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Subject: The World's #1 Place To Live Or Retire Overseas
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From: Kathleen Peddicord <editorial@liveandinvestoverseas.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 7:02 AM
Subject: The World's #1 Place To Live Or Retire Overseas
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The Algarve region of Portugal
| The World's #1 Place To Live Or Retire Overseas (Full Stop) Jul. 8, 2021 Lagos, Portugal  PLUS:
"It's because the Portuguese were the first to map the world..." Dear Overseas Opportunity Letter Reader, "We have a word in Portuguese," a friend from Lisbon, Miguel, told me once, "that doesn't exist in any other language. "The word is saudade. It means a longing for, a missing or a yearning for something. It's a noun, not a verb, and its meaning is born from the feeling of a young wife for her husband sailor long at sea." "Yes, and this is connected to another important word for us," another friend, João, interjected. "Saudade is connected to fado. "Fado is our traditional music, but it is also our destiny. It is not good, it is not bad. It is simply the way it is... the way your life is because of the choices you have made." "Yes," Miguel explained. "Saudade is the fado of the woman who has chosen to marry a sailor. It comes with the territory." Most of the world looks at Portugal as the edge of Europe. The Portuguese look at the world map and see themselves right at the center, at the heart. Portugal identifies herself with the sea. For the Portuguese, the sea is part of their territory, a continuation of their domain. For them, therefore, Portugal is quite expansive. In recent history, Portugal has been mostly ignored and overlooked, but there was a time when this country had the world's attention. It was the Portuguese Prince Henry the Navigator, an architect of the Age of Exploration, who bid his men to "sail on, sail on." Those orders compelled brave adventurers around the Cape of Good Hope to China and India and then across the Atlantic. Those orders were given, specifically, from the very bottom of the country's long Algarve coast, in Sagres, where Henry built his famous School of Navigation. It was from this point that Portuguese explorers set off to discover if indeed dragons lay beyond these shores. At the time, this was the acknowledged end of the world. Portugal's Algarve region is a unique bit of European geography at the southwestern corner of the Continent, at the longitude of Great Britain and the latitude of Delaware. It is protected from winter by the movement of the ocean in the Gulf Stream, and, as a result, it has the best climate in Europe, with more sunny days than any other country in this part of the world and steady winds that mean the region is never unbearably hot and rarely humid. Unlike many sunny paradises, the Algarve is not a little island in the middle of nowhere... It is attached to the Continent and reachable by car from Lisbon and points farther north. You can fly here from the U.S. East Coast in short hops, as few as six hours to Lisbon from Boston, for example, where many flights originate thanks to the Portuguese diaspora. From Lisbon, it's a three-hour drive or a quick flight to the Algarve coast. Another reason the Algarve is such an appealing choice for North Americans seeking adventure, reinvention, opportunity, or a new life abroad is thanks to the British. The monarchs of Portugal and England married each other from the 14th century on, creating the oldest alliance in Europe before Europe really existed. The Anglo-Portuguese friendship did not end with the death of Prince Henry and his brothers. British royals carried on marrying Portuguese princesses. Then, after World War II, the Anglo-American allies continued to operate from the Azores, a Portuguese territory. Over time, as a result, many British families settled in Portugal. By the 1950s, they had begun to populate the southern coast.  A decade or so later, the charms of the Algarve were discovered by the Beatles and their fans, who moved in to the fishing port town of Albufeira, still the home of the most authentic fish and chips in the region.Despite all this attention from British tourists and expats, the Algarve was thankfully never as overbuilt as the Costa Brava in Spain for a practical reason. The terrain is too hilly to allow mass-produced ticky-tacky little boxes to be plunked down, as they have been, over the decades, along stretches of the Spanish coast. The most important relic of all the years of close association with the British is one key to American and Canadian happiness in the Algarve today. Nearly everyone here speaks English—both the local population and the big non-British foreign population. It is the lingua franca for the region. For all of these reasons and others, we've named Portugal, specifically its Algarve region, as the best place in the world to live or retire, full stop. This is the only place on Earth I've found that I'm comfortable recommending as your best option for launching a new life overseas, full stop. It is without doubt a best choice if you're not cut out for life in the developing world or the tropics. This is a land of medieval towns, traditional fishing villages, open-air markets, cobblestoned streets, and whitewashed houses with lace-patterned chimneys surrounded by fig, olive, almond, and carob trees... all fringed by a 100-mile-long coastline that includes some of the best beaches in the world. The Algarve offers a one-of-a-kind lifestyle that could be described at once as quintessential Old World and 21st-century resort and that represents one of the Continent's best values. Specifically, here's why Portugal's Algarve qualifies as not only a top option for a new life in Europe, but, in fact, one of the world's best places to spend time today:
First, Portugal boasts the most user-friendly residency options in the eurozone. If you'd like to live in the country full-time, you can arrange to do so simply by showing a reliable income of at least 1,300 euros per month. Many countries offer similar residency programs based on guaranteed income; however, these are typically targeting foreign retirees and come with age restrictions. That is not the case in Portugal. Anyone of any age who can prove income to meet the requirement can be granted the right to remain in Portugal long-term. This is the easiest residency hurdle of any country in Europe and, indeed, one of the easiest of any country in the world. The second compelling current advantage of spending time in Portugal is the relative strength of the U.S. dollar versus the euro. If you have income (earned, investment, or retirement) in U.S. dollars, it goes further in Portugal right now than it has in many years. European retirees and sunseekers have recognized all that the Algarve has to offer for a long time. Beyond Europe, the Algarve has been largely ignored. This is changing. If you're looking for a Continental lifestyle and don't have the budget for France, Italy, or Spain, you should get to know Portugal better. Sincerely,  Kathleen Peddicord Founding Publisher, Overseas Opportunity Letter P.S. Portugal boasts arguably the best beaches in Europe, along with the best weather, the best golf, and, thanks to decades as an expat hot spot, the most welcoming locals in Europe... It's also been ranked the 3rd safest country in the world. Indeed, for all of these reasons and more, we rate a certain special area of Portugal as the World's #1 Place To Live Overseas... Could this be the perfect spot for you in the Old World? Our team has just put together a deluxe Portugal Package... Best of all, we'd like to give it to you for free today. Follow this link to our special Portugal page now.
"Kathleen, I've recently been in Málaga and Madrid in Spain, as well as Lisbon and Cascais in Portugal. We found these locations to be very attractive. "I've read your raves about Lagos, Faro, and other places in southern Portugal and the abundance of English speakers in these places. However, as a Spanish speaker, I'm particularly interested in your insights into quality of life and overall real estate values nearby in Spain's southwest, namely the area around Cádiz and Jerez de la Frontera. "I'm planning a scouting trip later this year to Cádiz, and I'm wondering if you have any local experts I could connect with? "Keep up the good work. With each publication of yours, our interest in the world grows." --Lee H., United States Spain's southern coast is much more developed than the coast of Portugal. If you're looking for a resort lifestyle, Spain would be a better choice. For my money, the less touristed, less polluted, more wide-open, and more affordable southern coast of Portugal is more appealing, but you'll draw your own conclusions after your visit. 
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