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Safety In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Jul 21, 2010
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But Is It Safe?

“I have just recently discovered your website and its interesting and exciting information,” writes a new reader this month.

“However,” she continues, “I have to say that most all the countries you promote outside the EU as safe (this is part of your pitch) are regarded as unsafe to dangerous by different government agencies counseling their citizens about international travel, including Canada, the United States, France, and Switzerland.

“We have young children, and personal security is top on our priority list when it comes to making a move abroad…”

And then this, from another concerned reader, in response to a recent report we published on low-cost medical and dental care in Malaysia:

“Kuala Lumpur has the highest murder rate in the world! I would not go there if the dental work were free…”

Let’s take the general safety question first. In short, all the places we recommend are safe. We base this position not on government reports but on personal experience on the ground in each place and on the experience of our in-country contacts.

In fact, we eschew the warnings from, cautions by, and, in fact, most anything published courtesy of government agencies.

Imagine government agency postings for certain sections of Los Angeles? Or Baltimore, Maryland? Or Washington, D.C.? These are among the most dangerous places on earth. I speak from personal experience, having grown up in Baltimore, where I was mugged twice and where the murder rate most years is at least one per day.

U.S. and other government agencies publish their warnings to cover their derrieres. These warnings are based on bureaucratic interpretations of realities very far away and typically bear little resemblance to the actual realities.

We’ve had the experience, ourselves, many times, over the years, of being in the very spots that government agencies, CNN, Fox News, et al., were promoting as dangerous, riotous, and worse…only to look out our windows and shake our heads. Where’s the trouble, we’ve wondered? We didn’t see it and certainly weren’t affected by it.

Again, all the places we recommend are safe. When this changes, we say so (as in certain sections of Thailand earlier this year, from where Intrepid Correspondent Paul Terhorst reported at the time).

Many of the places we recommend are places where I have traveled myself, as a woman, on my own,  including with my children when they were very young. And all are places I would travel now without concern.

This includes the featured destination in this month’s issue. The reader who wrote recently to inform us that Kuala Lumpur has the highest murder rate in the world was somehow misinformed.

World’s most murderous city? That’d be Juarez City, Mexico. In our research, we’ve been unable to find Kuala Lumpur on any list of the world’s most dangerous places to spend time.

No place is 100% crime-free, of course, and K.L. has a history of street crime. The country is addressing this, and petty street crime is down more than 35% in the first five months of this year compared with the same period in 2009.

None of this is to say that K.L. is the place for you to plan your retirement.

On the other hand, Asia Correspondent Wendy Justice makes a strong and tempting case for how interesting, enjoyable, and affordable your new life in this part of the world could be in this month’s issue of my Overseas Retirement Letter, in final stages of production now.

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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