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Monday Dec 10, 2018
Monday Dec 10, 2018
Descriptions- EXPAT FILES SHOW #812- SUN, DEC 02 (12-02-2018):
#1- The “Black” American experience in Latin American –PART 1
Judging by the number of emails that come in on the subject, people want to know what it’s like for astute Black Americans who act on their “Plan B” and get out of dodge. Do they have the same “gringo advantage” going for them as White American gringos?
#2- Sign up for Johnny Mueller’s January 2019 “Expat Insider Seminar” taking place in Central America from Saturday, January 5th through Friday January 11th. See the signup details by visitingwww.TheNewExpat.com and clicking on the Seminar link
#3-We all love dogs right?
Today we discuss everything you need to know about having a dog, and the thing you absolutely need to know about the types of dogs you see in homes and on the streets of Latin America.
#4- The “Gringo Advantage” strikes again!
Today we have more amazing stories and situations proving the point that Americans automatically gain 2 or 3 points on the “10 scale” the minute they step foot in Latin America. However, do note that particular “Cinderella effect” diminishes the closer you are to the “gringo” tourist trail.
#5- A certain special “Kindness to strangers” is always on the menu 24/7 in Latin America:
This “boots on the ground” story proves it…
#7- Some very smart “under the radar” phone privacy steps that phone and internet companies don’t want you to know about.
#8- GET A COPY OF JOHNNY MUELLER’S- 100 PAGE “LATIN AMERICAN HEALTHCARE REPORT” at this LINK:
http://theexpatfiles.com/healthcare/
#9- Johnny’s new “Expat Essentials Course” is a blueprint for your “Plan B” and the best way kick-start your exit plan before getting boots on the ground in Latin America. Check out the free intro video to the course now at www.theexpatfiles.com/academy
#10- Check out my “The Expat Files” You Tube channel. See all the fun slides and photos that go along with each show. There are now more than 150 shows posted on my YouTube channel so have a look.
#11 For more of Johnny’s reports, comments, adventures, news, surprises the famous “Expat Concierge Service” and more, check it all out at: www.thenewexpat.com
Sunday Dec 09, 2018
Sunday Dec 09, 2018
#1- Insecticide/Pesticide use in Latin America:
How big a problem is it and how does it concern health conscious gringos? There are many ways to measure pesticide use in a country. For example you may read the total tonnage of pesticide use in a country- but total tonnage is NOT a good measure of the concentration/contamination of the “LOCAL” crops that gringos will certainly be munching on.
So today we discuss everything you need to know about Latin crops and contamination…
#2- Sign up for Johnny Mueller’s January 2019 “Expat Insider Seminar” taking place in Central America from Saturday, January 5th through Friday January 11th. See the signup details by visitingwww.TheNewExpat.com and clicking on the Seminar link
#3- Why you should never buy imported food- and why you must read the labels and the stickers:
Notice that when in any big, chaotic, central market some fruits and vegetables will NOT have and markings or stickers and some will. What’s that all about?
#4- What about those massive and gigantic fruits and vegetables you see all over Latin America:
It’s got to be the chemicals right? Well…..
#5- Did you know that practically every college graduate in Latin America has multiple relatives (mother, father, grandma, grandpa) who are essentially inalfabetizadas (can’t read or write):
And that fact greatly influences the upward and lateral mobility of people crappy Latin neighborhoods
#6- Today we have the real local Latin “common man” take on the migrant caravans pushing through Mexico and we discuss the real reasons (not the media driven reasons) most Latins want to get to the states.
#7- GET A COPY OF JOHNNY MUELLER’S- 100 PAGE “LATIN AMERICAN HEALTHCARE REPORT” at this LINK:
http://theexpatfiles.com/healthcare/
#8- Johnny’s new “Expat Essentials Course” is a blueprint for your “Plan B” and the best way kick-start your exit plan before getting boots on the ground in Latin America. Check out the free intro video to the course now at www.theexpatfiles.com/academy
#9- Check out my “The Expat Files” You Tube channel. See all the fun slides and photos that go along with each show. There are now more than 150 shows posted on my YouTube channel so have a look.
