Help needed any suggestions ?

Member since 19 April 2024

golfer1238New member20 April 2024 05:32:20

Hi. I am Wayne fro the USA and also have a home in Thailand. Because of the distance and flying time between USA and Thailand I am thinking of selling and perhaps buying in Panama. My wife and I are planning a 3 week visit there in August and would appreciate any input that the Expats living there would have. We enjoy golfing, fishing, dining with friends and meeting new people. Thailand is a great place to retire also but I find the traveling back and forth to much. Many European expats living here and are very nice to be with. The golfing is great and the costs is more then reasonable. Any suggestions like should I rent a car and travel around for the golf, fishing and just seeing the choices would be appreciated.

Thank you

Wayne and May Lawson

Rush Alvarado Active member

Member since 25 August 2023

Rush AlvaradoActive member15 July 2024 15:48:22

If you love Thailand weather, you'll love Panama. You can visit San Blas but cannot buy properties there since it's an indigenous region with special laws. You can go to other beaches like Isla Colón that is the most adapted to foreigners and almost everything is bilingual and there are other options like Mariato.

If you'd like cooler climate, then Boquete and Volcán are the best options. Located in the highlands where almost all the produce is made and also the best coffee in the world.

There are other options in Colón where some developers are pushing the exclusive communities and may be worth the visit but I don't have much information about this.

The recommendation I give to every expat coming here is to move around in charter flights in Panama when you come for your scouting trips. Panama is known for blocking roads for protests, and I mean any kind of protests... since big national issues like mining to small things like a community without electricty or water and even if Panama is a little tiny strip of land where you can get from Atlantic Ocean to Pacific in less than an hour... these blockades can extend your ground transportation for several several hours.