Tag: Live abroad

What do the world’s only superpower, the United States, and a tiny African backwater, Eritrea, have in common? America and ...

From Panama to Paris I flew for the weekend… Then early this morning I was on a plane to Dublin, ...

Twenty-five years ago, Lief and I moved to Ireland. Me from Baltimore, him from Chicago. We brought my daughter and ...

“I’ve hired a yacht. “We’ll sail the inner Hebrides… snorkel in secluded bays… spot dolphins and golden eagles… moor up ...

Mark Twain summed up behavior like this: "The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon ...

I had packaged the weeklong tour of Ireland, marketed it to readers of International Living, the travel magazine I was ...

Where's the best place in the world to reposition yourself overseas in 2023? The answers are found in our just-released ...

What if you could go anywhere, do anything, and spend your time and your money any way you wanted? As ...

Why... how... and where.Those are the three big questions to answer as you consider the world map in the context ...

Christmas In The Emerald Isle iStock/eugene_remizov Our seven Christmases in Ireland, we could never bring ourselves to participate in one ...

Belize, a nation of immigrants, has adopted and adapted Christmas traditions from abroad and combined them with Mayan traditions that ...

One of the many things to figure out in your new life overseas is how to vote back in the ...

When considering a move overseas, it’s important to take a serious look at the expat community in prospective new locations. ...

I lived in Panama for eight years, in Panama City… which lies on the country’s southern, Pacific coast. My extended ...

"In 2013 my wife Carolyn and I decided we needed a change. Our lives in Hawaii were stalled." Dusty Tubbs ...

An American, a Norwegian, a Mexican, an Indian, and a Lithuanian sit down to lunch… No, it’s not the start ...

Worried about soaring utility costs? You're not alone. Over the past year, energy costs across the United States have increased ...

One question I’m asked more than most any other is to do with structures. Specifically: Do you need one?

American retirees are a hot commodity worldwide. You may not realize it, but countries across the globe and especially nearby ...

The Forbes reporter who interviewed me recently wanted me to give it to him straight. "Living or retiring overseas," he ...

It might seem that retiring abroad alone could present additional challenges… That taking this big leap on your own could ...

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis reports that the median house price in the United States is US$440,000. This ...

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

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

The dictionary defines "retirement" as a state of "being withdrawn from the rest of the world or from a former ...

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

Before you're ready to retire, you're likely to notice places around the world where you'd like to be able to ...

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

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… ...

8938. That is the number of the IRS form you have to fill out to report foreign financial assets. If ...

Where could you retire overseas that is diverse… meaning lifestyle options from mountains and rain forests to Caribbean and Pacific ...

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

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

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

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

Today, Valentine's Day, reminds us all, wherever in the world we are, that love is something to be celebrated. But ...

"What are we doing?" Lief asked me the other morning as we were dressing for the day, rushed, hurried, confirming ...

In a matter of days, we will release our 2022 Overseas Retirement Index. This survey presents our selection of the ...

"I just don't know what to do now... "I mean... what do I do with myself at this stage? Where ...

Whacking a log with a stick to make it poop? It doesn't sound like something you'd do to celebrate Christmas, ...

Honestly, there’s only one reason that’ll prevent you from retiring overseas… you’re dead. Other than that, there’s no reason you ...

Other than for random, one-off real estate investment opportunities, Ecuador has never been high on my list of top offshore ...

This will be a piece of cake, I told myself as we prepared for our move from Baltimore to Waterford ...

Cordon Bleu pastry chef, Frédéric Hoël, held up two handfuls of dough, one that you could have mistaken for a ...

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

"I read something you wrote on Thailand several months ago and decided that that was the place for me," explained ...