Trading Toronto, Canada, For Torio, Panama

September 30, 2024

Although firmly on the map as a world-class retirement haven, parts of Panama are still relatively undiscovered. The country’s Veraguas Province is one such place. It sits on the Azuero Peninsula, and its western coast is one of the few places in Panama from which you can watch the sun set over the ocean. And…

Finding Your Personal Paradise In Panama

September 23, 2024

My husband and I just bought tickets to return to Panama, where we lived for seven years. It’s been a couple of years since we’ve been back, and this time there was a deadline: we need to renew our permanent residency and get new ID cards. Even though we moved away in 2018, we’re still…

Coming Home To That Vacation Feeling

September 9, 2024

“At least it’s Paris we’re going back to…” I sighed to my husband and daughter as we packed up to leave Mallorca, where we’d been blissfully untethered from reality for the last 10 days. “Because Paris is the best city in the world, right mama?” My four-year-old grinned up at me with this aphorism that…

11 Reasons To Choose Europe

August 12, 2024

Why Europe? It’s been a while since I considered the question… Let’s take a step back today and reconsider Europe from a broader perspective. Why should anyone want to live in Europe? Here are the top 11 reasons I can think of… Café culture. Most European cities have some sort of café culture, which lends…

Expats Introduce Me To Their Dream Lives In Spain

August 5, 2024

Last year, I took a whirlwind scouting trip in Spain. Between two trips, I drove nearly the entire way across the country, from the French border to Plasencia, not far from the Portuguese border… While there, I became addicted to the typical Spanish breakfast: tostadas and café con leche. Nearly every day I was there,…

Meeting Friends New And Old In Valencia

July 29, 2024

We held our first ever Live And Invest in Spain Conference in November last year, and I eagerly look forward to hosting our second this September—I hope to see you there! Meantime, let me share my thoughts with you as I had them last year the day before our event kicked off… I arrived in…

Battle Of The Bests: Our Top Havens Face Off

July 15, 2024

It might be easy to get on board with the idea of retiring overseas… But it’s not as easy to figure out where in the world you’d like to do it. Most people, faced with this tough question, make comparisons to help narrow things down… One of the most commonly asked questions we get at…

The Top 2 Hotspots For A Latin America Retirement

July 8, 2024

Last week, I began a countdown of the top four places to retire in Latin America in 2024, and today, we come to the top two… #2: Panama, A Retirement And Business Haven With Pacific And Caribbean Coastlines Panama could arguably be called the world’s best offshore haven. There is no doubt that Panama has…

The 4 Best Places To Retire In Latin America

July 1, 2024

Our annual Overseas Retirement Index features the 10 best countries for retirement, and for 2024, it highlights three south-of-the-border hotspots to consider… How do we come up with these rankings? We’ve identified the 14 most important factors for retirees to consider when sizing up a potential expat haven. We call these our Key Relocation Criteria,…

Escaping World Crisis

June 24, 2024

The existence of so many independent “nation states” across the world… “countries” the way we think of them today… is a relatively new phenomenon. The idea that every ethnic or social group should have its own independent national government and geographical homeland has been very successful in the last century. But it wasn’t always this…