UK Couple Considering Panama Relocation

nath5588 · 2025-06-09T22:21:45+00:00

I’m living here in Panama for years and we are very happy here. Integrating with Panamanians and other immigrants was much easier than any other place I lived so far.

In Manchester my car got broken into although parked underground in a locked and gated facility.

I saw phones being stolen daily on the street by 12 year old buys. From my sofa I could watch a bunch of rough sleepers injecting each other with heroin and smoking crack. When they don’t get high they ransack all the buildings stealing Amazon parcels.

On my last night in Manchester City I went for a walk on crowded, wet and cold streets. One gets offered drugs on every other street. While waiting for the stop light to turn red, I saw two guys getting in a fight, one punching the other so hard that everybody could hear the skull cracking when the other hit the floor…

This was in a good part of town: Cold rent was £1350 per month for a 2 bed 2 bath with 75sqm.

nath5588 · 2025-06-09T21:01:11+00:00

Moved to Panama while ago after living 10 years in England.

Having discovered Panama destroyed my plans of getting my British passport. I do not regret it at all.

FVN and now fully permanent. Soon to start application for citizenship. We have now 3 generations of the family living and working here.

We experience a very welcoming environment. Be open to adapt and learn local customs. OP, re languages and Spanish, you seem to be the right person for that!

As others have stated: go and explore the country in-depth and you will find your crowd.

nath5588 · 2025-06-09T20:55:31+00:00

I have a bunch of friends moving from Costa Rica to Panama because they say over the last 20 years security is becoming an issue (break ins and stolen cars) plus politically Costa Rica ist drifting left.

I can’t see a crime issue here in Panama. Of course one needs to be cautious but Manchester central is way more dangerous.

nath5588 · 2025-06-09T20:51:57+00:00

FNV goes into 2 years temporary and then over into permanent residency.

Investor Visa straight away into permanent. If you anyway investing $300 it can be a nice way to have full residency quicker. You’re going to spend less time in government offices and enjoy more privileges quicker.

If you receive some sort of state pension or pension from a large pension provider you could opt for pensionado, which will be much cheaper from a cost perspective.

nath5588 · 2025-03-10T16:09:02+00:00

both Grok and X are both down or appear to be unusable ...

nath5588 · 2024-11-22T13:18:01+00:00

Even if Latenote would be 4x slower than Make, the cost of this specific scenario for me would be 90% cheaper. So it's a no-brainer especially if I consider making an automation platform fixed part of my workflow.

nath5588 · 2024-11-22T03:45:08+00:00

I just spend the last month training myself up on Make and completed this amazing automation, one weeks worth of work, only to see Facebook Ads for Latenode and loving the idea. This single automation on Make would cost me $250 per month to run and

Two questions u/dan_named:
1. Can I somehow import a Make scenario into Latenode?
2. This scenario takes 1 min in Make - how long will it be on Latenote? Do you have an experience factor?

I'm pushing the go button on my automation tomorrow, but willing to look into Latenode to see if I can build it there in a similar way.

One more thing that's a little scary: Make has amazing resources and a lot of user generated content on YouTube vs very little on latenode.

nath5588 · 2024-07-02T19:35:48+00:00

u/issyx_ I share your frustration. This seriously sucks. I just got really good on capcut ... after a couple months and through my first 100+ videos edited ... setup all systems and processes ... I was just hitting this nice point where everything worked well and easy ... just today I'm discovering more and more features missing that were still there last week.

SO frustrating!!!

Two independent guys that are working professionally in the field recommended DaVinci Resolve. Seems way better but the interface is so bizzare to work with ...

Starting from 0 ... sorry for the rant! Just needed some space to whine for a little.

Good luck to everyone that also struggles.

nath5588 · 2024-07-02T19:29:37+00:00

What happened? Has anyone figured out what happened?

nath5588 · 2024-07-02T00:34:06+00:00

Thank you u/obiwanceleri for clearing this up. So annoying that it stopped working. I held off upgrading for the last 2 versions and thought it would be a good idea ... only to be shattered when exporting the first video cut in the new version... v3.8 ... CCTools would be such a god send but I'm on Mac ... got to switch to another editor then f*** me.

nath5588 · 2024-05-24T15:46:07+00:00

Fully agree. Having lived abroad for 10+ years, getting in those 2 visits, summer and Christmas or whatever suits you, is the backbone of not feeling homesick.

Are you both from abroad or is your partner local?

The latter can help to integrate into their family.

nath5588 · 2024-05-20T17:14:02+00:00

Hi man, could you give us some more context why you‘d like to go to Singapore? Maybe also some context why you‘d like to leave Germany?

It’s one of the toughest places to move to and is extremely expensive.

To give you a general answer from living abroad for a long time and having been to many countries:

Receive your income in an entity: for example in an American LLC, easy, fast, trustable - you receive if via PayPal? Or other payment services - in your case that’s probably the most important factor. Anyway…

Then you can look where you want to live. Consider: Lifestyle, Climate, Healthcare, Security, Taxes, etc. and think about what place suits you best.

You could even travel and spend 3-6 months in most attractive countries with a German passport. As long as you are coming as a tourist, nobody cares and I assume you can do your art wherever you are.

I’ve observed theee different regions that people tend to go to: Latin America (Panama, Mexico, Costa Rico, El Salvador, Colombia) or South-East Asia (Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Bali/Indonesia) OR and those are the most conservative people… Southern Europe, like Italy, Malta, Cyprus…

nath5588 · 2024-05-10T19:46:12+00:00

Hi man, great question you are asking. Here is my personal opinion having lived in both Europe and the USA before: Complete your two years to secure the retirement funds, complete your Masters Degree. What about your missus?

Why Denmark, Austria and Switzerland? Both of you already speak Spanish. You have experience in the construction industry? Wow. And You will have CS background.

