www.facebook.com surviveandthrivetv.com I talk with an old friend who has left to New Zealand and the current things I am thinking about. Why are Americans leaving the US. What are the fears for the future. How is the weather, illnesses developing from an on the ground perspective. We also discuss food in America and it's negative effects, as well as the hypnotic effects of television. On the Hypnotic Effects of Television (Google) politics.usnews.com A Growing Trend of Leaving America By some estimates 3 million citizens become expatriates a year, but most not for political reasons By JAY TOLSON Posted: July 28, 2008 PANAMA CITY, PANAMA—Dressed in workout casual and sipping a soda in one of the apartment-style rooms of Los Cuatro Tulipanes hotel, Matt Landau appears very much at home in Panama. One might even be tempted to call him an old hand were he not, at age 25, so confoundingly young. Part owner of this lovely boutique hotel in Panama City's historic Casco Viejo, he is also a travel writer (99 Things to Do in Costa Rica), a real estate marketing consultant, and editor of The Panama Report, an online news and opinion monthly. Between fielding occasional calls and text messages, the New Jersey native is explaining what drew him here, by way of Costa Rica, after he graduated from college in 2005. In addition to having great weather, pristine beaches, a rich melting-pot culture, a reliable infrastructure, and a clean-enough legal system, "what Panama is all about," he ...