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White sand and azure water. Stone castles and Turkish coffee. Cosmopolitan cities and organic vegetable markets. Art museums and concert halls. This is Albania. But alpine lakes and glaciers? I must be confusing it with somewhere else. But I’m not! They’re called the Accursed Mountains or, less ominously, the Albanian Alps, and they are the southernmost and highest...
From the snow-clad slopes of the Andes mountains down to the Pacific coast, Ecuador also packs in a range of landscapes and lifestyles. Picturesque mountain towns; vibrant beach communities; colonial gems packed with historic architecture, to bustling and sophisticated big cities. There really is something for everybody. That variety extends to the property market...
From its majestic snow-peaked mountains to its hot desert sands, lush cedar forests, and miles of serene, palm-fringed Atlantic coastline, Morocco covers the gamut. You can hop aboard the country’s high-speed train in the morning and ride a camel into the desert that evening. Or hop a ferry and visit Spain or Gibraltar for the day.
"Some months, the mussels are as fat as steaks,” chuckled Willy, my gracious waiter in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, southern France. With a wiry crop of salt-and-pepper hair and jaunty set of wire-rimmed glasses, he had the energy of someone half his age… and a passion for French cuisine that was infectious.
If a city break lasts longer than three days, you run the risk of tangling yourself in the gears of “progress” and “development” otherwise known as “stress” and “noise,” two things you broke free from and vowed to never experience again. So only stay in Budapest for three nights and then get out. This gives you plenty of time to see the sights and enjoy a dozen...
Dalmatia, on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, is an extraordinary island-speckled coast that stretches from the Croatian town of Zadar to the Bay of Kotor in Montenegro. It offers one of Europe’s most dramatic shorelines, encompassing enchanting cities such as Split, Sibenik, and Dubrovnik. Its coastal mountains sweep down towards a lush seaboard...
How the U.S. Taxes Expats The U.S. tax system is almost unique in the world as it taxes based on citizenship. Every other country in the world except Eritrea taxes in one of three ways (although there are, of course, lots of minor variations on each). Being taxed based on citizenship means that all U.S. citizens are required to file U.S. taxes reporting their global income...
The Great Resignation Has Turned the Table on the Great Recession...And Proven the Value of Experience That Comes With Being 50+. Record numbers of people of have resigned from the traditional workforce. Having worked from home for most of two years now, they’re not willing to go back into offices or sacrifice the personal time they’ve come to value.
One of my all-time favorite real estate plays is to buy what I call “overlooked and unloved.” You find a property that’s undervalued; a half-finished villa, a large abandoned lot, an older home that’s dark and drab…and you get it for a steal. Then you clean it up, finish the building off or subdivide the lot and sell on for a big profit.
Let’s face it, all around the world our wallets are experiencing the pinch of inflation with rising costs for nearly everything. That is indeed the case in Costa Rica where I see my grocery bills up 25%, doubling rental rates, and pain at the pump. Retirement planners emphasize that you need to account for inflation when evaluating your nest egg.