The Critical Issues You Face Relocating To Another Country
"I read something you wrote on Thailand several months ago and decided that that was the place for me," explained ...
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Planning For The Next Stage Of Life
For better than two decades now, Lief and I have been working together to identify and then position pieces of ...
The Six Things You Need To Do If You Are Retiring Overseas
How do you retire overseas? After more than 30 years thinking this through, I feel pretty confident in my answer ...
Our Most Popular FAQs On Moving Abroad: Portugal Edition
When making any move overseas, you'll have lots and lots of questions. Maybe you won't be sure who to ask... ...
This Beautiful Country Is The Best Place To Retire Overseas
The #1 most frequently asked question I've received over the more than 30 years that I've been covering the live-and-invest-overseas ...
Why We Left It All Behind And Moved To Panama City
The reasons to diversify your investment portfolio and your lifestyle to include real estate overseas have never been more compelling ...
11 Essential Tips To Plan Your Retirement Overseas
Here are 11 things I've learned from the school of hard knocks after four international moves across three continents with ...
Unretirement: Broadening Your Retirement Perspective
Many, including, perhaps, you, are understandably concerned about retirement. How will you manage it? Here's how: Don't retire. Retirement was ...
Why Loja Is Ecuador’s Hidden Gem For Living Like A Local
Loja, Ecuador, is the object of my most remarkable failed prediction. In fact, of two failed predictions. Loja is one ...
The Evolution Of Cuenca, Ecuador, Into A True Expat Haven
I retired to Cuenca in 2001, at the age of 49. I knew no other North Americans there, and no ...
Learning To Slow Down In Abruzzo, The Sweet Spot Of Italy
"Abruzzo is the sweet spot of Italy," Kat Kalashian—emcee of our Live and Invest in Italy Conference last week—told us in ...
Finding Our Dream Life In Cascais, Portugal
About a year ago, my wife and I made the leap... We moved halfway around the world… to Portugal. Maybe ...
3 Things You’ll Need If You’re Deciding To Retire Overseas
"The world is alive with opportunity. "Specifically, in the context of this Retire Overseas Conference, the world is alive with ...
Discovering Belize, Its People, And Another Way To Live
It's true—it's never too late to learn. I've been fortunate to reach my threescore-and-ten, and Belize is still showing me ...
From Potholes To Paying Bills: Adjusting To Life In Panama
I'm a recent arrival in this country. I moved to Panama in October of last year. As a new arrival ...
16 Best (And Worst) Things About Living In France
One of the things I appreciated most about my years living in France was the opportunity it gave me to ...
How To Reduce Or Eliminate The Big Three Expenses In Your Retire Overseas Budget
DailyWorth challenged three women to cut their discretionary spending in half. The first, a 43-year-old self-employed organizer, cut weekly expenses ...
No Cost-Of-Living Adjustment For U.S. Retirees In 2016
Social Security Administration has once again announced a 0% cost-of-living adjustment for the coming year, affecting some 60 million retirees. ...
10 Questions To Ask About Your Overseas Health Insurance Policy
On the one hand, you’re relieved to be escaping the Obamacare mess at home. But what standard can you expect ...
Eight Times Bigger Than Monaco: Portugal’s Vilamoura Receives Major Tourism Investment
Earlier this month, Vilamoura, one of the Algarve’s top resorts, announced its plan for a 400-hectare second-stage addition to the ...
Survey: One-Third Of Americans Consider Moving Abroad
So you’ve finished your Fourth of July celebrations, packed away the fireworks, cleaned off the grill, and put down the ...
Some Canadian Retiree Pensions Cut By As Much As 75%
Some former government employees in Alberta, Canada, are upset about having their retiree pensions cut after receiving mistaken overpayments, according ...
Study: Social Security Bankruptcy Closer Than Projected
A recent study out of Harvard and Dartmouth found that Social Security bankruptcy is closer than projected due to an ...
Retirement In The United States Difficult For Many
Americans are failing to save enough for retirement in the United States, and many are looking overseas for a better ...
