How To Retire Overseas

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Dear Overseas Opportunity Letter Reader,

Take out a piece of paper and a pen and write down everything that's important to you in the context of an overseas retirement haven. Consider all aspects of your life, big and small:

• The cost of living. How much money do you have to live on monthly?...
• The weather. What do you like? Year-round sunshine? Four seasons? Low humidity? Minimal rainfall?...
• The infrastructure...how important to you are reliable Internet and cable TV?...
• English-speaking doctors...
• First World hospital within a half-hour's drive...
• International-standard schools...high schools that prepare students for the International Baccalaureate (IB)...
• Surfing...boating...fishing...diving...international-standard golf courses...
• Educated and English-speaking labor pool...
• International banks...ATM's on the corner...
• Aunt Jemima, Betty Crocker, and other name brands you know on the grocery store shelves...and at what cost...
• The view from your bedroom window...the sounds outside at night...
• Fellow English-speakers (maybe you want to be among them...maybe you don't)...
• Available distractions...restaurants, theater, first-run movies, shopping malls, bridge clubs, tennis teams...
• Accessibilty...how far to the nearest international airport...
• Restrictions on foreign-ownership of property...
• Taxes--sales tax, property tax, transfer tax, income tax, rental income tax, capital gains tax, import tax for your personal and household goods...where does your income come from and what taxes, therefore, would you be liable for?...
• Public transportation and how you get around...do you need a car? Can you walk to the newsstand each morning?...
• Crime (we consider all the places we recommend to you to be safe)...
• Stability of the government (we're a-political as a rule but recognize that, sometimes, hard as we try to co-exist peacefully alongside whoever happens to sit in the power chair, politics affects us as we move around and can't be ignored entirely)...
• Rate of exchange between the local currency and your own...
• Rate of local inflation...
• Cost of an airplane ticket back home...
• How quick you could get back home if you needed to...
• Availability and cost of household help, nannies, caretakers, drivers...
• Ease of forming a company...opening a bank account...
• Requirements for obtaining foreign residency...visa hurdles...opportunities for eventually obtaining second citizenship...

That's how you begin. You make a list.

More tomorrow,

Kathleen Peddicord

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P.S. What else this week?

• Lief and I worry sometimes about the life Jackson is living. Born in Ireland, he's since lived (and gone to school) in Paris...and now Panama City. He's an American by birth, but Irish, too, with the second passport to prove it, yet he's neither American nor Irish.
  
  Jackson is a little guy without a country but embracing the world. And, at the French school in Panama City, he's found 149 other little guys and girls just like him who, one evening last week in a centuries-old French-colonial theater, filled the tropical night with song...

• "Panama is one of the best places in the world to think about starting a business as we approach New Year 2010," writes the best offshore and tax attorney I've ever worked with, Chris Rusch.
  
  "I have the following basic requirements when considering a jurisdiction as a business haven. If it doesn't offer these benefits, you're spinning your wheels trying to operate a business in the place. Panama boasts every one of these advantages..."

• "A longtime friend, a Canadian attorney, lives in San Salvador," writes Central America Correspondent Michael Paladin, "where he's buying a 1,000-square-foot two-bedroom condominium in a newer project for US$80,000. He's making a 10% down payment and arranging a 15-year mortgage. In addition, he's recently purchased a beachfront lot of a quarter-acre for US$40,000..."

• "This report may seem a bit lop-sided," writes Central America Correspondent Michael Paladin, "but that's how I feel about the place. We all recognize that there's no one-size-fits-all retirement pick, but I have to say that the only drawback to this one for me is the size of the country. I like to take frequent day and overnight jaunts. El Salvador offers only limited opportunities for exploration, and it doesn't have the extensive Mayan ruins that I so enjoy living here in Guatemala.
  
  "On the other hand, if I were a city person, I'd pick San Salvador without a second thought. Coming from San Francisco, I find it a perfect fit..."