Check Out Minera , Canadian copper mining project here , should employ 18,000 people & run for 125 years , it is run from Vancouver . Also you could work overseas in the patch & work 1 month on ,one off as many of our clients do . That was my initial plan when we moved here as I had a job lined up in Lybia but Qadaffi started killing everyone there about 2 months before we moved down . Rigzone posts about 700 jobs / week world wide in the oil industry too . We found that there is a lot of opportunity in Panama inself , the economy is booming here growing at 11% / year , no unemplyment & supposedly over 50,000 unfilled jobs , creating your own work here pays far better for the most part but anyone with skills is in demand & the cost of living is very low comparatively . banks pay 5-5.5% on term deposits & credit unions pay as high as 8.5%. Many new constrution houses & buildings have a 20 year property tax exemption for example . we have about 16 years left on our house . We live about a 10 min walk to the Pacific & 10 min drive into the montains behind us , there are numerous different climates here , tons to explore & do here .
Why I did not do this 20 years ago .......