Higher prices were especially prominent in Costa Rica. If you don’t have an investment portfolio to fuel spending in Costa Rica, it might be difficult to keep up. More than ever, I think one needs to do their homework on neighborhood-specific safety in Ecuador and Mexico. Drug cartel ...
Costa Rica Often called the “Switzerland of the Americans”, Costa Rica is considered by many as the ideal home away from home. It is the most peaceful and politically stable of all the countries in Central America, boasting a democratic system and an economic structure with an enduring tradi...
The Belize QRP is now approaching the level of the better retiree programs offered in other countries such as Panama, Mexico and Costa Rica.See Retiring To Belize – Our Story(will open in new tab) by Ray Auxillou and his wife Sylvia Pinzon De Auxillou where they recount why they decided...
Another handy, money-saving way to use Wise is when receiving your pension from the UK. Use your bank and you could lose some of your hard-earned savings to high fees and terrible exchange rates. But use Wise to receive pension payments in GBP, then you can convert to AUD using the re...
Buenos Aires has culture, art, and shopping comparable to what can be found in a European city, but your U.S. dollars stretch a lot further when converted to pesos rather than euros. The cost of living decreases even more when you leave the capital city and head inland for destinations ...
That way, your money will be converted at the real exchange rate - the same one you’ll find on Google - and that should put more money back in your pocket. Where should you live? As the country’s business powerhouse, Zurich is also the hub for culture, arts, food, and nightlife....
The weather cons Would these be boots my daughter would wear or me? You’ll never know for sure! However, it’s not all peaches and cream. No location is perfect and that includes Panama. It rains there… a lot. In fact, they don’t have summer and winter there. They have the rai...
We’re keeping up with things here and if we sense something major on the horizon, we’ll get out hopefully before the @#% hits the fan. We don’t own a home here and we’re relatively close to the Costa Rica border. We also keep a good amount of cash on hand just in case we...
Ireland has a mild climate that is consistent across the island. The average temperature is 18°C (65°F) in the summer and 3°C (37°F) in the winter. It does, however, rain 150 days a year. The Irish are famous for their pubs, which are institutions not merely for drinking stout...