Why You Need A Good Lawyer For Your France Visa Renewal

August 2, 2021

What A Difference A Good Lawyer Makes My family and I have just finished the renewal process for our French visa—whew, legal again for another year…! This is our third year in France, so it’s our second visa renewal, and this one went much smoother than any of our past meetings… but things didn’t start…

How To Overcome The Challenges Of Moving To A New Country

July 19, 2021

What Baking Croissants Taught Me About Moving Overseas Cordon Bleu pastry chef, Frédéric Hoël, held up two handfuls of dough, one that you could have mistaken for a neatly folded (albeit miniature) sheet in a linen store… the other more closely resembled a half-deflated air mattress that someone tried to fold before it was fully…

How To Figure Out The Best Place To Retire Overseas

July 12, 2021

Where In The World Will Your Overseas Retirement Take You? Out of this big ol’ world of 195 countries, how in the world do you figure out where in the world to go? If you’re just beginning to think about the idea of going overseas, whether for retirement or otherwise, this is a huge, daunting…

Santo Domingo: Dominican Republic’s Colonial Capital

July 5, 2021

Sophisticated City Living In The Caribbean White-sand beaches, swaying palm trees, warm turquoise water, year-round sunshine—you’ll find them in abundance here in the Dominican Republic… and, of course, pretty much everywhere else in the Caribbean, as well. What sets the DR apart from other Caribbean islands and nations is its more sophisticated lifestyle—one that is…

The Top 5 Rules To Start Investing In Property Successfully

June 21, 2021

5 Rules For Overseas Property Investing I grew up in a household that put great value on owning real estate. Before I was 10, my family had purchased property overseas, and would go on to do so many times over before I graduated high school. My stepfather, real estate investing guru Lief Simon, now maintains…

The Best Ways To Make Money Overseas

June 14, 2021

Can I Make Money In My New Home Overseas? One of the most important issues for some thinking of a move overseas is the potential to earn money in their new home… While getting a job overseas as a foreigner has never been easy—and it became even harder in the bleak COVID-19 era—there are some…

The Pros Of Renting Overseas

June 7, 2021

Why You Should Rent Before You Buy (Sometimes) Last week we offered some insights into how to purchase real estate overseas and explained that when it comes to foreign property, there can be two conflicting agendas: personal use versus a straight-up investment buy. If you’re buying for investment, then the decision to buy is simple;…

Canggu: Exploring Bali, The Most Popular Island In Indonesia

May 10, 2021

Canggu—A Nebulous Neighborhood In Bali’s Sweet Spot Offering an eclectic combination of modern lifestyle and traditional culture with visible vestiges of both is Canggu (pronounced CHAN-goo), an up-and-coming neighborhood on Indonesia’s most popular island—Bali. A few decades ago, Canggu was nothing more than scattered villages, a few rice paddies, and long expanses of black-sand beach.…

The Asia Virtual Conference Experts Who Will Help You Retire In Asia

May 3, 2021

Sneak Peek: Look Who’s Joining Our Virtual Room Next Week… Next week begins our first-ever Live and Invest in Asia Virtual Conference and our events team is working full steam ahead to prepare all the experts and expats we’ve invited to join us for this three-day event. We’re all especially excited for this virtual event,…

How Traveling As A Single Woman Is Possible And Liberating: Silvia’s Nomadic Lifestyle

April 19, 2021

Silvia’s Story—From Empty-Nester To Relentless Nomad Silvia Hagge, originally from Argentina, was bitten by the wanderlust bug at the precocious age of 13. She organized her early life around travel—her only goal was to see the world. When she started a family, though, they all settled down in Singapore… where she stayed for 25 years.…