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Risk and Ambiguity – What’s Your Tolerance and Why Does It Matter?

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Any big change involves some risk and ambiguity -- but not changing is risky, too! Just ask the company that used to make vinyl records, or the transportation firm that thought those new-fangled horseless carriages were just a fad. Some people have a high risk tolerance. Would you be comfortable packing a few changes of clothes into a backpack and setting out for parts unknown? I wouldn't -- but some people do just that. Then there are those who have to plan every tiny detail. In the …

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Episode 1: Where’s the Best Place for YOU to Live?

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The ideal way to find the best country for your overseas adventure is to visit and fall in love. If you’ve been fortunate enough to spend time in other countries, you can use that experience to choose your spot — or at least whittle down your list of choices. But for the rest of us, there’s a process in determining which country, and then which city, town or region, is the best place to live, or the best spot to spend time, whether as a full-time, permanent resident, a part-time resident, …

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What are the Best Countries to Retire in 2017?

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"What are the best countries to retire in 2017?" is a question I often see. The short answer is, "it depends." Are you moving abroad to work at a job, or to retire (or something in between)? The best place for a retiree might be lousy if you need to work, or if, like me, you've developed a portable career and need good internet. Places that are great if you're working tend to be more expensive than the places that are great for retirees living on fixed incomes. How can you tell the …

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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel [Movie Review]

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Maybe it seems silly to review this movie now, with the sequel due for release in a few days. It's a new movie to me, though, since it came out while I lived in Panama. Featuring an amazingly all-star cast, the movie is based on the idea of outsourcing retirement overseas, specifically from the UK to India. As the movie opens, we meet seven wildly different British retirees. Evelyn (Judi Dench) has just lost her husband and finds herself loaded with debt she didn't know about. Douglas (Bill …

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Living Abroad is Mainstream (Now)

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A few years ago, when we told people we were moving to Panama, many assumed we meant Panama City, Florida. This spring,we were in the US for five weeks. Traveling up and down the East Coast was an eventful time, and we bounced from Georgia to Virginia to Massachusetts, Vermont and New York State. Throughout the region, we've talked with a lot of people. When they ask where we're from and we say "Panama," there's no more confusion. Not one single person during this trip has tried to place us in …

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Three Ways to Retire Overseas

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From the archives. . . There are as many different ways to retire overseas as there are retirees. You can: live full time in your new country abroad divide your time between your home country and overseas country travel all the time I know people from each category, and each style has its pros and cons. Part-Time Expats Certainly the easiest way to enjoy life abroad is to keep one foot firmly at "home" for part of the year. That way you can keep all that's familiar wrapped snugly around …

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