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    • Europe
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      • Portugal
      • Romania
      • Serbia
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    • Middle East
      • Turkey
    • North America
      • Canada
      • Mexico
    • South America
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Peru
    • Asia
      • Thailand
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    Canada,  What's New

    It’s Official: We’ve Given Up On Travel — For Now

    February 4, 2024 /

    If you caught our YouTube livestream or Instagram updates, you’ll know that the rumours are all true.

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  • Retire Early

    Working Overseas Could be Your Ticket to Early Retirement

    August 29, 2021 /

    Today we have a life that we could have only dreamed of. But just a decade ago, we were a regular couple living in the same city where we were born.

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  • Retire Early

    How We Can Afford to Travel Full Time (and It’s Not By Being Digital Nomads)

    July 11, 2021 /

    A few years ago we felt stuck. We were burnt out from our corporate jobs but didn’t know how to leave them.

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  • Retire Early

    Is This the Year You Can Finally Quit?

    April 25, 2021 /

    It’s the number one question that we get asked time and time again. How did we know we had saved enough?

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  • Turkey

    The Lifestyle You Want at a Fraction of the Cost in Turkey

    April 11, 2021 /

    We all fantasize about what our ideal home could look like. Maybe it includes a beautiful setting, great food and lots of interesting things to do.

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    How Expensive Is Fethiye?

    May 9, 2020
  • Real Life in Retirement

    How to Survive Your First Year of Early Retirement

    April 4, 2021 /

    You’d think that a life of retirement would be pretty easy. But it turns out that a lot can go wrong during the first year.

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    July 9, 2020
  • Croatia

    Find Out Why Croatia is the Ultimate Base for Europe

    March 28, 2021 /

    We are definitely planning to keep traveling for a few more years. But we’re also on the lookout for a country that might be a good home for us.

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    January 2, 2022

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    November 1, 2020
  • Malta

    Five Reasons to Make Malta Your Home in Early Retirement

    February 21, 2021 /

    We love being full-time travellers. However, we know a time will come when we’ll want to feel more settled.

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    August 4, 2024
  • Real Life in Retirement

    Five Things You Won’t Miss About Work Once You’ve Retired

    January 10, 2021 /

    It’s amazing to think that we’ve been retired for over a year and we still wake up happy every morning that we don’t need to go to the office.

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  • Retire Early

    In Just 7 Easy Steps, You Can Retire Early & Travel

    January 3, 2021 /

    So many people dream of quitting work forever but have no idea how to get started.

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