By the time you read this, I'll be tossing the last few items into my suitcase and heading for the airport. Today I fly to Panama to attend the Live & Invest in Panama conference, followed by a week exploring the country. This is the culmination of a decision made in January, just a couple of months ago. But in another respect, it's the culmination of nearly five years of research and planning. That's about when I started reading some of the expat websites and thinking about retiring …
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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Cost of Renting in Panama
Panama is one of the countries my husband and I are considering, so I was very interested to see a recent post in Live and Invest Overseas detailing costs of renting in three Panama locations. Panama City, specifically the El Cangrejo neighborhood. It's necessary to be neighborhood-specific because, as in any other big city, there are areas that are more or less desireable with pricing to match. The neighborhood is described as "cool, hip, safe, welcoming and increasingly affordable." "Prices …