In my recent scouting trip to Panama, my Spanish language skills were tested to the max. Now, I'll be the first to admit it's not a high hurdle. I figure my Spanish is at about the level of a bright two-year old's. All my verbs are present tense and my vocabulary is severely limited. Think, "See Spot run" and you'll have a good idea what my skill level is. Armed with a pocket Spanish-English dictionary and lots of brazen self confidence, I figured I could manage. On the whole, I did pretty …
Cost of Renting in Panama
Panama is one of the countries my husband and I are considering, so I was very interested to see a recent post in Live and Invest Overseas detailing costs of renting in three Panama locations. Panama City, specifically the El Cangrejo neighborhood. It's necessary to be neighborhood-specific because, as in any other big city, there are areas that are more or less desireable with pricing to match. The neighborhood is described as "cool, hip, safe, welcoming and increasingly affordable." "Prices …