Jan. 10, 2010
Panama City, Panama
PLUS: Sand-Fringed, English-Speaking, And Seriously Tax-Advantaged...New Year's On The Amazon...How To Filter The Best Real Estate Investing Opportunities Of 2010...
AND: 2010 Predictions--India Down, China Up, And Much, Much More...
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Dear
Overseas Opportunity Letter Reader,
Key staff convened in the offices of our headquarters here in Panama City Friday afternoon to plan for the year ahead. Where will we focus our resources?
Here in Panama, the
Veraguas Province has our full attention...and, increasingly, the enthusiastic attention of other investors, expats, and adventurers, as well. This western sunset-facing coast of the Azuero Peninsula is dramatically more developed than when we first identified it as this country's Next Big Thing about four years ago, but we predict that the rate of development will accelerate in 2010. This is your last chance to get in early. We'll continue to show you where, specifically, and how.
Looking north from our vantage point here in the Hub of the Americas, we're most interested in current and emerging opportunities in
Belize. We've been long sold on this English-speaking country with both a Caribbean coast and a pristine rain forest interior. Plus, right now, in the current global climate, Belize's residency, tax, and banking advantages are more appealing than ever. Furthermore, friends are launching interesting new Belizean ventures. For all these reasons, we're re-focused our attention here and are planning a Live & Invest in Belize Conference for early June. A house scout will visit the country next month to finalize the details.
I'm hoping to slip away first quarter 2010 for a few days on the Pacific coast of
Mexico, where a particular development on the Riviera Nayarit has my attention.
Looking south, our radar picks up
Colombia. Lief and I will visit in February.
Farther south, we're most sold on
Chile. A key correspondent will report in March.
Waaay down south, we remain sold on
Argentina, not for any particular current reason, but because, in our experience, life in this country is lively and unpredictable. I defy you to be bored in Buenos Aires. This part of the world has grown more expensive, but, remember, cost of living is relative. A British reader living in San Rafael wrote recently to point out that, compared with the cost of living in the UK, that in Argentina remains a screaming bargain.
Lief and I intend to spend the month of July in
France, first, because, given a choice, we'd rather spend time in France than anyplace else on the planet...and, second, because we want to verify for ourselves just how affordable France beyond Paris can be right now. Not that we doubt our correspondents' field reports. Rather, cost of living research provides a great rationalization for doing a thing we very much want to do anyway (spend a month in France).
Lief and his new Director of Real Estate Research Harry Kalashian are off as soon as their schedules allow to the other side of the world for some extended scouting in the
Philippines and
Malaysia (two places in this part of the world where foreigners can own real estate).
Lief also sees opportunity in
Australia and would like to add this to his travel schedule for 2010. On our joint travel wish list for this New Year are the
Dominican Republic and
Croatia (for business) and
Paraguay,
Bolivia, and
Mongolia (for fun).
Kathleen Peddicord
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P.S. What else this week?
- "Initially, I was attracted to Belize by its natural beauty and environment, including the opportunity it offers for scuba diving and water sports," writes Correspondent from that country Ann Kuffner.
"Thinking back to when this country first got my attention, I realize that, then, I wasn't in a hurry. I had a lucrative career. I wasn't thinking of making an international move. Instead, my husband and I invested in a vacation home on the island of Ambergris Caye. For eight years, we traveled to Belize yearly, to relax and to scuba dive.
"I wanted to be sure before committing to something as dramatic as a move to another country. When I did think about the idea, I mainly considered living in Belize part-time.
"But then came 2008, and everything changed. My best friend and co-worker, a 50-year-old senior VP, lost her 'secure' management job. Would I be next? I knew the time had come for me to get serious about making a move, even a full-time one. As more financial and political landmines exploded around me every day, I began to plan my
escape.
"In the end, I chose Belize because it provided me with a safe haven in this difficult time. And moving here allowed me to retire eight years earlier than if I had remained in the States.
"Through Belize's QRP program, I obtained my residency in less than four months. That part was easy. The difficult part was making the decision to make the move in the first place..."
- "Traveling the Amazon is like walking along an endlessly unfurling brown water carpet with a thin green border on each side. Nothing changes. The brown water stretches on impassively, whether in blazing sun or driving rain; the green forest slips by each side, mysterious and impenetrable.
"Such travel induces a strange hypnotic sense of boredom and ennui, noted by writers like Conrad in "The Heart of Darkness" and Graham Greene in "A Burnt Out Case," when they describe their river trips through the jungles of the African Congo.
"But the Amazon forest is also the guardian of innumerable legends..."
- "Falling markets over the past 18-plus months have created crisis buy opportunities," writes resident global real estate investing expert Lief Simon, "for personal use and for investment. New Year 2010 is a year for action. I'll present specific opportunities starting next week.
"Meantime...invest in a piece of real estate in another country? How do you get started?..."
- Retirement Planning Guru and Intrepid Correspondent Paul Terhorst shares his sage retire overseas advice every month in the virtual pages of our Overseas Retirement Letter. For his January issue contribution, Paul takes out his crystal ball. What's ahead this New Year 2010 for those of us looking to spend our time and our money overseas?
Paul says...
PLUS: Now that we're into the New Year, let's regroup.
Where should you focus your live and retire overseas search in 2010?
Here's where you want to be looking. Yes, if a country is not included on this list, there's a reason.
If it's not here, it's not one of your Top 10 choices...