Live And Invest Overseas Confidential

Portugal As The Perfect Launchpad For European Adventures

December 9, 2024

When my husband and I first decided to move abroad, we contemplated many options all over the world… First, we thought of English-speaking countries. Australia came to mind. Then my husband reminded me of the many indigenous species of very large spiders and snakes, so that was off the table. Then we thought of our…

3 Countries You Can Move To Today

December 2, 2024

More and more people are catching on to the idea that better lifestyle and investment opportunities can be found beyond the borders of the U.S. I’ve advised on this idea for more than 30 years, but I don’t just write about it. I live it myself. I made my first international move in 1998, leaving…

Reinventing Thanksgiving Overseas

November 25, 2024

I would argue that most things in life are better with a twist… something unusual… unexpected… unfamiliar… makes anything more interesting. For me, that’s about 90% of the allure of living overseas—nothing is ever as you expect it to be. And this has been the case with Thanksgivings throughout my life, for example. We moved…

The Many Faces Of Little Belize—Part II

November 18, 2024

Don’t be fooled because of its size. You can get from one end of Belize to the other in a half day by car or a half hour by plane (the country’s domestic air travel system is its most developed infrastructure). Despite this, Belize has many faces. First is Belize City—poor, underdeveloped, and, in parts, unsafe.…

Our Favorite Caribbean Paradise—Part I

November 11, 2024

For me, it was love at first sight. From the first morning I arrived in Belize, more than 30 years ago, climbed down from the plane onto the runway, threw my backpack over my shoulder, pulled on my sunglasses, and walked across the tarmac in the direction of the one-room Belize City airport, I was…

Exploring Panama With New Eyes

November 4, 2024

Coming to Panama feels surreal these days. Between the nostalgia for our lives here pre-Paris and the evolution of the city, country, and our long-term home here, Los Islotes, plus bringing our daughters to this place we talk about all the time but they don’t know themselves… It’s a dreamlike state I feel when I’m…

Panama City 2.0

October 28, 2024

My family and I landed in Panama last night, and it felt like coming to a completely new place… The new airport terminal has been completed since I was here last (only partially operational a few years ago), and it was all so sleek and new I didn’t recognize a bit of the airport I…

What I Miss Most About Panama

October 21, 2024

At the time of writing this I’m preparing for my first return to Panama in two years… Here in Paris, it’s already quite chilly and our summer clothes have been packed away for weeks… my husband and I need both business and beach clothes… warm-weather wear that still fits our rapidly growing 4-year-old needs to…

A New, Better Way To Retire

October 14, 2024

Go to school… get a job… work hard for a few decades… retire… then die. For as long as I can remember, that’s the schedule we’ve been expected to adhere to. Some people make it look good. I have friends now retiring in their early 60s with money in the bank, good health, and lots of…

Escaping The Heat In The Mountains Of Panama

October 7, 2024

Situated in the highlands of western Panama, Tierras Altas (literally, “High Lands”) features comparable scenery to neighboring Boquete—misty hillsides dense with greenery, gardens terraced into slopes, and abundant wildflowers. Its cool-weather climate and the outdoor lifestyle it affords are also similar… But Tierras Altas is also very different to Boquete in important ways. First, it’s…