What Makes You Miserable? Start Your Overseas Adventure There This will be a piece of cake, I told myself as we prepared for our move from Baltimore to Waterford what now seems like a lifetime ago… How different can Ireland be from the United States? My husband, my daughter, and I, we’ll slide right into…
From Laid-Back To Luxury, Panama Offers Every Lifestyle A Retiree Could Wish For… All A Bargain I was the first to suggest Panama as a good choice for any North American looking for a place to retire that was sunny and cheap. I made that recommendation for the first time in 1998. Back then, I…
Portugal, The Flip Side—Here’s What’s Not To Love I’ve been spending time in Portugal since 2013. I knew after the first visit that this was a special place… a place where I wanted to spend as much time as a busy life like mine could handle. So my husband and I went house-hunting… We searched…
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Sizing Up The Four Faces Of Sunny Belize No place is perfect. Every destination we showcase for you has its pluses… and its minuses. We believe Belize, for example, is one of the best places in the world to live, retire, invest, and chase adventure. In truth, it’s many of the world’s best options. For…
The Ultimate Property Scouting Checklist There are two reasons to purchase real estate overseas… First, because you have moved there and you decide you want to own. You want to nest. You want a place you can decorate and furnish as you like, where you can make a garden, install a swimming pool, store your…
No More Sleepless Nights Of all the investment options out there, why put your money into real estate? And, more to the point, why foreign real estate? My husband Lief Simon—who continues to grow his international real estate portfolio every year—says that diversifying into markets outside the United States helps him sleep better at night.…
An Expat’s Biggest Regret (And How To Avoid It) In my 23 years of living overseas, I’ve never met anybody who hated their new home so much that they packed up and went home. What almost everybody has admitted to me, though, is that they wish they had done this sooner… that there are now…
11 Years Later, I’m No Longer The Crazy One… The first place I ever recommended Americans think about retiring overseas was Costa Rica. That was 35 years ago. A few years later I organized and promoted the first conference of my career, in San José. Thinking back, I have to give it to the 40-odd…
From Digital Nomad To Food Truck Chef—How To Fund Your New Life Overseas In your new life overseas, you could support yourself by going to work for someone else… but who wants a J-O-B? Better to make your own money and control your own schedule. Breaking from the 9-5 world opens you up to a…
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