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Articles on international living, moving abroad, and working overseas from Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price. Lessons on how to thrive on less money in the cheapest places to live and answers to reader questions about living abroad.
Have you excitedly announced you’re going to go travel around the world or work remotely from another country, but the response from your friends and relatives was kind of muted? Was their first reaction “Be safe!” “Be Careful!” Did they say something dumb like, “Gosh, that must be nice to be rich!”? As a backpacker, …
At least once a month I’ll get an e-mail or blog comment from a reader asking for help in estimating travel expenses for this country or that. Like “How much should I budget for three months in Thailand and Vietnam?” To me that feels like asking a psychiatrist that you’ve never met how to save …
Over the years as I’ve written about moving abroad and published the best-selling book on the subject, readers have often told me they worry about buying into global real estate markets. Some see international real estate as more risky than buying property where they live now. There are some valid fears behind that, which I’ll …
Sales of my living abroad book spiked bigtime this week. Online searches for “moving to Canada,” “moving to Mexico,” and “how to move out of the US” are off the charts. Apparently lots of people are looking to escape and join the expat world. The last time I saw this was after the angry orange …
Moving to a new country is an adventure that often comes with its own set of challenges, chief among them being culture shock. This phenomenon encompasses the range of emotional and psychological reactions people experience when immersed in a foreign culture. It typically starts with an initial honeymoon phase, during which everything about the new …