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‘Pack Up and Get Out’: Nicaraguan Unrest Shakes U.S. Expat Community
Wall Street Journal ^ | July 20, 2018 | John Otis

Posted on 07/20/2018 9:16:21 AM PDT by C19fan

After decades teaching social studies at a California high school, Noel Correa moved to Nicaragua, buying a home on the outskirts of this colonial city. Then, the country he chose as his retirement paradise began to unravel.

“We were just getting settled when the fighting broke out,” said Mr. Correa, 67, who arrived here with his wife in December. “Now we are in limbo.”

So are many other expats caught up in a three-month-old uprising against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, whose crackdown in response has killed more than 300 people.

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KEYWORDS: expats; granada; nicaragua
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I have read articles about Americans retiring to Nicaragua to get more bang for the buck. Looks like that was a bad decision.
1 posted on 07/20/2018 9:16:21 AM PDT by C19fan
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The rule of law apparently wasn’t important...


2 posted on 07/20/2018 9:18:38 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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More here...

‘Pack Up and Get Out’

‎7‎/‎20‎/‎2018‎ ‎10‎:‎02‎:‎18‎ ‎AM · by Kartographer · 41 replies
WSJ ^ | 7/20/18 | By John Otis

3 posted on 07/20/2018 9:19:47 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: C19fan

Only a retired social studies teacher from California would think retiring to Nicaragua was a good idea.


4 posted on 07/20/2018 9:19:50 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: C19fan

Only a retired social studies teacher from California would think retiring to Nicaragua was a good idea.


5 posted on 07/20/2018 9:19:50 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: C19fan

Yet, you’ll read paradisaical prose on FR from expats in the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Panama, Mexico, etc., who never seem to think that their world can blow up.


6 posted on 07/20/2018 9:22:06 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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My wife and I are both 64. We read all the articles about ex-patriating to live like a king and queen. But people forget that these countries don’t have the stability of the US, nor the undying love/protection of American citizens.

So we did the next best thing. We “ex-patriated” from seattle to a farm in south-central Kentucky. The cost of living for retirees is a fraction of what it is in Seattle. And a huge part of that benefit is the taxes.


7 posted on 07/20/2018 9:24:16 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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The rule of law apparently wasn’t important...

A preview of where the U.S. is headed, then.

8 posted on 07/20/2018 9:25:43 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Yes I’ve read quite a few reports from people on this site, who have retired outside the US.

They are dependent on the stability of the countries they have settled in.


9 posted on 07/20/2018 9:26:53 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: C19fan

There is also some cheap land in Hawaii with volcano view.


10 posted on 07/20/2018 9:27:46 AM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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p11

No retired California Social Studies teachers in Costa Rica...

11 posted on 07/20/2018 9:27:47 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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I’m being presumptuous, but you got to love these liberals and their twisted mindsets.


12 posted on 07/20/2018 9:27:54 AM PDT by MGunny
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To: Lurkinanloomin

LOL! Yeah, a single white female who lives in a tiny house with fifty cats.


13 posted on 07/20/2018 9:28:09 AM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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14 posted on 07/20/2018 9:30:02 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Splodeyhead is the only cure for MAGAphobia)
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To: miss marmelstein
Thailand has a long history of stability (except for the Muslim menance in the south), ditto places like Costa Rica and Belize.

Some of the others need to be considered very carefully, particularly if they have a history of flirtation with Communism within the last 50 years or so . . . which pretty much describes Nicaragua.

If you still insist on going to such places, then rent, don't buy. Let your local landlord take the risk of when TSHTF.

Sadly, the last bit of advice would apply to more than a few places in the USA as well.

15 posted on 07/20/2018 9:34:12 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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Don’t forget that Ortega was Jimm Carter’s good buddy as well. And the U.S. Congress once the Democrats took control in the 1988 mid-terms. All we heard about was Iran-Contragate for the last two years of the Reagan administration.


16 posted on 07/20/2018 9:40:18 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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Before I would even consider leaving he US, I would want to know about health care and their stance on guns. Most all of the countries I would even consider fall flat on the guns issue.


17 posted on 07/20/2018 9:41:07 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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Yet, you’ll read paradisaical prose on FR from expats in the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Panama, Mexico, etc., who never seem to think that their world can blow up.

I won't retire to anywhere I can't be armed the way I am now. Hell, I'm loathe to even go to states where I can't be armed. Right now, New Mexico has pretty favorable gun laws, but things may (probably will) change if Lujan-Grisham gets in as our Gov in the fall, as the Donks own the house and senate here, and have attempted gun grabs in the past.

18 posted on 07/20/2018 9:42:10 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: cuban leaf

We don’t like fellers like you movin’ here. I bet you own shoes and gots most of yer teeth. You better watch yerseff.


19 posted on 07/20/2018 9:43:27 AM PDT by JusPasenThru (We have a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem.)
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To: cuban leaf
We “ex-patriated” from seattle to a farm in south-central Kentucky. The cost of living for retirees is a fraction of what it is in Seattle.
I can relate to that; even moving from Long Island, NY to central PA (near a daughter and grandchildren) made a big difference.

20 posted on 07/20/2018 9:43:32 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)
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