Best Places In The World To Retire

It is very difficult to get a job in Portugal.  The unemployment rate in must be hovering at 15% at the moment. 

 

It might also be difficult for a foreigner to find a job here but that could also depend on his area of expertise. The Portuguese are trying to attract high value added professions, which is in part why the government came up with the Non-Habitual Resident regime, to try and get highly skilled people to come here or to be transferred...

It is very difficult to get a job in Portugal.  The unemployment rate in must be hovering at 15% at the moment. 

 

It might also be difficult for a foreigner to find a job here but that could also depend on his area of expertise. The Portuguese are trying to attract high value added professions, which is in part why the government came up with the Non-Habitual Resident regime, to try and get highly skilled people to come here or to be transferred here by multinationals.

 

The local job market, though, is extremely tight. So if you are a foreigner, depending on your skill, it may or may not be easy for you to find a job in Portugal. If you are an IT expert, for example, you would find a lot of opportunities here but if you are a doctor or a lawyer, you would probably find the market saturated. There are some niche areas where there is a shortage of really top class professionals.

 

(Logo for Duncan M cGregor Accounting, DMA, whose proprietor Duncan McGregor is an expat doing business in the coastal town of Cascais, Portugal, pictured.)

Coronado, Panama is not known for its exotic birds, but if you would like to go bird watching, you can go to El Valle de Anton, which is about an hour away from Coronado by car. It is up in the mountains and there are lots of all sorts of exotic birds.

 

You can also go to the Chiriquí Province, which is about 5 to 6 hours by car. There, you can go to Boquete and Volcan where there are lots of exotic birds. Chiriqui is world-renowned for bird watching....

Coronado, Panama is not known for its exotic birds, but if you would like to go bird watching, you can go to El Valle de Anton, which is about an hour away from Coronado by car. It is up in the mountains and there are lots of all sorts of exotic birds.

 

You can also go to the Chiriquí Province, which is about 5 to 6 hours by car. There, you can go to Boquete and Volcan where there are lots of exotic birds. Chiriqui is world-renowned for bird watching.

 

( BirdwatersRio Chiriqui Viejo, Panama, pictured.)

The best advice I can give about living overseas or retiring abroad is, if you want things to be like the way they are at home, then do not leave home.

 

For example, Panama is a lot different from where I come from and from where most people are from. When you go to Panama, you have to get used to the culture. For instance, the fact that there is not a lot of emphasis on education does not mean that the people of Panama are bad. For instance,throwing...

The best advice I can give about living overseas or retiring abroad is, if you want things to be like the way they are at home, then do not leave home.

 

For example, Panama is a lot different from where I come from and from where most people are from. When you go to Panama, you have to get used to the culture. For instance, the fact that there is not a lot of emphasis on education does not mean that the people of Panama are bad. For instance,throwing trash just out the window is a common practice here because it is not embedded in their education system to do otherwise.

 

From the perspective of a foreigner, some of the decisions and practices here in Panama are just plain shocking. People cry about it but nothing is going to change. As an example, there was actually one person who decided that taking the trash bins out of Casco Viejo was a good idea. So right now, what everybody does with their trash is throw it on the street; the street of a world heritage site! Yes, they pile up the trash in neat piles on the corners of the streets of a world heritage site. That happens because some person of authority thought it to be a good idea to remove the trash bins in Casco Viejo. You may think that being a person of authority, he wouldn’t have made that decision, but that is not how things work here. I guess being able to adjust to where you are living is a huge part of moving away.

 

(Fountain in Casco Viejo, Panama City, Panama, pictured. )