Your Own Home In France For As Little As US$40,000 It's not often that I surround myself with expats when ...

A Castle Of Your Own For Fun And Profit A castle of your own in Europe… For many, that’d be ...

This Country Will Steal Your Heart Paraguay’s biggest problem is a lack of marketing. If Madison Avenue were on this, ...

The Opportunity For The Small Investor In Paraguay Today Mid-19th century, Paraguay was a wealthy nation thanks to protectionist dictators ...

Discovering Paraguay Paraguay is perhaps the least known, least understood country in the Americas—an enigma. It's also a country with ...

The Cost Of Living In Kerry, Ireland, Versus The Cost Of Living In Scottsdale, Arizona When my husband and I ...

The World's Most User-friendly Residency Program-- Retire In Belize On Less Than $2,000 Per Month As a resident in Belize, you ...

Expanding Agricultural Investment Opportunity In This Embarrassingly Blessed Market: Belize Belize is a green and fertile place. Most everything grows ...

Selamat Hari Krismas—Christmas In Malaysia Christmas in Malaysia means Santa Claus in the shopping malls, midnight feasts on Christmas Eve, ...

Retire To The World's Most Passionate City "Buenos Aires is one of the world's most beguiling places, best known worldwide ...

"Kathleen, in doing my due diligence for moving overseas I have come across some comments that indicate that, when you ...

"Kathleen, I saw on Yahoo something about seven countries to retire out of the United States. I would like to ...

Q and A on Best Places for Single Women Retiring Overseas "Kathleen, I was wondering which locations overseas are the ...

Elegant, Non-Gringo Mexico Starting At US$38,000 Since my first visit to Mexico's Xalapa in 1998, it's been one of my ...

"Kathleen, I am a new subscriber to Lief Simon's Simon Letter and have a very critical question. 'Critical' because we ...

Could Correa Confiscate Private Property From Foreign Investors In Ecuador? Recently a reader wrote in to comment on an article we'd ...

Life In A (Slightly) Communist State We've been living in Vietnam for several years now. During that time, we have ...

The Problem With Rights Of Possession Property In Panama A friend of a friend is trying to resolve some title ...

"Kathleen and Lief, great stuff, always a favorite read. Having been to many of the places you write about, I ...

Own On The Riviera Maya For Less Than US$37,000 (Interest-Free Financing Available) Living off-grid attracts two different kinds of personalities—those ...

Good-Weather Tagaytay Is Emerging As A Top Choice For The Retiree On A Budget The city of Tagaytay is one ...

Cozy Colonial Charm, Pleasant Living, Bargain Price "I imagine this would be a nice place to settle in to for ...

Friendly, Pleasant, Welcoming, Safe, And Cheap—This City Is Not What You Think It Is We started the afternoon with a ...

China Vs Vietnam A well-traveled friend recently asked my take on the difference between Vietnam and China. What's the difference ...

Tax Friendliest Places On Earth Our First Annual Retire Overseas Index released this month named not the best countries in the ...

First Annual Retire Overseas Index Names The World's Top 21 Overseas Retirement Havens Where is the best place in the ...

"Kathleen, is there a foreign bank that will accept direct deposit or does Social Security have to send me the ...

BeautifulPeople.com is an online dating service that only allows attractive people to join. Applicants submit photos and within 48 hours ...

Margaret Thatcher continues to divide the British people in death as she did in life. Her passing this week prompted ...

Looking for a supermodel for a wife? Then you should be buying a ticket to one of the following countries ...

"Kathleen, what countries are the best places to retire for nudists? Is Belize a good place, or Ecuador? I'm not ...

Squatters’ Rights And Adverse Possession In Mexico "Kathleen, I’m writing in response to your post on squatters and adverse possession ...

This is the question that many expats have to ask themselves. Both countries have beautiful beaches, a lower cost of ...

What Croatia's Imminent EU Ascension Means For Global Investors Assuming the seven countries still to vote grant approval, Croatia is ...

Turn-Key Colombian Coffee Profits Of 19% A Year Agricultural land has taken a priority position among real estate investors over ...

Fairy Tale France Walt Disney is said to have been inspired by its towers, turrets, and ramparts, and you can ...

"Kathleen, my husband and I recently spent seven weeks in Ecuador. The first three weeks we spent between Quito and ...

To Ship Or Not To Ship The first time I shipped a household's worth of stuff from one country to ...

Top Emerging Euro-Retirement Choice (Because The Tropics Aren’t For Everyone) "The tropics are not for everyone," writes new Correspondent Patrick ...

"Kathleen, unless I misunderstood your recent post,you wrote that any drop in the value of the U.S. dollar versus other currencies ...

SmartMoney magazine (October 2007) calls Paul and Vicki Terhorst the "George and Martha Washington of cashing out." They retired in ...

Lucy Culpepper has traveled to, written about, and worked in some 30 countries. She is originally from Wales in the ...

Retirement And Real Estate On Mainland Honduras "Here's a reason to retire to Honduras," writes Correspondent Michael Paladin: "No one ...

"Thank you for all the good information. However, I haven't seen anything about possibly moving to the Bahamas. Is it ...

Why Not Costa Rica? "Could you tell me why Costa Rica was left off your list of 18 best retirement ...

"Your Nov. 20 issue of the Overseas Opportunity Letter prompted me to write with a possible solution for Jan J. ...