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2 weeks ago | 
liveandinvestoverseas.com | Kathleen Peddicord
Earlier this month, I debuted my new podcast. First on my guest list for these “Retired Overseas” conversations were Paul and Vicki Terhorst. Paul and Vicki retired overseas in their mid-30s. They weren’t of retirement age, but they did their sums and decided they were in a position to opt out of a workaday life at that early age. That was more than 40 years ago. In the decades since the couple has crisscrossed the globe.
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3 weeks ago | 
liveandinvestoverseas.com | Kathleen Peddicord
I wrote my first book on retiring overseas in 1987. I was twenty-four years old. I’ve produced many titles on the world’s top retirement havens in the decades since. As I’ve grown up, so have these ideas, both of retirement and of retiring overseas. Retirement is no longer the start of the end of your life. Retirement today is your second act. And retiring overseas is no longer a lifeline for retirees with seriously skimpy retirement budgets. At least it’s not only that.
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3 weeks ago | 
liveandinvestoverseas.com | Kathleen Peddicord
I spotlighted Panama for my readers for the first time in 1998. I told them I believed this country was the investment opportunity of our lifetime. In the 27 years since, I’ve put my money where my prediction was. My husband Lief Simon and I have made 16 property investments in this country.
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1 month ago | 
liveandinvestoverseas.com | Kathleen Peddicord
At home in Paris, a trip to the ATM can be a treat…And I look forward to dropping my husband’s shirts off at the laundry…Because running an errand in this city means moving through this city. And every aspect of central historic Paris is a delight.
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1 month ago | 
liveandinvestoverseas.com | Kathleen Peddicord
Waterford, Ireland, circa 1998, when Lief and I first came to call it home, was a bit worse for wear. Once upon a time, this was a bustling port town with ships lining the harbor importing and exporting to France, Spain, and beyond. By the time we arrived on the scene, though, Waterford was forgotten and depressed. That was the point.
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1 month ago | 
liveandinvestoverseas.com | Kathleen Peddicord
I went to work for Agora Publishing as a copy editor fresh out of school aged 21. Then I spent the next 14 years working my way up that ladder from editor to manager and eventually partner. With Agora I moved from Baltimore to Waterford, where I launched Agora Ireland. Seven years later, I made my second international move, again with Agora’s help, to Paris. Four years after that, I decided it was time to see what I could get up to on my own. At first I thought I’d try being retired.
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2 months ago | 
liveandinvestoverseas.com | Kathleen Peddicord
In the four years following my divorce, my role at publishing house Agora continued to expand. Now I was a partner in the International Living business, rather than editor, and also managing the health division I’d launched. I’d put my marriage behind me and had fallen hard for a man at work. As my best friend, Beth, had warned me often throughout that relationship, “With a workplace romance, in the end, it’s always the woman who has to leave.”She was right.
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2 months ago | 
liveandinvestoverseas.com | Kathleen Peddicord
“I’ve told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he’d be willing to increase his offer,” John Rohan explained in a hurry as he burst through the door into the little room where Lief and I sat waiting. “However, the other buyer, the one from Cork, he’s gone. He said he’d reached his limit and excused himself from the bidding. He’s left the building. “Our buyer from Dublin doesn’t know this, but it won’t be long before he figures it out.
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2 months ago | 
liveandinvestoverseas.com | Kathleen Peddicord
You’re moving to a new country. You’ll need a place to live. I say rent one. At least at first but maybe forever. Maybe your chosen haven won’t turn out to be all you hoped it would be. Or maybe you’ll find that the country suits you fine but the neighborhood where you’ve settled doesn’t. I’ve yet to meet an expat who regrets having made the move overseas, but I know many who weren’t happy with their initial location choices. That’s no problem—as long as you haven’t purchased your home.
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2 months ago | 
liveandinvestoverseas.com | Kathleen Peddicord
“I am still surprised by the reactions I get when I tell people I live in Medellín, Colombia,” says Wendy Howarter. “A few years ago, my friends and family expressed fear, concern, and disbelief. Today I hear admiration, curiosity, even a little envy.”Few cities have experienced as dramatic a transformation in such a short timespan as has Medellín. In a handful of decades, it has transformed from one of the most dangerous cities in the world to one of the most highly acclaimed and sought-after.