International living and working

Each year I do an updated rundown of the cheapest places to live in the world. If you move abroad from a country like Canada, USA, UK, or Australia to any of the destinations on this list, you should be able to cut your expenses in half at the very least. In many cases your …

Which countries around the world have a super-stable exchange rate or even use dollars as currency? More than a few, including some of the world’s cheapest destinations. I’ve run this blog since 2003, so I’ve been through many currency fluctuations. Sometimes the U.S. dollar is worth a fortune for travelers going abroad, sometimes it’s worth …

  “Yes yes, that’s all good advice,” she said, “but my editor really wants to focus on what’s new in budget travel. What are people doing now to save money that they couldn’t have done a year or two ago? New social websites, apps, that sort of thing.” This was from an interview I did …

Sometimes I hear about a cheap place to live and it’s a country that’s not on my radar, one I haven’t been to yet. That’s the case with Lithuania, a Baltic country that’s in the north of Europe. It sits between Poland to the south, Latvia to the north, and Russia to the east. Laura …

On message boards when I see someone asking, “What’s the best place for American expats to live in?”, what they’re often really asking is, “Where can I move to that’s already full of people like me?” Or “Where are the expat communities?” Moving abroad can be a scary proposition for some people, especially those Americans …