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        The only honest answer is, we have no idea. And neither does anyone else. The only one who can answer that question is you. Here’s the most important thing to understand about budgeting your new life overseas…

        Super Cheap

        • Chitré, Panama
        • Santa Marta, Colombia
        • Phuket, Thailand
        • Dumaguete, The Philippines

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        • Medellin, Colombia
        • Boquete, Panama
        • Kyrenia, Cyprus
        • Hua Hin, Thailand
        • The Algarve, Portugal

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        • Las Terrenas, The DR
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          by Kathleen Peddicord
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          This doesn’t have to be all or nothing. You could “retire overseas” and still spend part or even lots of your time back home.

          I make the point in case it hadn’t occurred to you already.

          The idea of moving to a new country, full stop, full-time, can be intimidating. Selling your current home… off-loading your car, your furniture, your lawn-care equipment… flying off to a new country where you know no one and where everyone you meet speaks another language?

          Boiled down like that, this retire overseas agenda can seem foolish, maybe even terrifying.

          So don’t sell your home. Keep your car if you like it. Lock the lawn mower in the garage. Pack a few bags and head off to someplace that’s got your attention for, say, a month or two.

          Don’t even think about buying a house or anything else. Rent small and modest. Or arrange an extended stay in a B&B or guesthouse.

          Keep things low key and low pressure.

          Planning Your Retirement Overseas Doesn’t Have To Be Like Jumping Off A Cliff

          -You can ease into the idea

          Then, if you find the place you take for a test spin disappointing in some way, you can return home (remember, your car’s waiting for you in the driveway)… and begin planning your next “retire overseas” holiday. Give someplace else a chance.

          You could continue like this for years. You’d be enjoying some of the benefits of a new life in a new country (a maybe dramatically reduced cost of living, better weather, more affordable medical care, new friends, grand adventures, plus little luxuries you probably can’t afford now—maybe full-time household help, for example), but you’d have a safety net.

          What you’ll find is that, with each retire overseas foray, your confidence will build. And your plan will evolve.

          -Next step, maybe extend the length of each retire-overseas vacation

          You could spend a few months at a time in each new place, depending on the jurisdiction’s residency restrictions, thereby avoiding the visa issue.

          You could begin renting out your place back home when you’re not using it. This income would help to subsidize the expense of your retire overseas wanderings.

          You could, eventually, invest in new digs in a place you decide you like well enough to want to return to regularly. Again, rent out this apartment or beach house when you’re elsewhere to further supplement your retirement income.

          -Maybe, eventually, you find you’re ready to sell your place back home

          As time passes, your connection there seems less and less important. More interesting are the new places you’re discovering, the new friends you’re making, the new adventures you’re having.

          Take it one step at a time and let your retire overseas plan develop organically. Just as there’s no one-size-fits-all overseas retirement haven, neither is there a retire-overseas plan that suits everyone. This idea is infinitely customizable.

          I’ve been covering this beat for more than 35 years. Over the decades and the many thousands of people I’ve spoken with personally, I’ve been struck by the diversity of situations.

          One couple might be looking for a place at the beach where they can spend two or three months at a time… then return home to spend time with grandchildren…

          While another is looking to build a portfolio of second homes where they could escape now and then but that, important to them, would generate good yields over time…

          One single lady is interested in snow-birding it in the Tropics because she’s had it with shoveling snow each winter…

          Another wants to clean-slate it, sell everything she owns right now and start over, full-time, someplace new and exciting. Total reinvention.

          Each agenda makes sense in context. And yours will be your own.

          My point is that you don’t need to determine now or even before you set out exactly what your new life overseas will look like.

          You don’t need to make a plan for retiring overseas full-time, full stop.

          Keep it simple. Take a trip.

          Until next time,
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          Kathleen Peddicord
          Founding Publisher, Overseas Opportunity Letter

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          Kathleen Peddicord has reported on opportunities for Americans to live, retire, and do business overseas for 40 years. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 24, established businesses in 7, renovated and built properties in 6, and educated her children in 5.

          Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets from the east coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland, then to Paris, France, and finally to Panama City, Panama, where she has based her Live And Invest Overseas business. Peddicord and her husband, Lief Simon, now divide their time between Panama and Paris.

          Peddicord was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. She opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Waterford, Ireland; Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France. Peddicord launched Live And Invest Overseas group in 2008 and has built it into a successful multimillion-dollar business. Today, she shares her firsthand experience of expat life with more than 500,000 readers of her publications, including Overseas Opportunity Letter and Overseas Living Letter.

          Kathleen has been featured often in The New York Times, MSNBC, AARP, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, and more and writes monthly about expat matters, international real estate, and offshore diversification for Forbes and U.S. News.

          Kathleen has written several books including the memoirs “At Home In Ireland” and “At Home At Los Islotes” and her latest title “At Home Abroad,” all published by Lahardan Books. Her best-selling "How To Retire Overseas: Everything You Need To Know To Live Well (For Less) Abroad” was published by Penguin Random House in 2018 and her “Buying Real Estate Overseas For Cash Flow (And A Better Life)” was published by Wiley in August 2020.

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                • Medellin, Colombia
                • Boquete, Panama
                • Kyrenia, Cyprus
                • Hua Hin, Thailand
                • The Algarve, Portugal

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                • Cascais, Portugal
                • Las Terrenas, The DR
                • Pisa, Italy
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