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Spain

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…

Liyongo resort rendering showing lagoon-style pools, stone walls, palm trees, and shaded villa terraces

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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,…

Cyclists riding along a lush tropical road in Costa Rica surrounded by palm trees and flowering plants

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Costa Rica

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…

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…

Couple walking through the historic streets of Matera, Italy

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Plan B

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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Caribbean / Resort Investment

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…

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…

Woman sitting on a wall overlooking a coastal Moroccan town at sunset

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Real Stories

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…

Woman walking along a quiet beach in the Philippines

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Philippines

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…

Aerial view of a white-sand Zanzibar beach with turquoise water, anchored wooden boats, seaside hotels, and village buildings.

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Zanzibar

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…