About johnchip

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Nicaragua: Scaremongering, or...?:

You have made it clear you idiot, So keep talking with AZt, our resident forum idiot. Keep entertaining us.

Nicaragua: rent for 2 bdrm house:

www.Encuentra24.com Is as close to a MLS you get here. You can navigate the real estate ads by town or region. Your request for 'cheapest rent' will be challenged by what level of Nica vs US standards you are willing to live with as well as the neighbors. Remember you are a guest and a gringo, you always will be here. You either challenge that and fail or embrace it and adjust. Good luck.

Nicaragua: real estate et al:

To get a preview of pricing go to Encuentra24.com as close to an MLS as you get here. There is no licenced real estate agents here. Your biggest red flag is when you say it will be a part time home. This presents you with very limited opportunities for security reasons. After exploring the different towns and focus on one, your best bet is rent. Next is to look into secured condo homes at the beach where you can even rent while not here. No matter what, take your time investing until you really know the community. You are one of a small number of gringos and always will be. This is not Sun City or Palm Beach for a retiree looking for golf or canasta partners.

Nicaragua: Relocation to Jinotega:

Your red flags: 1. need for expat community: you limit yourself to Managua, Granada, San Juan al Sur and maybe Leon. 2. "...we will need some well worn paths." In your dreams! All here are rocky roads, uneven cobble stone streets and a sidewalk, if you find one are 1-2' wide riddled with holes. 3. 'is it developed?' This is a war ravaged country, 2nd poorest in the hemisphere. The newest construction sits between two blocks of shacks, your neighbors have a 6th grade education at best. Most are unemployed.This will not change in your lifetime. 3. You never mention if you speak any Spanish. You will be hard pressed to find anyone who speaks any English. This country is not bilingual by any means. 4. The most disturbing comment you made is "...to find a place to live among the Nicaraguans." This rings of Xenophobia to me. a characteristic of outsiders who do not adapt as expats well. As it appears you have not yet been here, take a well planned vacation and explore Nicaragua and what it has and does not have to offer.

Nicaragua: Another of so many narcotics questions:

Listen to ATZ. Just follow his comments on this forum and you will see he must have access to some very powerful drugs.

Nicaragua: Yellow Fever Vaccination:

I find it a bit incredulous that every Nica coming and going suddenly has had to have a vacuna a week or so before, and every tourist arriving that doesn't even know there is a vacuna for this is turned away and put bac on the plane. Seems a bit unenforcable and bogus to me.

Nicaragua: Are my prescriptions available:

Most all drugs can be had without prescription at any local pharmacy,and they are found every few blocks and many make free home delivery. (Even Codeine can still be had without prescrition) The cost is kept low here as our compassionate socialist government will only allow import at very low fixed cost. You will find it much lower than your US costs. Most are manufactured in S. America so will have different names. The generic chemical component and dosage will be the same. The pharmacy computers convert the names so it is not a problem. You can look your drug's name up online and find it's equivilant. in Latin America My advice once here, take your prescritions and records to a local doctor who speaks some English, set yourself up with him ($20) and have him review you issues. (No one here keeps records like in the US, so keep your own records.. Outside of cancer drugs as they are so specific to treatment modalities I would not worry. Hope this helps.

Nicaragua: Which C.A. country is best to live in?:

Hammer's anaysis seems pretty acurate. Equador has a lot of talk about its accesibility for the newbee expat. If I were 20 yrs younger I would look there for sure now. Also Buenos Aires is a place I have many intecontinental friends spend part if not all their year. Nicaragua is strongly popular socialist govenment and change is slow, but secure. If you expect 'multi-tasking' as a part of your life, Nicaragua is not your new home. No one does more than one task at a time, then often has to get permission to go to the next step. You will find obstacles in all Latin coutnries if you expect to create a capitalist commercial venture as an outsider. Big corporations have trouble investing here, let alone an individual The more sophisticated the country, and easier acess, the more you will be dealing with native residents who will take advatage of you in a heart beat. My experiences would caution to live at least a year before making ANY investment anywhere in a foreign country. Actual culture change takes its toll first on your bank account, then once you wake up, on your soul.

Nicaragua: WOW:

Dicktree, your didactic epistle on how people should behave is one of the most important documents of paranoid schizophenic thought I have yet to read You are an important person in the annals of modern psychiatry. Keep up the good work, you keep all of us real expats in the business of sanity.

Nicaragua: Which Central American Country is Best to LIve:

Dum, it is not unxpeceted people do not respond to your inquiry as it is drop loaded with prejudice and opinion. Those of us who have made choices to live in Central America have worked through our own ethnocentism. We cannot do that for you.

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