If Considering Living or Retiring Overseas -- Make Montreal, Canada your First Stop This September

Date: 08/07/2006

For Immediate Release

Waterford City, Ireland, August 8, 2006 Every journey, no matter if the trek spans ten feet or ten thousand miles, requires a first step to start the excursion. Some journeys we take in our lives are short and uneventful, while others are monumental and life changing. In the case of major, challenging, and dramatic journeys – often the very first step is the most difficult, yet when viewed in our rear-view mirror, years later, can be the most exciting, pleasurable, fulfilling and rewarding.

Today in North America, there are hundreds of thousands (perhaps as many as one million) Americans and Canadians contemplating and planning the most life changing, exciting, yet nerve-racking journey they have ever considered in their lives! These brave, adventurous, and somewhat unconventional citizens are considering a move that will change their lives, alter their views and experiences, and shape their future. These individuals, couples and even entire families with children have decided that they want to live permanently in a foreign land, outside the United States or Canada – locations including Central or South America, Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand or possibly a tiny island of white sandy beaches nestled away in the sunny Southern Caribbean. This major overseas move isn’t always met with support and encouragement from friends, neighbors and relatives. Moving to any country beyond our shores, takes fortitude, insight, and a strong sense of determination.

Why would so many North American citizens consider this type of change? The answers are as varied as the people considering the move and their backgrounds. Some are looking to retire in a location that will cost 40%, 60%, and in some cases 80% less than their current city or state. Others are looking for a simpler, more relaxed way of life, the “Mayberry RFD” type of lifestyle, long missing from the U.S. Still others want to escape or flee high taxes, through-the-roof real estate costs, fewer personal freedoms, and ever-rising costs of health care, transportation and fuel, and the pressure of the daily grind in general. All of these people have one common belief or vision – that they can live better, for less, travel farther, and maybe make a lot of money when they expand their world beyond their own shores.

Most realize and firmly believe that a life outside the U.S. or Canada is the right choice for them, but need to take that first step forward. Some others are unsure about which country or region is right for them. Still others need some verification that the choices and options are real, viable, and as affordable as they have heard. Still others need help in moving from a choice of 193 countries on 7 continents to the one or two edens that make sense for them. The answer to all of these questions, and many others, is to be found in Montreal, Canada. No, Montreal is NOT the final destination for the thousands of like-minded people looking for the life they have dreamed about for many years. Montreal is actually the perfect first step in their journey – the location of the advice and guidance they need to narrow down their choices and initiate the first steps in their journey to a life abroad. As many people or more as those looking to live overseas are the numbers of North Americans who are looking to invest in property overseas – for the appreciation that often outpaces the appreciation that they can expect at home. Still others will invest in property to retire to later in life, or purchase a property to visit several times a year.

From September 6-9, International Living is hosting its hugely popular Live Overseas event at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in North America’s most European city - Montreal. International Living is urging everyone with a desire to explore a new life overseas to come with their “dream life” in mind and let our speakers show them where in the world you can make it a reality. The attendees will leave the event with our proven checklist to help them prioritize what it is they are really looking for. Beachside retreat, mountain hideaway, big-city apartment, quiet farmhouse in the rolling hills – this conference will help the attendees to define their wants and needs and will determine the countries where the attendees will find the best quality and values.

International Living is the world’s oldest and largest source of information and guidance on living, retiring, and investing overseas. The focus of this publishing, media and event company is to help and guide their readers discover places that are under-valued, under-appreciated, under-developed, places that the masses have yet to find. And then to help them understand how they can take advantage of what these places offer – to improve their quality of life, to lower their overall cost of living, and to invest for a profitable return. For the past 26 years, International Living has been helping their readership, which today numbers almost 400,000 make their dreams of starting a new life overseas come true. International Living has a staff and in-country correspondents in more than 20 countries and provides both printed and online information, plus books, tapes and kits, as well as more than thirty conferences in dozens of countries of interest to their readers.

International Living is based in Waterford, Ireland and has offices or staff in Baltimore, Maryland as well as Panama, Mexico, Nicaragua, France, Italy, Honduras, Argentina, and Ecuador. There is a very good chance that many of the attendees at the Live Overseas Conference in Montreal will be happily relocated to their dream locale overseas next year at this time. They will join the many thousands of International Living followers who now enjoy a new life in retirement paradises around the globe, stretching their retirement dollars many times farther than they thought possible.

To learn more about International Living, or to sign up for the free daily postcards that offer a daily trip to dream destinations around the globe, visit the International Living website at: www.internationalliving.com or to learn more about the upcoming Live Overseas conference in Montreal, please visit this section of our website: www.il-ireland.com/il/promos/los_montreal/press.html

For additional information about this Press Release, or about International Living, contact Brian O’Sullivan, International Living Marketing Director and Media Liaison via:

Email: bosullivan@internationalliving.com
Phone: +410-864-1650
Fax: +410-230-1259

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