Tag: Medellin

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

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 ...

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

When visiting a new country, we usually tend to favor traveling during the summer months—peak tourist season. But is it ...

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, ...

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 ...

The benefits of spending time in water are well documented, as are the ways that simply living near water is ...

We recently wrote an article to answer the question, what is an expat? The short answer is that an expat ...

The the atmosphere of Colombia and its people, the cheerfulness in the streets, maintains a certain air of serenity and ...

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

Recently I saw a report that's important for anyone who wants to get into the lucrative rental market in Medellín, ...

I recently shared a cup of coffee with a couple in their mid-40s living here in Medellín, Colombia. As RJ ...

"The mountains are beautiful, but where is the closest beach?" If you're a water lover like me, your first impression ...

How To Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, And Live Healthier Than Ever By Relocating To This Sunny Haven My boyfriend and ...

The 11th annual Season of Classical Music is underway at the Teatro Metropolitano Jose Gutierrez Gomez in Medellín. Running from ...

Editor's Pick—Top Rental Investment Opportunity In Our Favorite Emerging Market We don't normally report on individual real estate listings in ...

"Kathleen, when will you speak in New York? Your online Calendar of Events is headlined by the content (Colombia, Belize, ...

What Am I...Crazy? I've Been Called Worse Years ago, when my son was young, I was the leader for his ...

The Gloves Are Off—Panama City And Medellin Toe-To-Toe The best way to approach the challenge of deciding where in the world ...

Christmas In Medellin--A World-Class Festival Of Lights I've been spending Christmas abroad since 2001 and have come to love the ...

Sunday At The Finca—Country Life At Its Most Appealing Above urbane and sophisticated Medellin is another plane. Up here, in ...

Forget Everything You’ve Heard About This Place American Rich Holman made his full-time move to Medellin, Colombia, seven years ago. ...

Retire Overseas Index Names The World’s Most Affordable Places To Retire In Monday's dispatch, I promised more on our just-released Retire ...

You've Just Got To Trust Yourself “One of the biggest realizations for me living in Latin America is how much ...

"Vine" Vi...Y Me Quedé" ("Came...I Saw... And I Stayed") "For years, my husband and I talked about the idea of ...

Does It Get Any Better Than This? “Does it get any better than this?” asked Dennis Martinez this morning, addressing ...

Nevermind The Hookers And The Winos “I got out of the cab and stepped over the homeless guys on the ...

Is Medellin The World's Top Real Estate Investment Market? Medellin, Colombia, is perhaps the best place in the world today ...

Medellin Versus Cuenca--And The Winner Is... "If you like Cuenca, Ecuador so much, why did you ever leave?" That's the ...

The Medellin Effect "Kathleen, my husband and I have fallen in love with this place. We're staying on through next ...

The Most Important Prediction I've Made In Nearly 30 Years I don't like to admit it, even to myself, but, ...

Medellin's mayor, Anibal Gaviria, called the award "a reason for joy on the part of every one of the 2.5 ...

Discovering Astorga--The Neighborhood To Watch In Medellin, Colombia Mid-Sunday afternoon, and the three of us were settled at our open-air ...

Colombia's second city Medellin has been ranked as one of the top three most innovative cities in the world and ...

Pioneers In Paradise "I am delighted to welcome you to what has become one of my favorite places in the ...

Green Like Ireland Is Green "It's a little odd, I know, because the countries are so different, but I can't ...

At Home On Heaven’s Mountain Carlos Nieto is a Colombian American who returned home to his native Medellin about a ...

The Lights Of Medellin Here in Medellin, Christmas seems to be all about the lights. They're draped everywhere--on palm trees, ...

Top 11 For 2011 Compared Our time in Medellin this past week has inspired me to revisit our list of ...

Why Colombia--One Expat's Story The December issue of the Overseas Retirement Letter will feature my report on living and retiring in Medellin, Colombia, ...