Tag: Live abroad

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

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

Heart versus head... When it comes to choosing where to live overseas, both have to play an important role. The ...

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

You may have a solid idea of the essentials you need to tick off the list before moving your life ...

“Would you say this is a trend... and that it is growing?” the reporter who interviewed me this week wondered. ...

Being a digital nomad is all about freedom of movement. Different from a remote worker (an employee of a company ...

U.S. second-home markets are seeing exploding interest. It's understandable. Seems like a good time to have a second home somewhere ...

Nearly two-and-a-half decades living overseas—in Ireland, France, and Panama—have taught me...  1. Patience... the kind of patience you learn doing ...

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

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

The pandemic has impacted every aspect of life, including tax filing deadlines. Rather than the usual April 15, the filing ...

All this week, as we celebrate Live and Invest Overseas’ 13th 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 ...

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

Being a digital nomad is all about freedom of movement. Different from a remote worker (an employee of a company ...

I'd say that this world of ours is a pretty great place to be. I make the point in case ...

The dictionary defines "retirement" as a state of "being withdrawn from the rest of the world or from a former ...

Should you really be thinking about retiring to a new country? That is... who should consider this idea? Surely it's ...

Longtime editor and friend Lee Harrison and his wife Julie divide their time between California and Mazatlán, Mexico. However, Mazatlán ...

As of this writing, more than 11.5 million American and Canadians live overseas… And 2 million of them—nearly 20%–live in ...

After more than 14 months away, Lief and I have returned to Los Islotes. We arrived at Tocumen International late ...

The following questions, which we receive every day, are often preceded by, "I feel a little foolish asking, but I'm ...

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

“How do I collect my Social Security while living abroad?” is one of the most frequently-asked question we receive here ...

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

With just three days remaining until New Year 2021, I challenge you to get up and get going. It's time. ...

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

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

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

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

James Joyce’s “The Dead” is often praised as the greatest Irish short story ever written. Though I first read the ...

“Wow... this is a new Panama City. I do not recognize this Panama City... “I was last here,” my friend ...

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

When the first Western-born sailors reached the island in 1508, they were greeted by an estimated 10,000 Maya inhabitants living ...

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.” That’s how ...

Having spent the majority of this year unable to travel due to closed borders has made many people anxious. The ...

When moving abroad, we usually recommend to not bring things like furniture, appliances, or any other household goods that would ...

Corozal is the name of both a district and a town in northern Belize. Nestled on the Bay of Chetumal, ...

Moving overseas comes with a lot of goodbyes. We say farewell to our houses, our families, our coworkers, and our ...

A spouse who’s all in for retiring overseas and a spouse who isn’t entirely sure is quite common. Unfortunately, there ...

The ideal life for many is being able to take a short drive from home to the beach, or from ...

While some countries make residency difficult and painful to acquire (ahem, France), others make it exceedingly easy. They want foreign ...

The question I get more than any other is to do with structures.  At every conference we host and in ...

Other than “How can I move my pet overseas?”, “How can I find a vet once I’ve made the move ...

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