Isha Sesay, Author at Escape Artist

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Plan B

Could You Retire Five Years Earlier If You Moved to the Right Country?

There is a number that lives in the back of most people’s minds. The number in the savings account that represents the point at which work becomes optional. For most…

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Zanzibar

Why Serious Investors Are Looking at Zanzibar’s North Coast

There are very few moments in any emerging market when the timing, the product, the team, and the price point all align in the same place at the same time,…

Monaco city skyline and coastline representing one of the world’s highest life expectancy countries

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Longevity

The Countries Where People Actually Live Longer, and Why It’s Not What You Think

For most of the past two decades, the story of long life has been told through a handful of postcard villages. A grandmother tending olive trees in Sardinia. A fisherman…

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Global Mobility

The Great American Exit: Inside the Biggest Emigration Wave in Decades

Read More Like This – Why Americans Are Chasing Second Passports, and Where They’re Going For generations, America has been the destination. The country built its entire identity around the…

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Spain

The Best Place to Live in Europe Nobody Talks About Enough

I spent last weekend on the Costa Brava. It was one of those trips that had no grand intention behind it, a few days away, a change of scene, the…

Christopher Nash standing on Kendwa Beach in Zanzibar at sunset.

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Zanzibar

Looking Up: How One Entrepreneur Is Reimagining Tourism in Zanzibar

British entrepreneur Christopher Nash arrived in Zanzibar in 2021 having spent a year and a half staring at a bedroom wall. Like much of the world, he had been working…

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Travel

The World’s Best Hidden Gems for Going Off Grid

There is a particular kind of Friday afternoon feeling. The week loosens its grip, the inbox starts to blur, and something older than ambition stirs underneath. A pull toward somewhere…

Historic waterfront village in Montenegro with red-roofed stone buildings and mountains behind the Bay of Kotor

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Plan B

Is Montenegro Still Europe’s Best-Kept Secret Before the EU Door Closes?

There is a pattern that repeats itself in European Plan B history with enough regularity that it deserves to be taken seriously as a planning framework rather than dismissed as…

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Portugal

Lisbon: The Relocation Capital That Refuses to Fade

Lisbon has a problem that most cities would kill for. Everyone already wants to go there. The trouble is that wanting and knowing are not the same thing. Lisbon reveals…

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Travel

Summer Is Calling: Our Top 10 Destination Picks

Summer in 2026 is arriving at a particular moment. The world is more mobile than it has ever been, flight networks have expanded substantially post-pandemic, and the appetite for going…