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 your 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.I reached out this week to some of our key correspondents to ask:“What‘s the view from your window these days?”“Here’s the action from my balcony in Paris‘ 7th arrondissement,” our senior editor in Europe Kat Kalashian responded. “Invalides is on my doorstep…”
“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,” replied friend Juan Dario Gutierrez in Medellín…
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,” responded our man on the ground in Cayo, Belize, Phil Hahn…
Phil sent a bonus photo… showing progress on one of his current pet 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 when we’re at home in Panama City…
And here’s the sunset view from our bedroom balcony out here at Los Islotes, where we’ve been hanging out hats lately…
If you could have any view from your window, what would you most like it to be?Answer that question… and you’re on your way to your new life overseas.
Sincerely,
Kathleen Peddicord
Founding Publisher, Overseas Opportunity Letter
