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Shock Announcement About the Easiest Place to Retire

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While you're reading this, I'll be at the Live and Invest Overseas Conference in Orlando, FL. It's an intensive, three-day get together where we'll talk about the 20 best countries to retire to, along with sessions on the practical issues of relocating to and living in a new country. I've been invited to speak about Portable Careers at the "Fund Your Life Overseas" workshop. I'll be reporting to you next week about the conference, but for today I thought I'd share with you some thoughts about …

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Living Abroad — Does it Make Financial Sense?

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"Why do you feel moving outside the US is the only option you have?" an online acquaintance inquired recently. The answer to that question feels so painfully obvious to me that I had to really stop and think about it. If you've been thinking about living abroad and you're not sure whether it makes sense for you in your individual financial circumstances, here's some food for thought. (I'm talking specifically to my readers in the US here.) Now, let me be clear. If your income covers your …

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7 Ways Hurricane Irene Taught Me Not To Lose My Head as an Expat

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Last week Hurricane Irene roared onto the Outer Banks of North Carolina and made its way up the East Coast of the US. To my surprise, I found myself in the midst of massive evacuation. I was just trying to get from Massachusetts to Florida after delivering my daughter to college, but I got caught up in it all the same. A 10-hour drive from Boston to my first stop in the western part of Virginia turned into a 17-hour ordeal. Along the way, though, I realized this traffic nightmare had some …

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Finally! A Real Roadmap for Moving Overseas

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I've found it! Earlier this year, I wrote about my disappointment in a product that promised to be a roadmap for expats. Instead, it was a bunch of fluff -- mostly recycled fluff, at that. I haven't given up the search, though, because we future expats need something that will take us, step by step, from our home countries to our lives abroad. Now the solution is available -- and right now, it's being offered at half price. Kathleen Peddicord has used her three decades of writing about the …

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Uh-Oh. Thanks, Facebook for Outing Me to my Mother-in-Law

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Last week I decided to post some items we're selling on Facebook Marketplace. Little did I know that the "sharing" choices are different for Marketplace ads than for regular status updates, and that difference caused an uproar in the family. My in-laws have steadfastly refused to discuss our plans to become expats. It's the unspoken elephant in the room. We've found this refusal enormously frustrating, and I know she's frustrated, too. Anyway. . . back to the story. . . We've been trying to …

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Can You Build a Solid House from this Blueprint?

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Recently I purchased a publication that promised to be roadmap for expats, something that would quickly take us, step by step, through our journey from our native homes to our lives abroad. Instead of the AAA Triptik I was expecting, however, I got an envelope full of "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" from Mrs. Murphy's fourth grade. At least, that's what it felt like. "We've compiled a blueprint you can follow. The map you need to get from where you are now straight to the perfect place you …

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