Story by Susan Kraus 
Photography by Bill Stephens

About the writer

Susan Kraus is an award-winning travel writer and former Menninger 
Clinic staff member who believes that travel itself is a type of therapy. 

Award-winning travel writer Susan Kraus loves to 
be abroad, but urges caution in embracing the 
trend of full-time international retirement

ExPAT LifE

Reconsidering the 

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