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Our Next Overseas Adventure Is Taking Us Back To Europe

Jet-Set Summer On The Continent

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
May 29, 2017
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Four weeks from today, Lief and I will be on a plane bound for Paris. We are four weeks away from our repositioning back to the City of Light.

I can’t wait.

Why are we moving from Panama City to Paris? To answer that question, it helps to remember why we moved from Paris to Panama City in the first place, some nine years ago.

We came to Panama City to start a business. I’d been covering the international living beat for nearly two-and-a-half decades at that point… as a partner in a much bigger operation. When I decided to strike out on my own, I realized that launching my start-up in Paris would be to stack the deck against myself.

France doesn’t like entrepreneurs. Panama, meantime, I knew from firsthand experience, rewards them.

So from Paris to Panama City Lief and I came with our 8-year-old son and my business plan.

Now, nine years later, 17-year-old Jackson is in his final year at Panama’s French school. Mid-June he and his classmates will travel to Bogotá to sit for the bac. Jackson will come away from this weeklong exam (assuming he passes!) with a French high school diploma.

Jackson will be graduated… and Lief and I will be much more flexible, no longer required to schedule our travel around Jackson’s school calendar.

Meantime, the business we came to Panama to build is up and running at full steam. Panama has rewarded us even more generously than we might have hoped. Thanks to the country’s Friendly Nations visa, we’ve been able to employ a few dozen 20- and 30-somethings from all around the world.

Time for these smart, ambitious, hard-working, fully fledged Millennials to take over at the helm of day-to-day operations of our expanding Live and Invest Overseas enterprise.

And time for Lief and me to hit the road. I wonder how long until they notice that “the olds” have left the building…

The past few years we’ve been hunkered down in Panama, raising our son and building a business. Now that both are grown up enough to take their first independent steps, Lief and I are allowing our imaginations to wander.

If we could go anywhere, where would we go…

Paris will always be the first answer to that question for me, thus the core of our plan.

This repositioning to the City of Light marks the start of what we imagine to be the final stage of our live-and-invest-overseas plan. As we look ahead to less time in the office and more time on the road, we prioritize not only flexibility but also family. Where will the kids be most interested in hanging out with us? I want to be sure that we’ve got space enough in those places to accommodate an expanding (fingers crossed) family tree.

Lief and I also prize change, contrast, and the unexpected. This is why our long-term plan has always been to move around among places where we know we like to spend time while forever allowing that list to evolve as we happen upon new places we decide we’d like to be able to get to know better.

This summer our focus is on Europe. How can anyone with U.S. dollars in his pocket resist the opportunity the Old World is presenting? We’ll unpack in Paris and then travel to Siena in time for this year’s Palio.

My first year as a professional writer, editing International Living magazine, I was tasked with producing a feature on festivals around the world. This goes back more years than I like to admit to a time when I’d been nearly nowhere.

Among the fairs and fetes I reported on in that article was the medieval Palio di Siena horse race. Colorfully costumed riders race bareback through Siena’s Piazza del Campo. The spectacle lasts all of 90 seconds, and I’ve dreamed of seeing it live ever since I learned of it decades ago. Lief bought tickets for us and a few friends, including dinner with some of the riders, as a birthday present for me.

From Siena to the Algarve to host this year’s Live and Invest in Portugal Conference (the Early Bird Discount for this expires next week… and the room is filling… this could be our first-ever sold-out event in Europe… we aren’t the only ones inspired to take advantage of the dollar’s advantage on the Continent this summer)…

After the conference, it’ll be back to Paris, our new base, and then, a week later, off to Ireland.

As Lief and I look ahead to the coming couple of decades, we’re asking ourselves, as we have so many times over the past 20 years we’ve been together: If we could be anywhere, where would we be…

Each time we’ve asked ourselves that question, we’ve come back around to Paris. This time when we ask, we say Paris… and also Waterford, Ireland.

Waterford is where this all started… where Lief and I met… where we were engaged… where we moved with my 8-year-old daughter to start our lives together… where Jackson was born… where we first tried these live-and-invest-overseas ideas on for size…

Now that we’re turning the corner to our next live-and-invest-overseas phase, I’m keen that Waterford again play a part. Friends in the area have been in touch to tell us of a house for sale that seems like it’d be an ideal country life complement to our little Paris pad.

This summer, we’re going to go have a look.

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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