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Why You Should NEVER Attend an Expat Conference

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Recently I paid some serious money to sit in a room for three days in a foreign city. Over the course of the three days, I: listened to more than 36 speakers on as many subjects attended two cocktail parties met dozens of people from all over the US and Canada, as well as Cyprus and Britain heard stories from a half dozen expats living in the country I was in Panama City, Panama at the Live & Invest in Panama Conference put on by Kathleen Peddicord's Live and Invest Overseas …

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Eco-Tourism, Charity and Shopping in Panama

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Here in Las Tablas, Panama, a pleasant breeze blows through town during most of the day. We saw some rain yesterday morning for a few hours, but the afternoon was sunny with bright blue skies. The sun is hot, but overall we're finding the temperatures here much more tolerable than David. Before I get into details about our travels through Panama, though, I want to share one more time about some of the events of the Live & Invest in Panama conference I attended last week. Eco-Tourism in …

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On My Way to Panama

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By the time you read this, I'll be tossing the last few items into my suitcase and heading for the airport. Today I fly to Panama to attend the Live & Invest in Panama conference, followed by a week exploring the country. This is the culmination of a decision made in January, just a couple of months ago. But in another respect, it's the culmination of nearly five years of research and planning. That's about when I started reading some of the expat websites and thinking about retiring …

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Let Total Strangers Plan Your Trip

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My husband and I are going to Panama in a couple months to see whether it's someplace we'd like to live, so I've been spending a lot of time planning our scouting trip. Not surprisingly, not every little hotel in the country has a website (at least, not in English). Since we don't want to stay in tourist hotels, travel and tour companies are of no help. So what's a future expat to do? Turn to your social networks. I've been doing that -- a lot. Expat Forums I started with some of the larger …

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How to Plan Your First Expat Scouting Trip

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(Continued from How Do You Plan for the Unknown?) So you've decided to move to another country, you've done tons of research, and you've narrowed down your country choices. The next step is a big one -- scouting out your country of choice. Ideally, you'll be able to spend two weeks to a month exploring the country. The purpose of this first trip is not to buy real estate or arrange a long-term rental. This trip is to find out whether you like the country and its people, and whether you can …

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How Do You Plan for the Unknown?

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The unknown. . . it can be exciting, exhilarating or paralyzing. Even when we're excited that we might "boldly go where no man has gone before," there's usually a bit of terror lurking in the background. In this internet era, with easy access to satellite photos and maps of the entire globe, there's not much on this Earth that's totally unknown. As a future expat, sometimes it just feels that way. How do you handle that moment of truth every future expat experiences, the time when you have to …

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