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A yellow tram 28 on a cobbled street in Lisbon, Portugal, a popular place to start the clock on citizenship by residence.
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  • Plan B

How to Turn One Year Abroad Into a Lifetime of Options

Most people who spend a year abroad come home with photographs and little else. They treat the year as an interval, a pause between chapters of their real life, and…
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Colorful houses and old wooden sailing boats on Nyhavn in Copenhagen, Denmark, one of the best countries to raise a family
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The Best Places to Raise a Family Overseas

Moving abroad as a single person is a question of lifestyle. Moving abroad as a family is a question of everything, because the decision now has to answer to the…
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A blue crater lake among green hills on São Miguel in the Azores, one of the best islands for expats in Europe.
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Could You Really Live on an Island? These Destinations Make It Possible

Every great expat island was once a secret. Bali, Tenerife, Phuket, and the rest were all, at some point, places a handful of people had found and the rest of…
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The old tuna fishery and sea stacks at Scopello, Sicily. Italy is one of the countries that pay you to move, through one-euro homes and village grants.
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The Countries Paying You to Move There in 2026

It sounds like the setup to a scam. Move to this village, and we will hand you tens of thousands of euros. Buy this house for a single euro. And…
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A weathered wooden dock reaches into still water at dawn, a volcano on the far shore: the view that sells living in Lake Atitlán
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The Beautiful Latin American Haven That Still Feels Like a Discovery

There is a lake in the western highlands of Guatemala that the writer Aldous Huxley once called the most beautiful in the world, and almost a century later the description…
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A turquoise mountain reservoir under a bright blue sky, ringed by autumn hillsides.
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Why Some of the Best Second Residencies Are in Countries You Would Never Retire To

Here is a question that quietly separates the people who understand second residencies from the people who are still shopping for a holiday. If someone offered you legal residency in…
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Modern residential homes beside a canal in a quiet property market
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The Property Markets That Are Still Early and Why the Window Is Closing

The pattern has repeated itself across enough European markets over the past twenty years that it now has a recognisable shape. A country sits at the edge of the EU’s…
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New York City skyline representing US financial and lifestyle ties
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What Renouncing Your Citizenship Actually Costs and Why Most People Who Understand It Choose a Different Path

Renunciation of US citizenship is the subject of more online discussion and less precise information than almost any other topic in the Plan B conversation. It is simultaneously overhyped as…
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A mature teak plantation of the kind sold under the Panama reforestation visa and similar forestry residency programs
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Can a Grove of Trees Secure a Plan-B Second Residency?

There’s a particular kind of investor who has stopped asking “where should I put my money” and started asking “where should I be allowed to live.” For that person, a…
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Turquoise bay with tour boats surrounded by limestone karst formations in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
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  • Plan B

The Places People Are Actually Moving to in 2026, Not the Ones the Lists Keep Recommending

Every January brings a fresh crop of relocation lists, and every year they recommend more or less the same handful of places. Portugal for the lifestyle. Spain for the sunshine.…
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