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In Boquete you can find taxis as early as 7 AM for sure most days.  Usually there are two options.  The least expensive option is to ride in a collective with as many as four more persons. Depending on how far you go from downtown Boquete (the park) a collective can cost you anywhere from 50 cents to one dollar.  If you find a taxi that is empty and ask for a "carrera" (a private ride) you can pay around US $1.50 up to $4.00 or $5.00, depending how...

In Boquete you can find taxis as early as 7 AM for sure most days.  Usually there are two options.  The least expensive option is to ride in a collective with as many as four more persons. Depending on how far you go from downtown Boquete (the park) a collective can cost you anywhere from 50 cents to one dollar.  If you find a taxi that is empty and ask for a "carrera" (a private ride) you can pay around US $1.50 up to $4.00 or $5.00, depending how far you are going.  The farthest you will usually want to go is David's airport and that can cost you around $25.00 to $30.00.  One final note, after 8 PM or 9 PM and sometimes 7 PM, it is very hard to find a cabbie, specially on rainy days.

There is excellent fishing in Portugal.
 
My birthday is on the 4th of April, and normally on the week of my birthday my present is to go fishing for a week. Last year, I caught a 200-kilo (441 pounds) tuna. In Portuguese we call the fish I caught the atum rabillo but in English I think it’s bluefin tuna. So an amateur like me caught a fish like that, which gives you an idea of how rich our waters are.
 
If you go fishing in the main cities—Lisbon or...

There is excellent fishing in Portugal.
 
My birthday is on the 4th of April, and normally on the week of my birthday my present is to go fishing for a week. Last year, I caught a 200-kilo (441 pounds) tuna. In Portuguese we call the fish I caught the atum rabillo but in English I think it’s bluefin tuna. So an amateur like me caught a fish like that, which gives you an idea of how rich our waters are.
 
If you go fishing in the main cities—Lisbon or Porto—you will see a lot of recreational fishing. There are a lot of little boats, which tend to scare the bigger fish but you always catch fish in Portugal.
 
Portugal is really well known for two things: soccer and fish. The fish we get is very, very good fish and very fresh fish. All the restaurants provide very, very fresh fish. Portugal is a really beautiful place to go fishing; very beautiful.  

 

(Fishing at Monte Clérigo, Portugal, pictured.)

To answer the question directly, it is not necessary for you to relinquish your citizenship or even get a dual citizenship in order to live in Panama. You can be a perpetual tourist, if you follow the rules, or you can get one of the different visas available.

 

When you come to Panama, you can come as a tourist or a visitor, and stay for 180 days, but then you have to leave the country for 72 hours. Then you can come back again. There are people who are stay in...

To answer the question directly, it is not necessary for you to relinquish your citizenship or even get a dual citizenship in order to live in Panama. You can be a perpetual tourist, if you follow the rules, or you can get one of the different visas available.

 

When you come to Panama, you can come as a tourist or a visitor, and stay for 180 days, but then you have to leave the country for 72 hours. Then you can come back again. There are people who are stay in Panama indefinitely as perpetual tourists.

 

By law a Pensionado in Panama does not need a passport and possible Panamanian citizenship, but the government of Panama recently changed that rule, so that now, after a person’s has legally been here for five years, you can apply for citizenship. Nobody that I know has ever become a citizen and received a Panamanian passport that I know of, though, so it is absolutely not necessary in order to stay in Panama.

 

There are programs like the one they have in Saint Kitts, where you could start with an investment of US $350,000 and receive citizenship. To renounce your citizenship is a gray area. You may want to renounce your citizenship or you may not.

 

I know a Canadian guy who says that he has done everything to become a citizen of Panama, but the president of Panama needs to approve his application to become a citizen. That is the only thing he is says he needs, and I am waiting to see if that happens.

 

I am a US citizen and because I am a US citizen living overseas, I have to put up with some crazy laws. Because I am a citizen of the United States, I have to send in a report to Detroit telling the government what money I have in foreign bank accounts, and if I do not tell them, the penalty is 50% per year. So just because you already live in another country, does not relieve you of taxes and some other legal obligations in the US, because you are still a US citizen.

The price of a home, condo, or apartment in Belize is a very general question with a very broad answer.

 

It's like asking you what it would cost to buy a home, apartment or condo where you live.  Just as in other countries, Belize has low-priced homes and high-priced homes.

 

We do visit different types of properties with our tours, depending on the price range and preferences of the tour guests. I've seen properties as low as US $50,000...

The price of a home, condo, or apartment in Belize is a very general question with a very broad answer.

 

It's like asking you what it would cost to buy a home, apartment or condo where you live.  Just as in other countries, Belize has low-priced homes and high-priced homes.

 

We do visit different types of properties with our tours, depending on the price range and preferences of the tour guests. I've seen properties as low as US $50,000 and as high as $3,000,000. There are surely even more properties below and above these prices, too. Just like other areas of the world, beach properties are more expensive than those in rural areas.

 

The pictures I've uploaded with this answer show homes from the low end, to mdi-range, to high end.

 

You can't rely on pictures on the internet, either. Until you get your feet on the ground and see the landscape, the area, the part of the country it's in - you can't decide if a property is for you.

 

This phrase works all over the world - "Location, location, location" !