Live And Invest Overseas Confidential

Little-Known Secrets To True Freedom And Total Independence During the COVID-19 confinement, I gave gardening a try… I didn’t do so well. Most of what I bought died. And, honestly, my heart was only half in it… The apartment I was quarantined in was a temporary home and I didn’t have much invested in it……

A Welcoming, English-Speaking Expat Community On The Sea From Ecuador to Uruguay to Colombia, Latin America Correspondent Lee Harrison has been living south of the border since 2001. So smitten with his latest adopted home of Mazatlán, Mexico—where he’s been based for the past four years—Lee claims it represents one of the best lifestyles he’s…

The Good (And Affordable) Life In Playa Del Carmen Playa del Carmen is a little beach town that sits about an hour south of Cancún on Mexico’s Riviera Maya. Once a sleepy fishing town, the port was inadvertently put on the map by Jacques Cousteau in 1954 when he filmed an underwater documentary of the…

Bienvenidos A Mexico: Halfway House For Expats Panama has been called the ultimate halfway house for American expats. But I disagree… For those who aren’t ready to launch themselves into a truly foreign culture… who want some familiar comforts, reliable services, and to be able to get by in English… Mexico is the ticket. It’s…

Medellín: A Modern-Day Cinderella Story With our virtual event on Colombia coming up soon, I’ve been thinking back on good memories of this wonderful country… Again this week I refer to Wendy Howarter’s recent Overseas Living Letter issue on her adopted home town of Medellín…

What We’re Getting Up To In Lockdown… Last week I wrote about not letting lockdown keep you down… specifically, that we should all keep dreaming our travel dreams and making our plans despite the delays that the coronavirus will impose on us all. I spoke with our Events Team this past week about their lockdown…

I’m Back… But What’s Going On Here? It was 10:30 on a Saturday night, just when we were deciding on dessert or not… Our phones dinged… along with everyone else’s in the restaurant. The text message was an announcement from the French government. We only had another hour to eat before this café—along with all the…

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…

Top 4 Overseas Investments To Make Right Now When considering any potential investment, begin by asking yourself whether you are buying more for capital appreciation or for cash flow. At this stage of my investment career… as I get closer each day to “retirement”—I’m looking to add more cash flow components to my real estate…