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Health

What You Need to Know About Healthcare and Insurance Abroad

The Real Test of Living Abroad Everyone talks about the thrill of starting over—new streets, new language, new lease on life. We talk about property prices, tax advantages, and the…

Barcelona’s modern landmark where sea and skyline meet.

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Spain

Why Barcelona Keeps Rising on the World’s Happiness Rankings

Happiness is hard to measure, but to me, it looks like a late-spring afternoon in Barcelona. The kind where light spills golden across the tiled rooftops of a hillside neighborhood.…

Auckland’s peace begins with the landscape.

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Field Notes

Falling for Love and Life in Auckland

Auckland was recently named the world’s happiest city—and for good reason. With its strong public infrastructure, natural beauty, low crime rates, and deeply human pace of life, it offers more…

A new generation claims space through movement.

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Africa

How Ethiopia’s Girls Are Rewriting the Rules on Wheels

In the stillness of early Saturday mornings, something unexpected stirs in Addis Ababa. Beneath a soft haze of rising dust, a smooth echo breaks the silence—the rhythmic clap of skateboard…

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Wellness

The Finnish Formula

A Tale of Two When I moved from the dense hum of Kyoto to the snow-dusted stillness of Helsinki, I didn’t expect to find such peace. Finland has ranked first…

In Loma Linda California wellness begins with belief—and becomes habit.

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Blue Zone

Loma Linda, The Blueprint of a Long Life

In the hills east of Los Angeles lies a quiet anomaly in the American health landscape. Loma Linda California—a modest city of approximately 24,000 residents in San Bernardino County—is the…

Sardinian Chronicles - Life in Sardinia unfolds in stillness, season, and sun.

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Blue Zone

A Sardinian Chronicle

They say time doesn’t exist in Sardinia. Or at least, not in the way it does elsewhere—racing past you with the sound of horns, ticking clocks, and unread emails. I…

The city of spectacle, seen differently. Las Vegas becomes a new kind of destination when freedom is the goal.

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Packing List

Desert Decoded: Las Vegas Packing List

Las Vegas is a city of contradictions. On the surface, it’s a sensory assault—neon lights, endless noise, perpetual distraction. But beneath that mirage, the desert holds something rare: the space…

Not all retirements are created equal—especially when taxes are involved.

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Plan B

How to Retire Tax-Free Abroad

For decades, the formula for retirement was simple: work hard, save diligently, and ride out your golden years close to home. But for those paying attention, that model is starting…

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Blue Zone

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

To arrive in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, can be a sensorially confounding experience. It is a city of some 30 million people, with troops of skyscrapers stampeding across it, often…