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Is Retiring In Panama Still A Good Choice? If So, Where?
Is Panama 2020 still a top choice for retiring overseas? That's the question I left you with yesterday, and I...
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Life In Panama Is Not What You Think It Is… For Better Or Worse
I woke up this morning, brewed a pot of Irish breakfast tea, and, as has been my custom for decades...
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Experiencing The Fiestas Patrias In Quebro, Panama
Theodore Roosevelt wanted to extend U.S. power and reach. He wanted a strong navy, and he wanted his naval force...
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How To Travel To The San Blas Islands
When in Panama… going to the San Blas islands is something you can’t miss. San Blas or Guna Yala is...
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Top 10 City Beaches In Latin America
The ideal life for many is being able to take a short drive from home to the beach, or from...
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The 7 Best Countries To Get A Residency
While some countries make residency difficult and painful to acquire (ahem, France), others make it exceedingly easy. They want foreign...
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How Public Holidays Are Celebrated In Panama
Starting on New Year’s, Panama has different ways of celebrating the public holidays. Some holidays are celebrated with parades and...
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How To Bring Your Pet To Panama: What You Can Expect
Moving a pet across international borders can be a daunting process, but not an impossible one. There are only a...
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10 Things To Do In Bocas Del Toro
Poor infrastructure in Central America has left the Caribbean coast largely untouched. In Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras pretty...
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From Lockdown To Riding The Waves: Panama’s 6 Top Spots For Surfing
Now that Panama has reopened her borders and eased quarantine restrictions, I'm reminding myself of all the reasons this little...
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5 Things To Do In Boquete
Boquete, Panama’s #1 expat haven, is also a wonderland for tourists and locals alike. There is so much to do...
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Is Panama Safe?
Safety is one of the top decisive factors when choosing where to travel and/or relocate, and rightly so. We all...
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Our Top 5 Destinations For Medical Tourism
What is Medical Tourism? Medical tourism is simply traveling to a foreign country with the primary purpose of seeking medical...
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The 6 Best Countries To Get A Residency In 2021
When establishing a Plan B or backup residency, most people look for the easiest option... but "easiest" isn't a one-size-fits-all...
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4 Must-Know Tips To Save Money In Panama
Many who visit Panama come away praising the country for its thriving economy, in which everybody benefits and products are...
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How The Residency Process Gets Easier
Last week my husband and I successfully renewed our residency permits here in France, and, boy, are we relieved to...
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Looking Back: How I Got Started On My Overseas Adventures
"Does it ever bother you that your life is over?" Kaitlin, my daughter, walking ahead of us, turned off-handedly, looking...
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The Best Overseas Expat Havens – Our Top Picks For 2020
We recently wrote an article to answer the question, what is an expat? The short answer is that an expat...
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Countries With The Cheapest Cost Of Living
When looking for the best country to launch your new life overseas the important thing to remember is the following:...
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What You Need To Work Overseas
We focus a lot on retiring overseas, but sometimes we find ourselves in the position of wanting to relocate earlier...
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David, Chiriqui: An Investment Opportunities in Panama
None of us can tell what's around the corner. From Europe to the United States to Latin America, we can't...
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10 Best Beaches In The World
Basking in the warm sun while laying on breath taking beaches sipping on an ice-cold beer or a tropical cocktail...
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Why We Chose To Leave Florida And Retire In David, Panama
My husband Joel and I were living in Sarasota, Florida, and had never been to Panama. Honestly, knew nothing about...
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The Best Places To Find Pocket Money Real Estate
The term pocket money real estate is a nice way of saying properties for around US$50,000. Admittedly, it’s a bit...
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The Best Countries To Own A Second Home
Owning a second home overseas comes with a lot of benefits. But what are the best countries to buy in?...
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Is Panama The Right Country For You?
Panama is a great place to live. The weather stays hot all year, the beers are cheap, and the people...
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Top 3 Buy-To-Flip Markets For Real Estate Overseas
Buying to flip is a common real estate investment strategy in the United States that doesn’t make sense in most...
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Cost Of Your Ideal Property In The U.S Vs Overseas
U.S. second-home markets are seeing exploding interest. It's understandable. Seems like a good time to have a second home somewhere...
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Comparing Panama And Colombia: Living, Retiring, Investing
First, we compared Cuenca, Ecuador, with Medellín, Colombia… Then we looked at a more outside-the-box comparison, thinking through how Panama...
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10 Things To Do In Panama
The Republic of Panama offers beaches and mountains approximately an hour away from each other, the Panama Viejo ruins, the...
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What Panama Looks Like As It Begins To Reopen
At the end of March, Panama placed everyone under quarantine and set a travel ban. As of mid-June, the country...
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Invest In The Top Independent Living Option In Latin America
In 2018, the number of people aged over 65 living in the United States was 52 million. That's expected to...
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7 Places Where You Could Retire On Your Stimulus Check
The stimulus checks sent out by the U.S. government to lessen the impact of COVID-19 have been a lifeline for...
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Why We Left It All Behind And Moved To Panama City
Coley and his wife weren't worried about money, making ends meet, or how they'd pay for retirement. Coley was making...
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I’ve Noticed 5 Interesting Quirks About Living In Panama
Panama is... Home to more than 940 species of birds as well as 250 mammals and 354 reptiles and amphibians......
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How Panama Is Handling Lockdown During Coronavirus
At the time of writing there have been 11,447 confirmed cases and 313 deaths from COVID-19 in Panama. This small...
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The 7 Best Countries For Canadians To Retire To
The best countries for Canadians to retire to are mostly well-known to Canadians. Expats can be found, usually close to...
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The Different Countries Our Staff Will Visit After The Travel Ban
After more than five months in Paris and more than two months in quarantine in our little Paris pad, Lief...
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The 10 Best Panamanian Dishes You Must Try Today
When people talk about Panama, the first things you’ll probably hear (or read) will be on favorable taxes, great shopping,...
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Best 7 Areas To Move To In Panama And 2 To Avoid
Expats and retirees moving to Panama are spoilt for choice with different places to live. To make your search a...
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The Best Countries To Retire In The Countryside And Live The Quiet Life
The COVID-19 crisis has taken some of the sheen off city living. Restaurants, bars, museums and other staples of city...
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Real Estate In Panama With Guaranteed Return On Investment
"Can an evergreen tree die?" my son asked as I ran alongside his bike. Under Irish lockdown laws, we're free...
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Diversify And Protect Yourself Against Another Coronavirus Situation
COVID-19 has been a wrecking ball to many savers and investors. Although we are still very much at the start...
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How We’ve Been Spending Life Under The Lockdown Overseas
Moving into week seven of quarantine in Paris, my lockdown routine revolves around writing to you, dear reader… filming twice-weekly...
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5 Dream Places To Live After The Coronavirus
The global Covid-19 outbreak seems to have put the world on hold. While many are turning to Netflix and social...
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The Best Overseas Countries That You Can Drive To
The Coronavirus has been a good reminder of just how fast things can change. In the space of a couple...
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9 Isolated Islands Where You Can Escape From Modern Life
In 1989, Italian schoolteacher Mauro Morandi was sailing between Corsica and Sardinia when the engine of his catamaran gave up....
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8 Great Places To Buy A Dream Beach Home For Under $250K
"Where can I buy a home on the beach for US$250,000 cash?" a reader recently wrote to ask. In Florida...
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Best Places To Retire In Panama
Over the last 20 years and counting, Panama has been in the conversation as the best place in the...
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Where To Live In Panama – The Land That Has It All
For such a small country, Panama packs quite a punch in terms of the diversity of lifestyles available. When April...
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