How One Couple Discovered A Great New Life In The Algarve

March 29, 2021

How One Couple Found Serenity On Portuguese Shores Alyson and Dave were caught up in the rat race and they have always loved to travel to get away from it all. They’d been to plenty of great destinations by the time they visited Portugal, but when they got to the Algarve, they just couldn’t move…

11 Reasons Why Living In The Algarve Region Has No Match

March 22, 2021

11 Reasons This Is Our Family’s Favorite European Escape “Have you ever wondered why Portugal is at the center of the world map? “It’s because the Portuguese were the first to map the world…” When you’ve spent a 35-year career traveling and scouting destinations for

Move To America’s Most Popular Expat Destination

March 15, 2021

Mexico’s Top Options For A Life On The Beach I’m looking forward to helping MC this week’s Live and Invest in Mexico Virtual Event, but stuck over here in Europe, as I am, I needed to get my head back in the Mexico game… As I was preparing, I came across a great roundup of…

Should You Come To Tavira, Portugal?

March 8, 2021

A Café-Lifestyle In Europe’s Sunniest Spot Our soon-to-be-published March issue of Overseas Living Letter features one of our favorite little towns in

Portugal: The Best Place To Live Is Also One Of The Safest

March 1, 2021

Sunny, Classy, And Affordable Europe All In One Spot As we prepare for our virtual Live and Invest in Portugal event and I’m simultaneously working to finish our newest product—a “36 Days To Your New Life In Europe” course—I’m reminded why we love Portugal so dearly… I’ve spent the last few days writing up the Portugal lessons…

The Challenges Of Living Abroad And How To Overcome Them

February 22, 2021

3 Things That Drive Me Nuts About Living Overseas (And How You Can Get Around Them) It’s just been one of those weeks… From multiple household-wide illnesses to minor annoyances to major

Mexico City Sheds Its Reputation To Reveal A True Expat Haven

February 8, 2021

You Don’t Have To Be Rich To Live It Up In Mexico City Because so much of the draw of Mexico for foreigners is surf and sand, you don’t hear as much about interior parts of the country. But there is so much more to Mexico than just the coastline… Our correspondent, Patrick Little, spent…

Introducing Durango: Bargain Real Estate In Authentic Mexico

February 1, 2021

This Place Is As Close As It Gets To “The Real Mexico” As our staff prepares for our virtual Live and Invest in Mexico Conference (and it snows here in Paris), I can’t help but be a little distracted by the thought of the warm sunshine and swaying palm trees… It’s been a few years since I…

Why I Decided To Retire To Carmelita Gardens, Belize

January 25, 2021

How Dianne Found Her Simple And Self-Sufficient Paradise Overseas One of the interesting byproducts of the coronavirus era has been a new, global appreciation for self-sufficiency… People who had never lifted a whisk learned to bake their own bread… those without backyards figured out how to plant food, even if just some herbs… salon junkies…

Living A Whole New Life In Belize

January 18, 2021

Potluck Dinners, Darts, And Dancing—One Expat Couple’s Trial Run In Belize It’s gray, dark, and rainy here in Paris… and it’s unlikely to change much over the next couple of months. It’s around this time of year that I’d usually try to organize a trip to someplace sunny. In fact, every January we hold our…