04 September 2012
Does your talent lie in travel or in living abroad? Though some people are good at both and others not cut out for either, the skill sets involved are surprisingly different. Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert writes about the distinction.
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11 July 2012
Why would you want to get on a plane to get your health care? To save money, of course. People come to Costa Rica for dental work, cosmetic surgery, hysterectomies, and joint replacement, to name just a few of the more common procedures. One of the most sought-after cosmetic procedures (in Costa Rica and elsewhere) [...]
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10 July 2012
A global survey conducted by Gallup between 2008 and 2010 (which interviewed adults from 146 countries housing more than 93% of the world’s population) has revealed that 630 million people from around the world would love to move abroad if they had the chance. That’s quite some statistic!
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12 May 2012
Why lug your old life with you to a new country, especially when you have to pay so dearly for the privilege?
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27 January 2012
In The Geography of Bliss, NPR foreign correspondent Eric Weiner travels the world to find happiness. Is that so different from what the rest of us are doing? Well, yes and no. Wiener makes a science of it. He goes about it with more deliberation than most of us wanderers. Before he takes on the [...]
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20 January 2012
Israel actually pays Jews to move there, roughly $4500 over the first 7 months, free health insurance until you get a job, and 5 months of Hebrew classes, just to name a few of the benefits. It seems, by the facts, that this should be a relatively easy decision. But it's not.
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25 October 2011
One of the pleasures of living abroad is starting to see world history and events from another–often radically different–angle. You can start to make that shift pretty much anywhere–reading the local newspaper at your favorite expat cafe, exploring a crumbling castle, or talking politics with the guy who repairs your car with tin foil and [...]
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01 November 2010
"The first thing you have to understand about moving to Panama," says Miriam Butterman, author of Living Abroad in Panama, "is that you are not so much moving to the 'sticks' as you think you are."
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26 August 2010
Critic Grace Lichtenstein said the only thing wrong with the travel memoir Eat, Pray, Love was that it was too much like a Jennifer Aniston movie. Turns out it's actually a Julia Roberts movie, which opened August 13. At least viewers get to hear how Spaniard Javier Bardem pulls off a Brazilian accent.
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14 June 2010
The Institute of Cellular Medicine (ICM) in San Jose, Costa Rica, which opened in 2006 and has treated hundreds of people, recently shut down its clinic. Stem cell treatments, which introduce new cells into damaged tissue in order to treat a disease or injury, have both been hailed as the new wave in medicine and [...]
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