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,…
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Field Notes
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Essays and articles from EA’s network of world travelers
What Nobody Tells You About Healthcare in Costa Rica
When I first started planning my move to Costa Rica, healthcare was one of those topics I kept pushing aside. Not because I thought it didn’t matter, but because it…
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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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The Midlife Escape Plan: When Work Finally Sets You Free
Thanks to the internet, digital nomadism has been pigeonholed into a ‘trendy and youthful’ stereotype where young, carefree twentysomething ‘crypto bros’ and ‘girl bosses’ glamorously globetrot from one trendy coworking…
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A Caribbean Resort Comes to Market
After years of hard work, building a successful career, and taking care of everyone else around you, you’ve finally decided it’s high time to do something for yourself. Something that…
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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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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…
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Beyond Paradise: The Reality Overseas Veterans Experience Living in the Philippines
Added 10 September 2026. This piece is about the reality veterans meet in the Philippines and contains no figures at all. Here is the financial reality, which is a large…
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Zanzibar as the New Ritual Escape
The first thing you notice about Zanzibar is the light. Not the harsh, blinding kind that flattens a landscape, but something softer and more cinematic. In the early mornings, it…
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From Nomads to Pensionados: Why We Chose Panama As Our New Home
I like to say that my husband and I are “experienced travelers,” though “seniors with itchy feet” might be more accurate. Travel has always been woven into our lives. He…
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