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Category: Retirement

11 Sep
health care cost

Finding More Affordable Health Care And Insurance Overseas

As Kathleen and I prepared these past several months to shift our situation and begin spending more time in Europe, I decided to take the transition as an opportunity to shop health insurance options. Health insurance is vastly more expensive in the United States than anywhere else in the world. That reality I’ve understood for […]

07 Sep
Our Grand Adventure

Moving Overseas Before Retirement: Our Grand Adventure

I’m always sharing real-life stories of folks like you who have reinvented their lives overseas… Today I thought you might be interested to hear how Lief and I came to be living the life we’re living. Ours isn’t the story of a couple of retirees, but we’re hardly the only 30-somethings to take our dreams […]

21 Aug
A senior couple sitting in a bench in a park

You’re Losing More Than Money By Not Going Overseas Today

Overseas Economics: Age In Place Overseas In Luxury... Instead Of At Home In Poverty My wife Vicki and I find ourselves in California for a few months. A popular new book here, "The Truth About Your Future: The Money Guide You Need Now, Later, And Much Later," predicts a startling future, largely free of disease, [...]
03 Aug
A castle that appears to be floating in the clouds

Cost of Living Overseas: Part Castles In Air, Part Compromise

A recent conference attendee wanted to know where in Panama City he could rent an apartment for US$500 a month or less. He’d decided he wanted to retire to Panama City and had set his housing budget at what he currently pays in property taxes and insurance for the paid-for house he lives in Texas. […]

15 May
Should-You-Be-Concerned-By-Belize's-Murder-Rate

Should You Be Concerned By Belize’s Murder Rate?

Two expats were murdered in Belize earlier this month. Their bodies were found in a sugarcane field in a rural area of Corozal. “Kathleen, stop promoting a violent, crime-ridden country as safe!” one reader wrote in response. “Are you not aware that Belize has one of the highest murder rates in the world?” asked another. […]

24 Apr
A Second Language Is The Best Gift For Your Children

Why A Second Language Is The Best Gift For Your Children

My wife and I spent last week in the United States visiting universities with our 17-year-old son. During one tour, the student guide made a big deal about the opportunities the university offers for study abroad programs. Take a semester or a year to study at one of their campuses in another country, she encouraged […]

23 Feb
2017 will be a great year for Investors in Panama.

Why Panama’s Economy Is In A League Of Its Own

The Powerhouse That Is Panama "What’s the first word that comes to mind when you hear ‘Panama’?" full-time Panama expat Charles Conn asked the crowd in Panama City the last afternoon at the Live and Invest in Panama Conference last week. "The Canal," replied the audience. "Another thing you probably think of are hats," continued [...]
02 Feb
second passport for expats

Expat’s Common Goal In Trump’s America: A Second Passport

Last weekend I hosted a small group of readers at my home in Medellín, Colombia. These Private Access members made the trip to Medellín to spend three days engaged in focused, private conversation with me and nine of my colleagues. We discussed the basics of internationalizing your life—banking, residency, citizenship, asset protection, structures, and investing, […]