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Day-To-Day Life In Medellin, Colombia

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Jul 20, 2012
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Hanging Around Medellin

“I turned left from our door today, rather than right,” Harry reported excitedly when he came back from his early-morning run yesterday, “and I found another little neighborhood restaurant, a bakery, and more shops. I also noticed a seamstress,” he added. “I know you’re looking for someone to make drapes for the bedroom windows.”

This week in Medellin with the kids, we’re getting to know our new neighborhood. We’ve settled into a routine. Lief and I are up with the sun. We open the French doors along the terrace and the windows of our little office to welcome the cool, fresh morning breeze. We power up our laptops to read the news and check e-mails, but casually, with none of our usual sense of urgency, allowing ourselves to be distracted often by the view out over the terrace of the city in the valley below.

Harry is up next and out the door for his first run of the day. “I’ve never seen a neighborhood like this,” he exclaimed when he returned the first morning. “It’s so green. Everywhere something is growing. There’s no trash, no litter anywhere. And everyone is so friendly. I passed other joggers, people walking their dogs, people doing yoga and calisthenics in the park, and they all waved and smiled. It’s crazy how happy everyone seems to be here.”

Kaitlin and Jackson are the late-risers. When Kaitlin’s ready, Harry’s out the door again to keep her company for her power walk. Each morning, they’ve followed different routes, and each morning they’ve returned to report more discoveries–cafes, parks, restaurants… We’ve asked them to begin taking notes to create a neighborhood guide to leave in the apartment. It’d take Lief and me months to find all these places on our own.

Kaitlin is our self-appointed chef, Jackson her sous-chef. Each day they prepare a dinner menu then go off to the market to buy what they need. In the evenings, while they cook, Lief, Harry, and I line up our wicker arm chairs on the terrace to watch the sunset. We read, chat, and sip our wine until Kaitlin calls us to the table.

By 10 p.m. we’re all ready for bed. “I don’t understand why I’m so tired,” Kaitlin said the first night. “I just checked the time, and it’s only 9, but I can barely keep my eyes open.”

“It’s the altitude,” Lief offered. “We’ll adjust.”

Meantime, we’re all happy to hit the sack early. During the day, the street in front of our place is busy with passers-by. People in this town walk where they’re going as often as possible. Why not? The temperature is always comfortable, and everywhere you go there’s something pleasant to look at…a garden, a park, a playground filled with laughing toddlers. The streets are all tree-lined, the sidewalks all even, and pedestrians definitely have the right-of-way. Drivers stop for you and wave and smile as you pass.

Come 9 o’clock, though, our street is empty. And silent. No passers-by, no vehicles. We’re all sleeping better than we have in a long time.

I’ve been insisting that, these two weeks in Medellin, we’re on vacation…unplugged. The truth is, we’re more plugged in and connected than ever. We have wireless in the apartment that extends out to the terraces. Kaitlin, Harry, and Jackson are of the generation that considers laptops and smart phones like additional appendages. They’re never without them. Chargers and power cords snake across every room. They’re on e-mail, Skype, and Facebook. They’re playing games with each other across different devices. They’re watching movies on Netflix. They’re downloading music and new television series.

We’ve got a smart TV in the living room. You probably knew that you can buy a television that comes with wireless installed, but this was news to me when the helpful young man at the electronics store here explained it to us. Now, sitting on the sofa, we can surf the Net together. Lief tests the kids with geography trivia and currency conversion questions. (I know…it’s a little nerdy, but Jackson loves it.) When he’s not sure of the answer, Jackson can look it up online as we all sit around watching. As Harry likes to say, “Google is our friend.”

“Are we going anywhere today?” Jackson asked this morning when I told him it was time to take a shower and get dressed. “Or are we just hanging around our neighborhood again?”

“Is there anything you’d like to do or anywhere you’d like to go?” I asked.

“No, I’d rather just hang around here again,” he replied. “It’s nice here.”

Eventually, maybe in a few days, we’ll venture a little farther afield, beyond our neighborhood…for dinner at Parque Lleras, drinks with friends, etc. Right now, though, I have to agree with Jackson. It’s nice here, just hanging around.

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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