I'm at the poverty-stricken end of retirement funds. What to most people seems really cheap is really expensive by my standards. If I didn't have great friends who put me up and feed me, I probably wouldn't be able to visit the US for more than a couple of weeks a year.
I hung around Panama City for quite a while. I realized fairly soon that it was going to be too expensive for me, but I had hopes that I would find some way to make it work. As is usual, the longer I'm here, the more things I find that are problems, so not being able to afford it doesn't seem too bad.
One thing I am learning is that there seem to be a lot of expats here who actively dislike Panamanians. This seems to be worse than in other countries I've been to. I think maybe it is that the place is touted as being so Americanized that people don't expect to be in a Latin American culture. Most of them have not traveled in other Central American countries, so regard things that are really quite sophisticated for the region as being rather primitive.
I assume I'm going to run into the same thing everywhere. For now I'm giving up on the retirement hunt and considering spending the week in India.
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