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9 Critical Issues To Consider Before Deciding To Live Overseas
9 Steps You Can Take Today To Realize The Retirement You’ve Been Dreaming About The first and perhaps most important...
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Planning For The Next Stage Of Life
For better than two decades now, Lief and I have been working together to identify and then position pieces of...
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The Pros And Cons Of Being A Snowbird In Sunny Panama
OK... to set the record straight... in my experience, there is no ugly. My husband and I have been snowbirds...
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How Barbara Enjoys Two Lifestyles—The Algarve And Medellín
As recently as three years ago, Barbara Petrohan never thought she’d be shopping for fresh ingredients from her local farmers’...
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How I Escaped The 9-To-5 And Found My Dream Life Overseas
As we begin 2019 you may be reminiscing about the past and dreaming about what the New Year will hold......
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Time To Start A New Life Overseas In 2019
All the calendar days of a new year in front of us... each one begging to be filled with discovery......
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The Real Reason To Retire Overseas Is Purpose
"I just don't know what to do now. I mean... what do I do with myself at this stage? Where...
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How To Move Overseas And Launch Your New Life, Step 1
With just four days remaining until New Year 2019, I challenge you to get up and get going. It's time....
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The Opportunity To Live And Invest Overseas Is Yours To Take
What if you could go anywhere, do anything, and spend your time and your money any way you wanted? As...
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How, When, And Why I Decided To Make The Move Overseas
I admit it. If you're right now looking into making a move to a new country, I'm a little jealous....
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The Stock Market Opportunity Of The Year
1871, Italy. After waging war among one another for much of the 19th century, states on the Apennine Peninsula finally...
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From Paris To Panama: Celebrating Thanksgiving Overseas
All American expats I know are today paying their respects, in big ways or small, wherever in the world they...
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Agricultural Investment: Relax And Watch Your Profits Grow
In your new life overseas, you could support yourself by going to work for someone else... but who wants a...
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The Benefits And Best Options For Co-Working Spaces Abroad
As you make your plan for reinventing your life in a new country while creating a revenue stream to support...
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How To Fund Your New Live Overseas Teaching English Online
Until recently, if you wanted to teach English overseas—one of the most accessible gigs for job-seeking expats—you needed two things:...
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6 Ways Absolutely Anyone Can Make Money Living Overseas
Not having the money you think you need to live where you dream of living is not a reason not...
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How To Find Your Ideal Location, Anywhere In The World
If you could live anywhere... where would you choose? It can be hard to find an answer to a question...
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Find Out Where Money Grows On Trees For Up To 80 Years
2018 has been a great year for us global property investors... And it's not over yet. In fact, I'd say...
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Staying IRS Compliant While Abroad: Dates And Common Qs
It’s tax time again for us Americans. That is, next Monday, Oct. 15, is the reporting deadline for those of...
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I Truly Enjoy What I Do: What It’s Like Teaching English Abroad
I've just finished class with Renata, a pediatrics resident who will go to the United States in July for a...
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How I Used My Writing Skills To Build My Own Business
I sat across the street in my car staring at the door to building number 824. I was 21 years...
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Find Out Why Medical Tourism Is Booming Among U.S. Citizens
Health insurance in the United States today is a maddening, sometimes infuriating quagmire. This is not a global reality. Many,...
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Top 5 Global Investments To Suit Any Portfolio
At the Retire Overseas Conference we hosted a few weeks ago in Las Vegas, the question I was most frequently...
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10 Tips For Moving Abroad
Nearly 20 years living overseas, in Ireland, Panama, and France, have taught me... 1. Patience... the kind of patience you...
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Conference Attendees Consider Their Options For Retiring Overseas
"Kathleen, I have to tell you the truth," began the Retire Overseas Conference attendee who pulled me aside in the...
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Relocating To Another Country
"I read something you wrote on Thailand several months ago and decided that that was the place for me," explained...
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3 Things You’ll Need If You’re Deciding To Retire Overseas
"The world is alive with opportunity. "Specifically, in the context of this Retire Overseas Conference, the world is alive with...
