That is absolutely hilarious! We have friends that retired to Ecuador. It is a phenomenally beautiful place and the cost of living is low. Unfortunately, they actually ended up coming back home after a couple of years and got a divorce. He got caught having sex with one of the maids.
The problem is that the crime rate is very high. We know of retirees who have been kidnapped and held for ransom and after the ransom was paid they were actually kidnapped again.
One has to wonder... how smart is it really to stiff people from South America who have the ability to raise $275,000. Sharon is lucky if the group she stiffed hasn't already hired someone to “take her out”. People willing to provide that type of service are inexpensive down there and most are probably willing to take a short jaunt up to LA.
I have a sneaky suspicion that is actually our U.S. tax dollars laundered through some phoney government "grant".