One of my closest friends passed away at the age of 42 from breast cancer, leaving behind her husband and two young boys.
We always thought that we would move to Central or South America, mostly because those places are short flights from our families in California.
Then we read about the Algarve region of Portugal in one of our Live and Invest Overseas newsletters. It sounded perfect.
My position as a marketing director for an international education company was downsized just prior to our move.
Amazingly low cost of living has made a big difference in our ability to just up and move with just one full-time income.
He is taking classes that were never offered in the United States, and he gets a lot more individual attention because the class sizes are smaller.
Wanderlust has brought us to Australia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, and Europe, and we even spent three months driving around the United States.