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Costa Rica

Costa Rica Retirement

Retire in Style: Discover Costa Rica’s Mid-to-High-End Living Options With its idyllic blend of tranquil beaches, lush rainforests, and vibrant biodiversity, Costa Rica is a magnet for American retirees seeking…

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Surviving the American Frontier

The savage wildness of Alaska felt ever present even before the wheels of my plane touched down in Juneau. For hundreds of miles, snowy, glaciated mountains rippled down into the…

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Lessons from the Republic of Rose Island

Ah, the 1960s. A time of peace, love, and…floating island states? That’s right, while the rest of the world was busy protesting wars and exploring space, a quirky Italian engineer…

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17 Best Places to Visit in Montenegro

In the last few years, Montenegro has begun to emerge as one of the favored destinations for the world’s expats and nomads—and for good reason, as detailed in my previous…

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Top 10 Things to Know if You’re Moving to France

As an expat living in France, I’ve spent decades helping North Americans Moving to France, guiding our clients on everything from logistics to cultural adjustments. With nearly 30 years of…

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How to (Fall in Love and) Move to Portugal

The Story Behind My Move to Portugal One morning in 2016 I woke up in Portland, Maine, and thought, “Why do I live here?” I’d recently been divorced (for the…

A young teak sapling. Photo courtesy of iStock/Kattiyaearn.

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The Precious Gift of the Visionary

One of my few gifts is an ability to predict the future. Not in a prophetic sense, but by seeing and understanding trends as they unfold. For 13 years (1986-1998)…

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Italy

Anxiety in Italy, Comfort in Croatia

On our first morning in Palermo, Savannah and I found a grassy area beside Teatro Garibaldi where we could stand in the sunlight to wake up. Birds whistled from the…

Expatsi scouting trip in Porto, Portugal. All photos courtesy of Jen Barnett and Brett Andrews.

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The New American Dream? It’s Moving Abroad

When Jen Barnett launched her expat consultancy with her husband Brett a couple years ago, she had no idea the results of the 2024 election would drive countless Americans to…

The Norwegian countryside. All photos courtesy of Marc Sethi.

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Slow Train to the Great North

Seventeen hours into my journey from Stockholm, I shuffled up to the window as the sun began to burn through the clouds. Skeletal and buried to the waist in drifts,…