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

Selling those White Elephants

White Elephant

We recently got a whole new perspective on selling stuff in preparation for our move.

In the past, between eBay, Craigslist and other such venues, as well as the traditional garage or yard sale, you could move pretty much anything you owned in good condition.

That’s changed. With the US economy still a mess, more

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Americans, I Have Some Bad News for You

US flag, all worn out

On June 10, EFAM published an article titled America — the Grim Truth. And grim it was indeed!

“Americans, I have some bad news for you,” the article starts.

“You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin.

“If you had any idea of how people really

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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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Health Care Poll Results

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

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Health Care: Is it Driving US Citizens to Move Overseas?

I spoke with a real estate agent yesterday to see whether we have any realistic prospect of selling our house in this economy. I mentioned to her that we would be leaving the area, so of course she wanted to know our plans. “We can’t afford to retire here,” I explained, “so we’re

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Our First Poll Results

We recently ran a four-part poll to find out a little about readers’ plans for moving overseas. We asked four simple

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Getting to Know You III

OK, we’re halfway through our survey. If you missed parts I and II, you can find them here and here.

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Getting to Know You II

If you responded to yesterday’s poll question, thanks. If you haven’t and would like to, go to http://futureexpats.com/archives/688 to register your response.

Once our poll is completed, we’ll share the results with you. As always, your responses are completely anonymous.

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Tell Us About It

Tell us about your first visit to the community abroad that you now call home (or plan to shortly). Inquiring minds want to

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