Dream of retiring overseas? An expert offers personal finance tips to Americans contemplating retirement abroad. Read More »

The world of books by and for expats is enormous. The how-to books alone could fill a small library. Add to that first-person memoirs, plus endless numbers of novels and works of poetry using the expat life as fodder. Some books combine memoir with how-to, others reflect on expat worlds of earlier times, and some tap into the financial benefits of life abroad. Here is a sampling of books for those with wanderlust. Read More »

If you’re moving into a new home in Germany, don’t expect the welcome wagon to roll around. The onus of creating a neighborly relationship, if you want one, lies with you. The U.S. homestead culture still found in some parts of America, stemming from the days when neighbors would gather from far and wide to bring food, build barns, or just meet and greet newcomers, simply isn’t part of the German cultural fabric. Read More »

In many ways Germany, and Berlin in particular, is a children’s paradise. Then again, the country still grapples with remnants of a kinderfeindlich, or “hostile to children,” culture. An expat mother explains. Read More »

In Greek mythology, you pay the riverboat man to provide you safe passage to the underworld. In modern-day Borneo, an island of three nations, you pay the riverboat man to get you to work on time. Read More »

As Ireland’s historic constitutional referendum on same-sex marriage nears, some Irish expats across the globe are heading home to make their views known. The author, Quentin Fottrell, will fly in from New York to advocate for a ‘yes’ outcome. Read More »

An expat family’s quest to find a good youth soccer team in Belgium offered a surprising, sometimes uncomfortable, and ultimately gratifying lesson in identity and belonging — one that might resonate with other families living outside their countries of origin and trying to figure out where they fit in. Read More »

Shanghai’s schools are becoming more mixed, with foreign students attending local schools and Chinese students enrolling in international schools. Read More »

Watching your favorite shows from home when living abroad can be a real pleasure. But an expat’s desire for “Coronation Street” (ITV), “Game of Thrones” (HBO) or “Plus Belle La Vie” (France 3) can be complicated or even not quite entirely legal. The situation isn’t going to get any better for fans of “Auntie”, because, as subscribers were told earlier this week, BBC Global iPlayer shuts down on June 26. Read More »

Expat business travelers take note: While you may be accruing a bounty of valuable frequent flyer miles with your overseas travel, the time you spend in the skies may actually negate your eligibility for the deductions, exclusions and credits that U.S. expats use to offset their U.S. tax liability. Read More »