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World’s Top Three Retirement Havens

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
May 24, 2009
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Live, Retire, Invest In The Dominican Republic, Malaysia, And Panama

As you survey the world map this morning, in search of opportunity, here are three places you should focus your attention:

  • In the Caribbean: The Dominican Republic, perhaps the world’s most user-friendly expat haven, says our Editor Rebecca Tyre, just back from a scouting trip. “Yes, this is a touristy country,” Rebecca explains, “but that has its benefits. All that tourist infrastructure amounts to an extensive network of businesses and services that the expat can easily plug into. As an expat in the DR, you have many more choices for the kinds of amenities you might be looking for than you’ll typically find in other countries.”Furthermore, gaining full-time legal foreign residency is a straightforward proposition. You simply apply for provisional residency and then deposit the equivalent of US$15,000 in a Dominican bank. After one year, you are granted full residency.”The truth is, though, many expats don’t even bother going this legal route. Many stay on the island indefinitely as ‘tourists…“
  • In Asia: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, city of contrasts. As Correspondent Wendy Justice explains, “Kuala Lumpur’s ultra-modern city center, with dozens of skyscrapers, overlooks Kampung Baru, a traditional Malay village and Kuala Lumpur’s oldest neighborhood, which has somehow managed to survive less than half a mile away.”Beneath the shadows of the Petronas Towers, the Public Bank skyscraper, and the towering Wisma Celcom, Muslim families raise vegetables, hold open house on their front lawns, and tend to chickens roaming freely on the quiet streets.”In Kampung Baru, there is little traffic. Villagers make their way home from the Saturday market carrying orange plastic bags filled with produce and whole chickens, children laughing and scampering around them.”People stop when they see me. Few foreigners ever make it to Kampung Baru.”Loudspeakers at a nearby mosque broadcast the afternoon prayers, sung so artfully that I pause to listen. A family approaches, the woman wearing her headscarf and traditional two-piece, long-sleeved gown, her husband at her side with his white, woven Muslim cap.”‘Good morning!’ they say, then ‘How are you?'”It is late afternoon, so I know that English is not their primary language. I am an outsider here, yet I am made to feel welcome.”It takes only a few minutes to leave this little village and return to the 21st century. The stainless steel Petronas Towers, visible from almost everywhere in Kuala Lumpur, serve as my landmark. They are 88 stories high (8 being a lucky number for the Chinese), connected to each other halfway up by a skybridge. They are beautiful to look at, gleaming during the day, illuminated at night, and startling in their height…“
  • In the Americas: Panama. “Kathleen, I don’t get it,” wrote one reader regarding our position on this country. “Two days ago, you sent a message telling us nine reasons not to move to Panama, which sounded very negative. Now you send another message saying Panama is paradise. What is the truth?”Both things are true, I explained to this reader.As we discussed with attendees at our Live & Invest Overseas Conference earlier this month, Panama offers an abundance of opportunity right now. This is the best place in the world to retire, to start a business, to be tax-efficient, to invest in raw beachfront, and to have a grand adventure.Panama is 2009’s top retirement, offshore, tax, and investment haven. That is not to say it’s perfect. And that is not to say it’s for everyone.There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all retirement or investment haven.Panama checks a lot of boxes. In addition to its retirement, investment, tax, banking, and offshore advantages, this country also boasts two long coasts and many sand-fringed islands. In its interior, the climate is spring-like year-round. In the waters off its coasts, the fishing, diving, and snorkeling are among the world’s best.There are reasons Lief and I are in Panama right now, when, in truth, we could be anywhere in the world. Over the past few years, as we surveyed the global landscape in search of a place to indulge our entrepreneurial inclinations, we considered a dozen places. We concluded that nowhere else offers a comparable combination of advantages.On the other hand, we’re not blind to Panama’s downsides nor to the challenges and frustrations of living here.It’s a question of priorities. What’s important to you? What could you not live without?

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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