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3.8

Contrary to the plethora of negative reviews, I haven't had any trouble dealing with International Living Magazine and the website. When I wanted to stop the Daily Postcards that some people complain about, I simply made sure I had an account set up on their website and desinated my emailing preferences on the website and the daily postcards stopped immediately.

This is clearly a promotional magazine and I consider it a starting point for research, not a end all and be all. Since it is so cheap, frankly, you have to expect solicitation emails for other products. Hey - I've got my big boy pants on. I can deal with it.

I saw one review on here where someone actually bought property in Mexico in reliance on what IL had published about the area. I would never do that based on any single publication! Buying property in a foreign country is risky! You need to really do your research - from many sources!

I subscribed to the magazine because I wasted a lot of time looking on the web and found many websites about living overseas to be very out of date, very narrow in scope or to be targeted by a real estate company to draw you in to a particular locale or country. At least IL does not have that agenda. But it looks like a lot of people have very inflated expectations about what a $49 a year magazine should deliver! I bought one of their country guides and I was able to download it immediately, unlike some comments I saw on another review site that people claimed they never got sucn products they paid for.

I think we may just have some folks have some technical difficulties, frankly. So, in summary . . .I think I have gotten well more than my $49 worth, I have had no trouble when I ask them to unsubscribe me from some of their email lists and, yes, the magazine is a but too fluffy and glowing about all the overseas locations it talks about.

I do think the need MUCH MORE discussion about the risks of buying overseas and what you need to do to protect yourself. But it is what it is.

My sense is, it is probably put together and backed by international real estate folks that just want to promote overseas living and don't want to talk about the dark side. So to get that, you are going to have to go someplace else in your research.

Reason of review: Good customer service.

International Living Pros: Prompt handling of unsubscribe requests, Monthly magazines, Publication.

International Living Cons: Lack of coverage of risks of overseas living.

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Helen D

Thank you could you reach out to me further please hdaly@internationalliving.com

Shaniyah Tjw

I totally agree with this. It is a sales pitch, targeted towards rental and sales of real estate.

There are never negatives in the articles. Let's face it, there are negatives everywhere, so not to mention them (I've seen one writer do so, only once) is misleading.

That said, this is a glossy magazine with interesting coverage. A good introduction.

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