
Designing Your Best Expat Life – Colin In China


June 13, 2020
Like most people in life, Cinnamon was dreaming of a new place to call home. The wanderlust was so strong by the time she embraced her fourth decade of life, that she decided to move to Portugal on the fly after some personal setback. On the latest post and podcast, we talk about why she is loving the expat life in Lisbon, her portable business, what her new “home” Lisbon is like, racism, bad romance, and how a random Tinder date gave her the most profound and illuminating advice.
June 6, 2020
This week’s post was another fun one for me. I got to talk with Travis Luther about the boomer exodus to Mexico, something that has been happening for decades but has intensified greatly in recent years. Travis spent a total of twelve years doing research on this phenomenon starting with his master’s thesis. Find out the major reasons why more boomers are abandoning the U.S. for what he calls “The fun side of the wall”. Mexico that is.
May 29, 2020
May 23, 2020

When the coronavirus hit, Gilda and her husband were on a ten week trip through Asia. Like most of us, they had little concern for the tsunami of infections that was soon to engulf the world, and assumed it would be confined to China. On this podcast episode Gilda tells us how it felt traveling through Asia during the pandemic as the locals feared that foreigners were bringing the virus with them, how they made it home just in time and what lockdown is like in England.