Category: International Retirement
Personal Safety Tips for International Living and Retirement Abroad
Living abroad places you in new and different cultural and social environments. While many of the differences will provide exciting experiences, some of those other differences can create risks for you. These risks are less associated with higher crime rates in a foreign country – [...]
Keeping Your Child Safe Abroad: Toy Safety and Toy Injuries
There are many things to enjoy about living abroad, but there are risks as well. When living in the United States, the law and regulatory agencies help to reduce the level of risks that we must deal with as ordinary citizens. However, when moving abroad, [...]
Green Lifestyle Abroad: Riding a Tricycad
Whenever I had to make a quick run to for some errand, I used to hop into my trusty old Ford Taurus and drive there. It didn’t matter that the sun was out and it was a nice day. It didn’t matter that it was [...]
Health Care Abroad: Understanding Health Systems Financing
When retiring abroad, it is very likely that you will be entering another country with an entirely different way of handling the financing of health systems. By health systems financing, we are talking about the way that a particular country provides funding to the health [...]
Health Care Abroad: Understanding Basic Types of Health Care Services
An essential skill for international living is to develop an understanding of international health care systems. This seems complex at times because health care exists along a very broad continuum of services and types from one country to the next. In some countries, health care [...]
Keeping Your Child Safe Abroad: Leaving Children Alone
Whether living in the United States or abroad, from time to time, parents may find it necessary to leave a child alone. The problem with latchkey children has even lead to some states enacting laws or recommendations to keep children safe under these conditions. Depending [...]
Household Management II: An Advanced Household Budget
When you make the decision to retire abroad, it is useful to develop a monthly budget and pay attention to currency exchange rates. To protect yourself even further, one can also develop an advanced long term and variable monthly budget that you can live within [...]
Household Management I: A Basic Household Budget
The basic concepts behind development of a household budget is pretty much the same between an American and an international household. However, there are some additional factors to take into consideration when you retire abroad. The specifics will vary from country to country, but an [...]
Retirement Economics III: Understanding Cost of Living
International living in retirement can be a great adventure, but it requires sound financial management. While it is very true that one can enjoy a lower cost of living in many countries, there are a few economic realities that one should be aware of to [...]
Retirement Economics II: Understanding Purchasing Power
When you make the decision to retire abroad, you will discover that management of your household budget is now being influenced by many “external budgeting factors.” One of the important external budgeting factors for international living is the purchasing power of the dollar when converted [...]
