International Living

I’m not the only one who has said my travel education was much more lasting than my many years of formal education. I absorbed much more about geography, history, politics, and economics while backpacking around the world than I ever did cramming for tests. My educational travel continues to this day, every time I’m outside …

It used to be that if you wanted to pack everything in storage and go travel long-term for months or years, you needed to have lots of savings or you needed to find some kind of international job. Unless your company transferred you abroad with a fat salary and housing allowance, that job was usually …

I know that moving to Albania doesn’t top future expats’ lists very often. After visiting there for the second time recently, I’m surprised that it is still so far off the digital nomad radar. I don’t think that’s going to last much longer because the cost of living in Albania is lower than almost anywhere …

Since this is the Cheapest Destinations Blog, naturally I talk a lot about the cheapest places to travel, the cheapest places to live, and how to travel well for less money. Cost reduction is just one advantage of moving out of an expensive country and embracing the nomadic lifestyle, but it’s one you can see …

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 …