Has moving to Boquete reduced your stress?
Here’s some data and reasons on how moving abroad (including to Panama, of course!) is a good way to do exactly that.
See if you agree.
https://bestplacesintheworldtoretire.com/stories/story/how-living-abroad-can-reduce-your-stress
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I am closing this thread now for the best interest of the community. I ask all members who have issues with others to have restraint before you make posts. I will have to start banning a few if this continues and I do not wish to do so.
We want this forum to be for only positive "useful" information for the Boquete community. Go Rant if it is otherwise.
Liz
Whskyman,
The post threatening bodily harm was removed by Ning management but the user has not been banned.
Stay on Topic or go to Rant. I deleted the insult posts but please don't make me keep doing it, You guys are exhausting me ( you know who you are).
About half of all the respondents in the above discussion appear to have vanished from the "Boquete scene". Too bad we can't get their feedback!
Most expats left their home country because they were in a high stress situation to begin with so it's all relative. Just leaving a bad situation to anywhere in the world will reduce stress. For those who had a normal life in the States and moved to Panama to lower their cost of living or to invest, I wonder what percentage of them reduced stress? I would guess very low.
I don't know how IL generates profit from its "Best Places to Retire" business, but evidently anyone who is selling a product or service is tilting "surveys" and "research" in his favour.
As mentioned many times before, in order to be fair and realistic you would have to make a survey of as many people who returned back home after a few months/years in Panama and the reason why. Next you would have to determine the %age of folks who came and left vs. those that came and stayed. Only then you can come up with a realistic and fair assessment of how the general expat public perceives life in Panama...
It will be difficult to find a more objective analysis than this one, Jim. Having family there and having lived/visited in Boquete and in the U.S. during the past 40+ years qualifies you better than anyone else to make an unbiased comparison.
Since I am only an occasional visitor (past and future), some simple minds here thought that I am not qualified to make the same observations that you are making in your post. But you just confirm to me that my conclusions were correct. Thank you.
I have to disagree. Jim's comments are his personal opinions, experiences, and preferences- not at all unbiased. I don't know how it could be considered objective.
You prefer Canada, Jim prefers DFW, I prefer Chiriqui.
Panama is definitely not for everyone. NYC is not for everyone. There are compromises one must make to live in a developing country. For me they are worth or I wouldn't be here. Unfortunately I have to move for family reasons, but I'll still have my Pensionado.
The key point to this whole discussion is that you can have a very peaceful and quiet life like you have in Boquete in virtually thousands of towns and cities in the U,S. but you cannot have the abundant amenities and conveniences found in most towns in the U.S. within Boquete. The biggest mistake of expats is thinking that you must join the rat race and consumer-centric lifestyle prevalent in the U.S. but you don't have to at all. Simple perks like water working all the time and not having to drive past billowing smoke from burning leaves and garbage or dodging stray dogs crossing the street or waiting forever for things to get done... I mean the list goes on and on and on... Forget about it. Put a fork in it. 10 years in third world was more than enough to gain perspective in life. When you have a great thing in front of you appreciate and cherish it... don't ever give it up thinking the other side of the grass is greener because it probably isn't.
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