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.
Since I live in Mexico and am the author of the best-selling book on moving abroad, I often get questions about the Mexican residency rules. The problem is, as soon as I put those current rules down in writing, they change again. The past few years were especially volatile so the changes have been frequent …
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If you’re working remotely or running a business but you aren’t made of money, where you choose to open up your laptop can have a huge impact on your monthly budget. Thankfully some of the best digital nomad destinations are places where you can really stretch your dollars or euros. In many cases, you’ll spend …
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If you’re a traveler, where are you most likely to encounter bad air? Where are the most polluted cities in the world, places where it is downright dangerous to your health? Well, there are some places in the Americas that have some bad air, but they’ve got nothing on the smoking guns of Asia, especially …
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Each year I do an updated article on the cheapest places to live in the world, something I’ve been doing for more than a decade now. It’s not that there are drastic changes from year to year, so I’m leaving last year’s version up if you want to see that rundown (linked at the end), …
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