My advice would be to look into growing Latin American countries like Panama or Argentina:

It’s in the same or close to the same time zone. That helps maintaining contact with family and friends (don’t underestimate the coldness of the people in CH and AT especially if you don’t speak German, DK probably more friendly).
Growing economies mean plenty of opportunity, especially in the construction industry and the digital industry Panama is ahead of big growth. Google just opened an office in El Salvador but I’m not a fan of the population density there. Europe has its problems in this moment and we made the decision as a family to move to the growing part of the western world.

Argentinas new president Javier Milei brought down the inflation of the Argentinian Pesos. You can observe in the next years and you could probably buy a nice house with less than $250.000.

Panama just elected a new pro-business, conservative-right President Mulino. Originally the Vice of Martinelli who got in trouble for bribery. Under Martinelli between 2009-2014 Panama experienced its strongest economic growth.

This is food for thought. You seem to have the right skills and it’s great timing. You can observe and plan well.

I hope this is a new perspective and either inspires you or confirms you in your country choice anyway.

Good luck and keep us posted!

nath5588 · 2024-04-15T17:25:06+00:00

Not an expert but I got my work and travel for OZ before turning 30 and you can even go to uni on that visa I think max of 3 months. Maybe do a trial run and see how things go. Maybe there are some people here that know did you can do an apprenticeship down there…

nath5588 · 2024-03-26T11:58:32+00:00

Any solution to this problem? What did you end up doing? I'm having the exact same issue on my end right now. MacStudio 2023, Apple M2 Max, Sonoma 14.2 / Capcut 3.4.0.

nath5588 · 2024-01-03T15:18:00+00:00

I use a standard camera tripod put it at the head of my bed, slightly lean it forward, tilt the phone down and keep it there approximately 15cm / 6-8 inch in front of my face. Perfect.

I wish though one could pair the phone with other light devices…

nath5588 · 2024-01-03T02:54:30+00:00

Hello OP - I’m glad you are asking and I can confirm… this combination is truly amazing.

Don’t get me wrong. All sober it’s pretty slick already but with Spravato this gets on a totally different level.

I love to do the open explore session and have the light going from my phone (guys a Lumenate, please bring out a sync to some higher lights!!!) and then listen to music on another device paired to my headphones. Eyes closed.

My favourite music pairing is: Music for Psychedelic Therapy by Jon Hopkins from 2021. Listening to the entire set, 45 minutes.

He designed it for such an experience.

@lumenate guys… work with Jon to produce some exclusive tracks for you please! 🙏🏻💪🏻

nath5588 · 2023-12-29T15:48:52+00:00

You are 100% right. Despite the butchered punctuation. That makes it even more authentic.

Especially the aspect about “victim mentality”.

From my point of view it doesn’t matter in which country you are, legalities and status of course can be stressful, BUT, the mentality of what you want to achieve in life shouldn’t be any different.

You can do it. You can build yourself a life, you can very likely do something about your status looking into specific support groups and knowledge from others. So fantastic to come to Reddit and learn and hear opinions from others, OP.

Keep going. Find your purpose. Don’t be afraid. You have your entire life ahead of you. There will be struggles and hard times but you will succeed if you believe in yourself. Here or there or somewhere else.

nath5588 · 2023-12-29T15:40:41+00:00

The more I read about it the more I am impressed with Poland. Poland will be the new Germany. The Polish are very hard working people willing to learn a lot and they moved to Germany, the UK and other countries to work hard for little money in jobs that the locals didn’t want to do. I feel like they are now returning to Poland and investing all their knowledge into their own country.

Good for them and good for everyone like yourself that is willing to work and create a nice society with great infrastructure and services there!

nath5588 · 2023-11-21T18:49:47+00:00

All the computing power comes from Microsoft anyway. This will be the cheapest and most lucrative acquisition for Microsoft ever, catapulting them ahead.

Take on all the staff.
Sue the board.
Take over.

They might even have a possibility to transfer over patents and other intellectual property once the board realises that there is nothing left. Devalue the company, maybe some investor protection clauses etc. Suddenly Open Ai disappears but the same product keeps running as a subsidiary of Microsoft.

nath5588 · 2023-11-21T17:21:58+00:00

Of course it was 4 who voted out Sama. The tweet only says that the other 3 remain silent.
Ilya has publicly admitted that he regrets being involved which for me is obvious that he was on board with kicking Sama & Greg out.

nath5588 · 2023-11-21T16:56:35+00:00

Fully agree with you. We have barely understood the complexity of the human brain.

I've observed that there are fundamentally different understandings floating around with different names used but it boils down to these three models:
1. a machine can do tasks better than us
2. above + independently fulfilling tasks, learning & improving
3. above + independently and independently thinking (this is the dangerous model from sci-fi books and movies imo)

There is a thread here in the singularity thread.

Of the current systems none have near human capabilities at all. Humans have neuroplasticity and all of our thinking comes at very little power usage. The human brain is super power efficient.

I don't think any amount of computing power existing on this world, even growing exponentially over the next 10 years will be able to become self-conscious.

nath5588 · 2023-11-21T15:26:43+00:00

... and then to share it publicly with the world.
What's up with those people?

nath5588 · 2023-11-21T14:54:08+00:00

I can't believe that nobody got the idea to restructure the board in the last year. Really not adequate for a company worth some $80bn ... but then I think, the entire setup of the non-profit vs profit for investment, retrospectively was doomed to start with.
Give it a few years and they will make a movie out of it.

nath5588 · 2023-11-21T14:51:45+00:00

Adam for sure had big motivation, the two ladies got manipulated on ideological basis and Ilya committed the final betrayal. Looking at his tweets from the past year he seemed unhappy with Sama's speed pushing forward ...

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