Why We Chose Panama For Retiring On Our Small Fixed Income

How Peg And April Turned A Small Fixed Income Into A Great Big Retirement Adventure

Dear New In Focus: Panama Reader,

“What’s an expat?”

That was my reaction when, at a party in Austin two years ago, a gentleman told me of a waterfront community in Uruguay developed explicitly for expats.

I had never heard the word before. Ever the curious one, I jumped on the Web the next day and into a world of possibility that had never occurred to me when my 30-year tenure teaching in Texas’ public schools was winding down. There were actually people out there—average Americans like me, I came to learn—who had pulled up stakes late in life and reinvented their lives in exotic locales around the world… BelizeThailandPortugalColombia… And

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