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

Expat, Missionary, Saint

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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

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What's Holding You Back?

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

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Doing Business Abroad

If your overseas move will include doing business, the World Bank has just published a list that might help you narrow your search. According to their annual Doing Business report, the countries most favorable to starting a small- to medium-sized business are:

Singapore

New Zealand
United States
Hong Kong
Denmark
United Kingdom
Ireland
Canada
Australia
Norway

Obviously, ease of starting a business is not

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