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I thought they were planning to retire to Australia? Curious what changed. I've never visited yet but it's pretty high on my list of potential "retirement" destinations (ie, approx 10-15 years from now). Main dilemma is they currently don't offer any visas for true retirees, and their...

Excited to hear your update on Thailand! I've not been to HI still after all these years (except for a few hours at the HNL airport when I was a young kid), but on paper I think it's definitely a possibility for more permanent retirement years. We'll see!! haha, well it's all in the eye of...

wow I cannot believe it's been nearly 4 years since my last post and visit to this site! I've just caught up on my original thread as well as this new one. I'll update you all on our past 4 years. In April of 2021 I was awarded the Taiwan Gold Card and we were able to make our plans, finally...

gain an extra year by not renewing Just putting this info out there cause I hadn't noticed it written about anywhere... I didn't do it on purpose but I accidentally let my son's global entry expire by a couple days before I reapplied. This ended up being a new application and not a renewal...

Thanks so much for all the ideas. Really appreciate everyone sharing. I am familiar with Ottawa...but these other places definitely interest me. My "nature" travel is quite limited (city aficionado here) so for what it's worth, that entire stretch from Jasper to Banff was the most amazing...

I'll answer you: let's say $3000/month for 2 bedrooms and really anything that anyone would consider beautiful is something I like...ie, any large body of water, mountains, national parks or city skyline lol. But I'll repeat that I want to hear all suggestions that anyone considers affordable...

ME and MI are the two most intriguing summer spots for me, though ME doesn't seem to have any "affordable" towns. My roommate in grad school was from Marquette but otherwise I know nothing of these places. Will look into it a bit more thanks. Nice! My friend just spent a week in Boone, it...

What's an affordable, interesting destination for summertime visits? Imagining a place with nice weather, beauty or attractions of some kind, and affordable short-term housing options. Preferably in a walkable downtown area. Affordable is certainly a subjective term so feel free to suggest...

Don't have any insight to offer but we will be spending upcoming Feb in Mexico as well. Following!

No suggestions. What you're doing seems to be the only course of action. Sorry this sucks and I empathize. Good luck!!

It was the Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun. 5-star all-inclusive resort. Thankfully it was NOT a shootout, basically one cartel ambushing two rivals, who were killed execution style. Had it been a shoot-out there likely would have been collateral damage to innocent bystanders, like what happened in...

Miami is great in January. Love the weather. I don't have much experience with Mexico (only been to Cancun and Cozumel on cruises) but planning to spend several months in Mexico this winter/spring so I'll hopefully be able to tell you more. From Europe, Cancun and the Riviera Maya have been...

Two additional data points Wife submitted renewal - 8/20/21 Son submitted "new" application - 8/20/21 Both using priority return shipping but standard/routine processing Wife's passport received on 10/3/21 so 5-6 weeks door-to-door (I only check the mail once a week so it could have been up...

Homeless after Christmas! well we are moving out of our Miami home the week after Christmas and nomading around for ~7 months until we move to Taipei around August. So the tentative plan includes, in no particular order: -a few weeks in Puerto Rico -one week in Orlando -one month in...

I'm also curious where OP decided to go. I am pretty sure they have plenty of options, considering they sound very low-maintenance and happy with hanging out by the pool of an extended stay hotel in moderate weather. But I'll go with the public transit angle since it was mentioned. Atlanta...

Great update, thanks and congrats!

Interesting, glad you went ahead with the border run so you don't have to worry about it. One of the travel podcasters I listen to went down to CR in Jan originally intending to spend a month but have decided to stay for the full 90. They shared insight into how things are, at least in the town...

Checking in on our expats all over the world. How's it going? What's the situation like regarding the virus and the regulations? What about the vaccine? Hope everyone is doing alright!

Always gotta confirm before applying, but I believe it is 48 months since your last bonus. So not how long since you have gotten rid of the card but how long since you last applied.

Yeah, they credited back $100 for me back in March and I think it was supposed to continue for some time. I guess it's still ongoing. It is not worth the fee right now, but I'm just holding on that I'll make use of it again in the near future. Rather than cancel and then reapply in a year or...

Congrats on your journey thus far! Are these household goods really that valuable that you need to store them until your kids are ready for them? Have they expressed desire to have them? It is definitely a complication to an otherwise easy plan. Can you get PR to stay in your current location...

Light Festival in Prague stands out as one that we stumbled upon by chance but was quite awesome. Actually, same thing in Georgetown, Penang but that one wasn't as spectacular.

Congrats!

PR is an interesting case. There is some benefit for relocating your business there as well, although just like with the personal tax there are a lot of guidelines and complications in the details. But the common geo-arbitrage thought re: PR is why not just actually move overseas? PR makes...

Awesome congrats!!