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I made my first international move, from Baltimore, Maryland, to Waterford, Ireland, with the support of my longtime employer. He...
Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 24, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.
Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.
Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.
Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.
Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.
In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.
Her Best-Seller book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.
Her latest book is "At Home At Los Islotes," where Kathleen shares her life's adventure in Panama.
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I’ve been hosting conferences on living, retiring, and investing overseas for more than 30 years. At these events I’ve met...
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A friend who relocated his family from the United States to France about the same time we moved from the...
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In my office in Panama City, hanging on the wall opposite my desk in a place I see every time...
With its white-sand beaches, azure waters, swaying palms... Along with its low cost of living, investment opportunities, and welcoming English-speaking...
“As a new arrival in Panama City, I had a lot to figure out... and I have to admit that,...
“I’m an older single woman looking for a change. Is overseas retirement an option for me?” This is one of...
Editor's Note: This is an extract from my brand-new book, “At Home At Los Islotes”. If you missed part one...
Editor’s Note: This is an extract from my brand-new book, “At Home At Los Islotes”. If you missed part one...
It was my third machete. My first was in Santiago where I watched a man use one to shave his...
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In all my 40 years of experience covering the live and retire overseas beat, one country has stood out above...
Why were Lief and I drawn to Panama in the first place, some 26 years ago? And why have we...
After an extended stay in Paris topped off by the most enjoyable Christmas season Lief and I can remember, we...
The world is alive with opportunity. Specifically, in the context of the conversation we carry on in these dispatches, the...
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Christmas In The Emerald Isle iStock/eugene_remizov Our seven Christmases in Ireland, we could never bring ourselves to participate in one...
Back in Paris now to enjoy the holidays with our children and granddaughter... all of whom call the City of...
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I’ve made a career of scouting the globe to identify interesting places for people to spend time and money. My...
I woke up this morning, brewed a pot of Irish breakfast tea, and, as has been my custom for decades...
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