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Our experience on retiring to Panama

Peg Fairbairn and April Hess Retire To Panama’s Veraguas Coast

June 16, 2016

“I’ve Figured It Out… We’re Going To Retire
To Another Country”

Here in Panama, we’re still recovering from last week’s Live and Invest in Panama Conference. As always, it was a whirlwind week for everyone involved—both the participants and those of us that presented.

For this week’s issue, I thought I would share Live and Invest Overseas Publisher Kathleen Peddicord’s report on my own “Why Panama?” presentation.

Enjoy!

Peg Fairbairn
Panama Insider

“I was a schoolteacher for 30 years. For 20 of those years, I taught hormonally stressed adolescents. When I retired in 2008, I was ready for an adventure.”

So began Peg Fairbairn, addressing the group in the room for last week’s Live and Invest in Panama Conference in Panama City.

“The good news was that Peg had a teacher’s pension to retire on. I’d worked my whole life, too, but I had no pension. That meant the two of us would be retiring on the income of a single teacher’s pension,” continued Peg’s partner

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Property Prices In The Panama Pacìfico Project Keep Rising

Panama Pacifico Prices Are Up – What Does It Mean For You?

March 31, 2016

Panama Pacifico: “The Most Audacious Real Estate Project In The World”

Finally, the wider world is waking up to Panama’s potential.

Here at Live and Invest Overseas, we have been stressing for years that Panama offers some of the most promising real estate opportunities on the planet. Because of its strategic location, use of the dollar, stable government and strong economy, it offers a relatively safe harbor for folks looking to diversify their investment portfolio with international investments. We are so confident, in fact, that this year we launched this newsletter and a whole new division called Access Panama to showcase some of the country’s marquee property developments and other investments. One of those developments (which we have written about before) is Panama Pacifico, a massive mixed-use project just 15 minutes from the center of Panama City on the west bank of the Panama Canal.

So we were pleased this week to see our confidence corroborated by none other than Forbes magazine, the Bible of American capitalism. In its annual Billionaires Issue, on newsstands this week, Forbes profiles Colombian billionaire Jaime Gilinski, one of the men behind the Panama Pacifico project. Forbes calls it “the most audacious real estate project on the planet.”

This paragraph pretty much sums things up:

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