Episodes
Monday Dec 30, 2013
Expat Files - 12/27/13
Monday Dec 30, 2013
Monday Dec 30, 2013
Sunday Dec 29, 2013
Expat Files - Christmas Fireworks - 12/29/13
Sunday Dec 29, 2013
Sunday Dec 29, 2013
Sunday Dec 22, 2013
Expat Files - Unspoken Truth - 12/22/13
Sunday Dec 22, 2013
Sunday Dec 22, 2013
-The unspoken truth: a good percentage of backpackers eventually get robbed. Most robberies don’t take place on the street or even at knife or gunpoint. In-your-face robberies are rare. The big surprised is that most backpacker robberies occur at cheap, fleabag hostels and backpacker hotels. Its mostly petty thievery. Items like mp3 players, flash drives, pocket water filters, and Swiss Army Knives go missing all the time yet rarely get reported to the management…not that it would do any good. Yes of course passports, credit cards and entire awkward 50 pound backpacks occasionally go missing too… but nine out of ten times it’s the small stuff that walks.
Friday Dec 20, 2013
Expat Files - 12/20/13
Friday Dec 20, 2013
Friday Dec 20, 2013
Sunday Dec 15, 2013
Expat Files - Continuing Saga of Expat Eddie - 12/15/13
Sunday Dec 15, 2013
Sunday Dec 15, 2013
-One effect Obamacare (the Un-Affordable Care Act) has on Expats permanently living abroad is that they won’t have to purchase the mandatory heath-care insurance. Expats are completely exempt and pay no fine like folks up in the states must do if they don’t purchase a plan. However, what about part time expats and expats who happen to travel back to the states for months or more at a time? Then it gets complicated…
-One effect Obamacare (the Un-Affordable Care Act) has on Expats permanently living abroad is that they won’t have to purchase the mandatory heath-care insurance. Expats are completely exempt and pay no fine like folks up in the states must do if they don’t purchase a plan. However, what about part time expats and expats who happen to travel back to the states for months or more at a time? Then it gets complicated…
Friday Dec 13, 2013
Expat Files - 12/13/13
Friday Dec 13, 2013
Friday Dec 13, 2013
Sunday Dec 08, 2013
Expat Files - Manifestaciones - 12/8/13
Sunday Dec 08, 2013
Sunday Dec 08, 2013
-When moving to Latin America, you’ll occasionally have to put up with traffic freezing strikes and demonstrations (99% of them are very peaceful). Generally these strikes (called manifestaciones) are limited to blocking traffic in government districts since the guys going on strike always seem to be goldbricking, lazy-ass government employee unions or groups looking for a raise. By the way: the strikers almost never get what they demand and only succeed in messing up traffic for working people that have real, productive jobs. Sound familiar?
Friday Dec 06, 2013
Expat Files - 12/06/13
Friday Dec 06, 2013
Friday Dec 06, 2013
Sunday Dec 01, 2013
Expat Files - Seminar Ploys - 12/01/13
Sunday Dec 01, 2013
Sunday Dec 01, 2013
-Some very very bad news coming out of Venezuela concerning retailers and consumers. We’ve heard of strange presidential edicts before but this one takes the cake… and everyone suffers (except the crooked, inept politicians of course).