Flyboy27
2/5/2017 22:14 EST
Hello expats, I'm new to the forum, but have been reading up on Ecuador for awhile. I'm 3 years from retirement in the states yet, but, rounding the 4th turn for home, looking to get out of estados unidos for a lower cost of living. Looks like Cuenca would be a great place to start. Rather large expat community which is good. Would like to know where and when local expats hook up. I'm learning spanish now and would want to take in the Ecuadorian culture. I think that is the right thing to do. Definitely want to be on the good side of the Ecuadoreans. Are there specific neighborhoods or areas of Cuenca that an expat should avoid when looking to settle there? Would need access to a good vitamin/health food store that carries CoQ10, amino acids and a good all around multi-vitamin/mineral combination. As long as I can get these nutrients, and take them daily, I won't need any heart prescription medication. Heart issues do run in my family. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Craig W.
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windshadow
2/6/2017 00:06 EST
Flyboy27,
If I read your post correctly you are interested in Cuenca in about 3 years plus from now?
Well "IF" nothing changes you could go to Fabiano's on Friday evening around 5:30. If breakfast is your style, and nothing changes, try Sunrise on Wednesday mornings.
Now for the real truth, three years seems like a long time to predict where you might "hook-up". Take a few vacations and travel here and see what you like and don't like. It is not as if you don't have plenty of time to find out the answers you are looking for. Heck, maybe there will be vitamins more suitable to your liking by then, like ......
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stevenlloyd
2/6/2017 13:21 EST
I’m in a similar boat – about two or three years (or one bad week at work) away from retirement. I have researching Ecuador for some time now, but we’ve made plans for our first “boots on the ground” exploratory trip in January/February this upcoming year (and intend to spend every following winter doing the same). We plan to spend six weeks and hope to spend some time in Cuenca, Loja, and Vilcabamba before making it to the coast to spend some time there. We still have a lot we want to learn before we get there (information on getting around, where to go, what to do, etc.) and we’re really hoping to hook up with some of you ex-pats once we are down there; maybe share lunch or a drink and hear your stories. Still ten months away but soon enough to start getting more serious about our planning I figure. We’re getting very excited.
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Grasshopper
2/7/2017 05:04 EST
@WS
Hey, Shadow... man, i'm trying to remember the name of restaurant/bar on the edge of El Centro.. help me out, here - you probably know it.
Ok, first off,I can't remember the name of the road, damnit, but it is that road that runs along the river - parallel with Calle Large, but down the hill? It's on the el centro side of rio tomabamba and this restaurant is on this road, across the street from the river.
Ok, a better set of directions:
- you know the wide set of stone steps that go down from Calle Large to the newish bridge that crosses the river - it is the set on the right about a block past the Espresso Bean (old Coffee Tree).. and halfway own the steps on the right is that walled in bar called "Wunderbar".
if you walk down the steps all the way and take a right on that riverside road, there is nice place on the right a couple of blocks down. Its the place that has bbq like say, North Carolina style BBQ ork, various sandwiches and a good selection of beers and drinks.
It's gringo geared (and maybe owned for all I know) Do you know where I am trying, (badly) to describe?
Hopper
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EcuadorDean
From: Ecuador
2/20/2017 07:38 EST
If you have heart issues why would you want to live at the altitude of Cuenca? It would be better at the coast for you.
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windshadow
2/20/2017 09:46 EST
Ecuador Dean,
I have heard the same things about altitudes effect on the heart and thickness of the blood.
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