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I lived in Quito Ecuador for 4 years and I do not think highly of the country.

If you lived down on the coast it might be better weather wise and farther away from FARC.

Most the trades people I know down here make more here then back home.

For instance one buddy is a electrician in Canada and here he makes roughly 80k a year (25 hr work week)running solo on jobs. The reason why he makes more is that he pays around 300 US for taxes on his work. Average cost of a day labor worker is 8-20 US per ten to twelve hour day.

Myself I would stay away from Latin countries that use US currency since they are usually the shit hole countries. Typical puppet States that can not get their crap together enough to have their own currency or are just money laundering countries around the coke trade.

I typical Tico house can be built for around 18k. Not fancy or nothing but it is more about how you finish the inside that determines how comfy it is.

As for residency, driving and the other things you either have higher up connections in governments like myself or learn the system.

You can get for roughly 2k a shell company and a work permit from it. You can buy properties and businesses here without residency and just go to Nica every 3 months for 3 hours and stay forever on a tourist visa. Or just find a local immigration person to bribe and pay them to stamp the passport at your house.

Really digging your perspective, Hessian.

I get around $450 per month from the VA and will for the rest of my life so I'm wondering how that would set me up as an expat. I'm thinking I could retire much earlier with much less money if we retired to a place down there, similar to yours. I would LOVE to raise animals and be self sufficient in that regard.

added bonus is the place itself

sure beats winter, traffic, people, kind of thing