Tag: live overseas

I give a presentation for our annual Live and Invest in Europe Conferences… sharing my “expat story,” as we refer ...

Lief and I spent last week online with hundreds of your fellow Live and Invest Overseas readers talking about why, ...

"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 ...

Yesterday I began telling you about the program I’ve developed as a result of my five international moves. It’s 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. ...

Gun laws vary in every country. It is important to understand that gun ownership is a privilege, not a right. ...

My first trip to Belize, about 30 years ago, was organized courtesy of the Belize Tourism Authority. I was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

You're living rich. Congratulations. In the past, being rich meant spending a lot of money. But then came low-cost jet ...

The world is alive with opportunity. Specifically, in the context of the conversation we carry on day-to-day in these dispatches, ...

The global coronavirus quarantines that have shut country borders around the world have given new value to and created renewed ...

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

Retirement is looming. With it comes the challenge of deciding where to live. I plan to take the next three ...

It’s been one of those weeks… From multiple household-wide illnesses to minor annoyances, major frustrations, and serious disappointments, it feels ...

No matter where you’re dreaming of reinventing your life overseas, the key to success is a network of support. I’m ...

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

Lief and I have tromped a lot of beaches. From Nicaragua to Belize, from Uruguay to Ecuador, from the shores ...

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 ...

It’s gray, dark, and rainy here in Paris… and it’s unlikely to change much over the next couple of months. ...

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

As I celebrated my daughter’s first holiday season, the idea of legacy was strong in my mind. As all new ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago, Vicki and I spent our first Christmas in Paris. We stayed in Paris all that winter and ...

The other day a friend asked, “Is that ‘White Christmas’?” The song was in Spanish, but the tune was easily ...

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

For tourists and foreign residents, Cuenca's Christmas Eve Paseo del Niño parade, or Passing of the Child, is a colorful, ...

As we've been discussing, Belize is a beautiful, safe, welcoming wonderland of wide-open spaces and sugar-sand beaches. An idyllic place ...

Eventually, COVID-19 will be contained, and global markets and economies will recover. But the experience of having lived through this ...

Belize is a little country… That packs a double punch when it comes to lifestyle upside. Belize is both quintessential ...

The best-known face of Belize is its white sand-fringed island known as Ambergris Caye… the one that Madonna dubbed “La ...

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

Vicki and I spent last Christmas in small-town Taiping, Malaysia. I was Santa Claus. We've stayed many times in Taiping, ...

For my family and me, one of the greatest things about living an expat life has been the combining of ...

When considering the best places to retire, many people dream about living abroad in a warm, tropical or highlands location ...

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

Finding a way to generate more funds when retired is something that’s probably in the back of the heads of ...