A Wise Move

Recently I took a trip to a place pretty unfamiliar to me… church.

In a world that increasingly feels out of control, getting reacquainted with the big guy felt like a wise move.

The mass was led by a particularly lively priest who gleefully doused us in holy water—boy, that stuff stings—and cheerily assured us that in these crazy times the smartest thing you can do is relax and enjoy yourself because you’ve got Jesus.

It’s a fair point. You’re not in control of what’s going on in the Middle East right now any more than you’re in control during a pandemic or market crashes, recessions, depressions, price spikes, environmental disasters… you name it. That stuff is out of our hands. Might as well find a way to have a good time when and where you can.

Of course, as I regularly remind you in these dispatches, there is a lot you can do to mitigate the impact whatever coming crisis will have on you and your loved ones. Residency or citizenship in another country along with a homebase there and easily portable or accessible assets has shifted from the preserve of doomsday preppers to just plain old common sense.

A move overseas, or at least a back-up plan outside of home borders, also brings bigger opportunity and greater freedoms… as well as an escape hatch to a less chaotic corner of the world.

The day things really hit the fan, my family and I are bound for Los Islotes. There, in our private corner of Panama’s Azuero Peninsula, we’re amidst beaches, jungle, and dramatic coastline, far from noise and chaos, but with every modern convenience at hand.

If you haven’t yet figured out your Plan B, it’s time. As the world lurches from crisis to crisis, it’s easy for analysis paralysis to set in but I say don’t sit and wait for things to calm down… or get better… or go back to how they were… The crazy train has left the station and the only sane thing left for you to do is find a place in this world where you can truly get away from it all.

Stay diversified,

Lief Simon
Editor, Offshore Living Letter