5 of the Best Places for Singles to Retire to
There are many reasons a single person would want to live and retire abroad. The opportunity to travel, and see ...
How To Sell Property Overseas
We talk a lot about the benefits of buying property overseas and why it makes sense to buy real estate ...
Questions You Must Ask Before Buying A Home Overseas
Buying real estate overseas is fundamentally about diversification. This is true whether you buy for investment or for retirement and ...
6 Things You Need To Know About Your Stimulus Payment
On March 27, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) was passed by Congress and singed into law ...
Countries And Cities With The Cheapest Cost Of Living
Imagine your ideal lifestyle. Then look at the numbers in that context. Where will the budget you’ve got buy you ...
4 Of The Safest Countries To Retire In Europe
Not any one place in the world is completely safe, but these are our picks for the places where you ...
5 Real Estate Opportunities For Cash Buyers
Over the past two years, we’ve been highlighting Colombia as a place where U.S.-dollar-holders have increased buying power. Now, that currency ...
Cost Of Your Ideal Property In The U.S Vs Overseas
U.S. second-home markets are seeing exploding interest. It's understandable. Seems like a good time to have a second home somewhere ...
Comparing Panama And Colombia: Living, Retiring, Investing
First, we compared Cuenca, Ecuador, with Medellín, Colombia… Then we looked at a more outside-the-box comparison, thinking through how Panama ...
Retire Overseas Conference Helps Couple Retire To Medellín
"I get two weeks of vacation a year from my stressful job, and you want me to spend one of ...
Portugal’s Algarve Versus Spain’s Costa Del Sol—Finding The Best Value
We have named Portugal's Algarve region as the world's best place to live or retire overseas for four years running. ...
Paris Versus Lisbon: Comparing European Riverfront Cities
European borders opened recently, allowing me to begin doing more than thinking about traveling beyond France. Ireland is likely to ...
4 Of The Best Cities For Canadians To Retire To
If you want to retire overseas full-time, or even for part of the year, these are some of the best ...
A Look At The Different Lifestyles In Belize
We believe Belize is one of the best places in the world to live, retire, invest, and chase adventure. In ...
How Long Until The Tourist Rental Market Recovers?
Covid-19 Impact On Travel The global lockdown is starting to ease, but there are still many countries who are yet ...
Top Tips for Moving Overseas With Kids
We focus a lot on the benefits of retiring overseas, or buying a second home overseas. But what about if ...
Comparing The Best Of Mexico: Puerto Vallarta Vs. Mazatlán
One of the questions I hear most frequently is why I chose to live in Mazatlán, rather than the better-known ...
Everything You Need To Know When Building A House In Belize
Building my home in Corozal from scratch six years ago… what a learning process. It’s pretty straightforward—it can be fun ...
What Is An Expat?
An expat is a person who lives in a country outside of their birth country. People often assume that an ...
Cost of Living In Paris Versus Panama City
This week we’re digging into comparisons... Because no place is perfect, everywhere has its pluses and minuses, and the best ...
Mexico Vs Costa Rica: Which is Best For You?
Costa Rica and Mexico have long been favorite countries for American expats. They remain among the first names that people ...
Retire Overseas Benefits Of Cuenca, Ecuador, Vs Medellín, Colombia
I’ve spoken with lots of potential expats who are trying to choose between Cuenca, Ecuador, and Medellín, Colombia… even though ...
7 Tips To Consider Before Buying Real Estate Overseas
Overseas real estate is currently on sale at a major discount. To help you buy safely and get the best ...
How To Figure Out The Best Place To Retire Overseas
Out of this big old world of 195 countries, how in the world do you figure out where in the ...
The Safest Countries To Retire To In Latin America
Every year, the Global Peace Index makes a list of the world’s most peaceful countries. The Index measures Safety and ...
Unretirement: How To Broaden Your Retirement Perspective
The dictionary defines "retirement" as a state of "being withdrawn from the rest of the world or from a former ...
Remembering People Who We’ve Helped Find Their Dream Lives
Twelve years ago this month, I started Live and Invest Overseas. Back then, that first year, we were a two-person ...
How Moving To Belize Made My Life A Year-Round Vacation
I was vacationing in the Caribbean all the time. I was working 50 weeks a year, then I spent every ...
How COVID-19 Is Changing Everyday Life In Panama
Panama City is still under strict lockdown. Men and women are allowed to go out on certain days, at certain ...
Finding Our Dream Life Overseas In Cascais, Portugal
About two year-and-a-half years ago, my wife and I made the leap... We moved halfway around the world... to Portugal. ...
Our Online Retire Overseas Conference May Be The Best Ever
We are this week counting down to the launch of our biggest and most important event of the year. Every ...
Listing The 21 Best Places To Live For Under $1,500 A Month
Yesterday we reminded ourselves of the core promise on the table here. Specifically, my promise to you in these dispatches, ...
7 Of The Best Beach Towns In Mexico
We rank Mexico as joint-1st in our list of the best places to live and retire overseas. Mexico has some ...
English-Speaking Islands Where You Can Live Or Retire
On English-speaking islands you can enjoy island life with some of the familiarity of home. Visit or relocate to any ...
Top 21 Places Where You Can Retire For US$1,500 A Month
What if you could retire early… even with a small nest egg and little income? What if you could live ...
Crime Overseas: 7 Countries That Have Little To No Crime
How To Avoid Crime Overseas Staying safe involves making sensible decisions and planning ahead. By taking a few precautions you ...
10 Things To Do In Panama
The Republic of Panama offers beaches and mountains approximately an hour away from each other, the Panama Viejo ruins, the ...
Florida Vs Brazil: Comparing 2 Beachfront Property Options
We’re going to kick off today by putting two beach properties head to head. I’m not going to tell you ...
Investing In Property Overseas How To Find The Balance
Resident global real estate investing expert Lief Simon—also, coincidentally, my husband—and I have been shopping the globe for real estate ...
The Best Way To Shop For–And Ultimately Find–Property Overseas
Google is generally recognized today as the answer to every question, but there are exceptions to that Internet Age fundamental ...
Guide To The Ancient And Modern Sports Played In Belize
Scrape the laid-back and lackadaisical surface of Belizeans and you’ll find a passionate and proud people… and their devotion to ...
How To Rent Or Buy Real Estate In Unregulated Markets
You want to be sober when considering property purchase options in a foreign land. Certainly, you want your wits about ...
What You Need to Know: Global Real Estate Investing
World events are creating chaos and uncertainty… which is translating into the greatest opportunity of our lifetimes to own real ...
Things To Know Before Buying Property Overseas
We're reviewing the fundamentals of how to buy real estate overseas safely and with confidence... in an effort to arm ...
How To Shop For Real Estate In A Country With No MLS
We've been focused this week on current opportunities to buy real estate overseas. That's because the world right now is ...
Mediterranean Real Estate For Less Than US$50K In Northern Cyprus
White-sand beaches... warm water... year-round sunshine... and one of the healthiest diets in the world... For sun and sand lovers, ...
How To Drive Your Car Across The Border In Latin America
Is it possible to cross borders by car in Latin America?... This is a question I get asked a lot ...
What Panama Looks Like As It Begins To Reopen
At the end of March, Panama placed everyone under quarantine and set a travel ban. As of mid-June, the country ...
What Belize Looks Like As It Begins To Reopen
Belize’s coronavirus case and death counts have remained low throughout the pandemic, with only 23 confirmed cases and 2 deaths. ...
What France Looks Like As It Begins to Reopen
On the 12th of March, President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron addressed the country with a televised statement announcing the ...
