Pros and Cons of Living in Portugal: An Honest Guide for Americans
Portugal has been near the top of American moving lists for years. The numbers show it. The country had 19,258 US residents in 2024, up about 36% in a single…
Share
Europe
267 posts
Everything you need to know to relocate to Europe.
What Growing Up in Nicaragua Taught Me About Healthcare in America
The differences between the healthcare system in Nicaragua and the US are stark. In the thirteen years I spent growing up in Managua, Nicaragua, I received all my care locally.…
Share
The Spanish Retirement Visa Asks for Income, Not Savings
I have filed more than a thousand Spanish residence applications a year, and almost all of them are for Americans, Britons, Canadians and Australians. That volume is not a boast.…
Share
Too Hot to Handle: Why Europe Ran North This Summer
This summer, as heatwaves made traditional European holidays increasingly unbearable, a new generation of travelers discovered that rain, clouds and low temperatures could be exactly what they wanted. Repeated heatwaves…
Share
Why More People Looking at Spain Are Beginning to Look Beyond the Cities
There is a familiar pattern in the way people talk about relocating to Spain. The conversation usually begins with cities. Barcelona enters first, as it so often does, carrying its…
Share
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…
Share
How Savvy Travelers Are Hacking Europe’s 90-Day Rule
Checked and current, 10 September 2026. The rule itself is stated correctly. Ninety days inside the Schengen area in any rolling 180-day period, across 29 member states. Both figures are…
Share
Trading Morocco for the UK to Be a Mom
On December 31st 2025, I was the most content I’d ever been. I’d spent many New Year’s Eves alone, ruminating over a glass of wine about the year ahead, as…
Share
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…
Share
Why Athens Is Having Its Most Compelling Moment in Decades
There is a city that has spent most of the past decade being underestimated. Defined, in the international imagination, by the worst years of its recent history rather than by…
Share