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Expat Mailbox – Shipping and Mailing in Panama

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Last week marked the first anniversary of my arrival in Panama to start my life as an expat. Just out of curiosity I sent out an eletter asking readers to send in questions about their biggest concern in moving overseas. (If you're not on my mailing list but would like to be, you can sign up here.) I'm tickled that lots of you responded with quite a few interesting questions. Far too many to answer in one post, so I'll spread them out over the next few weeks. They tended to fall into …

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The Wary Expat: Or, How to Avoid some Expat Newbie Pitfalls

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Guest Post by Richard Bee I am proud to be an Australian, but even more defining -- I’m what you might call a professional expat. I have essentially been away from home and on the road since 1958 when my father, an airline pilot, accepted a posting to a foreign land. So off we went, my parents, my three sisters and I, all of us dressed to the nines (as it used to be) in one of the last Super Constellation flights across the Pacific. After two unplanned but very memorable weeks in Fiji due to …

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