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You May Be Surprised At How Low Taxes In Europe Can Be
People often take Europe off the list of possibilities for where to move or invest overseas because they assume the...
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How To Buy Property In Portugal
Portugal is well known as a beautiful and picturesque country that enjoys many hours of sunshine and a mild climate....
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How To Vote In The 2020 U.S. Election From Overseas
If you’re a U.S. citizen over the year of 18 or older living abroad, you’re eligible to vote absentee for...
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How To Budget When Moving Overseas
When planning a move overseas, most people are concerned with how much money they will need to achieve their retirement...
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7 Best Countries To Qualify For Residency Overseas
The American interested in establishing residency or citizenship in Europe has more options today than ever in history, depending on...
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Here’s How Living Near Water Can Benefit You
The benefits of spending time in water are well documented, as are the ways that simply living near water is...
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How To Make Moving Overseas An Easy Process
This doesn't have to be all or nothing. You could "retire overseas" and still spend part or even lots of...
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4 Must-Know Tips To Save Money In Panama
Many who visit Panama come away praising the country for its thriving economy, in which everybody benefits and products are...
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How To Buy An Algarve Property From Afar
How can you keep up with your plans of moving and/or buying property overseas in the middle of a pandemic?...
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How To Retire Overseas On A Social Security Check
According to the latest statistics of the Social Security Administration, the average Social Security check for a retired worker is...
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13 Tips For Learning A New Language
One skill that is extremely beneficial for living, traveling and investing overseas is the ability to speak multiple languages. Being...
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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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5 Ways To Diversify Your Investment Portfolio
When speaking of diversification, our long-time mantra here at Live and Invest Overseas is: Don’t hang all your hopes on...
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Should You Rent Before You Buy Property Overseas?
If you’ve done any reading about living or retiring abroad, you’ve heard these words: "Rent before you buy." In fact,...
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Can I Move My Pet Overseas?
“Can I move my dog/cat overseas?” Yes, absolutely. Whether or not you can bring your furry friends along with you...
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10 Reasons Why The Algarve Is Our #1 Retire Overseas Option
Yesterday, we looked at four things we don’t like about Portugal… Today, let’s count all the reasons and ways we love...
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What Tips Would You Give Me As I Plan My Retirement Overseas?
Planning a retirement/move overseas can be overwhelming if you’re a first timer or if you’re making the decision to leave...
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How We’re Reinventing Our Annual August Vacation
Lief and I look forward to August. For years, it has been our custom to set aside a week each...
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Top 3 Buy-To-Flip Markets For Real Estate Overseas
Buying to flip is a common real estate investment strategy in the United States that doesn’t make sense in most...
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Top 3 Markets For Real Estate Overseas With Local Leverage
Leverage is a key tool in every U.S. property investor’s kit. As late-night TV real estate investment gurus with courses...
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4 Lessons We Learned Renovating Rental Property Overseas
In 2012, Lief and I bought an apartment in Medellin, Colombia. It was nearly 400 square meters in an architecturally...
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The Best 4 Property Investment Markets In 2020
If I were just starting out as an investor today, with little capital and an eye to converting that capital...
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Find Out How To Buy Real Estate Overseas For Cash Flow
Owning a property overseas can mean profit... and I'd say it always means fun. It can mean living a superior...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Stake Your Claim: Global Real Estate Is On Sale, Right Now
We've all been through the wringer these last few months. And the tough times are not over yet. But the...
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How To Retire Overseas With Your Stimulus Check
Obviously the stimulus check isn’t going to pay for a retirement overseas. But if you spend it wisely it can...
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Identifying Overseas Property Investments During A Travel Ban
Traveling to make a real estate purchase in another country is complicated if not impossible right now. COVID-19 restrictions mean...
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Comparing Best Lifestyle Options: The Americas Vs Europe Vs Asia
In these dispatches, I give a lot of virtual ink to Latin America. That's because it's nearby to North America...
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10 Tips For Moving Abroad
More than 22 years living overseas, first in Ireland, then France, and most recently Panama, have taught me... 1. Patience......
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Does Living Overseas Make You Less American?
Do I feel more or less American living overseas? I get this question a lot. I've been living outside the...
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9 Critical Issues To Consider Before Deciding To Live Overseas
This week, while much of the world remains on pause, we’re taking the opportunity to take a step back and...
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How To Retire Overseas And Launch Your New Life, Step 2
You’ve got your list. (If you missed yesterday’s issue, catch up here.) Now you need another list, this one of...
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How To Move Overseas And Launch Your New Life, Step 1
As much of the world continues on pause, readers are writing every day to ask: "Is there anything I can...
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How To Enjoy A Self-Sufficient Lifestyle In Sunny Belize
The breeze blows gently as you step from your kitchen into your yard. In the distance are vegetable gardens and...
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Where You Should Be Opening An Offshore Bank Account
We’ve been reporting lately on your best choices for establishing alternative residency overseas… and why the right to live indefinitely in...
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10 Retiree-Friendly Visa Options For Easy Residency
Friday, resident go-offshore expert Lief Simon introduced you to the best places worldwide to establish residency to cut your tax bill... even...
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