In Perfect Harmony: Enjoy The Best Of 2 Worlds In Checa, Ecuador
City living is not for everyone. The noise, traffic, pollution, and crowds you find in a typical big city can ...
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Enjoy A Wealthy Retirement Living And Investing Overseas
The reasons to diversify your investment portfolio and your lifestyle to include real estate overseas have never been more compelling ...
How And Why To Obtain Ecuadorean Citizenship
Other than for random, one-off real estate investment opportunities, Ecuador has never been high on my list of top offshore ...
How My Mail Carrier Job Sent Me To A New Life In Ecuador
I've had many careers in my life… At one point, I was a mail carrier. I was maybe 35 years ...
Options For Starting A Business In Ecuador
Ecuador remains a top option for living, retiring, and investing overseas. It’s also one of your best current choices for ...
Etiquette For Traveling, Living, And Retiring In Ecuador
I traveled to Ecuador for the first time nearly 20 years ago and lived in the country—in Cuenca and in ...
Reasons To Retire To Vilcabamba, Ecuador
Sue and I were living and working in Dubai, and we had it made. Tax-free salaries, free accommodation, a transportation ...
Why Loja Is Ecuador’s Hidden Gem For Living Like A Local
Loja, Ecuador, is the object of my most remarkable failed prediction. In fact, of two failed predictions. Loja is one ...
4 Amazing Properties In The Seaside Town Of Salinas, Ecuador
In 2013, I visited Ecuador as part of my personal search for an overseas home. After attending the Live and ...
The Evolution Of Cuenca, Ecuador, Into A True Expat Haven
I retired to Cuenca in 2001, at the age of 49. I knew no other North Americans there, and no ...
Our Ecuador Conference Is Back By Popular Demand In 2019
"When are you going to hold a conference in Ecuador again?" Since I joined the Events team here at Live ...
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, ...
5 Countries Where Real Estate Is Still Incredibly Cheap
Getting onto the property ladder has always been one of the safest and best ways of securing long-term wealth. Buying ...
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 ...
How To Choose The Right Country For Your Overseas Move
Why did Lief and I move to Ireland 20 years ago? Why did we decide to base ourselves in Paris ...
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 ...
Portugal Is One Of The World’s Cheapest Places To Retire Overseas
Overnight, I received this question from a reader: "Kathleen, my husband, 10-year-old son, and I are taking the leap and ...
Strong Dollar Creates Opportunity For Foreign Property Purchases
Surging Dollar Creates Opportunity For Retiring Overseas If you're shopping the world map, trying to choose where to live or ...
Most Affordable Places To Retire Overseas
"Kathleen, many of the markets you write about are unfortunately out of my reach. I have a modest amount of ...
How To Diversify Your Global Property Assets
The Ideal Global Property Portfolio Every year around tax time I update the details of my real estate portfolio spreadsheet. ...
Property Investments In Panama, Ecuador, And The Dominican Republic
Greatest Successes, Biggest Failures—Confessions Of Two Global Property Pros "I just want to tell you how much I appreciate what ...
Christmas Eve Pase del Niño In Cuenca, Ecuador
The Three Wise Men, Bart Simpson, And Richard Nixon—Christmas In Ecuador For tourists and foreign residents, Cuenca's Christmas Eve Paseo ...
The Cost Of Living: Ecuador Versus Costa Rica
"Kathleen, I've heard so many times how Ecuador is such an inexpensive place. "I always go to Costa Rica, but ...
The Cost Of Buying Property In Salinas, Ecuador
"Kathleen, what is Lee Harrison smokin'? We've been shopping properties in Salinas, Ecuador, for several years and have made purchases. ...
Rental Property Investment In Salinas, Ecuador
Own In This Pacific Coast Resort Town For As Little As US$40,000 The coast of Ecuador is dotted with beautiful, unspoiled, ...
Quality Of Health Care In Cuenca, Ecuador
"Kathleen, I beg to differ with John Curran about health care in Ecuador, particularly in Cuenca. I have just experienced the ...
Part-Time Retirement In Cuenca, Ecuador, And Medellin, Colombia
"Kathleen, I have been a fan of yours for years, reading you as I've moved from Panama to Paraguay to ...
