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If you plan to start a business overseas — and most of you indicated you’ll have to generate some income to finance your overseas lifestyle — Panama is the country to look at. According to Kathleen Peddicord, publisher of the Overseas Retirement Letter, the country’s friendliness to business is why she and her
 In recent months, we’ve explored writing, photography, art, running a B&B, teaching English as a foreign language and other options for supporting yourself in your new overseas life. Some – running a B&B and teaching – require you to be in a specific place. Others – writing and photography – allow you to
Continue reading Support Yourself Overseas Using a Website or Blog  Sun, surf and white sand beaches. . . glamorous evenings. . . gourmet meals. . . what image does life as a travel writer conjure for you?
Travel writing is indeed a glamorous career, and it might be just the ticket for you to pay for your overseas life. Earlier this evening I joined Continue reading Support Yourself Overseas as a Travel Writer 
It's a Widget! A couple of weeks ago I posted a piece titled Dumb Suggestons for Finding Freelance Work Overseas. In it, I disagreed strongly with the author of an article who had suggested using Craigslist, Elance.com and Freelancer.com to come up with freelance gigs to support your overseas lifestyle. I won’t re-hash my Continue reading Are You Just Another Freelance Widget?  Earlier today my eye was caught by the headline, “Finding Freelance Work Overseas.”
“Great!” I thought. “Maybe I can pick up some tips and pointers for making my work location independent.” (I’ve posted about this before.) In a word, wrong! The author wrote: “The following are some helpful resources to get you started working freelance jobs Continue reading Dumb Suggestions for Finding Freelance Work Overseas  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?  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 Continue reading Teach English in Asia to Finance Your Life Overseas
According to a survey by Mercer, it’s not who you might think! By looking at a country’s statutory annual leave, statutory holidays and public holidays, they compiled a list of where employees get the most time off. One caveat: it’s based on what an employee working a five-day week for 10 years is
Continue reading Where in the World Do Employees Get the Most Time Off? 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 Continue reading How I’m Going to Finance My New Life Overseas  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 Continue reading Finance Your Life Overseas with a French B&B |
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