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[quote=Anonymous]OP you're looking for a needle in a haystack that likely doesn't even exist.  Or, if it does exist, it's in a bubble and is totally inauthentic.

Most ex pats from the USA living in small towns far removed from the big cities are either retirees without a lot of money or weirdos (also without money).  Most can't be bothered to learn the language and don't mix with the local community.  And most, like you appear to be contemplating, choose to send their kids to schools largely with other non-locals and not primarily in Spanish and avoid true immersion.  The resulting segregation defeats the whole purpose of living there in the first place.

Virtually all of the places being recommended here are touristy/ex pat havens that are pushing locals out and raising prices up.  Bocas del Toro is overrun by gringos, for example.  So is San Miguel.

The last place you want to go to find what you're looking for is DCUM.  To them Latin America is a big theme park.

If your young son is in an immersion program here, why do you have to go private there and with a bunch of expats?  Just put him in a local school already.  THAT'S how you immerse, and it opens up all kinds of options for you for where to live.

It doesn't sound to me that you want to truly immerse at all.  You just want to play around.  [/quote]

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