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    Altos del Maria trip

    Today took a trip to ADM in the afternoon to scout the place up. The road leading up is beautiful and will pop your ears more than once. Once arriving to the gates you are facing 30+degree slopes and inclines with a few sharp turns to spice things up should you be bored. The place is breath taking both in the esthetical sense and literally being so high up. It is a perfect place to get away to on a weekend but hardly somewhere you can live with children as a daily commute to anywhere let it be a store or school will require at least an hour of going up and down on double black diamond grade roads four times a day. I bet I would need new brakes every three months not to mention the amount of fuel needed to climb K2 on the daily basis would be astounding. It is a wilderness and if I get old and rich where I can have people runing my errands I will buy a place up there.
    I saw a small and shitty food store a bit down from the entrance but that was about it. From inside the community depending which part you are at it may take half an hour to make it to the gates. From there about 45 mins to Coronado where decent stores are found.
    In any case if they figure out to beam people around a'la Star Trek I might change my mind about moving there. Since El Valle is right next door I expect it to be pretty much the same proposition but will drive up there tomorrow. I wish there was a place with a mountain environment that was a bit easier to get to and closer to schools and stores.
    Maybe Boquette or Penome? Maybe Cerro Azul?

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    Re: Altos del Maria trip

    Your assessment of Altos del Maria is spot on. Too far from amenities including the hospital for emergencies. Just to drive to the entrance gate seems to take forever going up and down in first gear. El Valle has many stores and restaurants, a much better choice. Consider La Laguna only 20 minutes from Coronado. No amenities up there also, but the trek to Coronado is short. Penonome is not highlands and therefore hot. You need to go past La Pintada to get any elevation or 30 minutes out. Boquete, like El Valle has a lot of amenities nearby and may be a good choice for you. Good luck with your search.

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    Re: Altos del Maria trip

    I don't mind going down double black diamonds on skis. It sounds like people buy a house up there, go for walks, read a few books and hope to die more quickly, just like Cerro Azul.

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    Re: Altos del Maria trip

    The eternal romantic optimist in you can't stay out of this eh?

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    Re: Altos del Maria trip

    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Stressalot View Post
    Today took a trip to ADM in the afternoon to scout the place up. The road leading up is beautiful and will pop your ears more than once. Once arriving to the gates you are facing 30+degree slopes and inclines with a few sharp turns to spice things up should you be bored. The place is breath taking both in the esthetical sense and literally being so high up. It is a perfect place to get away to on a weekend but hardly somewhere you can live with children as a daily commute to anywhere let it be a store or school will require at least an hour of going up and down on double black diamond grade roads four times a day. I bet I would need new brakes every three months not to mention the amount of fuel needed to climb K2 on the daily basis would be astounding. It is a wilderness and if I get old and rich where I can have people runing my errands I will buy a place up there.
    I saw a small and shitty food store a bit down from the entrance but that was about it. From inside the community depending which part you are at it may take half an hour to make it to the gates. From there about 45 mins to Coronado where decent stores are found.
    In any case if they figure out to beam people around a'la Star Trek I might change my mind about moving there. Since El Valle is right next door I expect it to be pretty much the same proposition but will drive up there tomorrow. I wish there was a place with a mountain environment that was a bit easier to get to and closer to schools and stores.
    Maybe Boquette or Penome? Maybe Cerro Azul?
    oh come on , we all know that you retired with a truckload of loot . and Robinson will build you a nice 4 place helicopter for as little as $500,000 LOL and you could earn some back by doing medi flights for all the old people up there . your in the money LOL .ok serious,. if you want some elavation go look around Ocu it is in Herrera province , on top of there little mountains about 1/2 drive down to Chitre on a good road , and this area gets way less rain that just about anywhere else in panama .no ocean view but beautiful views of the hills and valleys .well worth the trip before you decide where to hang your hat . and although those selling in gated communities hate to hear this it is very safe living in a small town on the same street as the locals . percentage wise very few in panama live the gated community lifestyle . unless they have been feed a truckload of bull .

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    Oco sounds like a great stop before you fill up on prescription sleeping aids on your front porch - shotgun in lap out of consideration for your maid who visits weekly and will discover the body.

    Close to Chitre as well: http://www.panamaforum.com/living-pa...os-santos.html (Chitre, Herrera, Panama - The Buttplug of Los Santos)

    That's where they will store your body before shipping it out 8-9 years later when the paperwork is done and your attorneys have wiped clean your accounts.