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Start Your Grand Journey At Our Retire Overseas Conference
Back home in France right now, La Rentrée is in full swing... These early days of September are when family vacations are...
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How I Funded My Early Retirement With Overseas Real Estate
I bought a beachfront home, directly on the sand, for less than US$62,000. After furnishing the solid, 2,000-square-foot house, I...
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How You Can Fund Your Retirement Overseas
“When I retire, I'll have about US$1,400 a month in Social Security and pension income. I'd like to have more....
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From Potholes To Paying Bills: Adjusting To Life In Panama
I'm a recent arrival in this country. I moved to Panama in October of last year. As a new arrival...
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7 Things You Must Know About Learning A New Language
"I'm too old to learn another language." "My brain doesn't work right... I can't remember new words." "I'm not one...
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Ranking Medellín, Colombia, As A City For Digital Nomads
All over the globe, people are rethinking the way we work and live. Unsatisfied with the confines of the cubicle...
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Figuring Out Your Best Choices For An Alternative Residency
Choices. The whole live-and-invest-overseas thing comes down to choices. Because taking control of your future is all about understanding your...
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A Post-Divorce Plan B That Can Really Stretch Your Nest Egg
In today's world, it can be a good idea to have a backup plan... A game plan for where to...
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The 2 Biggest Concerns Retirees Have Before Living Overseas
The Forbes reporter who interviewed me recently wanted me to give it to him straight. "Living or retiring overseas," he began, "is...
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Will You Be Our Next Retire Overseas Conference Success?
I meet thousands of our Live and Invest Overseas readers at conferences we host each year. And I love hearing...
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Why My Property Portfolio Is Doubled Down On Diversification
Lief Simon’s Personal Global Property Investing Strategy As longtime readers know, 99% of my investment portfolio is in real estate....
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A Community Of Friends Can Make Anywhere Feel Like Home
If Your Friends Don’t Understand, Maybe You Need New Friends "Why don't I own a four-bedroom, two-story country home in...
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5 Lessons I’ve Learned During My First Year Living In Portugal
This Is For All The Single Ladies (Dreaming Of A New Life Overseas) I've just celebrated my first anniversary as...
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Living Overseas At All Ages: The 21st-Century Adventure
Fill In This Blank—It’s The Key To Making Your Dream Life Overseas A Reality As I write, my husband Lief...
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How Can You Start A Whole New Life In A Foreign Country?
You Really Could Retire Right Now If You Wanted—Here’s How A recent survey revealed that 42% of baby boomers don't...
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Finally, A “How To Retire Overseas” Plan Anyone Can Afford
Where Should I Ship Your Complimentary Copy Of My New Book? Several weeks ago, a brand-new, updated, and expanded edition...
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8 Questions You Need To Answer Before Retiring Overseas
Realize Your Dream Life Overseas In 7 (Or So) Workshops When we convene in Las Vegas, Nevada, Sept. 8–11, for...
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The 5 Phases Of Ambergris Caye’s Changing Property Market
I've watched it play out scores of times over the more than three decades I've been paying attention... Demographics on...
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Does Living Overseas Make You Less American?
An American Abroad On This Day Of Independence Do I feel more or less American living overseas? I get this...
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Three Important Lessons I Learned Internationalizing My Life
The Biggest Mistake Of My Life Overseas I've been working to internationalize my life for more than two decades. It...
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How To Go Offshore And Diversify Your Life In 5 Simple Steps
5 Steps To Hedge Your Economic Bets And Ensure A Legacy For Your Heirs In the financial world, diversification is...
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Why You Should Diversify Your Life Offshore And How I Started
What Kathleen And I Are Getting Up To In Paris This Week “Think back,” my editor wife counseled... “Why, originally,...
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11 Essential Tips To Plan Your Retirement Overseas
11 Things You’ll Wish Someone Had Told You Before You Made Your Move Overseas Here are 11 things I've learned...
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