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Your Plan For Retiring Overseas Can It Be Part-Time?

Keep It Simple… Dip A Toe

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Aug 11, 2019
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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, 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 bed-and-breakfast or guesthouse.

Keep it low-key and low-pressure.

Because this 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 (maybe a dramatically reduced cost of living… definitely a richer quality of life… better weather… cheaper medical care… new friends… big adventures… plus little luxuries you probably can’t afford now—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 three or even up to six 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, because, 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.

One thing that has struck me over the three decades I’ve been covering this beat has been the diversity of situations among folks interested in taking off to launch a new life in a new country…

One is looking for a place at the beach where he can spend two or three months at a time, then return home to his wife who continues to work and isn’t ready to make a move…

Another is looking to build a portfolio of second homes to which he could escape now and then but that he could also count on to generate good yields over time…

One is interested in snow-birding it in the tropics… and another wants to clean-slate it, to sell everything she owns and start over, full-time, someplace new and exciting.

Some are moving alone, single men, single women…

Some are moving with children, with business interests, with friends, with pets, with container-loads of antique furniture…

Big budgets and tiny… immediate timelines for taking the leap and 5- or 10-year plans…

Retirees, pre-retirees, entrepreneurs, and, most recently, digital nomads…

Each agenda makes sense in context. And none might make sense for you… meaning you should invent your own.

My point is that you don’t need to make any long-term, all-or-nothing plan before you set out.

Keep it simple. Take a trip.

Kathleen Peddicord

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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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