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Colombia: For a 90-180 day trip what would you absolutely bring to COL:

Certain prescriptions are simply unavailable or very difficult to get here. Any sort of Amazon reading device or stuff related to that kind of thing are mostly not sold here, and small electronics in general tend to cost much more. Lots of fishing hardware some North American anglers often use to is scarce or expensive or unobtainable, especially lures and steel-braided line and the like. There's probably more. That was just stream-of-consciouness.

Colombia: International Trip Cancelation / Interuption insurance for Colombian Expats:

This might give you something to go on. In the US, so-called "premium" credit cards automatically provide the kind of travel insurance you're talking about. Chase is one of the biggest issuers of such cards, and their insurer is Allianz. Google for their individual policies

Nicaragua: San Juan Del Sur Hotel by the beach.:

HC Liri, on the same beach road as Victoriano, has suites with kitchens. Usually ~$50US a night, depending, so might come in under $200 for semana santa.

Colombia: Can you drink the water in Colombia:

When there's something in the water it tends first to further disable before killing the already weak and those exposed on either side of the life expectancy bell curve. Do you feel lucky about your liver today? Act according to your answer.

Colombia: MAY MOVE TO MEDELLIN:

Migracion takes Visas for visas now, and MasterCard too. No trip to the bank needed no more.

Colombia: Expats who returned to US or Canada:

Interesting post and likely will pique interest in that job of yours.

Colombia: Barking Dogs:

Cue the amplifiers, the roosters and the fireworks celebrating many, many dates pertaining to blessed saints and past battles. Remember kitchen gods are never discussed, because if you need to ask you shouldn't know.

Colombia: Taking a car to medellin:

If you ever return to the US, however, it won't be with an automobile built to Colombian specs. Emissions and safety controls will be substantially different. Can't even bring a brand-new Canadian car into the US and many of those are identical products from the same assembly lines, but with different paperwork from the manufacturer. Very strange auto market -- ~48 million Colombians, 150-250,000 annual production. Boutique is a word that may apply here.

Colombia: Thinking of moving to Colombia:

Me, I can never get enough about chemtrails. And I love the idea that Monsanto is responsible for the world's waistlines. It's certainly been a growing thing in my case, and it's a comfort to let the blame fall elsewhere. Alternative facts are all the rage, but once our alien overlords finally return, why, it will all become clear, you bet.

Nicaragua: real estate et al:

"Reliable" can mean so many things. It's not anything like a spider web tattooed across a guy's face. Mistakes can be made about reliability. Lots of ne'er-do-wells and nimrods, often into Spanglish, crowd the real estate game locally. There's enough bad ones to make you leery. An emotional roller-coaster isn't what you're after, and most folks don't like wheel-spinning. A good workman's worth his hire, but if you can't hire one you trust, word-of-mouth becomes the way to go. Find a comfortable hotel in an area you like and start socializing. Nice, cheap hotels are easy to find in most places with expats, which helps a lot while you're waiting for the right place -- or the right agent -- to turn up. The market turns fast in tourist towns. Now Facebook is often cited right out of the starting gate on these kinds of discussions, but I've never been any place that resembles that place on Facebook.

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