How to write a title tag for content containing compound ideas?

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  Chuck Bolotin: How should I write a title tag for content containing compound ideas?
  
  I have a Q & A section of my site, where there could be a question like “What are the best and worst things about living and retiring in Boquete?”
  
  The question becomes the H1 tag.
  
  The reason I write the question this way is that I want to rank for the following keywords:
  
  Best things about living in Boquete
  Worst things about living in Boquete
  Best things about retiring in Boquete
  Worst things about retiring in Boquete
  
  How should I write the title tag?
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  Greg Baka: Typical target for the number of characters in a Title tag is 55. So either of these would cover your desired phrases:
  
  All about living and retiring in Boquete | Best & Worst
  
  Living and retiring in Boquete | The best & worst things
  
  Couple of thoughts...
  1. Is there only one Boquete in the world? If not, you may want to add the country.
  2. How confident are you about people's use of the word "things" when researching? An alternative word could be "part" or the phrase "pros and cons" (replace both best things and worse things)
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  Chuck Bolotin: That was great, Greg. Thanks.  ;I appreciate your expertise and full answer. It's helped me a lot.
  
  There is only one Boquete in the world.
  
  You're right about "things"; its a useless word.  ;Given what you wrote, I'm considering this to be the best title tag:
  
  Boquete living & retiring: best & worst
  
  Please critique my reasoning:
  
  1. I would put "Boquete" first because there is less competition for it then "living and retiring", and my content is only about Boquete.
  
  2. Instead of making a separate keyword out of "Best & Worst", wouldn't it be better to put something like a ":", so that Google knows that what follows is not a new keyword, but rather, a modifier to "Boquete living & retiring"?
  
  3. What is your opinion on using "&" or "and"; which is better?
  
  Thanks again.  ;I appreciate your insights.
  
  
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  Greg Baka: Hi +Chuck Bolotin ; - ; yours changes make sense. About your questions:
  
  1. Good
  
  2. The title is BOTH for humans to read, and for the Google algorithm. It will be the primary thing people see when your search result appears, so it should make sense at a glance AND entice them to click. Use as many of your 55 characters as makes sense. I assume your customers are older, which means they are trained to read a sentence-like structure, so I suggest this sort of change:
  Boquete living and retiring. The best and worst. ; (48)
  Boquete - living and retiring. The best and worst. (50)
  Boquete living and retiring. The best and worst things. (55)
  
  3. I only use & when I have to (when I hit 55 characters), or when it is normal, like in "Johnson & Johnson" or "Bartles & James" or "Turks & Caicos" or "Smith & Wesson" ; ;-)