IL Magazine: Discover the Best Retirement Haven + 24 More SUBSCRIBE NOW AND SAVE 35% about subscribing to International Living Magazine My wife, Karen, and I look back at our decision to hit the road full-time as one of the best we've ever made. Instead of shelling out for a two-week vacation every year, we now get to live and work abroad every day. And we're actually saving money by doing it.
While most people would consider a car accident bad luck, Mike Sasuta describes the accident he was involved in while visiting Cancún in 1997 as the best thing that ever happened to him. He wound up staying several months to recover, and during this time he fell in love with a woman and the famed Mexican city.
The average worker today has saved $152,000 for their Golden Years...and the average retiree is spending $46,000 a year. No need to do the math. Just eyeballing the numbers tells you this won't end well...
We found a 20-year-old, $3,000 motorhome on eBay and set out on what we thought would be a temporary vagabond lifestyle. Along the way I built a website, mainly as a way to keep family and friends up to date on our escapades...
I discovered online freelancing, and since I learned that I could use the skills I already have to earn a portable income, shift work has become a thing of the past...
The thought of moving overseas (and how you’re going to pay for it) can be overwhelming at times. It can even prevent you from taking any action at all. But we’re here to help you get your dream life moving forward. No matter your skill set, no matter what you do now or did in the past, there is an option in that will align with your own skills...
When I started my blog, it was simply intended as a way for friends and family to follow our travels. It was only years later that I realized a blog can be so much more than just a journaling site. It could be a way to enhance and support our life of freedom by allowing us to share our adventures with the world, make new friends, and crucially, generate income.
When I first started my travel blog, I had no idea that travel writers often receive free trips. But in just the second year of my blog I was invited on 15, and I only had to pay for transportation to the destinations. All of these comped stays were within the region where I live, but most were in cities I had never visited before...
In this city, I have found freelance writing to be my career and through my writing and research behind my stories, I uncover a new side of Florence, and of Tuscany, almost every week. The emotions behind life here—the true realness of how life can be lived here—the focus is on family, on food, on taking time to enjoy everything. Here, all are human first, and that is where life differs from the States.
At age 54, Vickie's plan wasn't just to retire early, it was to retire somewhere her checkbook would have more clout. So, along with her partner, Claudio, she packed up her American life and in 2018 moved to rural Chile.