6-5-06: Hola, benjoy...Just returned from Panama while doing my retirement research & checking it out for possible future retirement
2009. Visited Boquete & spoke w/expat from Tennessee for 1.5
hrs. Re: Boquete, his experience was rather disappointing of late.
Area becoming quite pricey & flooded w/expats, thus raising cost of
living. Says been forced(by landlords)to move few times when others offer more rent for his 3br-2bath rental casa @ $150/month.
Naturally, landlords take more rent offers &, Tennessee's out in 30
days casa hunting..again & again. Also, some of his expat pals rent/
own casas, are absent for several weeks/months, & return to find
burglars have nearly/completely wiped him out of all but walls! Got
to hire trustworthy person to "casasit" during entire absence. Key-
word is TRUSTWORTHY! As result of multi-breakins, he's gonna
check out town of Santa Fe. There are many sites for Panama info
investment/retirement. Possible to get leads from following:
www.retirementwave.com(Bob Adams) & www.your panama nug-
gets.com(Sydney Tremayne), D.C./Maryland & Nova Scotia re=
spectively. Also: www.why panama.com www.move to panama.
com are just a few. On NET, just type in Panama & see what comes up. Many links to follow. I've been doing my retirement re-
search for Latin American countries past 16 months. Extremely
important to do research 1st before going to country to check it
out. Then, rent for full year & travel there widely to experience
weather & other requirements relevant to your retirement needs.
1996-2001, I taught TEFL(teach English as foreign language)in
Costa Rica/Japan/Slovakia. Lived in Italy & visited India Nov 2001.
Experience is undoubtedly the very best teacher! Try not to be
too hasty in your selections before you have made concerted ef-
fort to thoroughly investigate interests. Would highly recommend
talking w/neighbors in your areas of interest. Real estate agents in
business to SELL..most any way they can, w/primarily THEIR best
$ interests in 1st place. When signing ANY real estate contract,
a MUST to enlist TRUSTWORTHY, fluently bilingual lawyer to nego-
tiate business/paperwork for you, making VERY SURE lawyer act-
ually COMPLETES all essential business, files entitlement & deeds &
supplies you w/LEGIBLE copies of ALL paperwork, & that such have
required signatures/dates. Foregoing can't be stressed enough!!
Please email me anytime you like for more info or, if you have such
for me. Enjoy your searches.

Hasta luego,
Beacon

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thanks for the advice. we will be back in panama in sept for about 3 weeks. my husband has been following various locations around the world for a number of years now and finally convinced me that we need to research it up close and personal. we visited panama for 16 days in april. i was a little surprized---i liked panama more than i anticipated. fortunately, we have been able to travel fairly extensively over the past 27years, so we have a realistic view of what "developing" nations are like. panama had a much better infrastructure than i imagined.
you are right about everyone and their brother being out to sell real estate and/or legal services. we'll be careful!
what have you concluded about your quest for the ideal retirement home?
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there is some affordable land outside of boquete, still in chiriqui, but one has to look to find it. we also saw some very modest homes outside boquete. PC is a nice big city, but it is a big city and doesn't have the quiet pace and moderate climate you find in boquete. volcan is an option also. since we are not interested in living in a large city, i'd look for a place outside of boquete, which is what we did, if i were you.
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