Tags: Belize

The Best Places To Retire In Latin America

May 23, 2022

Top Picks For A New Dream Life South Of The Border I spent seven years living in Panama, the Hub of the Americas, and during those years, I got to know Latin America pretty well… Belize, Mexico, Paraguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Peru… I’ve seen a good portion of this part of the world…

Everything You Need To Know About The Many Faces Of Belize

October 18, 2021

Sizing Up The Four Faces Of Sunny Belize For me and Belize, it was love at first sight. From the first morning I arrived in Belize, nearly 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…

Why I Decided To Retire To Carmelita Gardens, Belize

January 25, 2021

How Dianne Found Her Simple And Self-Sufficient Paradise Overseas One of the interesting byproducts of the coronavirus era has been a new, global appreciation for self-sufficiency… People who had never lifted a whisk learned to bake their own bread… those without backyards figured out how to plant food, even if just some herbs… salon junkies…

Living A Whole New Life In Belize

January 18, 2021

Potluck Dinners, Darts, And Dancing—One Expat Couple’s Trial Run In Belize It’s gray, dark, and rainy here in Paris… and it’s unlikely to change much over the next couple of months. It’s around this time of year that I’d usually try to organize a trip to someplace sunny. In fact, every January we hold our…

The Best Way To Decide If Moving To Belize Is Right For You

December 28, 2020

A Land Of Adventure, Promise, And Quirky Placenames My first memory of travel is of my visit to Belize at about 5 years old. I had been out of the country just once before, and this visit to Belize was to be the first trip that imprinted itself on my memory. The snapshots are vague…

What To Expect Celebrating The Holiday Season In Belize

December 9, 2019

A Tropical Christmas In Belize If you decide to move overseas, you’re likely to spend a few holidays in your new home eventually. Of course, it’s nice to go “back home” and visit the family at this special time of year, but give the holidays in your new home a chance, too. You’re sure to…

Discover The Charm Of A Back-To-Basics Lifestyle In Belize

October 28, 2019

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…

Researching Belize Made Easy At Our 2020 Conference

October 7, 2019

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…

Why I Had To Return And Make More Great Memories In Belize

September 23, 2019

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…

Recordings From Our 2019 Belize Conference Now Available

January 28, 2019

Goodbye Rat Race—Hello Healthy, Active Living Rob Burrows and Tony Lauria—two of the expats who joined us for our 2019 Live and Invest in Belize Conference last week—were both in similar circumstances just a few years back. Life was too busy—and not in a good way. As a management consultant in Ohio, Rob was working 60-hour weeks,…