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I have lived in five different countries on three different continents, and I will say as a fact that Panama has been the cheapest of them all – between Spain, Chile, the United States and Costa Rica. Homes for sale in Panama are relatively inexpensive as well.

So recently there’s been a lot of fuss over a restriction the Panamanian government put on tourists. And without sounding narcissistic, I am pretty sure they made this law specifically for me.

It’s everything you envision: one-eyed hookers, scraggly hobos, and a stash of various immigrants clearly not native to the Republic. The immigration office in the city is a loud, sweaty, frenzied affair and I desperately want to go back a second time.

There is a fairly large income gap in Panama which is manifested on street corners and stoplights where drifters with sullied faces will do and sell almost anything for some of your loose change.

It was a fairly muggy Saturday afternoon when, walking through a quiet intersection just short of Via Espana, I felt a tug at the back pocket of my jeans and turned to find a beautiful woman smiling as if I’d just kicked some game her way. It was the kind of tug that might have gone unnoticed had there not been a beautiful face not inches away from mine. We walked a few paces, our shoulders touching, our hips brushing, and our feet semi in sync. Any closer, and I’m pretty sure we’d have been having intercourse.

I waited at the cash register for about five minutes, jingling my keys and making loud digestive sounds in an effort to get someone, anyone's attention. I was starving from a hard workout and the salad I had just designed using the store's spectacular salad bar was sitting there on the checkout counter calling my name the way small animals do before you eat them.

It was not until recently, when my maid called in sick three weeks in a row, that I began to question how in fact my clothes and linens were always clean. My apartment is void of a washing machine and drier, I have no bath tub, and my sink is about the size of a Cuban cigar box.

I often get emails of people asking me if I think they could make it in Panama. Do you think I could start a really excellent pool cleaning business? they'll say or what are my chances of making fine wood furniture and selling it to tourists? My response usually starts off explaining that we've only known each other for the extent of this email and from the sounds of it, you are pretty much a loser.

Panamanians refer to their country by some very grandiose nicknames: “the bridge of the world”, “the heart of the universe”, “earth, wind, fire, with our powers combined we create Capitan Planet”. Ok, so I made the last one up, but Panama's nicknames are not the only embellished facet of its culture. Its language and more specifically its Spanish-English slang, has fully evolved into almost a quirky dialect of its own. 

I woke up at about six AM because the woman next door was being loud. She was talking loudly. About hamburgers. “I took it out of the freezer and it melted into this little meat puddle” she said. I wondered what that meant exactly. Was the meat just so bad and milky that it had no texture?

To me, golf is less the sport of kings and more the art of ruining a perfectly nice walk outside. This pastime though—of putting that white dimpled chestnut into a far off hole—has charmed and tormented players since its invention in the fourteen hundreds, when equipment was made from nothing more than wood and leaves and even human bone.

Here are a few types of residency visas that you can obtain:

When you leave your hometown airport for Panama City, you may want to take a second to appreciate some things that you will not again see for the length of your stay, especially during travel. First, airport organization—upon entering the Tocumen International Airport you'll feel like you're taking part in a cattle herding exercise.