About Georg

Status:

Considering a Move Abroad 

Gender:

Male

Currently Lives:

Citizen Of:

United States

Some Forum Posts:

Peru: real estate brokers:

Little Paul, I'm assuming that the same rule of thumb applies there as in most of the second world; to buy a house, one would need to have all the cash, right up front. There are no mortgage loans, correct?

Peru: Budget:

Right you are, Coog. I formerly lived near Portland, OR and interviewed a couple of men who had worked on transforming rail cars to confinement cars on wheels, each capable of 110 captives per car and that was during Clinton era in 90's. Indeed, the FEMA camps are ready and the Apparatus are busily importing more poverty and chaos. The dollar is being kept afloat by ESF, Exchange Stabilization Fund, which does not report to Congress and is above any federal laws. If they ever stop bailing out the already-bankrupt Fed, the dollar will be in a downward spiral and countries wherein they raise their own food, have limited levels of consumption of resources, and some basic industries, the citizens thereof will count themselves fortunate not to be in what's left of the "West."

Peru: Sacred VAlley:

Mollie, It is possible that expats live in isolated clusters in several countries, but full disclosure, you should know that Peru has still active guerilla forces and that 17% of GDP is now from cocaine, according to National Geographic. Apparently, Columbian 'interests' have decided to 'outsource' a bit of production and distribution to nearby countries, so I do not know how this bodes of stability or personal safety in Peru, but these are factors to consider. I am certainly checking all of this, as well as visiting. Dept. of State does have a country briefing also, which is quite good and even tells you to be careful about getting into a cab in LIma as it could easily be a robbery, not a cab ride. Good luck with the horses.

Peru: Free Trade Agreement?:

Dept. of State's website lists Peru as a country with a Free Trade Agreement with U.S., supposedly a tariff free arrangement to promote trade. As such it is quite a surprise that there will be a 12.5% tariff levied on household goods brought in by an immigrant. And vitamins or herbal supplements require a doctor's writ on file with ministry of health to be permitted to import your bioflavonoids? Sounds like codex alimentarius in the most over-regulated European Union dystopias... Peru is sounding less and less desireable...

Peru: iPhone price:

If I move there. As planned, being able to order items on EBay and Amazon will be important. If, in fact, Peru's mail service routinely returns pa laces because postage was paid a road, this does not bode well for mail-ordering anything..

Panama: Costa Rica Border Problems:

Thank you, James. The hoodlums on one end, the authorities on the other- there's a big You are Not Welcome sign at Panama for US expats.

Peru: Supplements, Vitamins, etc.:

I caught a posting in Ecuador forum that Customs was going to send back an immigrant's supplements because they weighed more than 4 kilos. Has anyone found a similar problem with either initially bringing supplements in to Peru or ordering, say from Swanson or Puritan's Pride while there. I had called both companies and they reported that they both ship to Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Columbia, etc., so expats have been receiving this. Perhaps governments are just tightening controls on what is brought in initially?

Panama: bars on windows:

Being armed does not mean undisciplined shootiing. The real story is that in Mexico, where it is almost impossible for law-abiding citizens to own firearms, the thugs and cartels have millions of them. In every case where somone whose brain is fried on Prozac, Paxil, or other pychotropic monster drug or is a Manchurian Candidate, put forth by the cryptocracy to justify firearm confiscation, the nutcase, like Jim Holmes or Dylan Roof ALWAYS checks for a public venue where firearms are prohibited. Had anyone been a concealed carry person in either situation, many lives would have been saved.

Panama: Murder near Gualaca/Boquete:

This comment of yours underscores something I was told by a contact in int'l enforcement. Columbian cartels have been shifting a lot of their nefarious "business" through Panama. This has happened as US and Col navy have made an impact on shipment across the Carribean. It is having a toxic effect on Panama. The combination of lots of money for bribes and lots of young males (to quote another poster) "of a particular ethnic group" as muscle has a corrossive effect on any society. Just look at Mexico, teetering on the brink as a failed state, with a murder rate, higher in towns near the US border than Afghanistan. This forum is great. Panama is now off my short list.

Panama: Crime in Panama:

And it will be better in the US where the racial-tension-Instigator-in-Chief has tried to set off a race war at every turn. and where over a hundred milion are armed? (I'm not opposed to Second Amendment rights, btw). We have admitted and ignored gangs, such as Crips and Bloods and MS-13, who will, if what happened in Balkans or Lebanon holds true, turn into private armies. We have spend decades importing poverty and multigenerational gang members. How, exactly, will the U.S. be any "safter?"

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