#10 For more of Johnny’s reports, comments, adventures, news, surprises the famous “Expat Concierge Service” and more, check it all out at: www.thenewexpat.com
Friday Dec 07, 2018
Friday Dec 07, 2018
#1- Another Dirty Little Secret:
Your Uncle Slam really does not want you to get residency or a 2nd passport/nationality in another country. The US especially doesn’t want you to move your money and assets out of their jurisdiction. That’s why it’s time to get serious about getting a Latin American country residency now. Meanwhile the US government continues to coerce Latin governments into tightening up their residency requirements. It’s easy to figure out why the farmer doesn’t want the sheep to leave the barn. Don't get frozen out of this opportunity.
#2- Sign up for Johnny Mueller’s January 2019 “Expat Insider Seminar” taking place in Central America from Saturday, January 5th through Friday January 11th. See the signup details by visitingwww.TheNewExpat.com and clicking on the Seminar link
#3- What is a “Fiador”?:
In Latin America you will hear the word “Fiador” thrown around over when dealing with lawyers, banks, landlords, utility hookups, internet service contracts and more. The truth is that every expat gringo will eventually need a “Fiador”….
#4- What your trusted Latin lawyer can and cannot do for you:
#5- What to do if when applying for a Latin country residency, your required police “good conduct” report comes up bad or spotty:
Yes, in certain cases there may be some work arounds and back door solutions…
#6- There is a strange new word in your expat vocabulary. That word is “Apostilled”. After getting your residency documents together, the final step is to get them “Apostilled”. Today you will find out everything you need to know about that process.
#7- GET A COPY OF JOHNNY MUELLER’S- 100 PAGE “LATIN AMERICAN HEALTHCARE REPORT” at this LINK:
http://theexpatfiles.com/healthcare/
#8- Johnny’s new “Expat Essentials Course” is a blueprint for your “Plan B” and the best way kick-start your exit plan before getting boots on the ground in Latin America. Check out the free intro video to the course now at www.theexpatfiles.com/academy
#9- Check out my “The Expat Files” You Tube channel. See all the fun slides and photos that go along with each show. There are now more than 150 shows posted on my YouTube channel so have a look.
#10 For more of Johnny’s reports, comments, adventures, news, surprises the famous “Expat Concierge Service” and more, check it all out at: www.thenewexpat.com
Friday Nov 30, 2018
Friday Nov 30, 2018
Descriptions- EXPAT FILES SHOW #811- FRI, NOV 30 (11-30-2018):
#1- What’s your “Plan B” climate and living comfort zone?
Today we talk about beachfront living versus “altiplano” living and how to balance the two
#2- Announcing Johnny Mueller’s January 2019 “Expat Insider Seminar”:
It will take place from Saturday, January 5th through Friday January 11th. For info and early-bird signup details visit www.TheNewExpat.com and click on the Seminar link
#3- Things you never knew about Latin American Healthcare plans (updated Nov 2018) :
Insurance matters are always in a state of flux. Today we offer some tips for gringos and expats looking to buy into a first-world style Latin healthcare insurance policies. Yes, there are some very very good and amazingly inexpensive policies out there but it’s a minefield and you really have to know what you are doing and how to suss them out, since virtually all the administrators speak Spanish and naturally the paperwork is presented in Spanish. Because “private” health insurance is a relatively new concept in Latin America, gringos and expats soon find out it’s not much like shopping for health insurance in the states. Oh, and there’s an odd assumption (and it’s not money)all Latin insurance brokers have about gringos that must be dispelled right away…
#4- The scary way the Chinese are secretly buying up and optioning-off certain Latin country resources and bribing Latin governments with loans they can never pay back( they have their favorites and leave others alone):
How to avoid ending up in a Latin country that is under the Chinese thumb or that will end up as a future Chinese satellite…
#5- Johnny’s new “Expat Essentials Course” is a blueprint for your “Plan B” and the best way kick-start your exit plan before getting boots on the ground in Latin America. Check out the free intro video to the course now at www.theexpatfiles.com/academy
#6- Check out my “The Expat Files” You Tube channel. See all the fun slides and photos that go along with each show. There are now more than 150 shows posted on my YouTube channel so have a look.
