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Astounding. Some with no plans for medical care ( no clue what they will do with regard to the Obama Care penalties if you don't carry healthcare and are a US citizen. It's a $700 fine this year). The biggest issue I see is raising your young children here and providing for them what they need to become successful adults in this world eventually. Its a unique and rare set of parents who can do this...some can, but they are rare. My suspicion is there will be departures. How this impacts a family in the long haul may be more than they ever bargained for.

Recent discussion on .NING re: educating children you've brought to Boquete leads me to believe there's some on-going after the fact research happening. Conclusion: it won't be easy. Why you would not figure all this out first before moving here puzzles me.

#18 If you don't see something on the shelf you thought you couldn't do without, you roll with it and in a short time you forgot you even needed it in the first place.

#13 You never drive your car into the center of David . You park at Rey and take a cab. #14 You are 100% convinced that police checkpoints are a really good idea. #15 You love the bars on your windows.

I'm already excited...but what are we participating in?

Rodny Direct has a database for clients that is much broader....we like that. We want to know a guy like Rodny can take all the information we supplied him and find a place for our dog, locate our relatives, contact our attorney who has POA, and send the emergency squad to our home with 100% information on what our health status is. For my husband and I, $80/yr is a value for service. That said...we love Rodny and what he's accomplished. He is an example not only for the handicapped but as well for you and me to achieve beyond our wildest imagination and succeed...and then do more. Go Rodny. Yes we're biased. There is no other service that can equal Rodny Direct in Panama...period

Yup

I heard most of those sooooo many times before. One the top 10 we hear is: "I'm not going to put bars on my windows and live like I'm in a prison" Look around...here in Boquete and as well in David. What % of homes have bars and perimeter fences? Now if you are a robber my hunch you'd head to the nicer houses without bars on them.

Sad ending methinks.....nice to be able to grow old with your family around you instead of where he's at right now.

Yes I pick up on the naivety and it's such a shame because I do believe many folks who have recently settled here have been mislead...or bottom line need help. Ning used to provide that. I remember back in the day so many of us came, and we ragged on International Living for over-hyping. That said, International Living never touted Boquete as a premier spot to support a young family, educate them, and provide for good health care. . I know there are those that do make a good living on a computer....it's a whole new global day and age. When we were young there were no computers...there were time clocks . We put in our hard 8 hours of work, paid our dues, saved our money , sent the kids to college...then retired. We retired knowing we did the best for the kids and as well planned for our own retirement future decades ago.. For many of us that retirement planning started when we were in our 20s or 30's...about the age of these young parents who are dropping anchor here with their children.

Well..it's self deception. To rationalize that you can "get by" anywhere on the planet without healthcare planning is blindness. If families bring their children to raise here then they have to believe that it's better here somehow....hum. To earn income here and as well, home educate five children is a job I'm afraid would be way too much for me to even consider. It baffles me. I guess we will see how it all pans out for these folks. In the years we've been here, so many times when overwhelming situations occur to foreigners here without much of a plan, others step in to help. There's lots of us here...and I guess lots of "help potential".

Hard to understand. He had everything...yet he needed more. Very sad. Money and power addiction.

Good for you. So many there I see from time to time I have no email for and no mode of contact. They ask for help with something I might have the answer for and I can't do anything about it. One fellow had white fluff coming out his tile grout and he was "treating it with chlorox" thinking it was mold. Well the white fluff is no doubt degrading grout and a process of cement deterioration called efflorescence. Chlorox will make it worse. I felt bad that I couldn't help the guy.

It's a cool Columbia from Cali Colombia. CCCCC?......si,si

Right...I bought that Columbia shirt in Colombia !...Popayan, Colombia. Cali

I have this great Colombia shirt with a front breast pocket with a hidden zipper. I can put credit cards, cedula and $$ in there and you can't even see the pocket. You just would not know a pocket was there. The zipper tab hides beneath the front button placket edge. I LOVE that shirt for big city shopping etc.

Well...one thing for sure is: It's beyond all life support. What Lee created for folks who might have some remote interest in living here plus the amazing helps residents obtained in the on-going local information provided is no longer there. It's something different now. I think each one of us that enjoyed that site so much go there from time to time to see if there's a glimmer of life left. I find I go there less and less to check these days.

I was thinking that today. I mean why insert an article about a dentist who did pro bono work on a woman who had her teeth knocked out by her boyfriend? Had nothing to do with Boquete....I just find it weird and not particularly helpful to the new folks. The new folks? Apparently lots of them. I agree...a TON of useful information got buried when Lee was...or shortly thereafter.