    Quote Originally Posted by nakedguydb View Post
    oh come on , we all know that you retired with a truckload of loot . and Robinson will build you a nice 4 place helicopter for as little as $500,000 LOL and you could earn some back by doing medi flights for all the old people up there . your in the money LOL .ok serious,. if you want some elavation go look around Ocu it is in Herrera province , on top of there little mountains about 1/2 drive down to Chitre on a good road , and this area gets way less rain that just about anywhere else in panama .no ocean view but beautiful views of the hills and valleys .well worth the trip before you decide where to hang your hat . and although those selling in gated communities hate to hear this it is very safe living in a small town on the same street as the locals . percentage wise very few in panama live the gated community lifestyle . unless they have been feed a truckload of bull .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Contrail View Post
    Oco sounds like a great stop before you fill up on prescription sleeping aids on your front porch - shotgun in lap out of consideration for your maid who visits weekly and will discover the body.

    Close to Chitre as well: http://www.panamaforum.com/living-pa...os-santos.html (Chitre, Herrera, Panama - The Buttplug of Los Santos)

    That's where they will store your body before shipping it out 8-9 years later when the paperwork is done and your attorneys have wiped clean your accounts.
    but we all know Ed and the many great things he says about everywhere in panama , in fact alot of us believe you are his brother as we know telllucy is his sister , LOL

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    Maybe you should ask Scotty to beam your nutsack up from the floor so that you have your balls back and dare to speak the truth about Panama.

    The interior is great if you have an Unabomber type personality, and Panama City is great for Ted Bundy types.

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    but we all know Ed and the many great things he says about everywhere in panama , in fact alot of us believe you are his brother as we know telllucy is his sister , LOL

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    Re: Altos del Maria trip

    U crack me up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Contrail View Post
    Maybe you should ask Scotty to beam your nutsack up from the floor so that you have your balls back and dare to speak the truth about Panama.

    The interior is great if you have an Unabomber type personality, and Panama City is great for Ted Bundy types.
    boy you sure like showing everyone how big a loser you real are , if you hate it so bad why are you here ? not enough common sence to move on , or your mum wont let you leave home yet , you are one sad example of a human , oh i forgot , you can not find anyone to fix that shitbox you drive . , so i guess we are stuck with you , loser

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    Very simple, because I was lied to (maybe at a frequency of 80 times of what I have experienced before) and I lack a corrupt personality. I am not for sale like you and the rest of them who are stuck. I don't need to leave right now.

    Have you observed that you have a great problem with facts, just like Panamanians? Whenever I hit the spot you just scream about random stuff like a little baby. Why is that?

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    boy you sure like showing everyone how big a loser you real are , if you hate it so bad why are you here ? not enough common sence to move on , or your mum wont let you leave home yet , you are one sad example of a human , oh i forgot , you can not find anyone to fix that shitbox you drive . , so i guess we are stuck with you , loser

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    Quote Originally Posted by Contrail View Post
    Very simple, because I was lied to (maybe at a frequency of 80 times of what I have experienced before) and I lack a corrupt personality. I am not for sale like you and the rest of them who are stuck. I don't need to leave right now.
    well there you go LOL , if you had do some leg work and not believed everything the the likes of IL told you . and i am not for sale , i am very happy in my retirement , oh i forgot you are still workin for the man , LOL , and you mosy likely cant leave as you need the loot to fix that shitbox you drive , ( when it not broken down ) it must suck to hate where you are in your life , still working , somewhere you hate and reporting to a boss . LOL

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    So you should be encouraging me to speak the truth then and not asking me to leave. You make no sense at all.

    Why do you want a forum like IL where everyone is lying about Panama?

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    well there you go LOL , if you had do some leg work and not believed everything the the likes of IL told you . and i am not for sale , i am very happy in my retirement , oh i forgot you are still workin for the man , LOL , and you mosy likely cant leave as you need the loot to fix that shitbox you drive , ( when it not broken down ) it must suck to hate where you are in your life , still working , somewhere you hate and reporting to a boss . LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by Contrail View Post
    So you should be encouraging me to speak the truth then and not asking me to leave. You make no sense at all.

