
By Kathleen Peddicord
Summary: Where are the best places to retire overseas? Which retirement haven is right for you? France? Ecuador? Panama? Nicaragua? Thailand? Kathleen Peddicord shares the pros and cons of the world's top 9 retirement havens.
The world can seem a scary place these days. You almost can't escape the news...and it's all bad. Threats to your safety, threats to your privacy, threats to your financial security, threats to your future, to your freedom...
Nothing but doom and gloom and all beyond your control.
As I explained to the nearly 400 in attendance at the Sovereign Society Total Wealth Symposium where I presented yesterday...not really.
What's required is a small shift of perspective.
The truth is, you can take control of your life and of your future if you want to. The key is diversification. Just as you spread your investments beyond one basket, so, too, should you work to spread your life around. If you, your assets, your business, your bank accounts, and your passport are all connected to one country...well, then, you're at the mercy of that country. Things fall apart there, things fall apart for you. But if you're residing one place, traveling on a passport issued somewhere else, banking in one jurisdiction, investing your money in others, and operating your business yet elsewhere...then you're protected, at least as much as you can be.
You can ride out ups and downs.
The world is also a playground of opportunity. Opportunity for starting over, for a second chance, for adventure, for fun, and for profit. When you begin paying more attention to these opportunities than to the doomsday theorists and their dire predictions, you find your way, organically, one step and one day at a time, to the kind of global diversification that I'm talking about.
Dozens of countries offer opportunity right now for living better, retiring well, investing for profit, and starting over. I highlighted nine:
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Established in 2008, Live and Invest Overseas is the vision of Publisher Kathleen Peddicord.
Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live and invest overseas beat for more than 25 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on overseas retirement. She has traveled to more than 50 countries, invested in real estate in 17, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.
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First Published: Jun 04, 2011
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