Tag: Paul Terhorst

What Happens If Your New Life Overseas Doesn’t Work Out? When is the right time for you to retire and ...

Santa Claus Dresses And Tree-Shaped Tinsel—Welcome To Christmas In Phnom Penh Our hotel has a Christmas tree in the lobby. ...

Inside The Ukraine Property Market—Own For US$15,000, Rent For US$180 Per Month Vicki and I are in our third week ...

Ukraine May Be At War, But I Like It Here Vicki and I are in Kiev, Ukraine, where we finally ...

Bargain-Priced And Tourist-Free—Paris In Winter I'm back in Bangkok now after a three-week winter break in Europe. On the European ...

On The Burma Trail Eight of us in a van bounced over rutty roads in Burma, a day's drive north ...

Argentina, Post-Cristina—The Fiesta Of Low Prices Is Now Argentine elections over the weekend ushered in a new era. Pragmatist Mauricio ...

Ratchet Down Your Current Life To Retire Better, Freer, Cheaper Overseas What's the best way to retire now rather than ...

Super Low Cost And Easy Entry—Cambodia Deserves A Look Friends called last week and told me they were celebrating a ...

Kunming, China—Not Ready For Retire Overseas Prime Time Vicki and I are in Kunming, China, for two months. We walk ...

Feting The New Year Of The Sheep In Kunming, China Paul and I are in China celebrating Chinese New Year ...

Inside Life In Kunming, China Vicki and I are living in Kunming, China, for two months. We want to get ...

Living And Learning Overseas Henry Ford said that "anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone ...

More Predictions For The Year Ahead—Dollar Highs, FATCA Woes What does 2015 hold for the investor with a global perspective? ...

Easier Than Ever To Visit, Even To Stay In This Beautiful, Exotic, And Affordable Land Vicki and I just picked ...

Giving Thanks Overseas Vicki and I plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in Chiang Mai, Thailand, this year. In past years we've celebrated ...

Arbitrage Your Life To Enjoy All The World's Bests Earlier this year Vicki and I ended a long stay in ...

The Ups And Downs Of Life Down Under Vicki and I recently flew to Australia to visit friends in Brisbane ...

This Place Is Dirt Cheap...And Delightful Vicki and I were in Lviv, Ukraine, checking it out as a potential travel ...

Editors' Choice—Here's What We Really Think Panama City, Panama Our Live and Invest Overseas team is fully occupied these days ...

Seven Things To Know Before Traveling To Poland Vicki and I are in Poland, our first time here. We like ...

Plan B In Poland Vicki and I arrived in town and checked into our boutique B&B. Before we could even ...

Life In A Coup On May 22, the army took over the government here in Thailand. I wrote about the ...

Do Your Own Thing Thomas Jefferson began his draft of the Declaration of Independence on June 11, 1776. The Continental ...

What To Do In Paris If You Hate Museums We began our one-month stay in Paris at the Wine Salon ...

Do Your Retirement Prospects In The U.S. Seem Bleak? Take Your Retirement On The Road Why are big numbers of ...

Letter From Paris—What A Treat To Be Living This Life I arrived in Paris last week and celebrated by walking, ...

We Must Be Pretty Weird Because, You Know, We’re Expats In my experience, most countries look better, and live better, ...

What If Disaster Strikes When You’re Overseas? Here’s How To Make Your Own Disaster Plan Typhoon Haiyan recently slammed into ...

New, Bigger, Modern, Fun—Life In Fort Cochin, India Vicki and I are in Fort Cochin, Kerala, in south India. Last ...

Emu Vendors In Pondicherry Vicki and I are in south India, in the former French colony of Pondicherry, on the ...

Marshmallow Juice And Sandpapered Sunglasses--Life In India The breakfast waiter offered a choice of either grape or marshmallow juice. I ...

Avoid Plus-Plus Prices Fancier hotels and restaurants in Asia and Latin America, these days, often quote prices "plus plus" or ...

No Shoes, No Sweat, No Schedules Vicki and I have been hanging out in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, and other Thai ...

Retire Small If you're planning a move overseas on a budget--or even if you're staying put on a budget--consider a ...

Should You Own A Car Overseas? A government group recently recommended that states lower permitted blood-alcohol levels from 0.08% to ...

Visa Run, VPN, Vig, And Slippage--A Retire Overseas Vocabulary Lesson Those who enjoy reading stories about the sea and sailing ...

How To Retire Overseas And Be Happy Mark Twain summed up common behavior succinctly. "The cat, having sat upon a ...

Like Hemingway and the Dalai Lama--A Brief History Of Retiring Overseas Move overseas and you join a distinguished clan of ...

Why Did Jerry And Helen's Living Expenses Go Up In Retirement? About 10 years ago, my friend Jerry and his ...

How Much Money Do You Need To Retire Overseas? How much money do you need to retire and move to ...

Appreciating Property Markets And A Solution To The Euro Crisis--What We See Coming In The Year Ahead In predicting 2012 ...

Options And Opportunity--We're All Over It I awoke this morning to a stream of sunshine peeking through the bedroom blinds. ...

Looking Ahead To 2013 (And Behind The Curtain At Live And Invest Overseas) Fiscal cliffs and tax hikes...lost home equity ...

Currency Manipulators And Other Global Demons Quote of the Day: "Kathleen, I'd suggest not using FATCA in subject lines anymore, ...

Make A Ghost Your Friend And Other Asian Investment Tips About a year ago, our Thai friend Seh moved to ...

Order Beer--And Other Secrets To Hard Travel Success Vicki and I recently traveled in Sichuan province, in China's southwest. In ...

The World’s Wildest Boom And Bust Market—Crisis, Argentina-Style Think Argentine real estate, think boom and bust. Perhaps more than any ...

Opium And The End Of The World I was traveling on a minibus in Laos with seven tribal Akha women. ...

When In China, Honk Vicki and I have been traveling in southwest China's Sichuan province for about a month. We've ...