Expatriate Stories
Channel: Dr. Craig Zachlod
Date: 2013-08-23

International Living rates the world's top destinations for overseas retirees and for the fifth year in a row rated Ecuador as the top destination in 2012.  For our Global Community College, Expatriate Stories Project, Ecuador demanded that I visit there first and talk with expatriates about why they are choosing to live and retire overseas in increasingly dramatic numbers. Our current video explorations of expatriate stories and living overseas experience therefore started in Cuenca, Educador a colonial city high in the south central Ecuadorian Andes.  Next my wife Sharon and I were invited to visit old friends in the Lake Chapala area on Mexico, not far from Guadaljara, where they have retired.  We interviewed several expatriates who shared their stories, experience and advice about living as expatriates in Mexico. Each expatriate story is unique. Our project goal is to acquire a sponsor and extend this education and entertainment project to many other locations in the world.