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My Grandmother Loves This Place (And She’s No Dark Tourist) “Dark tourism” is a supposedly new phenomenon. It’s what people call it when you visit a place just to ogle some tragic aspect of its history. One of the newest additions to the world’s list of dark tourism sites is Chernobyl, recently opened to the…

How To Make A Living Overseas As A Content Writer One of the most frequently asked questions I get at conferences and by email is how an expat can make a living overseas. And the most common way folks want to try is by doing what we do here at Live and Invest Overseas every…

Of All The Investments Out There, Why Real Estate? Of all the investment options out there, why put your money into real estate? For international real estate guru Lief Simon—the most globally-spread investor I know—it boils down to one thing: his ability to sleep well at night… You see, there’s a certain comfort that comes…

Why I’m Starting To Have Serious FOMO… One of my favorite work events every year is our Retire Overseas Conference. It’s always held in a fun Stateside location (this year, it’s the turn of Houston, Texas)… It’s the best chance of the year to meet new attendees and catch up with those I’ve met before—some I’ve…

Enchanted At First Sniff—Why Location Chemistry Matters… Places are just like people. They all have some good in them along with some bad… some embarrassing things they try to downplay in public… and things they proudly wear on their sleeve… They have good days and bad days. They can react to a person the same…

And You Thought Your Family Was Complicated… Could Royal Baby Archie be the herald of a new dawn for Americans overseas? I’ve been following his story with rapt interest… As Harry and I get ever closer to starting a family of our own, the consequences of an American born overseas who may not spend much…

Proof Of Existence (And Other Challenges) For A Third-Culture Kid I’ve recently been commiserating with one of our editors-at-large… She’s also a third-culture kid. Born in Singapore—with British and Canadian lineage—she was raised for much of her life in Asia and the Middle East. Like me, she has few real roots to any one place…

Properties shape us more than we know. Settling into my new apartment here in Paris stirred up memories of all the houses in my life—and how each one shaped my future. In Maryland, before moving to Ireland, we lived in five different homes, but none were very special to me. What was special was the…