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How to Choose the Best Country for Your Overseas Adventure, Part II

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Last week I wrote an installment about how to choose the best country for your overseas adventure. It's a complicated process because there are so many factors that come into play. I suggested you begin with some soul searching and serious conversation with your significant other if you have one. I listed a bunch of things to consider. Climate Geography (beach, mountain, other) Big city, small town or something in between Language Proximity to your home country Schools and …

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How To Choose the Best Country for your Overseas Retirement

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Once you're bitten by the expat, overseas bug, how do you go about choosing your best country for overseas retirement? At the risk of stating the obvious, it's a vital part of your relocation process. In fact, it's so obvious I needed to be reminded of it! A few days ago I received this email from a reader: "Hello: "I stumbled on your site and was looking for info on the process you used to select Panama. For example, what other countries did you remotely and in-country evaluate. How long did …

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How to Choose the Perfect Country for Your Expat Retirement — without Spending a Fortune

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Nobody can completely take away the challenges of an overseas move. No matter how carefully you plan and prepare, life will invariably throw you some curves and you'll have to cope with the unexpected, unanticipated, or just plain frustrations that are part of the process. You can lessen that pain by having lots of good information. It's completely possible to find out everything you need to online, at no charge (except your time and energy). The only problem is, it'll take a lot of …

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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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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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