Tag: Colombia

I've been spending time and investing money in Colombia and reporting on those adventures for more than 10 years. Still, ...

"Let me know when you start talking about mild climates and I'll consider it. I have no interest in tropical ...

While they both have so much to offer right now, Panama and Colombia couldn't be more different. We've been alerting ...

When I first looked around for housing for the elderly in Medellín, Colombia, where I've been living for the past ...

I've been covering this beat for more than 35 years. And, as I've been reporting this week, I've identified one ...

I want you to conduct a little test for me... This Thursday, when you're sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner with ...

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

Why would anyone want to become a legal resident of another country? If you're interested in becoming a resident of ...

Moving your life abroad is one of the most rewarding things you can do, but this life-changing shift inevitably involves ...

Day by day in these dispatches, I work to show you that you can reinvent your life for the better ...

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

We're in a frothy situation... Right now, the United States is one of the most overheated property markets in the ...

What if you could retire early... even with a small nest egg and little income? What if you could live ...

Getting onto the property ladder has always been one of the safest and best ways of securing long-term wealth. Buying ...

In 2012, Lief and I bought an apartment in Medellín, Colombia. It was nearly 400 square meters in an architecturally ...

It might be easy to get on board with the idea of retiring overseas... But it’s not as easy to ...

If anyone had told me six years ago that today I would be living in Colombia, I would have laughed. Back ...

Medellín versus Cartagena... which is the better city for living and investing? We hear this question a lot, so today ...

I am still surprised by the reactions I get when I tell people I live in Medellín, Colombia. A few ...

"I get two weeks of vacation a year from my stressful job, and you want me to spend one of ...

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

Yesterday, I promised thoughts today on where Live And Invest Overseas is headed next. All this week, as we’re celebrating ...

We speak every day about all the good and compelling reasons to think about launching a new life in a ...

We dollar-holders have enjoyed increasing buying power abroad each year since 2013, with every year eclipsing the last. Procrastinators and ...

One of the big lessons we learned over the last year is our ability to be more self-sufficient. Between restaurant ...

The world’s best buys on beachfront property in 2021 are to be found in Northern Cyprus, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and ...

As I mentioned last week, the Forbes reporter who interviewed me recently wondered about the implications of the pandemic for anyone planning a ...

Where in the world will offer the best options for repositioning yourself overseas in 2021? Diversifying your lifestyle and your ...

Theodore Roosevelt wanted to extend U.S. power and reach. He wanted a strong navy, and he wanted his naval force ...

When Lief and I sat down to map out the plan for our new book "How To Buy Real Estate ...

Around the globe, countries have faced the COVID-19 pandemic differently. In Colombia, we experienced strict lockdowns that affected our ability ...

If you’d been thinking about taking your job on the road and embracing the digital-nomad lifestyle sometime in the future, ...

What a world we’re living in, right? The biggest global pandemic in 100 years... continuing terrorist threats... war... famine... mass ...

All the world is asking: Trump or Biden? But it’s the wrong question. You can’t control the outcome of next ...

Over the past several years Colombia has been revealing itself to be a great expat destination and one of the ...

When planning a move overseas, most people are concerned with how much money they will need to achieve their retirement ...

Historically in these dispatches, we've given a lot of virtual ink to Latin America. That's because it's nearby to North ...

When establishing a Plan B or backup residency, most people look for the easiest option... but "easiest" isn't a one-size-fits-all ...

Last week my husband and I successfully renewed our residency permits here in France, and, boy, are we relieved to ...

Access to reliable internet is one of the major decisive factors when looking at countries to relocate to. Whether you’re ...