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So a lot of you guys a lot of you guys know by now we are in love with Panama that’s the whole reason why we’re moving here so we’ve talked up Panama so much you guys know a lot of the reasons why we’re moving here but I think it’s also

Very important that we talk about the not-so-good things there is no such thing as a flawless place so today as we explore around Panama City we’re gonna fill you guys in on the juicy things that aren’t so great about Panama so the first thing we’re going to talk about is

How the criminal system works So it’s been explained to us here Panama is on a Napoleonic Code losses so basically what that means is that you’re guilty until proven innocent which what we’re so used to in the States is you’re innocent until proven guilty One of the big warnings that we’ve gotten from other expats I’ve been living in Panama for a while is just to be careful who you associate yourself with and be careful who you do business with because people can use this against you we’ve heard a lot of

Rumors they’ve heard a lot of stories and nothing is all that concrete and that’s gonna lead us into our second point so the second thing that we don’t like about living in Panama is that the rules and the laws are always cheap so you guys know if you’ve been watching

Our videos that we’ve had a lot of problems we’ve had a good amount of issues since we decided to move to Panama and the funny thing is we’ve also had a lot of booked we’ve also got a lot of advice and had a lot of guidance and

I don’t think any amount of advice or guidance is gonna make the transition of moving to Panama totally seamless and we’ve learned a lot of that firsthand because we’ve had a lot of problems and what we’ve told you about these problems a lot of people are like I had no idea

That that was a thing I no idea that that was how it worked and these are people who’ve been here for 10 or 15 years so to give you guys an example when we initially decided that we wanted to move to Panama we were gonna bring our bus up to our property completely

Take it off the road never drive it again so we wouldn’t have to pay the two thousand dollars in import fees so we consulted with our attorney and at first he said that’s no problem you can easily do that I’ve known many Americans that have done that before no problem but she

Decided to look into it a little bit more to double-check for us and come to find out the law just recently changed and that’s not possible so we have to import our bus so the other thing that’s really hard is we’re trying to follow all the rules I’m driving up on the curb

We’re trying to follow all the rules we’re trying to follow all the laws we’re trying to our best to do that there’s no real resource where you can find all these laws and you can find all these rules and you can find out how all this stuff works you think it’d be

Listed on the internet somewhere but we really had to resort to word-of-mouth from other Americans or other Gringo’s and we’ve also to resort to forums and stuff on the internet and that’s not a great resource we want like a government website so what we’re learning is the

Best way to go is to have an attorney which we’ve gotten that we can bounce all these things off of and all these questions off of and then the attorney does the research and has a lot of knowledge on what the laws are with that

Being said I think we have faced a lot more challenges than the typical person the typical family moving to Panama and the reason being is because we drove with our vehicle from Costa Rica into Panama so we have our vehicle that we have to import there’s a lot more

Opportunity for things to go wrong and steps that can kind of get lost in translation during the whole process of moving so most people when they come to Panama and they move to Panama they’re flying in so in that way there are a lot more resources and a lot more people to

Help you when you’re doing it that way so the next thing that we don’t like about living in Panama is that when anything important is being done like you’re crossing the border or any important paperwork is being filled out you have to be meticulous in making sure that’s done correctly so we have

Two good examples for this number one you guys might remember is Kaylee’s passport so when we hop the border they never stamped Katie’s passport and then they allowed her to enter the country and I resulted in a thousand dollar fine for us okay they got deported unfortunately Katie got deported back to

Costa Rica I had to do the process over again and it’s because we weren’t on top of making sure everything was done correctly because we’ve never had to be that meticulous all the details that a stamp is that for so the second example is when we went to

Customs to go renew our vehicle permits be able to drive in Panama and when we had gone the woman said that we had no more days left we couldn’t renew our 30-day permit which at that point we called her attorney because we figured something was wrong so our attorney ended up

Calling the customs and he in fact knew that we had another 30 days and he was able to make it happen so it’s just you have to you can’t take everything almost at face value you have to know what the rules are and what the laws are and we

Knew we had another 30 days we called the attorney and he was able to talk to customs and make sure that we were able to drive longer which was so important to us because our vehicle as you guys know is our home we’re just waiting for

