Any US Expatriates here?

[Rockstar]

It’s one thing to look at other countries as a primary residence, second home maybe even a time share. If your job takes you there you may get so accustomed to the area you’ll never want to leave. Maybe after years of hard work moving for the sake of living the good life is not a bad idea either. There are really beautiful environments, people, beaches, etc, etc. One must also carefully look at the economics, currency, jobs, political stability, crime statistics, judicial system, customs, police, medicine, a way out when they’re on your door step shouting “Yankee Go Home” , you name it. Find a place take a vacation and for Pete’s sake don’t stay at an all inclusive hotel. Get out and live like a native in your desired neighborhood. Look around, do they have uniformed armed military police on every corner like they did when I was in Acapulco? If they do it’s not the place you want to live no matter what anybody says.

But making such a transition based on what seem like a political statement is not IMO a very good reason to move. Too much can go wrong.

Anyway, a couple of recommendations to look into is maybe Bocas Del Toro or El Chorrera both located in Panama. El Chorrera has a decent number of former Canal Zone workers which never left.