Gringo Pricing And Bribery In Ecuador
"Kathleen, I was shocked to read the Mailbag letter from Monica M. who felt extorted living in Quito. I am ...
Where To Buy Hand-Carved Wooden Santos In Ecuador
"Kathleen, the article about the medical clinic in Nicaragua was stunning and inspiring. I have followed you for a long, ...
How To Find A Rental In Cuenca, Ecuador
How To Rent In Cuenca For US$300 Per Month "When we first started our property management office, we had six ...
Feedback From Attendees At Last Week’s Live And Invest In Ecuador Conference
Feedback from attendees at last week's Live and Invest in Ecuador Conference in Quito... "You covered more subjects than I ...
Expat Theresa Rall On Her Life In Quito, Ecuador
F'ing Ecuador The goings-on in Quito continue. Among those addressing the attendees at this week's Live and Invest in Ecuador ...
Day One Of Live And Invest In Ecuador Conference
Taking The Bus And Other Impossible Misadventures In Ecuador Kali Kucera is a full-time Quito expat who addressed the group assembled ...
Why Retire In Cuenca?
5 Reasons Cuenca Remains A Top Retire Overseas Choice Cuenca, Ecuador. You have heard so much about it. The experts recommend Cuenca, ...
Retire Overseas Location Choices
11 Places Not To Retire Overseas In 2014 In our 2014 Retire Overseas Index, out this week, we have rated ...
Monthly Budgets For Retiring To The World’s Top 21 Retirement…
Counting The Costs Of A Retirement Overseas How should you go about choosing where to reinvent your life in retirement ...
Moving To Cuenca, Ecuador, Can Mean Retiring A Decade Sooner
Moving Up By Opting Out And Retiring Overseas "When I was 49, the engineering company I had been working for ...
Why These Nine Expats Have Retired To Cuenca, Ecuador
Expats Of Cuenca Who moves to Cuenca, Ecuador...really? And why? Emily and Roger Romaine relocated to Cuenca four years ago ...
Foreign Property Ownership In Ecuador
Could Correa Confiscate Private Property From Foreign Investors In Ecuador? Recently a reader wrote in to comment on an article we'd ...
Retirement in Cuenca, Ecuador
The World’s Most Affordable Place To Live Well? As far back as 2001, I considered Cuenca, Ecuador, to be the ...
What It Means To Expats In Ecuador If Rafael Correa Runs Again
President Correa, Again? The possibility that Ecuador's Rafael Correa may seek another presidential term is getting strong reaction not only ...
Where To Retire On US$1,500 Per Month
"Ms. Peddicord, I would first like to thank you for all of the information regarding overseas retirement options. You have ...
Retire To Loja, Ecuador
Why Nobody Is Retiring To Loja (Yet) Big opportunities await the expat entrepreneur in Loja, Ecuador. This is a city ...
Cost of living in Cuenca, Ecuador
Exactly How Much Does It Cost To Live In Cuenca, Ecuador, Today? For years we've been suggesting that Cuenca, Ecuador, ...
Ecuador Uses The U.S. Dollar As Its Currency
"Kathleen, while the $ symbol is used for the currency system in Ecuador, it is not the same as the ...
Five Top Retirement Havens
Which Of These Five Top Retirement Havens Is Right For You? Where is the best place in the world to ...
How To Choose Where To Retire Overseas [Plus 5 Solid Choices]
Which Of These Five Top Retirement Havens Is Right For You? Where is the best place in the world to ...
Comparing Retirement In Cuenca, Ecuador, With Retirement In Medellin, Colombia
Is Cuenca A Better Retire Overseas Choice Than Medellin? "If you like Cuenca, Ecuador, so much, why did you ever ...
Top 10 Warm Weather Havens
10 Sunniest Places To Launch A New Life Abroad Here are the top 10 most affordable tropical destinations, the best places ...
Christmas Traditions Overseas
Christmas In Ecuador--The Sacred And The Profane For tourists and foreign residents, Cuenca's Christmas Eve Pase del Niño parade, or Passing ...