    Why do you want a forum like IL where everyone is lying about Panama?
    i never said i wanted a forum like IL , i said if you had done your homework instead of going to their meetings then you have known , speaking the truth is good , but have you ever said one good thing about panama ? anyway i must go for the night , but remember it is sunday night so set your alarm as you dont want to be later for work , the boss might just run your ass down the road , and panama only needs so many pooper scooper salesmen , and seeing that is your total life knowledge just what would you then LOL , chat to you next sunday , your next day off . its been fun LOL

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    Re: Altos del Maria trip

    Sooo, you two should get a room. You sound like a couple married for 25 years.
    Back to ADM I haven't made it to El Valle but will do in a couple of days. Tomorrow I tackle the task of buying a car if I find one and looking at a property in Las Lajas next to Coronado courtesy of Jake from above.

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    Re: Altos del Maria trip

    Actually, we all know why you like Panama. Sex with underage women unavailable to you in your country of origin (a civilized country). You enjoy taking young women out to dinners for what amounts to what they could save in 2-3 months if working really hard. This really impresses them and you can enjoy your deviant bedroom behavior to the fullest with these whores that you think are ladies. In reality they have the mental state of a 4th or 5th grader in your own country, but the testosterone releases and ape beats to your chest makes you big and great in your mind. Like a real statesman who is out in the world conquering your estate. In reality you are just a vermin preying on the undeveloped souls of a third world country thereby damaging them for life as they in the future will be the rejects of an old white man. Your discussions with these women amounts to what type of ice cream they like, what they think about working such long hours and what colors they prefer. Their fathers and mothers are the same uneducated trash and are simply just looking to inherit your money in 20-30 years - they have the time to wait. That's why you get along to well with them, you give them beers and free rides in your car, they wait for you to die and in exchange you fuck their underage and available women for the exchange of future loot.

    In a quick review of your posts you are happy to be out of the civilized word. You worked hard and never understood math nor language. Tax forms and other administrative things you never understood either and wanted to get away from and hated. It just never made sense to you since you are clearly uneducated and uncultivated with very low demands on life. You fit in well here where eating, shitting and sleeping are what preoccupy people. It helps you relax because you were stressed out back home, things were moving too quickly and you got frustrated with the government demanding things from you that you could not understand nor communicate about.

    Just so that people have some background when they read your IL inspired posts. You are in Panama, you love Panama and you promote Panama, because you are an uncultivated idiot who just learnt how to read and write. You actually love Panama for what it is, a perfect match for an uncultivated, reject who didn't fit in back home.

    It is important to make the distiction. You are here to get away from what you consided first world stress and craziness - waiting to die as retired with 60 cent beers in bars. It's paradise. You are nothing back home, here you are a big man. You like the trash of Panama because it feeds your ego.

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    i never said i wanted a forum like IL , i said if you had done your homework instead of going to their meetings then you have known , speaking the truth is good , but have you ever said one good thing about panama ? anyway i must go for the night , but remember it is sunday night so set your alarm as you dont want to be later for work , the boss might just run your ass down the road , and panama only needs so many pooper scooper salesmen , and seeing that is your total life knowledge just what would you then LOL , chat to you next sunday , your next day off . its been fun LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by Contrail View Post
    Actually, we all know why you like Panama. Sex with underage women unavailable to you in your country of origin (a civilized country). You enjoy taking young women out to dinners for what amounts to what they could save in 2-3 months if working really hard. This really impresses them and you can enjoy your deviant bedroom behavior to the fullest with these whores that you think are ladies. In reality they have the mental state of a 4th or 5th grader in your own country, but the testosterone releases and ape beats to your chest makes you big and great in your mind. Like a real statesman who is out in the world conquering your estate. In reality you are just a vermin preying on the undeveloped souls of a third world country thereby damaging them for life as they in the future will be the rejects of an old white man. Your discussions with these women amounts to what type of ice cream they like, what they think about working such long hours and what colors they prefer. Their fathers and mothers are the same uneducated trash and are simply just looking to inherit your money in 20-30 years - they have the time to wait. That's why you get along to well with them, you give them beers and free rides in your car, they wait for you to die and in exchange you fuck their underage and available women for the exchange of future loot.

    In a quick review of your posts you are happy to be out of the civilized word. You worked hard and never understood math nor language. Tax forms and other administrative things you never understood either and wanted to get away from and hated. It just never made sense to you since you are clearly uneducated and uncultivated with very low demands on life. You fit in well here where eating, shitting and sleeping are what preoccupy people. It helps you relax because you were stressed out back home, things were moving too quickly and you got frustrated with the government demanding things from you that you could not understand nor communicate about.

