Tag: Panama

My family and I have just finished the renewal process for our French visa—whew, legal again for another year..! This ...

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

The United States of America is the best/easiest place in the world to own guns. Period. It’s the only place ...

I'm most of the way through Alain De Botton's "The Consolations Of Philosophy." It's an entertaining collection of teachings from ...

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

In 2008, I took my leave from the publishing company where I'd been working for 23 years. I was 45 ...

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

An hour's boat ride away from Santa Catalina, a surf town just east of Panama's Azuero Peninsula, is Parque Nacional ...

In times of economic uncertainty and inflation, savvy investors flock to hard asset investments. But this time around, something interesting ...

Water rushing over rocks... lush, tropical jungle... the music of hundreds of exotic birds... This is what Frank Stegmeier wakes ...

Buying to flip is a common real estate investment strategy in the United States that doesn’t make sense in most ...

In 2012, Lief and I bought an apartment in Medellín, Colombia. It was nearly 400 square meters in an architecturally ...

Leverage is a key tool in every U.S. property investor’s kit. As late-night TV real estate investment gurus with courses ...

Starting about 34 years ago (yikes), wide-eyed, pony-tailed, and straight out of college, I went to work in the publishing ...

Before the pandemic, back when it never would've occurred to us that face masks would be essential parts of our ...

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

"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd ...

A little more than a year since pandemic restrictions first were instituted in Panama, the country is vaccinating (including foreign ...

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 ...

If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve heard me say it often… If you’re interested in taking an action offshore, do ...

In a make-or-break year like 2021, it’s critical to make the smartest possible investment choices. Property is a safe bet, ...

Panama may not be known as a global environmental steward... especially when compared with its neighbor to the west, Costa ...

In my mission to uncover the best deals—world-class properties in prime locations that I know will recover fast—Panama remains high ...

Panama is a country blessed to be surrounded by water on two sides, with the Caribbean Sea on the north, ...

While they both have so much to offer right now, Panama and Colombia couldn't be more different. We've been alerting ...

Julia, our Simon Letter Managing Editor, is a first-generation Panama immigrant. In fact, she was the first person in her ...

Las Perlas offers an island lifestyle reminiscent of the Virgin Islands back in the 1970s, before those islands became overpriced ...

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 ...

The first time I saw the Baha'i Temple in Panama City it made an impression... Painted brilliant white and shaped ...

Who’s up for checking into an age-restricted community? Hmm, no thanks. A retirement village? Maybe… How about independent living? Ah, ...

Bocas del Toro stands out from the rest of Panama… The vibe here is Caribbean-Calypso. The people are unfailingly good-natured, ...

"It's hard to describe how much this view has changed over the past 20 years that I've been spending time ...

We owe you an apology. Each day in these dispatches, we cover sunny beach escapes and charming cities where you ...

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

Hindsight is 2020... and we’ve definitely learned a lot this year. Cities have been eerily quiet during the pandemic and ...

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

I knew Panama had been hit hard by the pandemic, but hearing about the challenges and living them are two ...

Panama is a gorgeous, diverse country with everything from white-sand beaches on the Atlantic coast to the capital of Panama ...

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 ...

Depending on your perspective, New Year’s Eve celebrations in Panama are either loathsome or lovable. I take the latter point ...

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 ...