If you would ask me how long you should go to Panama for vacation, I would say two weeks, even three weeks, because there are lots of things to do. If you would ask me for how long you should go to Montreal for a vacation, I would say you should go to Montreal for a week. The weather is sometimes very hot but you come to like it.įor me, living in Panama is better than living in Montreal. Panama makes it so that you don’t want to ever leave.Įverything is better and different here in Panama the people, the streets, the views, the nature. You will get a comfortable and affordable lifestyle here.įor me, Panama has a higher standard of living than Montreal. You don’t have to have heating or cooling here in Boquete because the temperature is moderate year round, so that is a huge savings. You can get a blood test done and an INR for $6 here in Panama.įood is affordable. My husband, Arne has reduced his medicine to less than a third of what he was taking, which also saves money. If you need to get a prescription and you cannot get it from a provider in the States, they will work with you here.

After that it’s just $15 or $7.50 depending on which doctor you see.

If you have a problem, and you need to see a doctor here, you pay an initial US $20 to $40. I can tell you that we could not survive in Texas on the same budget, and yet on the same income, we have a better life here in Panama. This is my little castle – this little condo community. Where I live now, in Boquete, Panama, is my favorite place to be. We go out more and yet I also like staying at home here. Many times we go out with friends for an evening meal. We go out to eat almost every Saturday with good friends. Here in Panama, we can just enjoy life on a different level. We can drive two hours and go to Las Lajas and enjoy a lovely little resort down there that is just so perfect to be at. Here in Panama, we can drive an hour and a half to go to a beach on the Pacific or three hours to go to Bocas del Toro, which is on the Caribbean. So we took all the extra funds we had to drive five hours to Houston, five hours to Oklahoma, or whenever we had to travel and however many hours away it was.

Personally, I have a very comfortable lifestyle here in Panama and better than what I had in the US, because in the US, my husband and I never had the money to travel, except to go see our kids or family because they are more important to us.

Diana broce