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Back In The States, We Couldn’t Afford This Lifestyle

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
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An Upscale Lifestyle That You Can’t Afford In The States

“We never imagined we’d be able to afford an island retreat, let alone one right on a secluded beach,” says Judy Ahern.

“For years, we’d check out the real estate when we were on vacation. We looked all over Hawaii and in other places on the water. But it was always too expensive.

“Yet here we are now on this Caribbean island nearly full-time. We’re enjoying the open-air house we had built and an incredible quality of life for a fraction what it would cost us anywhere else nearby. In the States, we couldn’t afford this lifestyle at all.”

Judy and her husband are originally from California and in their 70s today. Judy was a teacher and an actress; her husband Bill is still in the airplane-parts business.

Back in 2002, they traded in their expensive, traffic-clogged life for a quieter, more affordable one on a lush mountainous island where sand crabs meander across the roads. You may never have heard of this place…but it’s only a two-hour flight from Houston.

Judy and Bill are living on the Caribbean Honduran island of Roatan, where they have access to solid heath care…where they enjoy dinners of fresh-caught lobster with wine and dessert for less than US$30 whenever they want…where they enjoy all the comforts of life back in the “real world”…

And where, as Judy explains it, “we’ve changed the way we experience life…for the better.”

“There’s a freshness here,” Judy continues. “A quickening of the senses.

“Instead of retreating someplace to retire, we’ve reached out toward new challenges.

“I’m keeping busy as the director of a pre-school that serves underprivileged, working families. And I’m editor of our local island magazine.

“Sure, living here isn’t without its inconveniences. But it’s as if we’re looking not at the end of our lives now…but at the beginning of another life altogether.”

Leonard Holden and his wife Jenna aren’t independently wealthy. Not by a long shot. But they’re not worrying about outliving their retirement nest egg, as are so many others who are at or nearing retirement age right now. Leonard and his wife are confident they’ll have more than enough to carry them comfortably through retirement, no matter what the economy does at home.

Leonard and Jenna used to spend about US$8,000 a month living in Manhattan. At 49, when Leonard “retired,” he took with him a pension of US$1,800 a month. They could have stayed in New York. But it would have meant some serious scaling back, living on savings, or even taking another job.

Only Leonard and his wife were ready to stop working and to start living. And there was no way they could maintain the lifestyle they’d grown accustomed to on less than one-quarter of their income.

So they looked for a place where that US$1,800-a-month pension would stretch.

And they found it in a safe, welcoming, warm-weather city in Ecuador, where they’d be among the community’s wealthiest residents.

There they could afford a 5,000-square-foot house, two cars, and a care-free, even luxurious lifestyle that included a housekeeper, dinner out a few times a week, and the time and funds to travel and to explore their new corner of the world.

Leonard and Jenna are part of what is rapidly becoming a real movement among adventuresome (and pragmatic) folks. A revolution.

The New Retirement Revolution.

Our own Paul Terhorst was a front-runner of this movement. He and his wife Vicki retired 25 years ago at the ripe age of 35. Paul dumped the corporate life and took off with Vicki to discover a new one. In the two-and-a-half decades since, they’ve lived in Paris, Chiang Mai, and Buenos Aires…and they’ve traveled from Campeche to Montevideo, from the South of France to the coast of India…

They’ve lived 25 years already on their “retirement fund”…and they’re still young, healthy, and vibrant today…which means they’re looking at many, many more years of “retirement” living.

Are they worried the nest egg might run out? Nope. As Paul explained, he and Vicki have been through “a dozen financial meltdowns…and counting.”

Paul continues:

“Vicki and I are perpetual travelers. We move every now and again. We’re used to it.

“But we understand that the first move overseas is the toughest. After you settle in abroad the first time, though, you’ll move and adjust more easily. Pretty soon, moving will become a core competence. That’s your advantage over the poor guy who’s stuck back home.”

Paul and Vicki were well ahead of their time…but the world is finally catching up with them…and finally catching on.

Seeking and building a new life abroad is not only the most sensible way to approach retirement in the current global market climate…

It’s not only the best (maybe the only) way to assure yourself that your retirement funds will carry you all the way through retirement…comfortably and even in style…

It’s not only the best way to make sure you’re able to sleep at night…that you’re not kept awake at 3 a.m. by money and budget concerns…

It’s also the start of the greatest adventure of your life. The most fun you’ll ever have.

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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