This question comes up constantly. And most of the answers you’ll find online are either vague reassurances from travel bloggers who spent a week there, or outdated warnings based on Albania’s reputation from thirty years ago. Neither is useful. Here’s…
I started thinking about moving to another country maybe five years ago. It wasn’t a plan. It was just a thought my friend and I kept coming back to, usually triggered by whatever was in the headlines that week. We’d…
Portugal gets all the press. It has the name recognition, the established expat community, the golden visa history, and a decade of travel media calling it the best place in Europe to retire. Albania gets a raised eyebrow. So let’s…
CA$2,000 a month. That’s roughly what a modest Canadian pension, CPP, or remote income might look like. In Canada it barely covers rent. In Albania it covers a life. Here’s exactly what that money buys. Rent: CA$550 to CA$800 A…
Every article about retiring abroad sends you to the same three or four places. Portugal. Mexico. Panama. Costa Rica. They’re not wrong exactly, those are fine countries, but they’ve also been found. Portugal’s rental prices have climbed sharply over the…
Most people who move abroad after 50 don’t fail because they picked the wrong country. They fail because they didn’t know what they didn’t know. A visa gets delayed because a document was missing. A bank account gets frozen because…
Keeping your phone working when you move to Albania is not optional. You need it for banking, apartment hunting, emergencies, and staying in touch with people back home. Here’s how to make it work without breaking the bank. Your Canadian…
If you’re planning a move to Albania or anywhere else abroad, health insurance is not optional. It’s required for the Albanian residency permit, and frankly it’s just common sense. The question most Canadians ask once they’ve accepted that is: which…
Albania runs on cash. Not mostly cash, not cash preferred but only cash. If you’re coming from Canada where you tap your card for a coffee, this will take some adjustment. Here’s what actually happens when you’re living there, not…
Every time I ran the numbers on where I could actually afford to live the rest of my life, Albania came back at the top of the list. Not because I went looking for it specifically. Because I went looking…