re: Just got offered a job in Panama

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The cost of living there is about what it was here in the 50's!

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Buddy says I could eat off of $100 a month until I get my own garden started. In exchange for 20 hours of work a week, he'll let me have a house and about 10 acres. If I need money, I'm told there is work to be had on sailing charters, about $200 for a few days.

A friend of mine worked down there for a shipping company for about 3 years back in the late 70s. He loved it but was glad to be home. He said 3 years was enough. It just isn't home.

He said he was paid enough to afford to live in a house on the outskirts of town, have a live in housekeeper and a regular day time housekeeper and they took care of all the cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, housework, and cooking for him.

Panama is a weird place. Parts of the city look like Miami. Other parts look like Managua.

There is an obvious and pervasive American influence (for instance, they are the only central american nation with decent highways). But that said most of the country is still extremely underdeveloped (esp on the Caribbean side).

Their version of Spanish is pretty weird...more of a Spanish-English pidgin.

I went a few times for work several years ago. Loved every minute of it. It was an awesome place with fine women.

My buddy goes regularly, actually just got back last week and confirms my memory.

I could do it with the right opportunity.

Went fishing down there last year. Panama City was half slums half metropolis. Country side was nice and coast was absolutely beautiful.

Women were fine as shite, I would go broke as every dollar I earned down there would be spent on them.

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Panama sucks, especially the carribean side.

I'd rather not comment on that in fear of being banned.

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I'd be doing it for shits and giggles, really. Not trying to move there permanently.


Well by all means, enjoy.

Damn!!! How old are you?

You going to be in Bocas del Toro?

I've been on the Pacific side. Puerto armuelles, and up in the mountains, Boquete. Chiriqui Viejo is one of the finest whitewater trips you will experience.

Edit: I looked up Portobelo. Avoid Colon. Lots of crime. PC is nice.

If you could figure out the peacock bass fishing in Gatun, that is supposed to be a blast.

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and maybe some work on sailboat crews.

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hells yes

Had a friend in Panama that I visited a few years ago..

The wemens love the gringos and they are . All the chicks we hung out with were getting college degrees in the states and spoke english. It was a good time..