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Panama City: great food, green modern city and domesticated raccoons (crazypeople.online)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [M] to c/bitofarambler@crazypeople.online
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very green city, beautiful trees everywhere.

I just got to Panama City, Panama yesterday, buses are a flat $0.25 regardless of distance and the Metro is a flat $0.50 regardless of distance.

took the train for ~8 mi into town to get to my hotel for $0.50.

ate at a Korean BBQ buffet and saw a bunch of mapaches(raccoons) that apparently live along the Pacific Coast here.

with all the fashionable dress, performing arts theaters and bodegas around, it feels a lot like a casual New York City, moreso than any other central city I've been in abroad so far.

it has that "yeah, we're killing it" vibe.

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[–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

lots for me to think about here, thanks.

I didn't even know there was a floridian Panama City until yesterday.

I definitely don't know what it's famous for or how culturally relevant it is, do you think anyone outside of US Americans would think of PC Florida before the Panamanian Panama City?

I do mention the Pacific Ocean, which feels like a solid identifier.

you know what, I don't think I like writing the word Panama twice so close to each other, it feels like I'm making a mistake.

since that's a bad reason not to be more clear, I added a Panama in the body paragraph for clarification.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not sure if the initial poster is joking but "foreigner" here and there's no chance anyone would think of the American version before the original, for that very reason.

    Now, if someone said "Boston" I'm in the UK so would think we're referring to the original town in the UK but would assume pretty much every other non-American would think of Boston, Mass.

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