern, Pacific coast. My extended ...

The friendliest spot in Belize? If you ask me, that's Ambergris Caye, the little island just offshore from where we're ...

The Forbes reporter who interviewed me recently wanted me to give it to him straight. "Living or retiring overseas," he ...

The dictionary defines "retirement" as a state of "being withdrawn from the rest of the world or from a former ...

When is the right time for you to make a move overseas? Right now. OK, I don't know you personally, ...

One of the biggest lessons of the past two-and-a-half years has been this: We all need to seize opportunities when ...

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