Posted on 08/26/2019 12:43:21 PM PDT by plain talk
Mary Taft lives with her two daughters, seven cats and two dogs in a mansion in Panama — and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
But the former teacher and school administrator didn’t always know that a Panamanian retirement was in store for her. Indeed, as she consulted with her two adult daughters about where to move, dozens of spots were on the table. “We had this blue-sky conversation — where can we all go and live together?” the 63-year-old former Springfield, Mass., resident recalls. “Canada was out because it was too cold. We wanted the tropics because we were sick of winter. We ruled out Asia because it was too far and [because of] the language barrier. Australia was too expensive.”
The Spanish speaker had been to Latin America numerous times, and her older daughter, a musician, worked a lot in Brazil, so they began looking around there. They ruled out Belize because of a “lack of infrastructure,” and Costa Rica because of its cost and “poor track record with health care,” according to Taft. But Boquete, Panama — a lush, mild-weather town in the Panamanian highlands that’s popular with expats — checked nearly all their boxes.
“The U.S. has gotten so out of control — the social fabric is shattering,” she says. “It is an act of insanity to continue to stay in the U.S.,” she adds, noting that in Panama crime is low, you see guns less frequently, and life can be more affordable.
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I understand what you’re saying - but that “adopted” kid was perfectly willing to hang out with Rose (and he was no little child) for the money and perks. As was his family. My point is not about homosexuality, pedophilia or the rest but about the Indian/Spanish sadism applied to people who run afoul of their culture. It is not pretty and it is not right and it rears its head at awkward times for people of Western, law-abiding cultures. All I’m saying is: beware.
At least she won’t be a pain in the butt activist on our streets.
If you’ve never heard it, Roy Clark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lLrkRQHjP8
Well, Mexican doctors don’t carry malpractice insurance, so ambulance chasing lawsuits are not a thing.
Panama gave us Rod Carew, Juan Wiliams, and John McCain. So they are batting .333.
But if they knew this boy was going to inherit everything legally, they should have just bided their time. Perhaps they just wanted immediate wealth, though if they were going to make it look like an accident, they shouldn't have tortured him. They also had too many people involved. That is almost a guaranteed sell out.
And yes, it is a mistake to think other cultures respect western norms. I personally would never consider living someplace where I would be regarded as a merely tolerated alien.
My whole point - aside from homosexuality and rough trade - is that westerners have no business mixing it up with Spanish/Indian crazies. At least in the US, if you mix up with the wrong rough trade, you get a bullet in your brain. You don’t get hours and hours of torture that is so bad that when your only friend finds you in the morning, she vomits her guts out seeing what happened to you.
I think that is a valid point.
Good. Then we can agree on this as well as southern history.
B I N G O !
In addition her legacy in education, if it can be called such, is one that to some degree (no pun intended) might have to be undone by concerned parents who know what real or proper education is.
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The Dominican Republic is in the Caribbean, NOT in Central America.
Factor in Mariano Rivera! Terrific human being.
Massachusetts resident. Everyone in my family gets out of here when they retire. My whole life, anyhow.
I have aunts and uncles... Texas, Florida. South Carolina, Arizona, Colorado. Granted, the one in Colorado is incarcerated in that supermax detention place... but all the others left willingly
You make your money here and get out when the getting is good. Or commit a crime when you own a thousand guns.
Check out holyoke some time. Frigging third world hopeless place. Western Massachusetts is a sad place, like upper state New York.
It doesn’t matter who the locals elect, they have been slated for depopulation by the urban based controlling leftist apparatus.
Spain is my target too.
We are city people, so the objective is a city flat (piso).
Yes Spanish PRIVATE medical insurance is CHEAP!
I have quotes similar to yours.
We have US medical savings and etc., but at those prices we can just forgo all that.
I used to own freighters in the 80s and hence was in Panama several times a year to manage one of my huge (/s)fleet of two ships transiting the canal which was around 20-25,000 US dollars per transit
Compared to say Barranquilla or Lima or Kingston I found Panama City to be very nice ...even with Pineapple Face....Cara Abacaxi in power.
It’s gotten even more cosmopolitan since but like Miami it has its pockets of no go zones
Banking in US dollars was easy and normal unlike say Bogota which required exchange crap
Safest country in Central America after Costa Rica....
I say that knowing some Freepers consider the Bahamas or Caymans third world
Valencia is a nice choice if you want a modern, cosmopolitan city without all the drama of Barcelona and Madrid. Santiago de Compostela is nice if you want history and religious culture. Bilbao is nice if you want it cooler. Seville is nice if you like the heat. Granada is nice if you want to be near the mountains. There are just so many good choices. You can always send me a PM if you need some inside information without the bias of someone trying to sell you something.
Boquette is very rural and very middle class.
My experience with Holyoke is limited to its mall, Mount Tom, and the dinosaur footprints. I don’t think I’ve ever seen much of the city itself.
As for Western MA in general, I’m going to both agree and disagree. Some decent places there (and I don’t just mean in the Berkshires, which I love except for the new age/hippy-dippy crap), but Boston/Cambridge controls the politics and some of the western cities are pretty bad as a result, that’s true.
You haven't been to Panama in recent years have you? Panama has become the "Hong Kong" of Central and South America.....I'd love to move there myself but the interests I have are not available down there.....
As a side note, I spent just over 2 years down there while in the Army and absolutely loved it......
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