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Travel And Retire To Kiev, Ukraine

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
May 10, 2011
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The One Thing You Need To Know About Kiev, Ukraine

“Here’s the one thing you need to know about Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine,” writes Intrepid Correspondent Paul Terhorst…

“The people here are noteworthy.

“My friend Ivan and I arrived in Kyiv on Sunday, May 1, on the overnight train from Odessa. May 1 is May Day, which most of the Western world (except the United States and Canada) celebrates as Labor Day. I expected empty streets. I expected the locals would stay at home, drink beer, enjoy backyard barbecues, and maybe watch a soccer game. Whatever.

“But none of that. The downtown streets filled with locals going to churches, museums, art galleries, and concerts. We saw Ukrainians/Russians waiting in line to enter a noted 11th-century monastery. At the war museum, Ivan and I had to stand aside while locals finished reading the exhibits. We saw such a long line to enter Saint Sofia, Kyiv’s most important church that we decided to wait for another time.

Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine

“Ivan and I heard little English spoken and saw little English written. We saw no other foreigners except perhaps Russian tourists, although we have little clue as to how many. Everyone seemed to be from Kyiv or Ukraine’s interior. I’ve traveled to over 90 countries, and I’ve never seen people more passionate about their monuments and museums.

“Ivan teaches European history in Scandinavia. I asked him what was going on.

“‘The greatest musicians, dancers, painters, architects, you name it, they’re all from here,’ he explained. ‘These people take their culture very seriously. Everyone wants to take part, not just the greats.’

“I like that. I like curiosity. I like that the locals mourn the dead, celebrate their triumphs, remember the past, and study old weapons.

“Kyiv even has a museum dedicated to the war in Afghanistan–that is, the Russian war that began in 1979. That Afghan war pretty much finished off the Soviet Union, which included Ukraine. But no matter. Here we celebrate defeats as well as victories. We want to know what happened, and why, and how we might prevent future slaughters.

“This region has a very long history of upheaval, twists, outrage, tragedy, loss, catastrophe, and sorrow. Again, I asked Ivan if the past might explain why Ukrainians show such interest in it.

“‘Absolutely,’ he said. ‘That’s true throughout the Slavic world, from Poland to the Caucasus, from Russia to Ukraine. These people have lived through a lot. They want their own take on what happened.’

“Again, and I’m showing a bias here, I respect those who care about their past more than those who live only in the moment. I respect those who take their solemn sites seriously more than those who fail to notice. I respect those who paint, and I like to look at paintings, more than those who avoid them.

“I respect those who enjoy culture. So I put Kyiv way up on the list.

“Osama bin Laden’s death was announced here on a Monday around 7 a.m. I picked up the news on the Internet around 8 a.m., when I got up. I later informed the two women who work the front desk at our hotel. They understood immediately, in spite of the language snag. As I left the desk, they dove for their smart phones, perhaps to read the news in Russian. They know, they understand, they want details.

Saint Sofia, Kiev, Ukraine

“These Ukrainians impress me in other ways, too. Platform passengers taking the subway stand aside and wait for arriving passengers to disembark. Young people on the subways promptly offer their seats to the old, infirmed, pregnant, and those with small children. These young people even offered their seats to me in a distressing number of cases. It seems like yesterday I was the kid in the seat.

“Chemical toilets are placed near the main tourist sites.

“People toss their litter in trash cans, rather on the street. The trash cans get emptied regularly.

“Store, churches, museums, and so on post their opening hours in large letters on their doors.

“You may have seen some of these things in some places some of the time. Ivan and I have seen them rarely. So what’s going on here? I doubt they’re obeying rules. Rather, I think they’re acting out of common sense, out of a desire to accommodate, inform, simplify, and avoid frustration. So uplifting. My kind of people.

“I look forward to returning, perhaps enjoying a long stay here.”

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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