Not great...not even good. All is relative to where you are now with connections.

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Probably the same as a move to anyplace else, you make it what you want it to be.

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Well, depending on your financial situation you don't have to be single very long.

The rub here is picking the right girl :)
You won't find Miss Right in a casino,, if I were to do it,, I would get religion and join a church.

Easier to live in a Gringo population center like SJdS, Granada, or even Estelí, Matagalpa, Jinotega,, in terms of making new friends and getting help moving forward.

I have a farm and have many friendly acquaintances,, but we have very little in common. Fence lines: Your pigs are in my corn again.

So,, the smaller,, more remote areas are going to be like that.

Visit, give it some time. My experience has been,, you either love it here, or you hate it. Shelley's brother came for a week, left early, called it a Green Hell.

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I agree totally with what key west said. Lived in San Juan del Sur for 4.5 years . I came to Nicaragua single and left with a baby girl. Luckily the mother let me raise our daughter here in USA with my mother instead of growing up in Nicaragua. No matter where you will go in that country you will be the new face in town and everyone will talk about you and know about you within weeks if you make a certain town your hometown. Great advice don't meet a girl in a casino or bar to say the least. There intentions will be obvious. I Did not start dating anyone until after my first year living in Nicaragua. Don't get trigger happy and fall in love in the first few weeks your there. Give it time as there are good girls there but your not going to find them in 30 days I can tell you that and the ones that throw themselves to you in the first few weeks you will know they have alternative plans.

I hope that helps

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You get interested in people and before you know it you will have lots of friends. Just be careful of the scam artists who may want to take advantage of you at every opportunity

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Easy to fall in love here, but there is such a disparity in life experiences,, education, various expectations, cultural pressures,,, that a period of vetting is in order before any commitment.

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I recommend dating a woman with a Job, An education in college, and one with a stable family as well. If not you could be cornered into taking care of more than just yourself in very short time. I would say 9 out of 10 girls are looking for a payday and not true love. I wish I could go back and do it all over again and picked a college educated career oriented woman which you can find but as I mentioned before they aren't going to find you in the first 90 days and keep your options open at first. Nica's tend to claim your theirs especially after only being with you one night. The woman will fight over you as well behind your back. It happened to me and it can ruin your reputation in town quickly as a player. Just make it real clear st first your not looking for a girlfriend or a relationship just looking for friends and maybe something down the road. I made the mistake of going after the first hot girl I ran into and then got my ego stroked and wanted to be with them all. That wasn't smart in a town I lived in for over 4 years. Just saying. Keep it real bro.

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I'm an older retired person and I absolutely love it here and would never again live in the US. It is the best move I have ever made. I came here to deliver some things on my way to India and never left,

You might try an extended vacation. Decide if you want city life, a small or medium size town or rural, then do a search for more specific interests you may have. Come down, hang out, bring plenty of patience and look around.

I was lucky enough to find the perfect place to live within two weeks and have been in the same neighborhood ever since with the kindest, most considerate neighbors ever.

Impatience, anger and especially sarcasm does not go over well and if you are prone to these your stay will be more difficult.

If you're looking to remain single women will not leave you alone. The rest should take care of itself.

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I love it here too. I was searching CA for a place to retire,, bought in Honduras but the deal fell through (luckily, it's an area that has both a gang and a Garifuna problem now).

I wound up in Nicaragua only because it was the only country I had not visited, had miles that were going to expire, and had nowhere else to go Having heard of the mean poverty, the guerillas roaming the northern hills, the Communists,, I had avoided Nicaragua.

I wound up arriving for the celebration of the revolution, and fell in love with the people. At the time the west side of "Chamuka Blvd" was a city of shacks made of plastic and cardboard boxes.

So, Nicaragua is a moving target. So much has changed in five years, or six maybe. Dynasties have been created by the Ortega crowd
with money from ....where ever, , much money has arrived in the form of remittances from the US that have buoyed the "middle class". Poverty still exists, and it's a hard life for many.

We expats are a motley crowd, consisting of everything from dreamers to drunks, rags to riches. Many go through "phases", chasing lost youth, or searching for a final, meaningful, focus in their lives.

Your options are endless.

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You forgot to mention learning Spanish.

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Don't take up a relationship with the first local female who comes your way. Hold out for a girl due to inherit a distillery, a casino, or at least a liquor store..

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At my age, I'm definitely not looking to hook up quickly with a women. It would be great if I could find someone I could connect with, but that's not a priority right now. I'm way past hanging out in bars or casinos so that would not be a problem. Just looking for a place where I can maintain a low profile and quietly check out the area. After that, who knows. Finding a decent apartment in a nice area would be all I'd be interested at first.

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Are there golf courses and what are the green fees?

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@RussellR: The 2 courses that are close to me (and the only two I am aware of) are Hacienda Iguana (9 hole course) and Guacalito (PGA rated 18 hole course and VERY nice). I don't know what Hacienda costs, but I think Guacalito is around $150. You would have to call to find out the details.

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Much depends on your interests. If you have nothing much in mind Nic. is a great place to do nothing.
If you have specific interests, Nic can be a real trap. Take the shooting sports for example. Everything here is expensive (2.5X) and inconvenient, and riddled with nanny state regulations. Drinking, on the otherhand, is quite in style and convenient, I would just recommend you take care of who you drink with if you go nitive.

When you are first here, everything is new and interesting. You came for a change of pace and you got it. But after about 4 months the new effect wears off and you need to dig in for the long haul. Spending money and building houses will kill some time, but that has its limits , too.

What do you plan to do with your time and how well can these things be done in Nic?

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elduendegranfe tells the truth. Nicaragua is a place where you have to reinvent your life. Drinking and sex take up lots of folks time, but if you want something above that, you have to look for it. The most successful expats find something to occupy their time whether it is a hobby they have always wanted -- a friend has established a wood working shop and you can hardly drag him out of it -- other people volunteer and do mucho good in communities. Getting established takes a year or so, beyond that you need to really ask yourself what will I be doing? Many long time expats watch sports on TV and drink beer with the guys day after day after day.

As to living in Nicragua, you can pick your climate, you don't need a car and you can adjust your living expenses as to the level you want. We travel mucho and it is a good place to travel from. Learning Spanish takes up some time. Outside of our house, we operate in Spanish. We live in a NIca part of town and all our neighbors are Nicas, very nice people too. Be careful of being too trusting of other expats until you get to know them. Traffic in many towns is getting to be bumper to bumper and Latinos like their noise with or without fireworks. Don't expect quiet. Trash on the streets is a real problem in many places although it is improving. Goats, cows, horses and horse carts as well as bicycles, cars, buses and trucks are all over our roads, in town and out. Don't expect to find the brands you have been buying for decades, this is a different distribution system.

Nicaragua is far from perfect, flexible people do the best. We are watching many people leave after they invest much money and time in moving here. Boredom and missing family are given as reasons. There is a group of people who cannot afford to leave. They came thinking they could live on a few hundred dollars a month and now they can't afford a plane ticket out. Prices are rising.

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