Lifestyle

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

When Peta Lowry looks from her window, she sees a beautiful valley and the Apennine Mountains. “I pinch myself looking...

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

I’ve been hosting conferences on living, retiring, and investing overseas for more than 30 years. At these events I’ve met...

Mexico is still North America... and it can be helpful to remind ourselves of this fact when we think about...

As the train pulled into Plunkett Station a week later, I sized up my situation. I was traveling alone with...

Here’s one of my favorite retire-overseas stories… "About a year ago, my wife and I made the leap," writes Terry...

As Managing Editor of Global Property Advisor, I was recently sent on assignment to Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic, on property scouting...

Do I feel more or less American living overseas? I get this question a lot. I've been living outside the...

We give a lot of virtual ink to Latin America… And for good reason. This region checks three of the...

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

Asia boasts the most cost-friendly places anywhere on Earth to call home. Pockets of India, Vietnam, and Thailand, for example,...

This August, we're hosting our first-ever Live And Invest In Latin America Virtual Conference to help you get acquainted with...

When is the right time for you to make a move overseas? Right now. OK, I don't know you personally,...

How does up-and-comer Medellín, Colombia, rate versus long-standing number-one retire-overseas choice Panama City? Here's how I'd lay this out... Panama...

My last visit to Barcelona was in 2007, and I was just 18, but I fell in love. I had...

When people talk about Panama, the first things you probably hear about are favorable taxes, shopping opportunities, the Canal, amazing beaches and wildlife, the inexpensive cost of...

If you're after the best quality of life for your future... Without any danger of burning through your nest egg......

One of the biggest lessons of the past two-and-a-half years has been this: We all need to seize opportunities when...

Just back in Paris after two weeks traveling on the island of Cyprus with our family… including our 2-year-old granddaughter…...

Panama has been called a halfway house for American expats... but I disagree. Mexico is a far easier transition for...

Why would anyone want to leave Canada? Part of the reason to leave the country of my birth and where...

One of the most valuable conveniences you could hope for when purchasing a home abroad can be the ability to...

All this week, as we celebrate Live And Invest Overseas’ 14th anniversary, we’ve been taking a stroll down memory lane,...

We sat at an outdoor table at a café in the square of the little fishing village of Ferragudo in...

We became obsessed with HGTV's House Hunters International, and the seed was planted. Week after week, my husband and I...

After an unavoidable but overlong time away, Lief and I prepare this weekend for our return to the sunny seaside...

Just about anyone who took French in high school has thought, seriously or hypothetically, about moving to France one day....

As a single female on the other side of 40, I knew I had a window of opportunity to get...

What will the next chapter of our lives look like?This was a burning question as our corporate jobs became more...

More than 11.5 million Americans and Canadians—and countless others—are already living their best lives outside the countries where they were...

Northern Cyprus, with its gorgeous beaches, great food, and rich culture, is an underrated retirement destination. Plus, since it’s a...

Courteous and polite with an ever-present smile, Ranjit Prasad (his friends call him Ranj) showed me what he’s been building...

Over the past four decades, Americans have voted Mexico the world’s #1 place for retirement or live in the way...

As we’ve returned this year to in-person events… With our Live And Invest In Belize Conference in January… Our Live...

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

The first time I ever recommended Americans think about retiring overseas was back in 1985. When I began making these...

"About a year ago, my wife and I made the leap to Portugal. "Maybe we were a little crazy, but...

Two decades living overseas, in Ireland, Panama, and France, have taught me... 1. Patience... the kind of patience you learn...

Lief and I are counting down the days until our chance to return to Medellín, Colombia, next month.It’s been far...

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

We've been reveling this week in the experience of our first in-person conference in Panama in more than two years......