    Just so that people have some background when they read your IL inspired posts. You are in Panama, you love Panama and you promote Panama, because you are an uncultivated idiot who just learnt how to read and write. You actually love Panama for what it is, a perfect match for an uncultivated, reject who didn't fit in back home.

    It is important to make the distiction. You are here to get away from what you consided first world stress and craziness - waiting to die as retired with 60 cent beers in bars. It's paradise. You are nothing back home, here you are a big man. You like the trash of Panama because it feeds your ego.
    you really need to take your meds everyday , you have some serious head prolbems

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    Re: Altos del Maria trip

    It's "normal" to be able to write long passages of grammatically correct sentences. You need your head checked.

    Anyhow, back to the topic. You can climb any random hill to the north of the only road in Panama and will find the same - nothingness. Places where people go to hide and die - nothing wrong with that of course if you are into it.

    Quote Originally Posted by nakedguydb View Post
    you really need to take your meds everyday , you have some serious head prolbems

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    Quote Originally Posted by Contrail View Post
    It's "normal" to be able to write long passages of grammatically correct sentences. You need your head checked.

    Anyhow, back to the topic. You can climb any random hill to the north of the only road in Panama and will find the same - nothingness. Places where people go to hide and die - nothing wrong with that of course if you are into it.
    no you think talking about having sex with kids is (normal) , as per your posts above , i think you are just totally sick . go get yourself the help you need .

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    I am just talking about the ones under your age. So they are around 18-20 then or what do you mean? Clearly those whores are your reason for being here.

    Quote Originally Posted by nakedguydb View Post
    no you think talking about having sex with kids is (normal) , as per your posts above , i think you are just totally sick . go get yourself the help you need .

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    Re: Altos del Maria trip

    Most of the well developed places in Panama are in the hotter lowlands. PC and David for example. There aren't a lot of other options if you are needing infrastructure

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    If you don't want the sewer to come up on the street where you live for four years while the government sleeps then there is no option but to flee up into the mountains and live alone. Then your neighbor stops emptying the septic tank to save money - leaving you in another sewer after spending 400,000 dollars on the property with no legal recourse. The average Panamanian would not hesitate a second to destroy your entire property if it saved him 2 dollars. Stay safe. Stay away.

    Quote Originally Posted by Gwilson View Post
    There aren't a lot of other options if you are needing infrastructure

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    Re: Altos del Maria trip

    This forum is rapidly detreiorating.
    I am all for informed posts, but just posting negativity is a waste of time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mordekha View Post
    This forum is rapidly detreiorating.
    I am all for informed posts, but just posting negativity is a waste of time.
    This forum is almost finished.
    Some of the people posting here should be in neonazi forums, or maybe in mental hospitals.
    I don't understand why the admin isn't doing anything. Maybe he is one of "them"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Romeo View Post
    This forum is almost finished.
    Some of the people posting here should be in neonazi forums, or maybe in mental hospitals.
    I don't understand why the admin isn't doing anything. Maybe he is one of "them"?
    That is the MAIN reason I stopped posting here... could not have said it better myself. Wish that Woohoo guy
    would come back... guess he has the good sense to stay away.

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    I am fairly sure that fleeted got you toe-tagged in one of the threads. As most socialists you simply volunteered to die with the group.

    Quote Originally Posted by explorer View Post
    That is the MAIN reason I stopped posting here... could not have said it better myself. Wish that Woohoo guy
    would come back... guess he has the good sense to stay away.

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    Re: Altos del Maria trip

    contrail: I was going to call you a worthless piece of dog shit. Then I realized, just because I don't like you does not mean I should go around insulting canines, nor the poop they leave behind.

    Thank you for proving my point.

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    It was recently decided that tompoker's attorney is a worthless piece of shit since he cost him 50,000 dollars in interest for a 500 dollar kick-back from HSBC (or similar) as per the Panamanian code of ethics. So... I am afraid you need to some up with something better. This "you dog, but now I am offending the animal kingdom is a bit old".

    Quote Originally Posted by explorer View Post
    contrail: I was going to call you a worthless piece of dog shit. Then I realized, just because I don't like you does not mean I should go around insulting canines, nor the poop they leave behind.

    Thank you for proving my point.

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    Re: Altos del Maria trip

    This trip is with a lot of examples for others to follow.



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