How To Make New Friends Overseas (Even If You’re An Introvert Like Me) One of the hardest things about upping stakes and pitching your tent somewhere new is the social aspect. You’ve likely spent a lifetime putting together a social fabric wherever you currently call home, and it’s a great loss to have to leave…
Once A World Player, Now A Little-Known Safe Haven Picture a chain of historic and charming small towns strung together by a single-lane highway, people walking or biking along, passing roadside stands offering fresh fruit at unbeatable prices (3 euros for a 5-pound bag of oranges!). The weather is warm, and blossoming vines grow over…
Going Where The Weather Suits Your Clothes… As much of the world settles into a winter chill this month, fireplaces crackle and mugs of warm drinks steam… Personally, I’m enjoying my first autumn in eight years. Life in Panama, ever-hot and humid, didn’t allow for many of my favorite things in life—the smell of leaves…
On Raising Children And Building Houses In Belize I hear lots of parents and grandparents bemoaning the fact that kids’ lives are so regimented these days… how they are never left without supervision and more often than being allowed free playtime are shuttled from one organized activity to another. As we prepare for a brood…
A Lifetime Of Help For Your Adventure Overseas Out of 195 countries on the planet, there are probably 100 or more that you’d like to visit… and maybe dozens that you’d think about calling home. From the Caribbean to Europe to Asia to Latin America, if you’re thinking of putting down some roots overseas, how…
The Trials And Tribulations Of (Trying) To Plan Your Plan B When my husband and I moved to Paris, the only real motivating factor was that we wanted to live in the city. I’d wanted to move back since I left at 18, and Harry was looking forward to a change of pace from Panama,…
Retirees Say Belize Is Hard To Beat Helena Hess was originally attracted to Belize for its diving. She wasn’t even thinking about retirement when she made her first visit to the country. But the better she got to know Belize, the more she came to appreciate the advantages it offers the would-be retiree. Helena and…
The Affordable, Sun-Soaked, Caribbean Paradise That Also Speaks English Tropical, laid-back Belize has so much to offer… A two-hour flight from Florida, Belize is just a short hop from the United States (four hours from Toronto). It’s an affordable, sun-soaked, Caribbean paradise with lifestyle options ranging from rustic countryside to hammock beachfront. It offers easy…
The Ultimate Survival Pack For Your Grand Adventure Overseas The language question may be one of the most pressing considerations to make before a move overseas… If you already know a second language, should you limit your overseas search to places that speak it? If English is your only language, can you even learn another?…
The Ultimate Survival Pack For Your Grand Adventure Overseas I confess… I feel a little left out this week… As I write, our ninth annual Retire Overseas Conference is in full swing in Houston, Texas, where all my far-flung colleagues and friends have come together to share what’s new from their corners of the globe.…
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