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How do your Online Business Costs Compare?

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For many of us, portable careers are the key to living comfortably overseas. While many expats rely on teaching English, or blogging about their travel or expat lifestyle and related subjects to generate their overseas income, more and more expats are running an actual business, or working virtually for an actual business. Back in 2009, when I started this site (yes, it has been that long!), I conducted a reader poll and found that 75% of you would need to generate some income overseas. I …

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Panama, Baseball and Expat Businesses

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Beisbol (baseball) is big in Panama. Really big. They have major leagues, playoffs, and their own version of the World Series. Panama's a small country, with a population of about 3.5 million, so they don't have a big talent pool to draw on. Making it even more surprising that they can at least a dozen major league teams. Recently I had the opportunity to attend a playoff game between Los Santos and Herrera. In Las Tablas, where I'm living now, Los Santos is the home team. It was a fun …

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New Economic Report Can Help You Find Your Dream Expat Life

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The Brookings Institution and the London School of Economics and Political Science have just released their Global Metro Monitor report, The Path to Economic Recovery: A Preliminary Overview of 150 Global Metropolitan Economies in the Wake of the Great Recession. While this information won't determine where in the world you'll be happiest as an expat, it can help you figure out where to start looking. Why? In the wake of what they are calling the Great Recession, Latin American and Asian …

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Finance Your Life Overseas with a French B&B

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I've written previously about ways to finance your new life abroad if you're not ready or able to retire yet. Here's a delightful discussion of running a B&B, or gite, in France. Guest Post by Steenie Harvey, International Living There’s more to sunny southern France than Provence and the Cote d’Azur. One of its most beautiful, historic and unspoiled regions is the Midi-Pyrenees—and it’s here that American David Hatfield and his English wife Linda have made their home for the past six …

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