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For eight years, New Jersey native Michelle Bottalico has been calling the northwestern Italian city of Turin home. Along the way she’s met her husband-to-be, acquired Italian citizenship through ancestry, and furthered her photography business. “After traveling around Italy, I liked it so much that I decided to look for work and live here.
My husband, Damon, and I spent three years traveling the world looking for an exotic locale to call our new home. We loved every town, city, and country—Costa Rica’s beaches, Ecuador’s mountain cities, Thailand’s temples and islands—each more interesting and captivating than the next. We didn’t know what we were looking for in a new home, but we would know it...
Looking for an affordable adventure? One popular option is van life. You get a cargo van, convert the interior into a camper, and take it on the open road. It’s like RV-living light. Another option is expat life. You move to a lower-cost country that offers a climate and lifestyle you like. Favored destinations include tropical islands, Andean valleys, and a wide range...
The trickiest thing when deciding where to live in France is to figure out where has the qualities you’re looking for. Some people are looking for wild, rocky shores, steeped in old customs and traditions…others cannot resist the allure of beautiful hill towns and lavender fields. The good news is France has it all.
“I’m having the time of my life,” beams Mike Whalen, from his new restaurant in Ambergris Caye, Belize. “I’m still learning as I go, but what better place to do it than a tropical island? I live and work on ‘Coconut Drive,’ for Pete’s sake! How could I possibly have a single, solitary regret?”
Portugal’s Algarve…it brings to mind glittering, golden-sand beaches, hidden coves surrounding by towering limestone cliffs, 300 days of sunshine a year, and cocktails by the pool. This southern region has long been a popular vacation spot for Europeans for decades, the British and Germans in particular. But there is another side to the Algarve that offers a quieter, calmer...
The island of Utila is popular with scuba divers, but is otherwise relatively undiscovered. Her big sister, Roatán, also a popular dive destination and a cruise ship layover, is much better known. With the even lesser-known Guanaja, the archipelago forms the Bay Islands of Honduras. The Bay Islands have a long, involved, and colorful history. Originally spotted by Columbus...
“We wanted to live in a place where we didn’t need heat or AC, outside of the hurricane belt, with ample water, a stable democratic government, and good healthcare,” says Jim Just, 73. “If you apply those parameters to countries of the world,” says Jim, “It narrows down the list quite a bit.” Costa Rica’s Central Valley region fit the bill.
It’s our list of the world’s best places to go if you’ve got the flexibility of a laptop job and you’re ready to relax, take it easy, and start earning from a beautiful, interesting, lower-cost spot overseas. In this report, we give you our picks for the top 10 places in the world to earn a portable income. We compare them across a list of categories that includes cost of living...
Peniche on Portugal’s Silver Coast has the best waves I’ve ever seen. Huge waves. Fast, barreling waves. The kind that will whip you off your feet. Tube waves that surfers travel half-way across the world to find. Indeed, surfers are everywhere. Tall, bronzed, with chiseled good looks. Barefoot and bare-chested. But I didn’t come here to surf. For the past few days, I’ve been...