The Catch Behind a 60-Cent Tuk-Tuk Ride in Bangkok
My wife and I were walking to a temple in Bangkok, about half an hour away on foot, when a tuk tuk driver offered us a tour of all the…
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Why Kendwa Is Becoming Zanzibar’s Most Desirable Address
Kendwa has spent years being known primarily for its beach, which is understandable when the beach in question is one of the best in Zanzibar. The sand is extraordinarily soft,…
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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…
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How Travel, Visas and Digital Nomadism Are Changing in America
The United States has occupied a unique place in the global imagination. It was the world’s most visited destination for years. It feels as if most of the planet grew…
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Can You Really Live in Egypt on $1,000 a Month?
If you ask most people what they think about before moving to a new country—or even before spending a long holiday there—the cost of living is usually near the top…
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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…
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Could You Retire Five Years Earlier If You Moved to the Right Country?
There is a number that lives in the back of most people’s minds. The number in the savings account that represents the point at which work becomes optional. For most…
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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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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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