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Death in the Andamans by MM Kaye takes place over Christmas in the late 1930s. Copper Randal’s school chum Valerie has invited Copper (christened Caroline Olivia Phoebe Elizabeth) to stay with her in the tropics. Valerie’s stepfather, Sir Lionel Masson, is the Chief Commissioner of the Andaman Islands, a group of islands
Live and Invest Overseas publisher Kathleen Peddicord has named the Top 10 Retirement Havens for 2010, and the list includes some surprises.
Panama occupies the top spot, and Peddicord comments that “this country manages to become more appealing all the time.” Vietnam Her Top 10 picks include: Panama Continue reading Top 10 Retirement Havens  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 Continue reading Finance Your Life Overseas by Starting a Business According to information released today by Sen. Dick Durbin, Americans overwhelmingly want a strong public option to be part of health care reform here in the US. Eighty percent of poll respondents fully support a 50-state public option, and 65% of respondents were completely opposed to the so-called “trigger” option.
In the meantime, until Continue reading Americans Totally Want a Public Health Care Option Preparing for an overseas move is a lot more complicated than preparing to move across town, or even across the country. The cost of bringing your home furnishings and personal items with you can end up costing you tens of thousands of dollars instead of the hundreds you will pay to move within
Continue reading Preparing to Move Overseas Those of you who have followed Future Expats Forum from the get-go know that I started this blog to discuss issues that all of us who are considering living overseas must deal with. While this is not a “personal” blog in the sense that I write exclusively about me-me-me, I do share my
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Guest Post by Kathleen Peddicord, Overseas Retirement Letter
If you haven’t yet taken action toward realizing your dreams of a new life in retirement abroad, I say now, get moving. Many Overseas Retirement Letter readers have taken off for new and exotic lives in the overseas retirement havens that called their names (and we Continue reading What’s Holding You Back? At its most basic, Across the Universe (2007) is a coming-of-age love story. Young man from Liverpool, England, takes a job on a trans-Atlantic ship, then disappears into the US on arrival. Boy meets girl, they fall in love, find obstacles in their path, are temporarily separated and ultimately reunited. All set to
Continue reading Expat Films: Across the Universe Hospital in Guadalajara In Mexico, that is. That’s the headline in today’s email postcard from the Overseas Opportunity Letter. I thought I was done writing about health care, for a little while anyway. But this postcard caught my attention. Author Therese Lewis goes on to discuss in some detail the upside of Mexican health Continue reading Save Up To 50% on Health Care Costs A couple of weeks ago, I posted a poll asking the question “how important is health care in your decision to move abroad?”
Fully 75% of all respondents indicated health care was very important in their decision. Nobody selected not a consideration as a response. The other choices were evenly split, with 8% going Continue reading Health Care Poll Results |
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