Land is the one thing they’re not making any more of… Buy in the right places, and you can make a killing. That was my original plan when I bought a piece of land on an island in Nova Scotia, Canada, many years ago. A German guy had originally bought this 100+ acre island… then [...]
My First-Ever Citizenship Index Reveals World's Best Second Passports What's the point of having a second passport? It's one of the questions I'm most frequently asked… along with the follow-up: Which is the best second passport to obtain? My team and I have prepared our first-ever Citizenship Index to answer those questions definitively. The complete [...]
My wife has suggested I write a book. The two of us are in residence at Los Islotes together for the next three months. Seems like an opportunity for that
As the world continues to push through our pandemic era, working from home has become a fact of life. What if working from home meant hanging out on a white-sand beach or in an Old World old town? Folks open to the idea of working from home overseas have become a sought-after commodity among
Most countries in the world require a criminal background check when you apply for residency. These can vary from a certification by your local police to a full background check from Interpol and the FBI. Several times a week we receive emails from readers wondering if there’s any way around those checks. I guess they’re […]
Preparing for the unknown… That’s the principle behind diversification. You can’t be sure that any stock pick you make will turn out to be the next Apple or Facebook… so you buy stock in different companies. You can’t be sure stocks will always go up (in fact, you can be sure they will not always […]
About 28% of all American expats living abroad live in Mexico. A big reason for this is that Mexico has one of the world’s easiest immigration programs. The process begins at the Mexican consulate in your home country. Amounts vary consulate to consulate, but qualifying for temporary residency through economic solvency requires an average minimum […]
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