Who? Why? How?

We’re here to look at who decides to live overseas, why they do, and how they accomplish it. There are probably as many reasons to live outside of your native country as there are people who do so. In my case, my husband and I realized several years ago that, if we stay here, we will never be able to afford to retire. Add to this my lifelong desire to spend significant time in another country, and we began looking at the possibilities of retiring overseas. But that’s not the only reason, not by a long shot! More

It's Time to Fall in Love with Your Life Again

About 500 people are gathered in Quito, Ecuador right now for International Living’s Ultimate Event 2010. They’re learning about life in a bunch of countries where it’s possible to live well on $2,000 a month or less. Can’t be there with them? They’re offering the Ultimate Event 2010 Conference-At-Home Kit, and guaranteeing satisfaction.

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Teach English in Asia to Finance Your Life Overseas

So, you’ve decided you want to live in Asia, to travel to exotic locations, eat incredibly spicy food, and generally enjoy life in a culture that’s completely different from what you’ve grown up with. But you have to be able to afford it.

Previously, we’ve discussed teaching English as a second language as a

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Living On Bajan Time

photo by Kathy Nicholls

Guest Post by Kathy Nicholls

photo by Kathy Nicholls

Nothing is quite as wonderful as living 10 minutes from the Caribbean Sea. In 2008, I had the opportunity to relocate to Barbados, contracted by the government of Barbados to set up a school to train medical transcriptionists. The two years I lived there changed

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How I'm Going to Finance My New Life Overseas

Last September, I started a series of posts talking about how you can finance your new overseas life if you’ll need to generate income. I stated:

“In our recent poll, we discovered that most — at least 80% — of our readers will have to generate some income when they move overseas. None

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Finance Your Life Overseas with a French B&B

I’ve written previously about ways to finance your new life abroad if you’re not ready or able to retire yet. Here’s a delightful discussion of running a B&B, or gite, in France.

Guest Post by Steenie Harvey, International Living

There’s more to sunny southern France than Provence and the Cote d’Azur. One of its most

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Finance Your Life Overseas by Starting a Business

In previous posts, we looked at financing your new life overseas by teaching English as a second language, or by writing. These are a couple of very popular ways to earn money in your new country. There are many other options as well, including starting a business.

Shelter Offshore advises that you must be

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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)

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Write Your Way to a Life Overseas

In our last installment, we talked about writing as a way to finance your life abroad, specifically travel writing. There are, of course, many other different kinds of writing, and almost any of them can be done remotely once you develop the skills and, more importantly, the contacts.

How Will You Finance Your Life Overseas?

Travel writing is probably the glamourous hot-button for all of us future expats. What could be greater than earning money writing about the exotic places we’re visiting and the interesting new sights we’re seeing and activities we’re

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Do We Know You Yet?

Here’s the last installment of our Getting To Know You poll series. If you haven’t seen the previous questions, you can view them here, here and here.

Once results are in, we’ll be compiling them and posting the results. All your responses are anonymous, and we appreciate your participationg.

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