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“We wanted to live in a place where we didn’t need heat or AC, outside of the hurricane belt, with ample water, a stable democratic government, and good healthcare,” says Jim Just, 73. “If you apply those parameters to countries of the world,” says Jim, “It narrows down the list quite a bit.” Costa Rica’s Central Valley region fit the bill.
It’s our list of the world’s best places to go if you’ve got the flexibility of a laptop job and you’re ready to relax, take it easy, and start earning from a beautiful, interesting, lower-cost spot overseas. In this report, we give you our picks for the top 10 places in the world to earn a portable income. We compare them across a list of categories that includes cost of living...
Peniche on Portugal’s Silver Coast has the best waves I’ve ever seen. Huge waves. Fast, barreling waves. The kind that will whip you off your feet. Tube waves that surfers travel half-way across the world to find. Indeed, surfers are everywhere. Tall, bronzed, with chiseled good looks. Barefoot and bare-chested. But I didn’t come here to surf. For the past few days, I’ve been...
Karen and Benny Graves moved to Panama from Arizona. Benny’s main criterion for a destination outside the U.S. was to live by the beach as he was keen to get back to his childhood love of surf fishing. They both wanted to get away from scorching 120 degree days.
This is Lisbon in June and the busy summer tourist season is in full swing. That means that if you don't want to wait in a queue or put your name on a waitlist, you need to compromise. (It took me a good 30 minutes to find my Pollock jewel.) Ten years ago, an establishment like this would have been far more commonplace. But today it's the exception. A relic from Lisbon's...
Having lived on Panama’s picturesque Pacific Coast, known as the Azuero Peninsula, for a few years now, my husband Dan and I enjoy rural living at its finest. Lush hillsides tumble down to the sparkling ocean, horses and cows graze in nearby fields, and friendly neighbors are all around. For us, this is paradise. A leisurely six-hour drive from Panama City...
The early gauchos included a mix of European and indigenous people. From the Spanish, they took the horse and the guitar. From the indigenous, they took the bolas (a weighted throwing cord used to capture cattle) and the practice of drinking yerba mate. (Yerba mate is a tea-like infusion made from a local herb that is still popular today.)
CNN got it wrong…They called this place "Little America," saying that a "wave of mostly Americans" have rolled into town. But so far, I see little evidence of it. Here in Sambuca di Sicilia on the island of Sicily, the Italians are still very much in the majority. Indeed, in two days I haven't seen an American flag or heard a single American accent.
Working online is a way you can realize the cost savings of living abroad, while still keeping some money coming in. If that’s your aim, you find a lot of interesting countries to choose from. For comparison's sake, the following are five reasons to work online from Uruguay.
"It's a crazed, high-energy life in the U.S.," David Bohn says, from the comfort of his Spanish Colonial-styled living room in the Southern Zone of Costa Rica. That's not the case where David now resides. If Costa Rica is one of the world's most relaxed countries, the Southern Zone is its version of Hawaii—the calm, unspoiled region that even Costa Ricans consider...