We recently got a whole new perspective on selling stuff in preparation for our move. In the past, between eBay, Craigslist and other such venues, as well as the traditional garage or yard sale, you could move pretty much anything you owned in good condition. That's changed. With the US economy still a mess, more and more foreclosures, bankruptcies, job losses, job cutbacks and generally bad stuff happening, it's getting tougher to move used goods. Decorations, art, collectibles, items that …
Panama Hits the Sweet Spot for Life and Business
If you plan to start a business overseas -- and most of you indicated you'll have to generate some income to finance your overseas lifestyle -- Panama is the country to look at. According to Kathleen Peddicord, publisher of the Overseas Retirement Letter, the country's friendliness to business is why she and her real estate developer husband moved from Paris to Panama two years ago. Kathleen explains: In the past few months, since my How to Retire Overseas book was published, I've been …
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The Flip Side of Expat Guilt
Guest Post by Barbara Diggs Lucky is the expat that has no lingering guilt associated with his or her decision to live abroad. But, I think, rare is that expat also. Maybe you feel a bit guilty about how living abroad will affect your children, or you worry about the feelings of loved ones left behind. You might even have conflicted feelings about preferring another country over your own. For me, as excited as I was to move to Paris nine years ago, I felt terribly guilty about leaving my …
It’s the #1 Best Seller!
A few months ago I reviewed How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad by Kathleen Peddicord. Kathleen is the publisher of Live and Invest Overseas, which publishes a free daily e-letter as well as a monthly magazine and other resources for expats and would-be expats. Today, Live and Invest Overseas announced that the book is now the #1 international best seller. And when I took a look on Amazon, I found it is also the #1 bestseller in the retirement …
Support Yourself Anywhere With a Website or Blog
In recent months, we’ve explored writing, photography, art, running a B&B, teaching English as a foreign language and other options for supporting yourself anywhere in the world. Some – running a B&B and teaching – require you to be in a specific place. Others – writing and photography – allow you to move around and get paid almost anywhere. Another location-independent avenue for creating income is by establishing an online business represented by a website or blog. The good news is, …
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Enough to Make Anyone Sick
I'm a big fan of Kathleen Peddicord's website, Live and Invest Overseas. I get her Overseas Opportunity Letter, and look forward to it hitting my inbox every day. I even subscribe to her Overseas Retirement Letter. Most of the time, I think she and her writers are completely on target. Once in a while, not so much. Paul Terhorst is a regular columnist, writing about investments and his own personal experiences of living abroad as a semi-retired person since the age of 35. [ad#MEDEX2] In a …