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How To Invest In Real Estate: Unraveling The Fundamentals To Get Started

June 19, 2023

The Ultimate Property Scouting Checklist As I wend my way across Spain’s southern coast, scouting opportunities and

The 14 Things That Make A Great Overseas Destination

March 20, 2023

14 Essential Things To Consider Before Choosing Your New Home Overseas This week marks the 15th birthday of Live And Invest Overseas, and it seems like a good time for reminding ourselves of the basics… all the first things to consider when you

Comparing The Top Countries To Retire

February 27, 2023

Our Top Retirement Havens Face Off It might be easy to get on board with the idea of retiring overseas… But it’s not as easy to

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…

Keys to Diversifying Your Portfolio

August 1, 2022

Diversifying Your Portfolio As The World’s Going Through Changes Record housing prices, record equity in real estate, collapsed cryptocurrency market, inflation at 40-year highs, interest rates up, stock markets down… And that’s just in the United States. We all expected the pandemic to wreak havoc on the economy… and it did in some ways, but,…

Take Your Pick: Custom-Tailor Your New Life Overseas

April 11, 2022

What Makes You Miserable? Start Your Overseas Adventure There This will be a piece of cake, I told myself as we prepared for our move from Baltimore to Waterford what now seems like a lifetime ago… How different can Ireland be from the United States? My husband, my daughter, and I, we’ll slide right into…

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

Living In The Algarve Where Every Day Feels Like Vacation

January 17, 2022

This Is Portugal… Where The West Meets Paradise My husband Dave and I have been living here in Portugal’s Algarve for more than 10 years now, and still every day brings new delights and new things to enjoy… new moments that make you stop, relax, and enjoy the Algarve’s slower pace of life and its…

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…