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Where’s the Best Place in the World to Retire?

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It's a great big world out there. If you want to retire -- or just live -- overseas, where's the best place to go? Naturally there's no one-size-fits-all answer. You can start with a list of questions to ask yourself about what quality of life means to you (and your significant other if you're moving with someone else). Then you start collecting data. Here are the top 15 cities from the newest quality of life index from Numbeo.com. Zurich, Switzerland Canberra, Australia Adelaide, …

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Overseas Residency — What’s the Best Country?

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Residency is what lets you live in a country for as long as you want, and usually lets you enter and leave the country whenever you choose to. It's not the same as citizenship, although it can lead to becoming a citizen. Some countries are easier than others to become a legal resident. Others are easy to stay in without residency. So what's the best choice for an expat. Should you look for residency? As with so many other expat questions, the best answer is, "it depends." My husband and I …

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Where’s the Best Country to Retire Overseas in 2013?

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Where's the best country to retire overseas? I get that question a lot. I wish I had a simple answer, but as long as people are different -- with different hopes, wishes, dreams, likes and dislikes -- there's no one-size-fits-all answer. And sometimes asking "which country" isn't the right question. Because different parts of a country can be very different. I mean, what do New York City and Podunk, Idaho have in common? Not much. Fortunately I can give you a place to start. Here are two …

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Dancing In the Fountain: An Expat Book Review

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Dancing in the Fountain: How to Enjoy Life Abroad recounts the adventures of an American couple who moved from Cleveland, Ohio to Seville, Spain. Of all the expat books I've read, I have to say this is one of the best, rivaling only Peter Mayle's tour de force, A Year in Provence. This was my late-afternoon-hammock read recently, and I found myself laughing so uproariously in several spots that I made the hammock sway dangerously and brought my husband and dogs out to see what was going …

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How to Live Like a Local While Visiting

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You've read everything you could get your hands on about the country you'd like to move to, you've checked into their cost of living, investigated what you have to do to become a resident, maybe even taken some language classes. Before you move there, though, you need to visit, preferably for an extended period of time. Just because something sounds terrific on paper doesn't mean it's the place you want to call home. You could go and stay in hotels, but that doesn't really give you a good …

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How to Choose Your Retire Overseas Paradise

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Every plan-to-be expat has a different idea about their overseas retirement paradise. For you, it might be a high-rise condo in a bustling metropolis with world-class shopping and nightlife. For someone else it might be a country ranch, or a beachside retreat. Finding the country to live in that will tick most of your boxes (no country's perfect) is a complex process. Once you've eliminated the obvious won't-work-for-you choices and narrowed down your list to two or three overseas retirement …

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