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Belize: Canadian looking for land:
Make sure you use a reputable agent and lawyer in purchasing. Soooo. Many people get burnt...... In that you think you have purchased land when you haven't. Land purchase deals, land title deeds etc all open to corruption. Corozul and sarteneja be aware of the roads. The road to consejo up in corozul goes past the corozul dump and floods causing nasty biohazards etc. the road to sarteneja is flooded 4ft deep for a mile, they are having to boat to corozul for supplies. But off the grid, sarteneja has some nice places too. As for dreamscapes, google it.... Read up on it. This was meant to be a big development, but as far as i have seen recently nothing has been developing on it for a long time. Lots of people purchased the plots but I'm Not sure about the infrastructure, ie road access, electricity etc. that sort of thing. I'm not even sure I anyone has actually built on their plots? Maybe other posters can enlighten us?
Join belize expats on Facebook there are a lot of Corozul expats that post there and might be able to help you.
Belize: Help verifying Med availability:
Contact Belize Medical Associates (private hospital in Belize City) pharmacy dept. their pharmacists can inform you of what they have or what alternatives are available. Their telephone number is 1 501 223 0303 (office hours, ask to speak to Pharmacy). Another good place to call is belize healthcare partners, google for numbers. The pharmacists are excellent over here.
Belize: Am I crazy? Misinformed?:
For free calls to the states I used. The talkatone on iPad or iPhone. It's free calls to any USA cellphones or home phone, business phone.. Any. Usa number. The person on the other end doesn't have to have the Talkatone app to receive the call. It works well, I chucked my majicuack abandon net phone out. They. Just can't call you back using talkatone. Because ya don't have a USA number here in. Belize.
Belize: What is Your Favorite Beach?:
The split at Caye Caulker. I love the people, the bar, the depth and the whole place.
Belize: Hell or high water !!:
You couldn't pay me a million bucks to "go back"[
Belize: Need Information on Belize:
1. QRP (qualified retire persons) requires 2000 us$ a month to come into the country.
2 . Depends on you
3. QRP allows you to brings things into the country duty free , it allows you to buy a car duty free. This is the tropics, MDF furniture doesn't last long, hard wood furniture does. So it's better to have a few good pieces of hard wood than stuff you bring in.
4. Medical insurance can be purchased from Cigna , sagicor...which is a Jamaican company. If you have preexsisting conditions, it's debatable whether you can get it. Sagicor, will allow treatment in the us if it is not available in Belize. You. An also get treatment in Guatemala or Mexico under sagicor
5. Banks are fine but very slow. You can spend half a day in a queue. There are no US banks, this is Belize, not US. You can get a US dollar account with CBi in the matalon building on northern highway Belize city.
6 exactly. Depends on your lifestyle
7 very expensive. 6us$ a gallon. Makes you think twice before getting in the car. And cars are expensive due to import duty tax.
8. Depends on where you live. There is no mains gas. You purchase gas in a canister . Never fails you run out of gas while in the middle of cooking a meal. Electricity, probably depends on where you live. I have no problems in Belize city. The only time the electricity goes off is during big storms, and then for only a little time.
9 Cable is excellent I pay 20us$ a month for 120 channels . It's reliable and good. The Internet is very expensive and slow, but reliable. We pay about 80us$ a month.
Belize: prescriptions:
Belize medical associates has a pharmacy on st Thomas. Rd, Belize city. Bradley's imports, in Belize city are the pharmacy importers.
As for sending packages into Belize, I wouldn't recommend it. My sister sent a a package early August, I got it end of December. Import duty tax is always payable on items shipped in. So it costs a lot that way.
You could also see if it is available in Guatemala or Mexico, both an easy bus trip away. Most places don't need a prescription.
If you tell me the drug you are looking for I will ask on your behalf and find out if it's here and the costs of it.
For example I have a friend with a baby who needs hydrocortisone pills daily. They only had it in liquid form which was exorbitant in cost. They could bring in the pills but they were two and a half times the price I could buy them in Canada. I just did a web purchase to my family in us and they hand delivered it while on holiday. We saved a fortune.
Belize: Caye Caulker vs placencia vs Corozal:
How quiet? Mega quiet place would be Sarteneja. Rent are very low there, there are some, but few expats, and it's right on the sea. Miles from nowhere... ... If you like that sort of thing.
Belize: Belize visit:
There are loads of good car rental agencies at the airport, google renting a car in Belize. There are name brands like hertz etc and local brands like crystal and jabiru. Three years ago we rented a car from jabiru, we chose a four by four because we knew we wanted to explore places, (not offload), and that the roads were bad. We paid about 90us a day. Belize city is really the only place you can rent a car, and almost all the car rental shops are at the airport. We were very pleased with jabiru, have used it many times since. The car was quite old, mechanically sound, and did the job, when we extended the lease unexpectedly, Eddie, was fine with it, and we were given a discount paying 6 days for seven days use. If you are just traveling from the airport to corozul, then that road doesn't need a four by four, but roads to lamanaiI, altan ha, ,places in San Ignacio such as Barton creek, various tourist sights , are probably best travelled to in a 4x4. If you visit the cayes, you won't need a car at all, there are no ferries that take cars, and cars aren't allowed on the islands.
Belize: home mortgage?:
We are QRP residents in Belize. When we were on holiday, we purchased a house, nine months before moving here. We had to open an account, but being non residents we opened one with Belize Bank International. Its a US dollar account, our pension comes in dollars directly from the states, we can remove money from it, in US dollars or in belize dollars. It costs 10 us dollars a month, and has a 20 us dollar wire charge every month the pension comes in.
Since we live close to the bank, we have found it unnecessary to open a Belize dollar account. We tend to stick with cash, and have a pay up front credit card, we can easily fill up on this account if we need it. It works for us. We don't have a mortgage. Its an easy way to show each year, that the 2000 US dollars has been brought into the country monthly, as per our QRP agreement with BTB Belize.
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