“Honey, we’re out of eggs. I’m going to the mercado; do you need anything?” “Yes, we need poop bags for the dog,” my wife, Rita, replied. She wanted me to pick up a pack of small plastic bags used to collect the little gifts our Corgi leaves around the neighborhood.
“I wanted to live well with less,” says Judith LaRoue of what drew her to a new life abroad. “I wanted to enjoy the life I love and believed I could do that better here in Nicaragua.”
For six months of the year, Owen Hughes spends his days wandering down to palm tree-lined Sosúa Beach, one of the most beautiful in the Dominican Republic.
Living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s historic capital, Eric Ortega can afford luxuries he never could at home. “Every day I follow a relaxed routine, starting with breakfast at one of the coffee shops near my home, where I read the local English newspaper and enjoy coffee with a muffin."
"It is like people are more authentic here,” says expat Marilyn Keller of what drew her to a small town on Ecuador’s coast. “You feel like friendship means more; people really connect with one another."
Have you ever dreamed of living in a cozy cloud forest bungalow? At night the soft rain slips off the broad banana leaves and delicate orchid flowers in your backyard.
Ever since my wife Jackie and I moved to our beautiful homestead in the tropics, we like to joke that more of our friends are jetting down from the States to see us.
The Italian lifestyle is undeniably alluring. A nation that puts emphasis on good food, human interaction, and simple pleasures is definitely doing something right. That’s what drew my husband Bryan and me in, along with gorgeous landscapes, historic sights, and the slow pace of life.
From the balcony of her two-bedroom condo in Tamarindo, Kathy Bowen enjoys a panoramic view of the palm-lined Pacific coast. “This is where I spend most of my mornings, right here, reading or doing puzzles, or just listening to music and enjoying the view.”
For Linda Pothoff, every day in Nicaragua is an adventure. You can find her horseback riding on the beach, or perhaps catching a ride on a catamaran and drinking Mai Tai cocktails all afternoon. On Tuesdays she goes to water aerobics.