"After 12 ½ years living overseas, we feel like tourists now when we return to these United States." That's Kathleen Peddicord speaking, publisher of Live and Invest Overseas and author of the recent book How to Retire Overseas. (You can click here to read a review. "We're appreciating the history, the shopping, and the museums of one of our favorite U.S. cities, but, as we wander and explore, we're also coming face-to-face with the realities of life in this part of the world right now. …
Special: One Heaping Portion of Regret
Two days ago, my almost-85-year-old father died. It happened peacefully at home before breakfast on Monday morning. It was not unexpected -- on the contrary, he'd been battling MRSA for several years, and undergoing thrice-weekly kidney dialysis for over two years. He'd had a pretty full life: he served in the Army in Germany during WWII, got married, had 4 children, 14 grandchildren and 1 great-granddaughter (so far). He won photography awards year after year. Professionally, he was a …
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Finance Your Life Overseas by Teaching English
One popular way to finance your new life abroad is to teach English as a second language. While formal teaching experience is not required, most programs require you to be a native speaker and have a Bachelor’s Degree. Training and certification as a TESOL (Teaching English as a second or other language) or TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) can be obtained through online courses, or classroom teaching in many US locations as well as locations throughout the world. The website …
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