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Why Moving Overseas Is Your Best Plan B In Today’s World

What Should Your Plan B Look Like?

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Oct 20, 2020
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What a world we’re living in, right?

The biggest global pandemic in 100 years… continuing terrorist threats… war… famine… mass gun violence…

And the most bizarre U.S. presidential race in anyone’s memory.

On the other hand…

What a world we live in.

White-sand beaches… crashing Pacific coasts… peaceful mountain villages… and bustling city streets…

Much of which is more affordable for Americans than it’s been in years thanks to a strong Greenback.

One of the greatest challenges of our current circumstances—as a result of ongoing restrictions keeping most of us hunkered down in one place and unable to interact with the rest of the world as we may be accustomed to doing—is keeping some perspective.

We’re all being left too long alone in our own heads. I know I’m feeling starved for other viewpoints.

So Lief and I convened a virtual chat with a handful of advisors who’ve become close friends, including our favorite legal eagle from Medellín, Colombia, Juan Darío Gutiérrez… our attorney on the ground in Lisbon, Portugal, João Figueira… and Belize property developer Phil Hahn…

We wanted to know what they’re thinking about the state of emergency our world seems to be living through.

What should we be doing, I wondered aloud when we all connected?

That is, how do we all position ourselves to survive and even thrive in the face of whatever lies ahead?

Here are highlights from the greatly appreciated conversation that ensued…

Juan Darío: I believe the starting point is securing residency somewhere else. Having the ability to exit voluntarily is mainly determined by your ability to be welcomed somewhere else, meaning residency is the first priority for any Plan B.

Also critical is the ability to transfer money. An offshore bank account and the ability to transfer funds from wherever you are to wherever you want to be… that’s the second fundamental pillar of any Plan B.

João: I agree. A second residency and I’d add citizenship are very important nowadays. With a second citizenship in Europe, you can travel and thereby diversify your time and your money throughout the region.

Phil: We’re all worried about the state of the world right now, but I think we need to flip it all on its head. The world has changed in dramatic ways in recent decades, and I think for the good. It’s easier today to take advantage of global opportunities than it’s ever been. In our world today, you are limited only by your own imagination. You don’t have to stay where you were born or where you grew up. You can be wherever you want to be. You can manage your entire life from your phone.

We enjoy tremendous flexibility today…

Lief: Yes, these are challenging but also exciting times. In 1492, Columbus discovered and created an empire that changed the world and the course of history. We’re living through change on this scale again right now, and this is presenting exciting opportunities.

I’d say that the first step to any Plan B is to pick a place you really love and then start a business there. I’ve created businesses all over the world in places where I wanted to spend time. Starting a business gives you an opportunity to meet people and to create your own reality. A business means an income, it can mean wealth, and it also translates into an interesting life.

Bottom line, for me, any Plan B should start with lifestyle. Don’t select your Plan B destination country based solely on where you think you can make the most money or pay the least in taxes. Begin this process by thinking about where you’d like to be… about what you’d like your life to look like.

Then make investments and start businesses in those places. Your goal should be multiple income streams in multiple currencies in places you look forward to visiting.

Next I asked:

“If the world spiraled out of control as the doomsayers suggest it could, where would you want to be? Where would you prefer to ride out the storm… and why?”

Juan Darío: I’ve thought about this question many times… wondering in a mystical way why I was born where I was born.

I come from a place with a difficult history. After having the opportunity to live abroad (Canada for a year, Paris for a year…) and after having traveled the world and seen how things work in so many places that are so different from my home country of Colombia, I’ve had a kind of eureka insight that has helped me to appreciate my country and to have enormous respect for Colombia.

When I was growing up, my country was a horrible place to be. Today it is transformed. Today it is legitimately one of the best places in the world to live.

So I choose Colombia. Colombia is where I’d want to be if things turned very bad on a global scale. I say this because I have a unique perspective on what the Colombian people have been able to accomplish over the past three decades.

I am where I’d want to be.

João: Like Juan Darío, I feel very fortunate because I happen to have been born in the country that for me is the best place to live. I say this after having had the chance, like Juan Darío, to travel the world and to live in other places.

I’d choose Portugal. Why?

Let’s start with the wine. That’s the first and main reason…

Seriously, Portugal is a small country that is right now generating 48% of the energy it needs through renewable methods. We have sunshine 10 months of the year. Everything grows well in Portugal. We have game for hunting and no shortage of good water.

Everything required for good living is found in Portugal… beginning, again, with the wine…

Phil: For me, community connections are critical. We are social creatures.

So I want to be in a place where I speak the local language or where enough of the locals speak my language so that I’m able to embed myself into the community.

Also important, I’d say, are a stable political environment and a rule of law that won’t impact your ability to pass on your legacy.

And I want to be in a place where I can live self-sufficiently.

For me, therefore, Belize is the answer. Here, at Carmelita, I’ve created a plan that works not only for the next 5 years but for the next 30 and 40.

In some parts of the world, it can feel like an end-of-days scenario is already beginning to play out. You need a long-term plan that both protects and provides for you and your family. I’ve got that in Belize…

Lief: I’m with Phil on that point. My ideal Plan B destination is a country that’s self-sufficient when it comes to energy, food, and water and has some manufacturing base. If every country becomes isolated, you want to be in a country that can produce all the necessities of living.

I’d also say that I want to be in a country where either everyone has a gun or no one has a gun.

I’ve got more than one Plan B in place… situations where I own property where my family and I could live self-sufficiently if we needed or wanted to… including in Panama and Belize…

Sincerely,
Kathleen Peddicord
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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