International Travel Tips: Smart Ways to Plan and Enjoy Your Trip

Hiker walking along a rugged coastal trail in Andalusia overlooking the Mediterranean Sea

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…

Woman in a sun hat walking beside an infinity pool overlooking the ocean under palm trees

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Plan B

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…

Liyongo is designed as a village within a village on Zanzibar’s north-west coast.

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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…

Aerial view of a couple lying on a pink sand beach in shallow turquoise water

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Global Mobility

The Great American Exit: Inside the Biggest Emigration Wave in Decades

Checked and current, 10 September 2026. One claim below needs a source attached to it before anyone repeats it. The claim that the US passport fell from first place in…

Aerial view of Cadaqués and its Mediterranean bay in Catalonia

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Spain

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…

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…

Couple overlooking a European village while slow traveling

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Plan B

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…