Episodes
Friday Mar 28, 2014
Expat Files - Living Like Kings And Queens - 03/28/14
Friday Mar 28, 2014
Friday Mar 28, 2014
Monday Mar 24, 2014
Expat Files - 03/23/14
Monday Mar 24, 2014
Monday Mar 24, 2014
-Occasionally the emails come in from doubters claiming they probably would just not be comfortable at all living in Latin America. They worry they’d be too isolated and out of touch with what’s happening out in the rest of the world. Can it be true? Here’s how it really stacks up..
-Today we have some quirky examples of the “gringo advantage”. Though if you live down here you just smile and remind yourself that nothing that happens to gringos is too surprising.
-Is this not amazing? I’ve yet to come across one single Latin person born, bread and educated in Latin America that actually knows anything at all about what we call in the first-world the “alternative media”. There really is no organized alternative media down here to speak of. Even very educated Latins have a hard time with the “alternative media" concept... even when you gently explain it to them. They too buy the usual traditional corporate media crap hook, line and sinker. So in a way Latins are much like most stateside folks- who know infinitely more about Miley Cyrus and pro-sports than the organized government/corporate rot that’s eating away at their country. Now understand that during the bad old Latin days of Ollie North, the military coups and the civil wars, of course there were many alternative underground newspapers etc. But most Latins today weren’t around back then or aren’t old enough to connect with that stuff. And besides.. we're mixing apples and oranges.
-Latin women and sports. Would it surprise you to know that most Latin women know all the personal facts and dirt about the one or two most handsome (guapo) guys in the national soccer league? Sure, Latin ladies attend sporting events but most only know their team colors and thus who should win. They rarely know the rules or how the game is actually played (sound familiar?)
-Do follow the link on the main page at www.ExpatWisdom.com to schedule a private consultation with me. If you want to discuss the details of living, working, playing, doing business and/or retiring in Latin America, now you and I can talk about your situation one on one.
Friday Mar 21, 2014
Expat Files - 03/21/14
Friday Mar 21, 2014
Friday Mar 21, 2014
-Latins are genuinely friendly to us gringos (part of the “off the tourist trail” gringo advantage).
-Now a few facts about Fidel Castro’s “Oil for Doctors Program.” First of all. I bet you didn’t know such thing existed. But here it is: for each Doctor sent to oil rich Venezuela the Cuban govt gets paid 3 barrels of oil per day. So at $100 a barrel, that’s $300 per day for each doctor. Now with over 30000 Cuban doctors in Venezuela, the Castro boys get over 3 Billion dollars a year for their capitalistic trade of docs for oil.. the docs by the way are ever so eager to get the hell out of Cuba and get that extravagant $185 per month salary...(7 times a doc’s monthly salary in Cuba... plus extra ration cards).
-Do follow the link on the main page at www.ExpatWisdom.com to schedule a private consultation with me. If you want to discuss the details of living, working, playing, doing business and/or retiring in Latin America, now you and I can talk about your situation one on one.
Tuesday Mar 18, 2014
Expat Files - First-World Boss - 03/16/14
Tuesday Mar 18, 2014
Tuesday Mar 18, 2014
Friday Mar 14, 2014
Expat Files - 03/14/14
Friday Mar 14, 2014
Friday Mar 14, 2014
Monday Mar 10, 2014
Expat Files - Church on Sunday - 03/09/14
Monday Mar 10, 2014
Monday Mar 10, 2014
Friday Mar 07, 2014
Expat Files - Suegras - 03/07/14
Friday Mar 07, 2014
Friday Mar 07, 2014
Sunday Mar 02, 2014
Expat Files - Snakes - 03/02/14
Sunday Mar 02, 2014
Sunday Mar 02, 2014
-One of the unspoken anxieties new expats have is a fear of snakes, bugs and unpleasant animals… some of which inevitably end up inside our homes. So why freak out about it? After all, most of Latin America is in the tropics and thus home to many super-sized spiders, insects and of course… snakes. Here’s what you might like to know regarding that creepy subject… and what to do about it.