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Live And Invest In Medellin, Colombia | Read 2012 Articles
Welcome To The City Of Springtime And Flowers
Jan. 25, 2012, Medellin, Colombia: Today is the first day of our first-ever Live and Invest in Colombia Conference taking place in Medellin, Colombia.
Dear Live and Invest Overseas Reader,
Twelve years ago, I sat around a table in a just-opened restaurant in a little-known mountain town in Panama called Boquete with a group of investors and businesspeople, in the country, as I was, to scout opportunity.
"I believe that the potential in this place for retirees is enormous," one of the gentlemen in the group (the one who had just invested in opening the restaurant where we were having dinner) prophesied.
"Right now, the opportunity here is for the investor and the speculator. Property prices are so under-valued. Apartments in Panama City are a screaming bargain on a global scale. Pacific beachfront, Caribbean, farmland, river-front...this country has it all, and it's all cheap.
"Panama is still misunderstood, suffering from a lingering case of bad press," my host for the evening continued. "When you say 'Panama' to an American today, he thinks: Noriega...drug cartels...CIA intrigue...
"It won't be too many years before those perceptions are flipped on their head. I predict that, five, seven years from now, when you say 'Panama' to the average American, he'll think: Retirement. Because that's what this country is gearing up to offer--a very appealing retirement option."
That was 1999.
In August 2010, the AARP named Boquete, Panama, one of the top five places in the world to retire.
Last night, I sat around a table in a just-opened restaurant in a little-known mountain town in Colombia called Medellin with a group of investors and businesspeople, in the country, as I am, to explore current opportunity.
"Property values in this city are so under-valued," one of the gentlemen having dinner with us remarked. "I believe that apartment costs here are the lowest for any cosmopolitan city in the world on a per-square-meter basis.