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Two years ago, after living in Southeast Asia for 16 years, my husband David and I found ourselves looking for a new overseas home… and that meant another list. There’s no right or wrong method for picking where you might live overseas, but personally, I found that making a list helped me to narrow down my criteria. Which in turn helped me find Santiago de Querétaro...
While many people dream about retiring early to enjoy life, far less actually manage to pull it off. Of course, the biggest issue for most is money. Financial experts throw figures at us, like one million dollars, assuring us that retirement will not be possible unless we can manage to stash away this much money...
"When JoAnne gave me the estimate—$ 19,000 for eight veneers, which was just a portion of what she wanted—I was shocked. I felt bad, but I had to renege on my promise." Jim knew there had to be a less expensive alternative, but he wasn’t sure what it was. He and JoAnne knew people that had traveled to Mexico and other countries for medical...
People often think my husband Keith and I were crazy to swap our sandals and life in sunny Portugal for snow boots and extreme winters in Sweden. But we see it all as part of the expat adventure. Our expat journey started in 2012 when Keith and I moved to Portugal. We lived in a variety of homes and regions, learned the language...
I was about 10 years old when my parents first brought me to Kinsale for our annual summer holiday. I remember the mounting excitement as we drew near to our destination, and the moment when I caught sight of the endless greeny-blue sea. It is a memory that has stayed with me all my life, and when I visit Kinsale...
When I first started learning Spanish, I could only speak in metaphors. I sat with my now-fiancée on a 1,000-year-old facade outside the Port of Valldemossa, while we watched the sun set over the Mediterranean. “I don’t want to get off this train,” I told her. I knew the vocabulary for trains because that’s how I got around...
Big news on the second passport front this month: it seems likely that the countries offering citizenship by investment (CBI) in the Caribbean region are about to lose visa-free access to much of Europe. Since the early 1980s, various Caribbean island nations have offered citizenship and a second passport in exchange for an approved investment.
Jessica Ramesch explored the many options for expats in the Chiriquí region, from the beaches of Boca Chica and Las Lajas to the city in David, all the way up to Boquete—one of the world’s premier expat destinations.
For the past week, I've been exploring the Mexican city of Oaxaca de Juárez, the capital of the central-southern state of Oaxaca. It's been full of surprises. Good surprises. The longer I've been here in Oaxaca City, or simply Oaxaca, as it's called, the more appealing it's become, and I'm convinced that this is a place where I could live long-term.
The sun glistened against the snowy white villas that sat precariously on the hillside, seemingly stacked one upon the other. An alluring, idyllic, fairy tale setting of ivory villas overshadowed by the Moorish castle above. This is the magical hilltop village of Olvera, one of the famous “pueblos blancos,” or white villages of Andalusia Spain.