Tag: move overseas

"Do you know where our passports are?" my husband asked, sounding slightly panicked over the phone. I was away on ...

What does 2023 hold in store for you? Do you approach it with trepidation or enthusiasm? If you’re reading these ...

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 ...

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

Unless you're very lucky, your friends and family won’t understand. When you tell them you're thinking about moving to a ...

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

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

The friendliest spot in Belize? If you ask me, that's Ambergris Caye, the little island just offshore from where we're ...

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

The dictionary defines "retirement" as a state of "being withdrawn from the rest of the world or from a former ...

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 ...

Buying real estate in Portugal is one of the best things that you can do right now. It has grown ...

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 ...

After 32 years of marriage and four children, my husband and I were retiring to Belize in six weeks... Being ...

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

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

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

The availability of health care, quality of infrastructure (transportation, internet, roads and sidewalks, etc.), and cost of living are practical ...

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

As of a few weeks ago, Paris all but shut down, as did much of Europe. The annual exodus that ...

In the last issue, I began telling you about the biggest aspects of moving overseas—the things that, in my experience ...

When you're planning a move to a new country, it helps to surround yourself with supportive, like-minded people. Your fellow ...

This week I've been thinking back and remembering readers I've been fortunate enough to get to know personally. Readers whose ...

As a reader of Live and Invest Overseas, you probably have dreams of living in another country, as I did ...

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, ...

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

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

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

Don’t judge a country by its food. Or, at least, not by the first dish you experience. On my first ...

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

We here at Live and Invest Overseas receive more questions to do with collecting Social Security and using Medicare while ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Clear turquoise waters lapping gently against soft white sand… palm trees rustling in the warm breeze… red and blue fishing ...

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 ...

The first and perhaps most important step you must take to make sure that you arrive where you want to ...