Coley and his wife weren't worried about money, making ends meet, or how they'd pay for retirement. Coley was making...

Friday, resident go-offshore expert Lief Simon introduced you to the best places worldwide to establish residency to cut your tax bill... even...

Freedom... security... special benefits... a reduced cost of living... a new life... a new start... a better retirement... a grand...

I've been covering this beat for more than 30 years, and I'm here to tell you now that this country...

This success story is nothing short of remarkable. It's taken a couple of decades... But Colombia has reinvented itself into...

Panama is... Home to more than 940 species of birds as well as 250 mammals and 354 reptiles and amphibians......

ExaApples to apples. That's the principle to keep in mind when comparing costs, both for living and for buying real...

A Plan B has never been more important than it is right now. Your all-important backup plan starts with the...

I hear from many readers who are considering both Medellín, Colombia, and Cuenca, Ecuador, as the destination for their adventure...

The global shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic is going to have big effects on real estate markets worldwide....

We work hard to tell the truth. Still, sometimes, readers get in touch to say we've painted too rosy a...

After more than five months in Paris and more than two months in quarantine in our little Paris pad, Lief...

Health insurance in the United States today is a maddening, sometimes infuriating quagmire. This is not a global reality. Many,...

While I waited, I wandered from room to room. It was the house I'd had in mind since the day...

I’ve lately been sharing real-life stories of folks like you who have reinvented their lives overseas and thought you might...

Years ago, I knew a lady named Janet who bought a small piece of land on the southwestern coast of...

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

As Lief and I sat down at our dining room table this weekend to finalize the program for next month's Global...

Moving into week seven of quarantine in Paris, my lockdown routine revolves around writing to you, dear reader… filming twice-weekly...

If you could have any view from your window, what would you most like it to be? Over the three-and-a-half...

"Let me know when you start talking about mild climates near lakes and I'll consider it!" a reader wrote in...

The first place I ever recommended Americans think about retiring overseas was Costa Rica. That was 35 years ago. A...

Every country is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic in its own way. Some emerging markets in particular are struggling with...

We speak often about how to purchase real estate overseas, sharing hard-won wisdom and decades of experience to help you...

Certainly if you’re making a first-ever investment, but even if you’ve already made several real estate purchases overseas, how can...

Eventually, COVID 19 will be contained, and global markets and economies will recover. But the experience of having lived through...

Why might it make sense for you to buy a piece of property overseas? The answers to that question are...

Twenty years ago, living and running a business in Waterford, Ireland, I opened the first of a series of what...

You hear from me every day in these dispatches on some aspect of living and retiring overseas. One day I’m...

For the past week, Lief and I, along with all Paris and all France and those in a number of...

Yesterday, I made a case for why we've named Portugal's Algarve coast as the best place in the world to...

"Mom, they just told us all that the dorms are closing this weekend. We need to leave by Sunday at...

Last week, Lief and I traveled freely between Paris, France, and Waterford, Ireland. Despite the spread of the coronavirus in...

Keeping up with current world events can be exhausting and overwhelming. But it needn't be paralyzing. You do not need...

If budget concern is a primary motivating factor as you consider your options for retirement, I want to put Ecuador...

Before you're ready to retire, you're likely to notice places around the world where you'd like to be able to...

Lief used Other People's Money (OPM) to launch his real estate investing career in the United States, and we were...

Can an average person really invest in real estate to generate reliable cash flow overseas? I get the question all...

“It’s perfect. I’ll take it. How much is it?” So said the Irish hairdresser to the Montenegrin real estate agent....

When we moved in, Lucia's first child was 2-years-old. Lucia is the guardienne (property manager) for the building housing the apartment in...

Normally, I look for any excuse for a trip to Belize. This week, though, while Live and Invest Overseas readers...

Excellent infrastructure... strong investor rights... appreciating property markets... Biggest salsa festival in the world... plus important theater and poetry festivals......

The first place I ever recommended Americans think about retiring overseas was Costa Rica. That was back in 1985. A...

As we discussed on Friday, Panama remains one of the best places in the world to live or retire overseas...

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

A reporter recently got in touch to ask how many people I've inspired to retire overseas. So I tried to...

If you’ve been to our Retire Overseas Conference in the past, you’ll identify with this… If you haven’t, but are...

The world is alive with opportunity for fun and for profit. Let’s begin there. And let’s meet in my hometown...

As recently as four years ago, Barbara Petrohan never thought she’d be shopping for recipe ingredients from the farmers’ market...