To the non-gamer, it might not be readily evident what is meant as “social” when it comes to video games. While it’s fewer and farther between these days, I still manage to somehow know several individuals in my own walk of life who are part of the non-gamer group who view video games as a waste of time and/or somehow bad for you. For the most part, almost everyone is familiar with games these days and almost every household has ...

In The Expat Guidebook as well as in the Live Like a Local guides one of the prominent topics is the importance of networking with other expats and digital nomads not simply for the sake of friendship and camaraderie, but also for the working relationships that can arise from mutual mindsets and similar goals/plans. Much as two pairs of eyes are better than one for finding solutions, there is a lot to be gained from building partnerships with other expats and ...

Medical tourism is a growing industry that is seeing more and more expats choosing to live abroad in other countries rather than in the U.S. given the fact that they can have first-class universal care for pennies in comparison to what private medicine costs back home. While the average person will pay $6,000 a year in premiums just to have health insurance – which only cover a partial percentage of your actual medical costs should you need to visit a ...

“You” are the Average American, the so-called “middle class”. You make an average of $36,000 a year before taxes ($25,000-$30,000 a year after tax, depending on your state, deductions and employed/self-employed status). You are the epitome of the “American Dream” with a $225,000 mortgage, a $30,000 car and $50,000 of school loans.

Your reality is the daily grind, the 40-hour work weeks, the mounting credit card debt, the delicate dance between paying the utility bill on time this month or the ...

For those of you who are regular readers of the blog, newsletter and Facebook pages, this is a familiar topic. For those of you who are new to the scene, this might be something you aren’t aware of simply because you’ve never been informed of just how much money you can save by living abroad in other countries. But when you start living like a local in countries around the world as an expat, the amount of money you ...