If you could have any view from your window, what would you most like it to be?
Over the three-and-a-half decades I’ve been covering this beat, I’ve used that question to focus readers’ attention on what matters most when comparing and contrasting different live- and retire-overseas choices.
The view from your bedroom window each morning or your terrace every afternoon gets to the heart of the lifestyle you’ve embraced.
These days, our Live and Invest Overseas team is more far-flung than usual, each of us locked down in individual locations across countries and continents.
What’s the view from your window these days… I asked some of them.
“Here’s the action from my window in Paris’ 11th arrondissement,” Publisher Harry responded. “Normally this intersection is clogged with cars, bikes, scooters, and pedestrians,” he said…
“This is a sunset shot taken from our balcony here in Puerto Vallarta,” wrote Intrepid Correspondent Paul Terhorst…
“Here’s my view in El Poblado,” wrote friend Juan Dario Gutierrez in Medellín…
“It’s another beautiful day on the Azuero coast,” wrote April and Peg from Los Islotes…
Belize Correspondent Rachel Jensen won the award for most intriguing perspective for her photo of the view from the peephole of the front door of her home on Ambergris Caye…
“We’ve got long views of empty beaches here on this country’s northeastern coast,” wrote friends Jan and Bruno from Brazil…
“Here’s the view from my front porch at Carmelita,” wrote friend Phil Hahn from Cayo, Belize…
Phil sent a bonus photo… showing the progress on one of his Coronavirus Lockdown Projects. He’s converting an old rum barrel into a riverfront stone fire pit and smoker.
“It will be nice to have for garden-fresh veggies, chickens raised on-site, and fish from the river,” Phil says…
Finally, here’s what Lief and I see when we look out our bedroom window each morning… an 18th-century Paris façade…
If you could have any view from your window, what would you most like it to be?
Right now is the time to be making the plan to make that dream view your everyday reality…
Kathleen Peddicord
