Diocletian was on to something. After more than two decades as emperor of Rome, during which time he'd put down ...

As I reminded you yesterday, we live in a great big beautiful world bursting with opportunity around every corner. That ...

Day by day in these dispatches, I work to show you that you can reinvent your life for the better ...

One of the questions I hear most frequently is why I chose to live in Mazatlán, rather than the better-known ...

I've spoken with lots of potential expats who are trying to choose between Cuenca, Ecuador, and Medellín, Colombia... even though ...

In Overseas Opportunity Letter, I've lately been reminding you of your best options for where to think about reinventing your ...

This week we’re digging into comparisons... Because no place is perfect, everywhere has its pluses and minuses, and the best ...

We're in a frothy situation... Right now, the United States is one of the most overheated property markets in the ...

We have named Portugal's Algarve region as the world's best place to live or retire overseas for eight years running. ...

What if you could retire early... even with a small nest egg and little income? What if you could live ...

The countdown is on... To the biggest and most important live and retire overseas event of 2021. Every year for ...

Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II was an enlightened man. Under his watch, Prussia was a land of tolerance. All religions ...

It's tough being a tourist even under the best of circumstances. We arrived as tourists in Sicily at the height ...

Getting onto the property ladder has always been one of the safest and best ways of securing long-term wealth. Buying ...

Just a little over two days from now, we kick off our Live and Invest in the Dominican Republic Virtual ...

We believe real estate is the best asset you can hold to protect and grow your wealth. We believe that ...

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

As you ski lazily down a gentle slope, a ray of sunshine hits your face, and you look down to ...

The tradition of herbal healing that started before the Mayan calendar is still alive and well in Belize. Belizeans' faith ...

Most of us contemplating a move overseas give attention to all the new matters we must prepare for—new languages and ...

Not sure where to retire? Consider living on a sailboat and seeing the world instead of settling in one place. ...

Above Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus’s main tourist town, perched in the foothills of the Kyrenia Mountain Range, is the unbelievably beautiful ...

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

Does moving overseas mean having to learn a new language? Well, unless you choose to move to one of the ...

The postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics are currently in full swing. Testing their abilities against the world's most elite competitors are ...

This week I've been thinking back and remembering readers I've been fortunate enough to get to know personally. Readers whose ...

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

I hosted the first conference of my career some 35 years ago in Costa Rica. It was a tour, too. ...

My family and I have just finished the renewal process for our French visa—whew, legal again for another year..! This ...

The overseas property market is booming, and now is a better time than ever to invest in real estate. Offshore ...

Most of the world knows the Dominican Republic for its white-sand beaches… The appeal of a place like Las Terrenas, ...

How do you measure the ultimate beach experience? I use all of my senses to decide. Let me describe my ...

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

For many of us, the Caribbean life is the definition of paradise. If only paradise weren't so expensive, right? My ...

The best place to live in the world is very subjective, the answer is different for everyone. If you could ...

The oldest known sport in the world, played a millennia before the first Greek Olympic Games, is being revived. In ...

I'm most of the way through Alain De Botton's "The Consolations Of Philosophy." It's an entertaining collection of teachings from ...

How can you fund the purchase of your second home or investment property in a foreign country? First, you need ...

Lief and I spent last week online with hundreds of your fellow Live and Invest Overseas readers talking about why, ...

For me, living abroad was always a given. I spent my childhood and teenage years dreaming of how I would ...

"What are we doing?" Lief asked me the other morning as we were dressing for the day, rushed, hurried, confirming ...

Belize is a small country (about the size of Massachusetts), but its ethnic makeup is eclectic. Every corner of Belize ...

When investing in real estate abroad, buyers are often preoccupied researching real estate prices, health care facilities, and quality of ...

This month we introduce our first-ever Global Property Investment Index. It’ll be an annual affair. The objective is to present ...

In 2008, I took my leave from the publishing company where I'd been working for 23 years. I was 45 ...

Cordon Bleu pastry chef, Frédéric Hoël, held up two handfuls of dough, one that you could have mistaken for a ...