Reply #116: Hubby and I are on our way to Panama tomorrow. We have to decide whether

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retirement includes a house there--or whether we're going to give up on the idea and stick with the U.S.

I'd been leaning rebuild in Chapel Hill (after our house burned down last summer)and forget Panama until
the Bear Stearns debacle last week. I now fear that the economic house of cards may come tumbling down sooner than we thought. If so, I think we're going to try to figure out a way to keep an escape hatch
open to Panama.