Tags: Live Abroad

The Top Retirement Destinations By Continent

February 13, 2023

The Best Retirement Havens For 2023 With a world of enticing options for an overseas retirement to pick from, the trickiest part of an international move can often be narrowing down your choices to just

The Truth About Making Friends Overseas

October 3, 2022

Your New Foreign Friends Will Be Some Of The Best You Make… An American, a Norwegian, a Mexican, an Indian, and a Lithuanian sit down to lunch… No, it’s not the start of a bad joke, it’s what life looks like when you start to make friends in your new home overseas. The lunch I’m…

Will Living Abroad Make You Happy?

March 27, 2022

How To Choose Your New Home Overseas (Hint: Fall In Love) It’s all about chemistry… Whether you’re making friends or looking for love, there’s usually something that draws us to another person that we couldn’t put into words… it just feels natural. You enjoy

How I Discovered New Confidence Living In Cayo, Belize

January 10, 2022

From Idaho To The Cayo: How We Escaped The Frozen North Here’s our tale of How We Escaped The Frozen North… We came to Belize from northern Idaho. We were used to nine months of winter each year. Now we have 12 months of summer. When my husband David first got this idea of moving…

How To Build Your Road Map For The Future

November 8, 2021

Private Roundtable Reveals Road Map For Your Future What a world we’re living in, right?The biggest global pandemic in 100 years… continuing terrorist threats… war… threats of more war… coups… famine… mass gun violence…Plus a litany of -flations… inflation, shrinkflation, and now skimpflation…Along with global supply-chain issues and people deciding they don’t want or don’t…

How To Deal With Homesickness After Moving Overseas

October 4, 2021

What Will You Miss From “Back Home”? “Ice… ice and elevators.” When asked by a friend on my recent trip back to the States (my first time back in over two years) about what I enjoyed most about being back, that was my response. And, really, that’s it. That’s the extent of what I currently…

Our Most Popular FAQs On Moving Abroad: Portugal Edition

September 13, 2021

Portugal FAQ’s Answered When making any move overseas, you’ll have lots and lots of questions. Maybe you won’t be sure who to ask… And maybe, in some cases, you’ll be reluctant to ask questions you fear might seem foolish or naïve. Making a move to a new country is a big deal. There are no…

How To Approach Living Overseas Criticism From Loved Ones

September 6, 2021

How To Deal With “You’re Crazy!” And Other Words Of Discouragement A friend here in Paris was entertaining her in-laws recently, visiting from New Mexico, and I joined them for a walking tour of the city one day. We stopped for coffee and the conversation naturally got around to the topic of living overseas… turns…

The Top 10 Greatest Advantages Of Living In Europe

August 30, 2021

The Top 10 Reasons I Moved To Europe Heart versus head. When it comes to choosing where to live overseas, both have to play an important part. The head side of things, the practicalities and logistics—thinking about environment, budget, climate, infrastructure, etc.—is important, no doubt… But the more abstract side of things is equally important……

The Truth About Moving Abroad And What It Really Means

August 9, 2021

4 Things You Must Do To Make A Successful Move Overseas—Part I I give a presentation for our annual Live and Invest in Europe Conferences… sharing my “expat story,” as we refer to these kinds of talks. My expat tale began very close to the start of my life. I was only 8 years old…