As a subscriber to International Living, I have been watching their in-person event schedule for several years now. I haven’t attended any yet, but this year I am seriously considering the Ultimate Go Overseas Bootcamp, being held August 30 – September 1, 2025 in Portland, OR.
Just a quick drive down from the Seattle area, where I live, and the only IL in-person event of its kind held in the U.S. this year, the bootcamp draws a crowd of interested folks considering living abroad either part or full time.
As International Living describes:
This program is designed to set you up with a practical, personalized roadmap to take you from where you are now to the right place (or places) for you, whatever your priorities may be.
We’ll have on hand more experts than we’ve ever gathered under one roof before to share their recommendations and insights about places as far flung as Portugal and Mexico… Thailand and Italy… Panama and Greece…
We’re inviting more exhibitors than ever before to introduce you to resources and solutions that can smooth your path overseas. You’ll meet our own country correspondents, lots of expats already “living the life,” plus experts in real estate, health insurance, retirement planning, investing outside the dollar, taxes, and more.
In fact, we’ll have a full real estate “track” you can follow if you’re particularly interested in the ways and places you can invest for potential income and profit overseas today—from the Dominican Republic to Spain, Costa Rica, Mexico, and well beyond.
We’re making space for more members like you to attend than ever before—which ensures you’re in lively, thoughtful, like-minded company—and that makes for great networking (and new friends).
Our experts will discuss the techniques and solutions available to you overseas to help you—
- diversify your portfolio,
- save on your taxes,
- better protect your privacy,
- live better for less day-to-day,
- and give you increased flexibility in the way you travel, invest, and retire.
We’ll talk about second passports, foreign residence, investment opportunities you can’t access from the States, using your 401K to invest in overseas real estate, estate planning with foreign real estate, funding your life overseas, and more.
We’ll have our real estate experts on hand—including Ronan McMahon of Real Estate Trend Alert—and we’ll focus on where you’ll find the best deals today, the smartest ways to buy, the trends to watch and the opportunities they’re creating, and more.
And, of course, we’ll have our team of country experts in the house to share their insights about the countries they now call home—Portugal, Costa Rica, Belize, Malta, Panama, Italy, Spain, France, Ecuador, Greece, Uruguay, Mexico, Malaysia, Thailand, and beyond…
We’re structuring this program to include lots of roundtable discussions and in-depth workshops. So there will be plenty of time for back-and-forth with the experts and lots of opportunities for you to get your questions answered.
So let me know your thoughts – should I attend? I’d love to see some of you there!
