Healthcare costs can destroy your early retirement plans faster than a market crash. If you’ve built a location-independent life and are using that mobility to live cheaper and better in Southeast Asia, Latin America, or southern Europe, you’ve likely already arbitraged your housing, your daily expenses, and probably your tax situation. But most nomads, flexpats, … Read more
That dentist appointment you’ve been avoiding because it costs $3,200 in Seattle? It’s $450 in Mexico City, with the same materials, better service, and a bilingual specialist trained in California. Medical tourism isn’t some sketchy underground movement anymore. It’s a legitimate, rapidly growing industry where millions of people cross borders each year to get everything … Read more
When I initially left home to travel the world, every place felt perfect. Every place felt interesting and satisfying. Likely because every place was new, and at the beginning of my journey, novelty and scintillation were the only payoffs I needed from travel. These days, nine years later, whether as a nomad working on the … Read more
with lower cost living and higher quality lives… Picture Andre. A young American man from California. At 35 years old, he knew himself well. He knew his love for wine and a delicious steak. He knew that time outside, whether walking between tall pines on hiking trails, or between ancient buildings and centuries old architecture, … Read more
Many of the cheapest cities to live in the world not only deliver low prices, but high quality of life and value as well, if you know where to look. In this report, we’ll share the best cities around the world to live on a budget of $1,000, $1,500, or $2,000 monthly while maintaining a … Read more
Looking out over the silted green lake, reflecting the lush mountains on either side, I sipped my coffee and stared miles out as my laptop sat untouched. The hills towering out of the water could easily be mistaken for fjords in Bergen, Norway, or Kotor, Montenegro, if not for the white Peace Pagoda barely visible … Read more
As I sat on the short flight from Chiang Mai, the plane landed in Kuala Lumpur while I skimmed my handwritten notes from the last two weeks. Ten days in silence in the hill country of northern Thailand, followed by a few days of grilled meats, savory curries, and satisfying Thai beer, put life in … Read more
Bali Taxes & Villa Essentials: What Nobody Tells You Until You’ve Already Signed Something I’ve sat across from enough notaries, and enough Sunday-morning panic-WhatsApp-messages-from-friends, and enough sauna and ice bath conversations of “I’m building a villa, and I just got hit with…” to know exactly how the conversation usually starts, and ends. Someone shows up … Read more
A tax-friendly, affordable, comfortable base in the heart of South America Most people dismiss Paraguay as a tax-friendly afterthought — too small, too plain to be worth the trip. In reality, it’s the cheapest genuinely livable country in Latin America. Its best neighborhoods rival Buenos Aires’ Palermo and Medellín’s El Poblado. Its tax exemption on … Read more
A tropical destination closer to home than Bali or Thailand, cheaper than Panama or Costa Rica, more welcoming than the EU or US, safer than you think, and nobody’s there yet El Salvador. A Central American country tucked along the Pacific coastline with tropical, palm tree-laden backdrops, people fly to Bali or southern Thailand for … Read more