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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
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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.
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posted on
07/20/2018 9:16:21 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
The rule of law apparently wasnt important...
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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.)
To: C19fan
To: C19fan
Only a retired social studies teacher from California would think retiring to Nicaragua was a good idea.
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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)
To: C19fan
Only a retired social studies teacher from California would think retiring to Nicaragua was a good idea.
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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)
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.
To: C19fan
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.
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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.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
The rule of law apparently wasnt important...A preview of where the U.S. is headed, then.
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posted on
07/20/2018 9:25:43 AM PDT
by
Major Matt Mason
(The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
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.
To: C19fan
There is also some cheap land in Hawaii with volcano view.
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posted on
07/20/2018 9:27:46 AM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
(Free)
To: C19fan
No retired California Social Studies teachers in Costa Rica...
To: Lurkinanloomin
Im being presumptuous, but you got to love these liberals and their twisted mindsets.
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posted on
07/20/2018 9:27:54 AM PDT
by
MGunny
To: Lurkinanloomin
LOL! Yeah, a single white female who lives in a tiny house with fifty cats.
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posted on
07/20/2018 9:28:09 AM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: C19fan
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posted on
07/20/2018 9:30:02 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Splodeyhead is the only cure for MAGAphobia)
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.
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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?)
To: Delta 21
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.
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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?)
To: Vigilanteman
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.
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posted on
07/20/2018 9:41:07 AM PDT
by
Mouton
(The media is the enemy of the people.)
To: miss marmelstein
Yet, youll 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.
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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.)
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.
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posted on
07/20/2018 9:43:27 AM PDT
by
JusPasenThru
(We have a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem.)
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.
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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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