Posted on 07/20/2018 9:16:21 AM PDT by C19fan
I was thinking the sam thing... Why the $%^& would someone choose to live there. There are plenty of stable South and Central American nations that would have mede a much better place to retire. Costa Rica, Chile, Belize, to name a few.
I knew a woman who was looking at Mexico to retire to, and I convinced her it was a bad idea.
They may welcome you now as an exapat, but changing political winds can result in them just waking in and taking everything with no recourse...including your life.
Their lives are as shaky as “a fiddler on the roof.”
Move to a commiescum country and get bent over the barrel. Happens every time.
No sympathy from me.
What’s funny is that Wiki says Ortega moderated his communism to Drmocratic Socialism ... but Democratic Socialism is only a “yet”, a placeholder till socialism can be implemented.
It is socialism latching onto a survival strategy or a strategy to advance on the sly outside of socialism, but only for a time.
They are obviously doing something right!
Been here seven years and two months ago I finally bought a 60” zero turn. I shoulda done it the day we moved here. five acres in 2.5 hours. It’s a dang park.
Yeah - I want to retire to a sh*thole run by commies
Of course the the Democrats want the the USA to be a sh*thole run by commies, but at least here I can live in the country and have guns
Visited a friend in backwoods Tennessee recently, wonderful place, I need to figure out if I could swing it.
If I could just figure out how to live comfy and get my monthly expenses (including transportation, *taxes*, etc) below 2K/mo, I would so kiss the rat race goodbye.
(Sadly, while my house is paid off, between insurance and TX property taxes, my house isn’t paid off, Tax/Ins is 5K+ a year, and I don’t have a McMansion)
No sympathy for any Leftist or cheapskate who retires to a 3rd work S***hole and then the country turns on you.
Where I live, taxes on a home like mine with the acreage are around $500 annually. Less if you are over 65. And the monthly payment on a 15 year mortgage is about twice that.
Of course, we have our $100 a month power bill, including HVAC air conditioning, and our $25 a month water bill. So it’s not free.
Oh, and insurance is a bit high since the nearest fire hydrant is five miles away. That will run you around $100 a month or a little less.
But you do the math...
Goats might be handy too. LOL
“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.”
sounds like this government school teacher didn’t learn his lessons very well ... no doubt neither did his students ...
I spent quite a bit of time down there and in Granada met dozens and dozens of expats-—almost all retired military or law enforcement most of whom carried legally everywhere (residents an easily get a cc permit) and were far from liberal
It’ll be rough for a bit but when Ortega is ousted things will turn back around
Only a retired social studies teacher from California would think retiring to Nicaragua was a good idea.
You could probably add NYC/Seattle and Portland to the above.
Get out while you can and consider yourself lucky.
Americans should not be there. Do not go retire in a place unless it has a stable, functional, non-corrupt, free-market, unbiased government. Ulp. That doesn’t give you many choices!
Old news. My wife works at a University, they had a student on a Fulbright scholarship who the US State Department evacuated from Nicaragua over two months ago because it was just too dangerous in that country.
I and my wife have visited Nicaragua about 10 years ago. I was a very poor country with most people out side of cities living a subsistence agriculture lifestyle. The largest employer was either the military or police, who were everywhere. At the time the economy was keep going with loans and aid from Venezuela, which was rich with oil money. That dried up and so did the economy.
I’ve spent considerable time in Thailand...and if it weren’t for my kids, I would retire there.
Most don’t know that Thailand isn’t a third world country.
Additionally, most don’t know that the Military and Police run the country. Yup the Military reports directly to the King....which the people of Thailand nearly worship.
But, I think Thai Food is the nectar of the Gods....LOL
If any country in the far east is stable, its Thailand.
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