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Judy S

Yes.....dropping Part B of Medicare is a huge mistake.  The US govt hopes you do believe me !

When I hear folks retired here who say  "If I paid for Part B out of my Soc Sec monthly I would not be able to buy food":   To those folks I say....go back (or stay) in the USA.

If your margin is $100 (+ or -)  then you are too close on the margin.   **** happens here.  Plan on it happening.

On checking my PROFILE I have discovered twice certain photos I included there are not showing...but their ID remains.   I refresh the Profile and they are back.   Humm...mystery to me

Alison

Everyone needs to do their own homework.   Unfortunately this was a resource of information on Ning that was hashed and re-hashed.  IF you are over 65...you will be paying a considerable sum of $$ for full insurance coverage from a reputable provider.  The MS Chiriqui plan is minimal.  Many come here and drop their Medicare B to save $100 a month...that's crazy.   This is a very serious topic...one each person who even thinks about moving here needs to fully research.  

Hopeful there might be a resurrection

One big problem with used local automobiles is how they were used, and used, and used...without being maintained.   Keith sells cars for foreigners who are selling them...at least quite a good % of the stock.  I assume that's true of Cowboy.  These expats selling their cars to these two guys are more likely to have maintained their vehicles.

...uhhhh we were talking about a road right?

JLM quote:  "The past forum crowd could be really tough on opposing posters".

.......uhhhh that would be us.   Mean spirited folks we are !

Get on the midnight express bus from David to Panama City...sleep...you are there in the morning.  $5 cab to those hotels from the bus station.  We always take the bus.   Save your $$

Once you get a "feel" for town you can get a bus pass and try the subway. It's a few blocks walk from those hotels.  It's real close ( within view ) of the fancy Church del Carmen.  Get on the subway and BAM you are at AlbrookMall.   You have to try that.  Get the pass at the bus station.  There are booths there. that sell these cards for the subway/buses.

This is about cars...the best cars .....and purchase of same.  I recommend Keith and Cowboy......

Hotel Milan...take a cab to the office
....or we really like Hotel Parador...it has a pool on the roof and a view of the night lights from the roof you don't get at the Milan.  They are a block away from each other in Cangrejo. Parador is cheaper....and more basic ( ole Panama basic) and gives you a free breakfast.     Milan is the hotel many of us in Boquete frequent.   Across the street from the Parador is Martin Fierrro where you can get the most fantastic fillet Mignon with a salad bar.   We prefer to stay at the Parador...buy our booze across the street at the mini and enjoy the lights come on at night on the roof there.  We NEVER miss the steak across the street.   Cangrejo district is a close cab drive for you.......

ha ha ha...yah..if you are on a mule  :-)

ahhh...be kind to Lynnie, she has the local interest at heart.   I agree...with you on Keith.   He provides a service niche that is lacking here.  He knows his cars...as does Cowboy.   A local used car in a local used car lot may well be a car you will regret buying.  

...well loosely speaking if you have a demo derby 4X4 and a sharp machete .  Add to that..... guts.  We tried and quit.

Ambreen seems to have taken a loooong lunch break as of late

Need a band aide during the day?...go to one.  Otherwise  services in the public hospitals big or small are very limited for emergencies.   They can treat common stuff like a cold.  They can diagnose a fracture but can't set it...that kind of thing.  Cheap however.  Cost me $1.00 for an xray of my knee and doctor to look at it to tell me he couldn't aspirate the blood out of it.  That was beyond his level of expertise. 

eh...watch the entire site will disappear when who ever bought it realizes there's nothing in it for him/her.........

Now THAT"s marketing!

 Maybe when they get the proposed "boots on the ground" moderator (as was announced today) the ad management will make some sense.  B4B is one of the more important charities in this town.  Now IF they were smart, they would offer an apology to Planet Telecom and as well  donate a large ad space to the  B4B cause.   That would be nice.

After I wrote that I re-thought it.  Answer Bud: nothing.  It's an important link for newcomers was my thought.  I took the link and made a shortcut on my computer..and anybody could do that....plus like you say, it's always here for reference on CL.    So disregard my suggestion.  Thanks for getting back.   What an excellent job you are doing here Bud !!!  

What puzzles me is why the new owner of the site who outsourced his monitoring service for Ning to Ambreen and Z Datamatics didn't see early how his investment was being dismantled and do something about it.  It makes no sense to me.

Encouraging to say the least.  Criminals of the highest caliber here fly under the radar here IF they have enough money. 

Thank you Alain.  Nicely written. 

In the time it took to place FOUR posts on Ning, Planet Telecom's Response to NING advertising Renewal was gone.....vanished.   Try figure how non-Boquete conspiracy theory essays that have not one iota to do with life here  in Boquete can last 4 pages...and with the urging of the ole guard to moderate that diatribe over there.    Ambreen seemed to enjoy being asleep at the wheel with such posted content and replies.   Well I guess she is guarding the nest now.   Al's was zapped in a millisecond. 

Chica's insertion of a letter promoting Ning's advertising written by Ambreen Ghazi  contains mis-information to prospective advertisers I'd say.   Advertisers will leave as quickly as we all did, watch.   Thy will follow Alain's Planet Telecom out. 

Thanks Judy !   Bud might want to make sure that link there stays where people can find it.....

Dead remote ????....when it fails life ends  as we know it, or at least my husband's anyway ( laughing).  We were in David doin stuff and it was an easy in and out.  And,out with the dead clicker in with the new, and life is now good..for Bill anyway.