 If you paint fine paintings, sculpt, write poetry or novels or compose music, you’ve probably already considered financing your new overseas life by selling your creative products. And the process probably isn’t very different from doing it in your home country.
As a side benefit,the move will probably stir your creative juices and give Continue reading Earn a Living In Your New Country as an Artisan 
Panama is one of the countries my husband and I are considering, so I was very interested to see a recent post in Live and Invest Overseas detailing costs of renting in three Panama locations. Panama City, specifically the El Cangrejo neighborhood. It’s necessary to be neighborhood-specific because, as in any other big city, Continue reading Cost of Renting in Panama  Photography falls somewhere squarely in the middle between an art and a craft, but either way it could help you earn your living in your new international location.
For most of us, “photography” means grabbing the point-and-shoot and clicking away at kids, pets, grandkids and special events. That’s not what I’m talking about. Frankly, Continue reading Live to Photograph? Or Photograph to Live?  On March 21, the House passed the health care overhaul bill and on March 23, President Obama signed it into law. Nobody really knows how it’s going to impact expats, but preliminary indications are that, unless you earn more than the FEIE (foreign earned income exclusion) annually in US income, it won’t effect
Continue reading How Will the New US Health Care Law Affect Expats?  Last fall I wrote about lightening your load in preparation for moving overseas. I discussed various ways of getting rid of excess stuff — garage sales, online sales and the like. You can read the entire post here.
I inventoried the items that I want to take with me when we move, then created Continue reading The Black Hole that is EBay Today  Last August, I ran a poll and discovered that 75% of you will need to generate income overseas. We’ve looked at a few options – teaching English, writing, starting a business. One thing we haven’t discussed is investing.
Nor will we. The Founding Fathers stated that a political system depends upon the consent of the Continue reading Why We Don’t Talk About Investment Here  March 17 is celebrated throughout the United States and Ireland as St. Patrick’s Day. On St. Paddy’s Day, as it is familiarly known, we wear green, eschew orange and drink gallons of green beer. (Yuck!) We hold parades, dye entire rivers green, and generally behave in a very un-saintly fashion.
St. Patrick: A Brief Continue reading Expat, Missionary, Saint 
Kate & LeopoldStarring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman Leopold, Duke of Albany, is spending 1867 in New York City, sent there by his family in disgrace because he is 30 and not yet married. While watching a speech by the designer of the Brooklyn Bridge, Leopold sees someone behaving oddly in the crowd. Later that Continue reading From New York to New York  It’s hard to believe, but I uploaded the first post to Future Expats Forum on March 11, 2009. In this past year, I’ve posted:
108 total posts, plus a few pages Continue reading Happy Birthday To Us!  A couple of days ago, Limbaugh, self-proclaimed leader of the far right, told an on-air caller he will leave the country if health reform passes. Read the article
Limbaugh said he would go to Costa Rica. The only problem with that plan? Costa Rica has universal health care. According to International Living: “Costa Rica has universal Continue reading Rush Limbaugh Threatens to Leave the USA Over Health Care Reform |
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