In La Ventana, where I live, you can find homes for US $500 a month to $3,500. For a $500 a month, you’ll get a little one-bedroom house or a studio that is not on the beach. For $1,000 you could get a studio condo at Club Cerralvo, which is a condominium project development with forty-four condos. It’s new and they are just finishing it up. It has a beautiful swimming pool and a nice view. .png)
Fire danger is somewhat less here in Nicaragua than in the US because a lot of the construction is cement block and concrete. But fires do happen, and the firefighters are good at what they do. 
When we moved to Belize, I drove down my truck loaded with stuff, and a neighbor donating a small bus to Belize allowed me to use some of the bus for bringing a few extra things, probably a small trailer's worth. In the few years leading up to the full time move, we brought down suitcases jammed. We brought the following: dishes, pots and pans, limited artwork and pictures, computer, tools, Honda mower, cordless tools, a few select pieces of furniture, TV, sound dock, digital....jpg)
I am very happy to answer this question because the police in Portugal are not corrupt at all. There is no corruption on that level in Portugal. I would highly recommend that people do not try any Latin American or African tricks of trying to slip in dollar notes into a driver’s license or any funny business like that because that doesn’t work in Europe. That is completely frowned upon and you could well be arrested if you do something like that. If you are coming to...Living in Jocotepec, on the Shores of Lake Chapala: Beauty, Free Enterprise, and Some Cupcakes
If you’re like me, with typical middle-class US suburban experiences and sensibilities, when you first arrive at Jocotepec, you are confronted with several things that just don’t seem right. For starters (and this is not unusual for Mexico), what was to be our home for the next 10 days did not have any internal hallways. All the rooms were placed at the far rear of the property, closest to the mountains, so that the back wall of each room was...
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