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OldPro
Joined 2016
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7 years ago

Change of topic

7 years ago

Time for a change of topic.

Since the Panama sub-forum seems to be pretty busy currently, I'd like to take a little poll.

1. How many countries have you lived in and for how long in each?

You can name then or not, where doesn't really matter. And for the purpose of defining 'lived', I would use the arbitrary time of 6 months as a minimum. So your 2 weeks living in X doesn't count.

2. As a member of this forum, are you currently living in a country other than your home country or are you here as someone looking to move to another country for the first time?

I"d like to see how many people here are experienced at living in other countries and to what degree vs. how many are 'first timers'.

I"d like to compare my personal beliefs regarding how many people have never left home vs. how many have recently moved to another country vs. how many have lived in their new country for a significant (more than 5) number of years, vs. how many have lived in several countries.

I'm thinking we will see maybe 85% 'first timers' who are either planning to move country for the first time or have recently moved for the first time. Maybe 10% who have moved just the once but have been there for 5 years plus and maybe 5% who have moved more than once for significant periods of time.

If I am right, then what it tells us is that most questions and answers are from novices (which would make sense since they need to find answers obviously) but are being answered most often by 'near' novices in return, with few answers being provided by those with significant experience.

That being the case, if I were a novice, I would be wondering .how much value the answers I was getting, have.

Kovalenko & Vera Attorneys at Law in Panama

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