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Sep 01, 2026
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If I had to name one thing that could make the difference between making your living, retiring, or investing in Panama dreams come true… and risking a disappointing, maybe even doomed experience, it’d be…

Connections.

As you work on your Panama plan, focus on making the right connections. I’m talking about… 

Connections with experts—professionals with long experience helping others like you do the things you’re considering doing in this country.

Who has the authority, judgment, and experience to help you navigate the local landscape safely, efficiently, and with maximum success?

Identify as many on-the scene, English-speaking experts as you can, including lawyers, tax pros, medical professionals, shipping agents, bankers, real estate agents, developers, etc.

Whatever you’re hoping to do in this country, you’ll need an infrastructure of serious people who understand the challenges that expat retirees and investors face here…

Connections with expats—people just like you who have already made a move or an investment in Panama.

To maximize your chances of success and minimize frustration along the way, you need to connect with both professional local experts and, just as important, expats with boots-on-the-ground knowledge about how best to capitalize on the many opportunities Panama offers. Who knows better how to do what you’re thinking you want to do in Panama than other people like you who’ve already done it?

Connections with like-minded folks—more people like you who share your dreams and ideas but who, again, like you, haven’t yet made the leap. More people than ever are considering moving to Panama, in retirement or even decades before conventional retirement age. These folks can provide great support for you… as you can for them.

While your family and friends might find your live-, retire-, and invest in-Panama inclinations silly or even batty, many thousands of other folks do not. Many thousands of folks are thinking the way you’re thinking and are also seeking a new, better, and more diversified life down here in the Hub of the Americas.

These folks, who have so much in common with you, could be sounding boards for your plans and ideas and maybe even potential travel partners. Some could even become your new neighbors…

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Connections with me and my team—You could make a move or an investment in Panama without enlisting our direct help. But why make things harder for yourself than they need to be?

Honestly, retiring, relocating, investing, or starting a new business anywhere, including Panama, comes with complications, challenges, frustrations, and pitfalls. But you have an option that can greatly reduce your risk, and the amount of effort required. This option can make your move or your investment in Panama easier, more efficient, and less costly… not to mention a whole lot more fun.

The best way to take advantage of all the hard-won knowledge and wisdom of me and my team… in effect goof-proofing your move to your dream place in the Panamanian sun… whether that’s in the mountains, at the beach, in the rain forest, or maybe in Panama City… is to join us for the 2027 Live And Invest In Panama Conference.

What Panama adventures would suit you best? Only you can answer that question.

What I can tell you is that no matter who you are… Whether you’re in your 20s or your 80s or anywhere in between… Whether you’re single or married… Whether you have health concerns… Whether you have kids to raise (and find good schools for)… Whether you’re looking to retire or to invest or start a business…

You could improve and enrich your lifestyle dramatically while perhaps reducing your cost of living significantly by reinventing your life in Panama.

Our Live And Invest In Panama Conference is your most efficient chance to compare, consider, and filter all of your best opportunities for living and investing in this dynamic little country.

And the 2027 program is jam-packed with opportunities for you to discover Panama firsthand including an invitation to come discover my own personal paradise on the country’s untamed Veraguas Coast—Los Islotes—and a four-night Relocation Discovery Tour of Panama’s top coastal lifestyle options.

Plus, real estate tours, a sunset jaunt to Casco Viejo, the most romantic spot in the country’s capital city, and of course, a tour of the Panama Canal.

It’s all yours for the taking…

Please, leverage our decades of experience to formulate your plan and make your Panama dreams a reality and join me in January for the 2027 Live And Invest In Panama Conference.

Until next time,

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Kathleen Peddicord

Kathleen Peddicord has reported on opportunities for Americans to live, retire, and do business overseas for 40 years. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 24, established businesses in 7, renovated and built properties in 6, and educated her children in 5.

Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets from the east coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland, then to Paris, France, and finally to Panama City, Panama, where she has based her Live And Invest Overseas business. Peddicord and her husband, Lief Simon, now divide their time between Panama and Paris.

Peddicord was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. She opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Waterford, Ireland; Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France. Peddicord launched Live And Invest Overseas group in 2008 and has built it into a successful multimillion-dollar business. Today, she shares her firsthand experience of expat life with more than 500,000 readers of her publications, including Overseas Opportunity Letter and Overseas Living Letter.

Kathleen has been featured often in The New York Times, MSNBC, AARP, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, and more and writes monthly about expat matters, international real estate, and offshore diversification for Forbes and U.S. News.

Kathleen has written several books including the memoirs “At Home In Ireland” and “At Home At Los Islotes” and her latest title “At Home Abroad,” all published by Lahardan Books. Her best-selling "How To Retire Overseas: Everything You Need To Know To Live Well (For Less) Abroad” was published by Penguin Random House in 2018 and her “Buying Real Estate Overseas For Cash Flow (And A Better Life)” was published by Wiley in August 2020.

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