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2019-08-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

63-year-old teacher ditched Massachusetts to retire in the highlands of Panama

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-24 08:45|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 That's one down. Maybe she can convince all her friends to move there too.

Posted by The peanut gallery 2019-08-24 12:37|| 2019-08-24 12:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Panamanian banks. Just don't come crying when your accounts disappear.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-08-24 12:42|| 2019-08-24 12:42|| Front Page Top

#3 She's going to a town almost entirely populated by Americans. She's not really living in a strange land. There will be shops there with Frosted Flakes and Snickers and Tampax and all the rest.

A tourist is someone who, when going abroad, takes a small piece of his country with him and stays therein.

You can live in a foreign country for years and still be a tourist.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-08-24 14:08|| 2019-08-24 14:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Old Missy Taft, was not a bit daft.
She raised two twits and a gaggle of spitz,
then put all her pension in a raft.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-24 14:28|| 2019-08-24 14:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Panamanian banks. Just don't come crying when your accounts disappear.

Happens regularly to retirees in Mexico.

Posted by Phinens Dingle9259 2019-08-24 16:05|| 2019-08-24 16:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Being an American is not the protection abroad that it used to be. I would not feel safe in such a situation.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-08-24 18:50|| 2019-08-24 18:50|| Front Page Top

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