Escape Artist - International Strategies For The Globally Minded

I’ve called this piece Georgia in the warm heart of the Caucasus for a very good reason: the Georgians are basically warm, friendly people, and for much of the year, Georgia is a warm…
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Overseas with a Toddler: Traveling in Italy My husband and I and our two-year-old daughter spent July traveling in Italy. We wanted maximum enjoyment with minimum hassles, so we began…
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Please make sure you've read Part 1: A New Life in Kabul: Living in Afghanistan Probably the biggest misconception of Afghanistan is that it is a nation of fundamentalists, angry at…
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It’s just past midnight on a Thursday evening, and the party is going strong. A generator pumps artificial light into the green-walled restaurant, where about 50 people sit smoking and…
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Tired of the rat-race that America has become? Then try something different, there is a place where things move at a slow pace, where women are feminine and lady-like, and the cost of…
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Some might say that Fashion is king in Colombia but perhaps it would be better said that Colombia is the reigning Fashion Queen in Latin America and Colombiatex is one of the two…
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Living and Working in Fiji Suva, The Capital Bula! (hello).  Living in Fiji can be just about what you make it.  It can be cheap or expensive depending on the lifestyle you chose to…
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What kind of job do you have?  I teach English at Chiang Mai University, known in northern Thailand as maw-chaw. (Maw-chaw is the initials for the university in Thai.) I got the job…
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When people see Ireland’s rugged, spectacular west coast, they are often so overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of it all that they sell their homes and move, sure that their life is going…
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My trusty American Heritage Dictionary says that an "intricacy" is something having many complexly arranged elements, elaborate, and even solvable or comprehensible, but with…
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So, you’ve decided to move to “paradise”...but how are you going to survive financially? As Cecil Lewis says in The Trumpet is Mine, the whole point of living in paradise is to enjoy a…
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Living in the Azores Deirdre and I both work via the Internet, so we decided to spend some years moving around the world and experiencing new places and cultures, a few months in each.…
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Moving Finding a house to rent can be difficult, simply because there are still relatively few modern houses here, and many of these are already rented by expats on long-term leases.…
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Infrastructure While the Indian economy is booming, the government continues to control most essential infrastructure, and provide slow, incomplete service. Many roads are rough and…
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For the last four years, my husband and I have been traveling the world looking for a place to call home. We have considered, visited, and lived for a few months each in various parts…
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What do most people from the USA think about when they hear the word, Vietnam? Do you think war? News clips from the 1970's? A time when things really spun out of control? What most…
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If you are a developer, really understand and know construction, are fluent in Spanish (or have a trusted colleague who is), and have working capital, there is a fortune to be made in…
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I’ve been living in South America; near Santiago, Chile off and on for almost three years. Usually, I spend six months in the U.S. and six months here. Santiago, Chile is a city with…
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If you have obtained my ebook on living in Chile then much of this article will be rehash, if not, then you are in for a treat as I will outline the best way to find an apartment in…
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While the majority of articles on Escape Artist are written from the American perspective, I thought I would write a few words for the readers of Escape Artist from the perspective of…
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