Combine your creative talent with the craftsmanship and designs of another country and you could find an opening for an interior design business. In Jacó, on Costa Rica’s Central Pacific Coast, Lynn Gensemer, 56, of Chungo Interior Designs, eschews expensive imported furniture and fixtures from the U.S. in favor of working with local craftsmen to create custom designs.
It doesn’t take newcomers long to realize that Belize has a very unusual culture. It’s a land of Mayan temples, colonial mansions, jungle lodges, and seaside condos. Though the predominant language is English, your next-door neighbors might speak Spanish, Creole, French, German, or any of a dozen other languages. Belize is a country where you can dine out on Mexican food while Garifuna music plays in the background. Escape to Belize will take you step-by-step through this stable English-speaking, democracy and give you a head start in enjoying its benefits.
Nicaragua is one of the most beautiful countries in the Americas. It boasts a dramatic Pacific coastline; long, gentle Caribbean beaches; volcanoes and freshwater lakes that dot the hilly inland. Colonial cities like Granada and León offer visitors a taste of days gone by. And Managua is rapidly becoming a real First-World city with top-notch theaters, a range of international restaurants, and an emerging art scene.
Inside this Issue: A million-dollar home for $300,000 in Costa Rica… Plus: Robinson Crusoe-style retreats on seven of the world’s best islands; Successfully reinvent yourself overseas; The five best areas for expats in Montevideo, Uruguay…and much more.
This report will give you new ideas about places to visit… and live. In it you’ll discover all sorts of money-saving, time-trimming, life-enhancing secrets… You’ll find out about great-value destinations for retirement (on the beach, in mountain towns, even in cosmopolitan cities)… and new possibilities for travel from on-the-ground insiders who share secrets you cannot find with any Google search.
If you’re looking for a laidback lifestyle in a tropical paradise then Roatan, the largest of the Honduran Bay Islands, fits the bill. Just a two-hour direct flight from Houston or Miami it’s the kind of place where dressing up means wearing flip flops.
There has been a lot of hand-wringing lately over the slowdown in official Chinese GDP growth,” writes IL Finance Editor, Chris Hunter
Life moves at a much slower pace now. It’s very different from how things were three or four years ago. Today I wake up to a beautiful blue ocean view from my home on the Mexican island of Cozumel.
When you ask folks who live on an island what drew them to life on a curio of clay, they tend to respond by saying things like, “I can live simply without much interference.”
No matter how affordable the destinations we talk about are, the simple fact is: You can’t live anywhere for free…But what if you had an income that went with you?