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The Joy Of Arriving In Medellin, Colombia

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Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Feb 22, 2022
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Lief and I are counting down the days until our chance to return to Medellín, Colombia, next month.

It’s been far too long since our last visit to this city we fell in love with at first sight a dozen years ago.

When I think about Medellín, it’s the clear blue skies, warm sunshine, colorful gardens, and red-brick buildings that come to mind first.

The City Is Lush And Green…

Central square in Medellin, Colombia
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Medellín is so committed to keeping itself as green as it is that it requires developers to invest in parks and plantings along with their housing communities and apartment towers.

For me, arriving in Medellín has always felt like coming to rest after a sprint.

As a rule, Lief and I are up before dawn to check emails before dialing in for the daily round of morning video calls…

Then I hunker down to draft this dispatch before a hurried lunch…

Afternoons are focused on longer-term writing and business development projects.

Go, go, go… push, push, push…

That’s our day-to-day.

We don’t have many opportunities to decompress… but Medellín has always forced us to slow down.

We Recognized This Medellín Effect From Our First Visit

We’d taken off for our initial scouting trip to Colombia feeling typically frazzled and fatigued. Then, after we’d arrived in Medellín and were walking out from the airport, Lief looked over at me and smiled.

“I don’t really understand why,” he said, after we’d loaded into a taxi for the drive down the mountain to the city, “but I suddenly don’t feel as tired as I was feeling this morning… “

“Yes,” I said. “I know what you mean. I feel like I can breathe easier… better.

“I feel brighter… lighter, somehow.”

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Lief and I have had that reaction every time we’ve returned to this city since.

It’s the climate, I guess, and the elevation. Coming out of the airport here is like stepping into a wellness zone.

The crazy, hectic scene we’ve left behind in Panama or Paris or wherever fades in a blink.

The rolling countryside reminds us of Ireland. It’s like a patchwork quilt in shades of green.

I’ve been telling people how nice it is to spend time in Medellín for years, but the experience is hard to put into words.

When we’re in residence in our apartment in the heart of this city, we keep the windows and doors open to the breezes. We’re just blocks away from this city’s very cosmopolitan center, but the only sounds we hear are birds and crickets and our neighbors greeting each other in passing.

Next door to our apartment is a whitewashed, Spanish-colonial church that hosts mass twice a day every day except Sunday, when there are four… and at least four weddings every Saturday. It’s a picturesque church.

The view from our terrace is of the Medellín valley… expansive…

Not only in residential neighborhoods like ours, but along the highways, too, grow trees, shrubs, hedges, flowers, and plants of great variety.

Our favorite thing to do in Medellín is… nothing.

For us, that’s what Medellín is—one of the most comfortable and pleasant places we know to settle in, settle back, and simply savor the setting, the circumstance, and the company.

Sincerely,

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Kathleen Peddicord
Founding Publisher,Overseas Opportunity Letter

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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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