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Buying Land In Belize: The Complete Guide You Need

October 10, 2022

The Belize Property Rundown Belize is a Commonwealth country and the only English-speaking country in

The Truth About Making Friends Overseas

October 3, 2022

Your New Foreign Friends Will Be Some Of The Best You Make… An American, a Norwegian, a Mexican, an Indian, and a Lithuanian sit down to lunch… No, it’s not the start of a bad joke, it’s what life looks like when you start to make friends in your new home overseas. The lunch I’m…

The Best Places To Live In Panama

September 26, 2022

Where To Retire In Panama We were the first to shine a light on Panama. For more than 25 years Founding Publisher Kathleen Peddicord has been reporting on Panama as one of the world’s best places to live, retire, and invest overseas. This country boasts the best infrastructure and health care in Central America… Ranks…

Would I Change Paris For Life In Barcelona?

September 19, 2022

The Most Modern Historic City On The Med Barcelona has done a lot of growing up in the last 30 years… the changes in the last 15 alone are clear after just a few hours in the city. I was last here in 2007, and back then you couldn’t eat dinner before 9 p.m. If…

10 Reasons To Reinvent Your Life In Beautiful Belize

September 12, 2022

Top 10 Reasons We Love Belize… And 9 Things Not To Love Belize is a beautiful, sunny, affordable, easygoing safe haven… This quirky little country that was founded by pirates and offers an opportunity for absolute escape. The promise of freedom that Belize holds out is more compelling now than it’s ever been. What is…

Belize Geography 101: Where Should You Live In Belize?

September 5, 2022

Discovering The Lay Of The Land In Belize… “Where can I live that’s close to the ocean, has a killer view, is on a river and near the mountains, in a safe neighborhood, with great bars and restaurants, without too many tourists, where I can walk to snorkel, build my own yurt, and own a…

Expat Life In Medellín, Colombia Vs. Cuenca, Ecuador

August 15, 2022

Medellín, Colombia Versus Cuenca, Ecuador—Top Retirement Havens Faceoff I’ve spoken with lots of potential expats who are trying to choose between Cuenca, Ecuador, and Medellín, Colombia… even though these two cities are actually very different in key ways. But, as I’ve lived in both places (and both are among my favorites in Latin America), I’m…

Paris Vs. Barcelona: Finding Your Retirement Haven

August 8, 2022

Barcelona Versus Paris: Europe’s Top Two Cities Compared This time next week, I’ll be off to Barcelona for the first time in nearly 10 years… My husband and I toured Spain together in 2007, long before we were married, and Barcelona was the highlight for me (I can’t wait to see how much progress has…

Keys to Diversifying Your Portfolio

August 1, 2022

Diversifying Your Portfolio As The World’s Going Through Changes Record housing prices, record equity in real estate, collapsed cryptocurrency market, inflation at 40-year highs, interest rates up, stock markets down… And that’s just in the United States. We all expected the pandemic to wreak havoc on the economy… and it did in some ways, but,…

Retiring Abroad Alone? Here Are 8 Things To Know

July 25, 2022

Single Overseas—8 Things To Know Before You Go Last issue, I shared the following reader question with you: “I would appreciate some articles specifically about single women retiring to countries in Europe (perhaps in Spain and Portugal and anywhere else deemed suitable) and the types of support (social networks, medical facilities, recreational activities, suitable areas…