The ship over here in the distance I think it’s huge we’re just waiting for that to make its way through the canal and before we tell you about the fourth thing that we don’t like about living in Panama which is airballs around cannabis before we get

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So now to talk about juicy topic of CBD so many of you guys know I am a huge huge huge huge advocate for CBD I use it pretty much every single day to help me with anxiety and depression and it kind of sucks because there is a very gray

Area when it comes to CBD products and the legalization of using the CBD products here in Panama so the products that I usually get is a US company and it is technically illegal for me to order it and get it shipped to me here in Panama and then in terms of marijuana

For those of you that are interested it is 100% illegal here it’s considered a as in the Unites States that we’d say a class one substance so if you’re caught with marijuana you go to jail which for us is a big difference because in our state in Massachusetts it’s legal in

California it’s legal in Washington it’s legal in Oregon it’s legal and there’s so many places in the United States where it’s legal now or at least decriminalized I think the vast vast majority of the United States it’s decriminalized so you won’t go to jail for here you go right to prison So the poor thing that we’re really not crazy about with living in Panama is the gringo prices so pretty much anywhere you go in Central America there’s gonna be the regular local price and then there’s gonna be the gringo price which is obviously a lot more expensive and

This really is true when there’s no price labeled so when you go to a thing like a farmers market or maybe you go into taxi you know that you’re giving a gringo price so we know by now so we’re always trying to haggle with these guys

And it will always drop their price way way down there’s actually a time when we were in a taxi mm-hmm and you membrane yeah and there were like three other people in there with us and they I’m pretty sure we’re all locals because they all only had to pay like a dollar

It was one day all you know mo one dollar Oh even one dollar for the ride and we the guy asked us for five dollars no we said everyone else is one dollar and we gave him one dollar yeah and that’s just how it works here is the

You want to take advantage of it which in certain cases I really don’t like I understand I get it but at the same time it’s it kinda feels like they’re being taken advantage it just like the principle of it – it’s like these things it’s still are really really cheap like

Five dollars for a taxi ride it’s so really really inexpensive compared to the United States but it just feels like you’re getting a little taken advantage of So reason number seven six thing is that they’re creatures here that could kill you like this couch are dis are you pretty badly so for example there are there are some pretty gnarly snakes there’s scorpions and what is the other thing the toads became toads the cane toads which actually are nothing and

Hurt people but they could kill your dog which is pretty terrifying so what the cane toads have is if poisonous sacs on their back and if your dog goes and bites up it breaks the sack and I guess it takes him out in like 15 minutes which is just terrifying that’s probably

Our biggest fear is the cane toads I don’t like scorpions I really don’t wanna get stung by a scorpion and the snakes I’m not that worried about they exist for sure the fer-de-lance and the Viper but it’s pretty rare that you hear of anybody getting babies drink unless you’re like season 4

Is deep in the forest being responsible if that’s what is gonna happen but the cane toads are everywhere so I’m just coming out to the little patio a little Terrace on our Airbnb we got beautifulest is behind me do that guess what this cost $60 for a night

It’s beautiful let me show you a quick peek inside yes anis two bedrooms crazy so what’s the last thing that we don’t like about Panama is that there’s no recycling so all in all as much as this video is all about the things that we don’t like

About Panama and things you don’t like about living in Panama we’re moving to Panama for a reason the pros way way way way way outweigh the cons drastically and so many times while we’re filming this I was like man we are being so net such negative Nancy

But that’s kind of like what’s like the point it’s like these are the things that we don’t necessarily like or that we wish you’re different but that’s just like with any country it’s like I’m sure the place that you’re living it’s like you don’t like the mosquitoes or you

Don’t like the weather you don’t like your neighbors or whatever no such thing like I said earlier there’s no such thing as a 100% perfect smallest place so this video we just wanted to touch on the things that you know are realistic and are something that we’re dealing

With that art yeah we don’t love they’re not that big of a deal but it’s just the learning process and I guess so this is where I let you guys go super shout out to Serb struck for sponsoring this video thank you so much here what allows us to

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