Many New Yorkers Unable To Retire
Baby Boomers in the Big Apple are finding it harder to save for retirement, as 37% of New York City’s ...
A Retirement Beach Home In Brazil
The U.S. dollar is at a 10-year high against the Brazilian real. Brazil’s long coastline boasts some of the world’s ...
Turkey Tightens Foreign Residency Requirements
Due to a new governmental measure, expats in Turkey face losing their residency permits if they leave the country for ...
Affordable And Cosmopolitan Caribbean Retirement
Cartagena is a Spanish colonial city with plazas, cobblestone streets, courtyard homes and flowered balconies. Among the grandest cities in ...
Why Panama Is Still A Top Retire Overseas Choice
I first recommended Panama as a top choice for living, retiring, investing, and doing business overseas more than 15 years ...
8 Reasons To Retire To Chile
Barrio Italia, a small, quiet neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, is an appealing option for retirees, and not only because of ...
Tens Of Thousands Of Live And Invest Overseas Readers Have Retired Overseas
Tens of Thousands and Counting... LIOS Readers are Retiring Overseas A reporter recently got in touch to ask how many ...
Here’s How To Retire To The Caribbean In 2015
The Orchid Bay community in Belize that I've been telling you about for some time has big plans for 2015. ...
How To Buy A Retirement Home In Mexico
Mexico’s premier colonial city is attracting American retirees. The largest number of Americans living outside the United States is in ...
Paying For Medical Care And Hospitals Overseas
A reader wrote this week to warn us about Nicaragua’s Hospital Bautista. Recently, the guy wasn’t feeling well, so his ...
Where Could You Afford To Retire Overseas?
Your retirement income will determine what type of lifestyle you are able to lead. But how much more would your ...
Where To Retire If You Want To Live “The Good Life”
Friends returned recently from an extended stay in Thailand. They'd also recently spent time on the west coast of the ...
The Retire Overseas Challenge No One Talks About
Planning for a retirement that includes spending some or even all your time in another country is an increasingly appealing ...
Retire To Penang — An Asian Paradise
Tropical Penang, located just west of mainland Malaysia, offers one of the best overseas retirement opportunities in the world. This ...
The Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Retire Overseas
Before you can begin to consider where best you might relocate overseas in retirement, you've got to get to know ...
Buying Real Estate In Retirement
Rent-Free Retirement Buying real estate overseas is fundamentally about diversification. This is true whether you buy for investment or for ...
Retire To Asia—It’s Easier Than Ever And Cheaper Than Anywhere Else On Earth
Starting in the 1980s, when Costa Rica launched its now famous pensionado visa program, Central and South American countries have ...
Affordable Retirement In The Caribbean
Northern Belize is a remote region of tropical rivers, hardwood forests, traditional farms, sleepy rural villages, and breezy Caribbean seashores. ...
Everything You Need To Know About Renting As A Retiree In Cuenca, Ecuador
"When we first started our property management office, we had six rental properties that were rented maybe 25% of the ...
Video Footage Of The Emerald Isle
New Video Shows The Best Of Irish Country Life In Retirement When I relocated to Ireland years ago, it wasn't as ...
Expat Life In El Cangrejo, Panama City
Panama City's Rowdiest, Bawdiest Zone El Cangrejo is our top pick for an urban lifestyle in Panama. Other Panama City ...
Expat Theresa Rall On Her Life In Quito, Ecuador
F'ing Ecuador The goings-on in Quito continue. Among those addressing the attendees at this week's Live and Invest in Ecuador ...
Day One Of Live And Invest In Ecuador Conference
Taking The Bus And Other Impossible Misadventures In Ecuador Kali Kucera is a full-time Quito expat who addressed the group assembled ...
Why Retire In Cuenca?
5 Reasons Cuenca Remains A Top Retire Overseas Choice Cuenca, Ecuador. You have heard so much about it. The experts recommend Cuenca, ...
Where To Retire Overseas
How To Find The Right Place For You To Retire Overseas One thing I've learned in my 17 years as an ...
Charm In San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de Allende has been a favorite among foreign retirees since the late 1960s. Nestled among low hills, this historic city ...
