[z3n]

Even with as disconcerting as some things are getting here in the U.S., I would definitely place my bet on the long term stability of the United States over any small central american nation. Also, internal political risks aside, you are far too close to Venezuela, Columbia, Honduras and Nicaragua, all places with a lot of various types of instability. Currently Venezuela tops that list, but they have each had problems. I may be ignorant of Panama’s other strong points and assets, but it is small, and other than having a canal with global significance, there is no reason to expect it to be some stable and defensible powerhouse.

[Moonman62]

Even with as disconcerting as some things are getting here in the U.S.

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The Fake News is disconcerting. The reality is much better.

[miss marmelstein]

When it comes to these sh*tholes, I always advise people to look into the life of the British actor George Rose. I’ll stick with my great country, warts and all.

[buwaya]

I’m also about to retire.

The analysis is different for a retirement home.
On retiring, we aren’t raising children, we are just (to put it bluntly) waiting for death.

There is a rather short time horizon in this calculation.
Will it be reasonably good for X years? For any given place, probably yes. And if it goes bad, I at least am expendable. What is one old man more or less?

I find Europe, especially Southern Europe, a better choice. You have, besides much cheaper cost of living for a similar environment to the upscale urban islands of the US (SF Bay Area, New York), plus easy and very affordable transportation to an endless range of places that you cannot hope see in a lifetime.

[Zhang Fei]

[Even with as disconcerting as some things are getting here in the U.S., I would definitely place my bet on the long term stability of the United States over any small central american nation.]

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I think a lot of these people think that the US is collapsing. The bit they don’t understand is that if the US really collapsed, the Pax Americana that kept all these countries from violating each other’s borders (for the same reason that Julius Caesar and Alexander did so, for glory and loot) would come to an abrupt end. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse would emerge at full gallop around the rest of the world, including in Latin America.