Lee is Latin America Editor and Senior Property Correspondent for _Live and Invest Overseas_. After spending six years flying with the US Navy, he completed a successful career in the nuclear power industry. Taking advantage of a post-merger early retirement offer, he and his wife left the US in 2001 at age 49 and retired to Cuenca, Ecuador. Since that time, Lee has enjoyed and invested in properties in Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico. And beginning in 2001, he's written for several publications about living abroad, travel writing, and property investing. Lee has obtained residency in four countries, and visited as many as 17 countries per year throughout Europe and Latin America, traveling and writing about retirement and investment opportunities.