Background: New Year’s Eve 2009 I step off a Malaysian water taxi at Uncle Chang’s Backpacker Lodge to meet that David. A year and a half later we would be married and me and the two bags Delta airlines would allow me were headed to his pueblo muy pequeño, 30 minutes north of Barcelona. My […]
Life and Lifestyle
Expat Living in Budapest: A College Grad on Why He is Working in Hungary
Nick Levitan graduated from college in May of 2011 with a degree in philosophy. With no headhunters banging on his door he decided his options were to move back in with his parents, go to grad school or see what opportunities were available outside of US borders. He chose the latter option and has been […]
Life & Living in Ecuador as an Expat
Eleven years ago Dan Prescher and his wife, Suzan began working with internationalliving.com. With internationalliving.com they lived and worked in many countries and cities throughout Central and South America. Although they loved all the places they lived, they especially enjoyed Ecuador. When they found an apartment for $50,000 overlooking an Andean mountain peak in a […]
Parents-to-Be Living in a RV
Every month Ashleigh and Anthony’s jobs required them to move to a new small Australian mining town for work. When an influx of mining industry workers hit these small towns accommodations become scarce and prices skyrocket. Tw years ago Ashleigh and Anthony decided to beat the system and bought their own accommodations — a pop-up […]
Debt, Stuff & Job Gone: An Interview with Courtney Carver
Courtney Carver was an Ad Sales Director for a group of luxury magazines. She was in debt, she worked all the time and she was stressed out. Then, in 2006, she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and was forced to look at her life habits. She started by changing her diet and ended by quitting […]
Interview with Ryan Nicodemus of The Minimalists
At the age of 28 Ryan Nicodemus & Joshua Fields Millburn had what they always wanted — six figure jobs, oversized houses, high priced cars, closets of clothes. The only thing missing? Happiness. If ‘stuff’, they decided, was not helping them find happiness, perhaps not having ‘stuff’ was how they would find it. They decided […]