"I just love the smell of the open sewer when the tide goes out along panama city.. " Great then you should be right at home there. This is a problem which is as I write this being changed for the better.
"Just love the piles of trash all over the roads..'' mostly its cans and bags. I have seen far worse in the u.s.
"Perfect! The new cop patrols everywhere you look. Last time I ventured out in Panama I was stopped 4x in about 30 miles." Thats a cop every 8 miles.. hummm sounds like you strecccched that one a tad bit.. and so what if they are? If your not breaking the law you shouldn't worry about it right? of course there are more people in jail in the u.s. then there are people who live here.
"The gringos have overrun every corner of Panama and priced decent real estate out of the reach of people of somewhat modest means." That's called supply and demand my friend, it happens everywhere in the world. o and GRINGO'S only account for ONE PERCENT of the total pop. here. But yet we get 85 percent of the blame for every FREAKING thing that is wrong with this country.
"Watch OUT! The USDollar is on it's way to the basement. POOF! goes your purchasing power. But that could happen worldwide." You think? and as it goes so goes the world.
without Gringo's there would be NO PANAMA. It would still be Colombia. there would be no roads here, no schools hell half the people here wouldn't even live here. and the ones that did would be living in a stick house living off of whatever they could grow or kill.
with change comes higher prices, we put the roads in this country and made it, once you take a overgrown patch of nothing and put in power, water, roads, ect then that land is worth far more then it was before. look it up and see just how much it cost to put in on mile of highway and you'll soon see why. sorry a lot of you can't afford a beach front home, but if you can't afford one here I am betting there is no where else in the world you could either.
this place isn't perfect, you name me one place that is, betting you can't do that either. I hate a lot of stuff here but the good does top the bad by a long shot.
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