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In This Paradise, The Government Is Nowhere To Be Noticed And Your Tax Bill Can Be Highly Controlled Finally... after three days inside the meeting rooms of the Fort George Hotel, it was time to bug out of Belize City. Belize City is poor, underdeveloped, and, in parts, unsafe. I don't mind the place. Beneath [...]
Cloned! What You Need To Know About Debit Cards When Traveling My son is traveling in Japan with a couple of classmates during the first break of his freshman year at university. In addition to now being able to check off his first “solo” country (that is, country that no one else in the family [...]
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Touching down in Panama yesterday, after five weeks on the road, I embraced the strong sense I felt of coming home. Technically, Lief and I live nowhere. Official empty nesters since our son graduated high school, we’re footloose and fancy-free… with the frequent-flyer accounts to prove it. We hold residency in Panama but are no […]
What If The Doomsdayers Are Right? Here’s How To Prepare For The Worst Last year my pregnant niece, her husband, and baby had to be rescued from a second-story window during Hurricane Harvey in Texas. They climbed out of the window, dropped down into a boat, and rode to safety. After the hurricane passed, they [...]
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Live From Las Vegas—Here's The Scene At This Year's Retire Overseas Conference "The world is alive with opportunity. "Specifically, in the context of this Retire Overseas Conference, the world is alive with opportunity for an interesting, rich, full, adventure-filled, and, sometimes, very affordable retirement in a place that is welcoming, beautiful, friendly, and engaging." "That's [...]
Tips For Finding Your Peers When Living Abroad After living overseas for 20 years now, I've lost touch with all of my old friends in the States except one. The main reason I'm able to stay in contact with that one is he lives near Washington, D.C. where we visit at least once a year, [...]
Putting yourself in the driver’s seat of your own future is all about understanding your options for action. Choices. It all comes down to choices. The challenge is that, once you’ve identified the going-offshore choices you’d like to pursue, following through on them isn’t as easy as making a quick phone call or filling out […]
Where Shall I Send Your Copy Of My Wife's New Book? Several weeks ago, a brand-new, updated, and expanded edition of my wife's "How To Retire Overseas" book was published by Penguin Random House. It's now on bookstore shelves across America... and, of course, Kathleen and I very much hope you'll want to read it. [...]
It’s Official—Social Security Is Running Out Of Funds... Here's What You Need To Do Now The Social Security Administration will have to begin dipping into its trust fund this year... and the fund will run dry in 16 years. That's the official proclamation of the report published last week. What does this mean for folks [...]
Yesterday, Kathleen and I spent the day at the beach. This was a bigger deal than that simple statement might suggest… because it was a day at our beach. More than that, it was our first day at our new Los Islotes Rancho Playa. We’ve spent many days at our Los Islotes beaches, of course, […]
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