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Expats Are Flocking To Belize (Straight From The Source)

Why Is Belize The #1 Option For Expats?

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Feb 26, 2019
in Belize, In Focus: Belize, Lifestyle
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I’ve participated in Live and Invest Overseas’ annual Belize conferences for years. This year, more than any other, the common theme among attendees was clear and strong.

A couple of weeks ago, people in the room with us in Belize City were there to take back control of their lives.

Again and again, the attendees I spoke with echoed the same concern.

“I feel as though the power to direct my own destiny living in the United States has been drained away over decades,” they all told me in their own ways.

One guy I spent time with was a 69-year-old gold prospector from Alaska. He’d had it, he told me, with government in the United States. He wasn’t anti-Democrat or anti-Republican… he was anti the whole mess.

“Both parties,” he told me, “have left me feeling disenfranchised and resentful. I just don’t believe in my country anymore. I love it… but I don’t believe in it,” he said.

And then he explained that he is thinking about giving up his U.S. citizenship.

I asked him why, at his age, he would go through the formal expatriation process.

“It’s not about the taxes or the money,” he told me.

“I just want to take a stand before I die against the country I’ve loved but that has changed so much I can’t handle being part of it anymore.”

Many of the good folks with us in Belize last week were looking for a place where they could live the kind of lifestyle they remember from decades past in the United States… a life of independence and self-resilience.

Another common theme had to do with adventure.

One lady, a successful attorney just about to retire from her practice, was as excited as a child might be about the idea of heading off into the big unknown with Live and Invest Overseas. She, like many I spoke with at last week’s conference, was ready to clear her slate. She wanted nothing getting in the way of the adventure she was imagining.

“I’m selling everything,” she told me. “I’m kicking out my son. He’s in his late 20s. It’s time for him to make his own life.

“I’m giving away my cat… and I’m heading to Belize.”

Another couple, in their 50s, still working and doing quite well for themselves, told me they were in Belize for the adventure straight up. Where else could they enjoy so much like-minded company and so many outside-the-box investment ideas…

Real estate and agriculture… internet security investments and second passports… alongside so many other interesting opportunities all laid out like a buffet to pick through.

More than one attendee was looking for a bolt hole… a “quiet, secure spot” for vacation, for permanent escape, for their children…

One attendee bought a “tiny house” for his 20-something daughter to use as a studio for her online graphics business. Costing less than US$70,000, this turn-key home filled a need for both his daughter and himself. Now he feels like he has somewhere to go should he decide he’s ready to take the leap.

I seem to connect best with the attendees interested in Cayo, as that’s where I’m based.

The folks heading to Cayo are doers with hobbies and sometimes very unconventional business ideas. One spoke to me about moving to Cayo to open an alcohol distillery; another had an idea to start a free sewing school for local girls.

I met many people who’d been to other Live and Invest Overseas conferences in other locations but also a lot of newbies. These LIOS conference virgins seemed a bit blown away. Reading some online articles and following the free e-letters doesn’t really prepare you for 10-hour marathon meeting days.

I really enjoy speaking with these first-timers. I have to admit that I feel a little personally gratified seeing their recognition grow… watching as they come to appreciate the great big world that has existed right alongside their own world all along but that they’re only now discovering.

It makes me proud to be part of the Live and Invest Overseas community. For me, this is what LIOS conferences are all about.

Phil Hahn

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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 21, 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, 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 newest 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.

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