Tag: move overseas

Buying real estate in Portugal is one of the best things that you can do right now. It has grown ...

The world is alive with opportunity. Specifically, in the context of the conversation we carry on in these dispatches, the ...

Although firmly on the map as a world-class retirement haven, parts of Panama are still relatively undiscovered. The country’s Veraguas ...

All the calendar days of a new year in front of us... Each one begging to be filled with discovery. ...

What if you could go anywhere, do anything, and spend your time and your money any way you wanted? As ...

Twenty years ago, Vicki and I spent our first Christmas in Paris, France. We stayed in Paris all that winter ...

"Do you know where our passports are?" my husband asked, sounding slightly panicked over the phone. I was away on ...

The ideal life for many is being able to take a short drive from home to the beach, or from ...

Belize is a beautiful, safe, welcoming wonderland of wide-open spaces and sugar-sand beaches. An idyllic place offering both quintessential escape ...

Unless you’re very lucky, your friends and family won’t understand. When you tell them you’re thinking about moving to a ...

After 32 years of marriage and four children, my husband and I were retiring to Belize in six weeks... Being ...

I arrived in sunny Valencia on Monday to clear blue skies and perfectly warm temperatures—a nice change from chilly, gray ...

The first and perhaps most important step you must take to make sure that you arrive where you want to ...

You make three decisions in life that matter. You choose what to do to support yourself. You choose who to ...

I’ve been a fan of Europe for a long time. My husband and I met in Ireland, and later moved ...

When you're planning a move to a new country, it helps to surround yourself with supportive, like-minded people. Your fellow ...

Last week I enjoyed three days online live with more than 100 Live And Invest Overseas readers interested in exploring ...

I made my first international move, from Baltimore, Maryland, to Waterford, Ireland, with the support of my longtime employer. He ...

Going Solo In Belize Belize has made concerted efforts to grow in sustainable ways. It's one of the reasons that ...

Move overseas and you join a distinguished clan. Think Marco Polo, Rousseau, Einstein, Hemmingway, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, ...

What does 2023 hold in store for you? Do you approach it with trepidation or enthusiasm? If you’re reading these ...

Why... how... and where.Those are the three big questions to answer as you consider the world map in the context ...

For tourists and foreign residents, Cuenca's Christmas Eve Paseo del Niño parade, or Passing of the Child, is a colorful, ...

When the first Western-born sailors reached the island in 1508, they were greeted by an estimated 10,000 Maya inhabitants living ...

One of the many things to figure out in your new life overseas is how to vote back in the ...

I lived in Panama for eight years, in Panama City… which lies on the country’s southern, Pacific coast. My extended ...

The friendliest spot in Belize? If you ask me, that's Ambergris Caye, the little island just offshore from where we're ...

The Forbes reporter who interviewed me recently wanted me to give it to him straight. "Living or retiring overseas," he ...

The dictionary defines "retirement" as a state of "being withdrawn from the rest of the world or from a former ...

When is the right time for you to make a move overseas? Right now. OK, I don't know you personally, ...

One of the biggest lessons of the past two-and-a-half years has been this: We all need to seize opportunities when ...

Two decades living overseas, in Ireland, Panama, and France, have taught me... 1. Patience... the kind of patience you learn ...

Today, Valentine's Day, reminds us all, wherever in the world we are, that love is something to be celebrated. But ...

"What are we doing?" Lief asked me the other morning as we were dressing for the day, rushed, hurried, confirming ...

In a matter of days, we will release our 2022 Overseas Retirement Index. This survey presents our selection of the ...

Honestly, there’s only one reason that’ll prevent you from retiring overseas… you’re dead. Other than that, there’s no reason you ...

The availability of health care, quality of infrastructure (transportation, internet, roads and sidewalks, etc.), and cost of living are practical ...

Cordon Bleu pastry chef, Frédéric Hoël, held up two handfuls of dough, one that you could have mistaken for a ...

As of a few weeks ago, Paris all but shut down, as did much of Europe. The annual exodus that ...

In the last issue, I began telling you about the biggest aspects of moving overseas—the things that, in my experience ...

When you're planning a move to a new country, it helps to surround yourself with supportive, like-minded people. Your fellow ...

This week I've been thinking back and remembering readers I've been fortunate enough to get to know personally. Readers whose ...

As a reader of Live and Invest Overseas, you probably have dreams of living in another country, as I did ...

I give a presentation for our annual Live and Invest in Europe Conferences… sharing my “expat story,” as we refer ...

“Would you say this is a trend... and that it is growing?” the reporter who interviewed me this week wondered. ...

My first trip to Belize, about 30 years ago, was organized courtesy of the Belize Tourism Authority. I was a ...

"I get two weeks of vacation a year from my stressful job, and you want me to spend one of ...