EA Editorial Staff, Author at Escape Artist

A weathered wooden dock reaches into still water at dawn, a volcano on the far shore: the view that sells living in Lake Atitlán

Plan B

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…

A turquoise mountain reservoir under a bright blue sky, ringed by autumn hillsides.

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Second Citizenship

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…

Modern residential homes beside a canal in a quiet property market

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Plan B

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…

New York City skyline representing US financial and lifestyle ties

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Plan B

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…

A mature teak plantation of the kind sold under the Panama reforestation visa and similar forestry residency programs

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Investment

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…

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.…

Wallet with multiple bank cards representing international banking diversification

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Plan B

The Honest Case for Keeping Money in Three Different Countries

Most people’s banking setup is the result of inertia rather than intention. An account opened at eighteen. A second one added when the first bank’s fees became annoying. Perhaps a…

International banknotes showing currency exposure when buying property abroad

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Plan B

The Currency Risk Nobody Warns You About When Buying Property Abroad

There is a cost attached to almost every overseas property purchase that most buyers either do not know about or do not take seriously enough until it arrives. It is…

Cruise ship docked beside a Caribbean beach with palm trees

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Plan B

Inside the Caribbean Passport Market’s Most Significant Moment in Years

There was a period, not long ago, when the Caribbean citizenship by investment market operated in something close to its original form. A donation to an economic development fund, a…

Some places still let you keep your life to yourself.

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Plan B

The Countries Where You Can Still Disappear Legally

Ask most people where they could legally keep their financial life private in 2026 and they will assume the answer is nowhere. The old secrecy havens have been dismantled, the…