Best Place to Retire in Panama

International Living’s Global Retirement Index

There can be only one “best”. And this is it: The winner of International Living’s 2011 Global Retirement Index…the country crowned top of its class after the level and depth of research that you only get in IL…the one place that offers you the fastest and best chance at a luxurious retirement…while keeping costs low [...]

16 Easiest Places in the World to Retire

When it comes to an overseas adventure, the romance is built-in. The idea that you could escape your world and embrace a new one. Make a life filled with the things you love, enjoyed in a place you choose. What freedom! Yet the “what-ifs” can be paralyzing. What if I’m single? What if I can’t [...]

Good Times in Casco Viejo Panama

Dear Learn About Panama Reader, Panama’s Casco Viejo is the oldest city on the Pacific Coast of the Americas. A few hundred years ago, several fires destroyed most of the colonial buildings. That’s why so few true examples of Spanish colonial architecture exist today. This part of the city, the so-called “second city,” is steeped [...]

Best Places to Live in the World

It’s that time of year for International Living to release the 2010 Quality of Life Index highlighting the Top 10 Best Places to Live in the World. Boquete did not make this index but it has been a favorite many times on the International Living Best Places to Retire list. Check out the blog for [...]