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How Las Tablas, Panama Celebrates New Year’s Eve

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We just celebrated our first New Year's in Las Tablas, Panama, and this town certainly knows how to throw a party! Our evening started at about 10:30 PM. A Panamanian friend had invited us to join his family for dinner at that fashionably late hour. When we arrived, we found the entire neighborhood partying in the street. Neighbors were going back and forth with plates of food -- it's important to share on this date. Several people arrived at our friends' house carrying covered plates from …

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Here Comes 2011 — Is This the Year You’ll Move Abroad?

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The year 2010 is almost over. Will 2011 be the year you move to a new country? I'm pretty sure it will be for me. The only reason I'm not 100% sure is because there are parts of the process that aren't totally within my control. Because of the financial beating we took during the economic meltdown of 2009, we have to sell our house before we move. The market is bad, but holding on and renting it out isn't a viable option -- the Central Florida economy is just too messy. I'm trusting we can …

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