There’s a version of retirement that lives in your head. Maybe it involves a small apartment in Lisbon, or a house in the south of France, or just six months somewhere warm while the winter does its thing back home. It’s the version where living abroad in retirement stops being a someday idea and starts […]
The Dream of Living Abroad In Retirement Is Easy. The Checklist Is Not Read More »
The Part of Retirement No One Prepares You For Most retirement advice focuses on money. How much you need. How long it will last. Where you can stretch it further. All that is certainly important. Retirement simply doesn’t work if the numbers don’t line up. But very little prepares you for what comes after. What
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Enjoying a part time life overseas, dividing our time between home and somewhere warm and sunny sounds like the perfect retirement plan. And in many ways, it might be. But the more we plan for it, the more I realize it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. We’re working toward splitting our time between
The Reality of Crafting a Part Time Life Overseas Read More »
In the first post of this series, I suggested that retirement doesn’t have to be a dramatic choice between staying put and leaving forever. In the second post, I explained why my wife and I aren’t planning to move abroad full-time. Instead, we’re designing something in between. What we want is to retire part time
How to Retire Part Time Abroad Without Selling Everything Read More »
When people hear that we’re planning to retire overseas, the assumption is almost always the same: “So you’re moving abroad full-time?” It’s a fair question. For a lot of retirees, the dream is a full relocation. Sell everything, move abroad, start fresh somewhere warm and affordable. It’s a compelling story, and plenty of people live
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