10 Countries With The Easiest Gun Laws In The World
The United States of America is the best/easiest place in the world to own guns. Period. It’s the only place...
The 10 Best Panamanian Dishes You Must Try Today
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How To Build A Professional Network Overseas
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The World’s 8 Best Countries For Dental Tourism
You may already heard of dental tourism through friends, on social media, or TV. In recent years, this trend has...
Growing A Food Forest Garden For Security And Sufficiency
The Single Best Strategy For Taking Control Of Your Own Future We’re living in unpredictable times. That’s a given. What’s...
More And More Americans Abroad Are Renouncing Their Citizenship
As the adage goes, the truth is in the numbers, and the truth is there are more Americans renouncing their...
A Life Of Peace, A Life Of Freedom, A Life In Belize
The Advantages Of Life At The End Of The World "If the world has any ends, British Honduras would...
10 Essential Pieces Of Travel Gear For Every World Traveler
Ready to pack your bags and go satisfy your wanderlust? Be sure to have this list checked first. We’ve put...
How To Live An Affordable Life In Belize On A Tight Budget
A few years ago, I decided it was time for me to give up the rat race. I had worked...
What Wikipedia Won’t Tell You About Health Care in Panama
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Building An Off-The-Grid Community In Rural Panama
Building Not Just A Home But A New Lifestyle On Panama’s Beautiful Azuero Coast What started out as a desire...
Self-Sufficient Living In Belize’s Cayo District
Five Reasons To Become More Self-Sufficient Neither Doomsday Prepper nor Wilderness Mountain Man you need to be... but, with the...
Top 10 Healthiest Countries In The World
Using a recent study published by The Lancet, we have come up with a definitive list of the 10 healthiest...
The Self-Sufficient Lifestyle And Your New Found Freedom
The Many Advantages Of A More Self-Sufficient Lifestyle In Belize You settle back into the timber rocking chair on your...
Uber Panama’s Destiny In the Hands Of National Transit Authority
Ubers May Become As Extinct As Golden Frogs Most people in business don’t like competition, it’s natural to want to...
U.S. Flights To Cuba Resume
The first scheduled flight from the United States to Cuba in over 50 years left Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at 9:45...
Japan Opens Up To Foreign Workers
The Japanese government is working to make the labor market here more attractive to foreign workers, with reforms to residency...
Tulum, Mexico, Is A Top Destination For The Eco-Friendly Retiree
I'm sitting in a palapa in the village of Xache, about two hours from my home in Tulum, Mexico. I'm...
Finding The Perfect Escape In Panama’s Colón Province
I first moved to Panama nine years ago with my fiancée Ana. We explored most of the country before deciding...
Opportunities For Real Estate In Lisbon As Low As 85K Euros
The opportunities for real estate investment in central Lisbon right now are many, varied, and compelling. In terms of neighborhoods,...
How To Get Started With A Self-Sufficient Life
How do you get started with a self-sufficient life? Do you sell all your earthly goods and walk off into...
Property Investment Rising As FDI Declines In Latin America
CBRE's newly released Latin America Investor Intentions Survey 2016 states the majority of real estate investors in Latin America plan...
Top 10 Countries With The Tallest People
Here are the 10 countries with the tallest people 10. Australia: Apparently Australians are growing even taller. Australian men have...
A Coup For Belize’s LGBT Community
A rainbow flag, the most recognizable symbol used in the LGBT community, was raised at the U.S. Embassy in Belmopan,...
Does Moving Abroad Actually Make You Smarter?
Move Abroad... Become Smarter Paul and I recently watched, with a few expat friends, the hit movie "The Best Exotic...
British Virgin Islands Property Market Developing, Despite Low Demand
The British Virgin Islands property market may be appreciating with an increasing cost per home, but demand, on the other...
Living In Malta: The Second Best Place In The World To Retire
The World’s Second Best Place To Retire Overseas Taking up just 122 square miles of southern Mediterranean and with a...
Retirement Life On Roatan, Honduras
Untamed Paradise In The Caribbean If you were a backpacking scuba diver in the 1960s, you may have drifted through...
Government, Democracy, And Politics In Belize
Belize’s Democracy: 2015, 2016, And Beyond "No tyrants here linger, despots must flee; this tranquil haven of democracy." --Samuel Haynes,...
Establishing Retirement Residency In Portugal
Attorney Resource For Residency In Portugal "Kathleen, first, I would like to thank you for all the wonderful advice we...
Greek Housing Prices Continue To Fall
House prices continue falling in Greece, though at a slower pace than the sharp drops of 2012 and 2013. Prices...
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To Market, To Market... In Lovely Loulé Among my favorite things about living and shopping here in the Algarve are...
Kiev Property Market Continues To Develop Despite Weak Demand
When compared with the recent stats of the Kiev, Ukraine, housing market, a 2% fall in average price per square...
Reinventing My Life And Relocating To Panama
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How To Live Tax Free In Panama
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The Newest Casual Dining Franchise To Arrive In Panama
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Panama Economic Growth Continues
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DGI Continues Crackdown On Unregistered Rentals
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Tourist Visa Versus Residency In The Dominican Republic
"Kathleen, they passed a new law in the Dominican Republic for residency. You never researched it, and you are sending...
The Ins and Outs of Banking In Panama: Q&A
Answering All of Your Most Important Panama Banking Questions “Kathleen, I’m now about 30 days from my move to Panama....
The Ins and Out of Getting Residency In Panama: Q&A
Q and A on Getting Residency in Panama "Kathleen, I am interested in obtaining permanent residency in Panama through the...
Coup D’Etat And Crisis Investing In Brazil
"Kathleen, is Brazil's recent coup d'état worrying you? I hear that it is implementing a leader worse than what it...
Panama’s Tourism Authority Launches International Promotion Effort
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United States Treasury Plans To Require Identification Of Anonymous Shell-Companies’ Owners
The United States wants to force anonymous shell-company owners to disclose their personal information, a result of the Panama Papers...
How Corruption Affects Retirees Overseas
"Kathleen, just a brief note to thank you for publishing Lee Harrison's thorough and thoughtful article about corruption and its...
Metro Line 3 Tender Set For May 2017
President Varela pronounced May 2017 to be the date the tender will be launched for the construction of Metro Line...
Global Renewable-Energy Investment Market Expected To Boom After Record-Breaking 2015
Approximately US$409 billion was invested in renewable-energy resources worldwide in 2015, according to the 10th edition of the UN Environment...
Free Zone Sees US$1 Billion Drop
The Colón Free Zone experienced a fall of US$1 billion in movement of goods in the first two months of...
Moving To Playa Del Carmen As A Young Family
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Continued Strong Growth In Czech Housing Market
Economic growth, low mortgage rates, and increasing foreign demand continue to fuel a strong housing market in the Czech Republic....
