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The Opportunity To Live And Invest Overseas Is Yours To Take

Where Will 2023 Take You? How About…

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
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What if you could go anywhere, do anything, and spend your time and your money any way you wanted?

As we stand today at the start of brand shiny New Year 2023, my question is not rhetorical…

For, indeed, you could go anywhere, you could do anything, and you could spend your days and invest your capital however strikes your fancy.

All you have to do is to open your mind to the possibilities and muster the confidence to take the leap.

On one hand, this international living thing is terrifying. The opportunities, discoveries, investments, and speculations I introduce to you in these dispatches can seem intimidating, especially at first.

The easy thing would be to ignore them and keep on living the way you’ve been living.

What a thing to create a whole new life for yourself in a foreign place. What a terrifying thing.

And what an adventure.

In the more than three decades that I’ve been covering this beat, I’ve spoken with many thousands of people just like you who are, in fact, already living and investing overseas. And I’ve never met one who regrets the experience.

Sure, sometimes, things don’t work out as you expect. Markets zig when you’re positioned for them to zag. Currencies go up when you’re betting they’ll move down. Real estate values increase… but they also fall, sometimes quick and sometimes far, as we long-term global property investors all know from experience.

Sometimes, paradise comes with humidity, bugs, belligerent taxi drivers, zero zoning, litter, and broken sidewalks.

You can be sure of a place or an opportunity… and then you can change your mind.

A country can seem perfect… and then you realize that no place is perfect.

What’s the worst thing that could happen if you take the leap and start down this live and invest overseas path? Maybe you end up someplace you don’t want to be?

So you move on. You make another change. You could always go back home.

However, here’s my prediction as we move into the inaugural week of 2023:

Once you embrace these ideas and begin to act on these opportunities, you’ll never look back. You’ll be launched into a new phase of your life that you’ll treasure and that will lead you to places, people, and experiences you could never imagine as you read this today.

How We Got Started On Our Overseas Adventure

Lief and I have been living outside the States for 25 years.

We met in Ireland more than two decades ago, where we both were scouting for new business ventures. I was intending a move from Baltimore, Maryland, to the Emerald Isle, with the business I was running at the time and my 8-year-old daughter.

Lief, living in Chicago, was thinking of ditching his cushy career-path CFO job Stateside and pursuing adventures abroad, starting with a real estate development project in Ireland’s Sunny Southeast.

We were engaged to be married two months after we met, married two months after that, and living together in Waterford, Ireland, by the fall.

Cityscape during the day in Waterford, Ireland
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Ireland led to Paris led to Panama…

Along the way, we have had a child (Jackson, a dual citizen, born in Ireland)…

Launched businesses in seven countries…

Renovated apartments… and houses…

Bought and sold real estate in more than two dozen markets… including some home-run deals… and some not-so-good ones that didn’t work out as we’d hoped but taught us critical lessons…

We’ve educated our children on three continents… and shipped container-loads of furniture back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean four times…

We’ve moved dogs, cats, and a pet turtle across international borders…

Organized residency visas and work permits…

Opened bank accounts… and acquired second passports…

We’ve paid taxes… hired staff… vetted attorneys, advisors, developers, and real estate brokers…

Would we go back home?

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We are home.

Not in any conventional way… but according to the strategy Lief and I conceived together some two-and-a-half decades ago and have spent the years since putting into place.

In fact, today, we are between homes… dividing our time between Panama City and Paris… while, thanks to the freedom and flexibility that comes with our new empty-nester status, venturing off to other points on the map as business and personal agendas inspire.

We’re earning lots of frequent flier miles… and, for sure, this isn’t a lifestyle that would suit everyone.

Lief and I value contrast and discovery above most everything else… so we embrace our current schedule, which has us in Panama one week, Paris the next, and then off scouting real estate investment opportunities in Brazil… Cyprus… Mexico… Montenegro… Spain… Portugal… and a particular island in the Caribbean whose name I don’t yet want to divulge, for example (all places on our priority travel list for this New Year).

Sometimes I miss my now long-ago life in the States. This time of year, especially, I’m filled with nostalgia for times with family and hometown friends.

Mostly, though, I appreciate our continuing journey. Ireland was the beginning of our adventures overseas, but so, too, have Paris and Panama been beginnings.

We don’t think in terms of endings but of stages.

Opening your mind and your heart to these living, retiring, and investing overseas ideas comes with practical, quantifiable benefits.

You could move to a new country and cut your cost of living to less than US$1,000 per month.

But please recognize that a reduced cost of living isn’t the only or even the best reason to launch a new life overseas.

Living or retired overseas, you could also reduce your overall tax burden, maybe to zero (legally and safely). You could cut your cost of health care in half or more. You could live where the weather is better, the cities safer, the neighbors more interesting, and the view from your bedroom window more pleasing.

Shift your perspective, and you realize that, despite the inescapably and seemingly unending bad news of our age, there is a world beyond the turmoil, conflict, and gloom of our pandemic era.

You Can Escape From The Doom And Gloom

Things are not, in fact, tough all over.

In some places, in fact… from Portugal to Panama, from Belize to Colombia, from the Dominican Republic to Ecuador, and from France and Italy to Mexico and Thailand, to name only a few… the living can be good, safe, healthy, cheap, rich, full, and engaging.

When we moved from the States to Waterford, Ireland, all those years ago, we never could have predicted or even imagined the turns and adventures that lie ahead. Yes, we set off with a plan… but that plan has changed in real time year by year, month by month, sometimes day by day and hour by hour over the decades since.

And, of course, not everything has gone according to plan.

But Lief and I and our children carry Ireland with us now… and Paris… and Panama…

The experiences and the memories of every stage of this ongoing global adventure are with us for the rest of our lives.

Back “home” in Ireland, in Paris, in Panama, and, yes, in the United States is our ever-evolving, ever-expanding global “family.”

In each of the places where we’ve spent time, where we’ve been at home, we have made friends that have become permanent parts of our lives. We carry them with us as we continue to move around this world.

It’s our moveable feast.

When I began reporting on these ideas three-and-a-half decades ago, they were ahead of their time. No more. You have more good reasons right now, as we move into this New Year, to launch a new life in another country than ever before.

Where will 2023 take us… take you?

I have no idea, but I can hardly wait to find out.

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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