#7- For more of Johnny’s reports, comments, adventures, news, surprises the famous “Expat Concierge Service” and more, check it all out at: www.thenewexpat.com
Sunday Nov 25, 2018
Sunday Nov 25, 2018
Descriptions- EXPAT FILES SHOW #810- SUN, NOV 25 (11-25-2018):
#1- Tips for choosing the proper private Schools for your Gringo-Expat kids
#2- Announcing Johnny Mueller’s January 2019 “Expat Insider Seminar”: It will take place from Saturday, January 5th through Friday January 11th. For info and early-bird signup details visit www.TheNewExpat.comand click on the Seminar link
#3- Home schooling your kids in Latin America:
Is home schooling even possible?
#4- The truth about Latin Private Schools and the transplanted gringo teachers who work there:
#5- Gringo Teacher Burnout:
Why are there so many Ex-US Public school teachers traveling and working in Latin America? The mystery is… why have so many older and younger US teachers thrown in the towel on their teaching careers up north? We all hear complaints from US teachers about the low pay. It’s not that simple. Why do so many start teaching again in Latin American private schools- and for less than ¼ of their first-world salary?
#6- Helicopter Schools:
Most medium and large cities have a dozen or more, expensive, private, so-called “helicopter” schools. The truth is that are many subtle and not so subtle differences between each of them, and it's not just in the cost of tuition (and the costs do vary quite a bit).
#7- Tips on how to save a ton of money building a home and finding an architect
#8- Johnny’s new “Expat Essentials Course” is a blueprint for your “Plan B” and the best way kick-start your exit plan before getting boots on the ground in Latin America. Check out the free intro video to the course now at www.theexpatfiles.com/academy
#9- Check out my “The Expat Files” You Tube channel. See all the fun slides and photos that go along with each show. There are now more than 150 shows posted on my YouTube channel so have a look.
#10- For more of Johnny’s reports, comments, adventures, news, surprises the famous “Expat Concierge Service” and more, check it all out at: www.thenewexpat.com
Friday Nov 23, 2018
Friday Nov 23, 2018
Descriptions- EXPAT FILES SHOW #809- FRI, NOV 23 (11-23-2018):
#1- When Preppers are happily deluded into thinking they actually have a realistic “Plan B”:
In reality none have really thought it through, and if they have they would see that they are only half way there and if they remain in the states when TSHTF they hardly have even a “Plan- A minus”
#2- Announcing Johnny Mueller’s January 2019 “Expat Insider Seminar”: It will take place from Saturday, January 5th through Friday January 11th. For info and early-bird signup details visit www.TheNewExpat.comand click on the Seminar link
#3- DYK that since 1995, those malignant US Federal Government slugs (working for you- ha!) have enacted no less than 88,997 new laws, regulations and statutes in order to keep you in line.
Yes, sheep…its proof that you/we are truly are committing 3 felonies a day and probably a lot more!
#4- The truth about Expat Bloggers:
As always, there are good, bad, ugly and great Expat Bloggers, but truthfully many are just one-note trumpets that mostly suck
#5- What you absolutely need to know about owning an Expat beach house versus owning an Expat city house or apartment
#6- When Expat Gringos STINK! And other sordid stories of grungy gringos gone native
#7- Johnny’s new “Expat Essentials Course” is a blueprint for your “Plan B” and the best way kick-start your exit plan before getting boots on the ground in Latin America. Check out the free intro video to the course now at www.theexpatfiles.com/academy
#8- Check out my “The Expat Files” You Tube channel. See all the fun slides and photos that go along with each show. There are now more than 150 shows posted on my YouTube channel so have a look.
#9- For more of Johnny’s reports, comments, adventures, news, surprises the famous “Expat Concierge Service” and more, check it all out at: www.thenewexpat.com
Sunday Nov 18, 2018
Sunday Nov 18, 2018
#1- Cuban cigars, world-class coffee and other legal Gringo vices:
#2- Announcing Johnny Mueller’s January 2019 “Expat Insider Seminar”: It will take place from Saturday, January 5th through Friday January 11th. For info and early-bird signup details visit www.TheNewExpat.comand click on the Seminar link
#3- Johnny’s quick and dirty coffee primer in one easy lesson:Even in the seemingly innocuous coffee business we have the good the bad the ugly and the great
#4- How gringos smuggle Cuban cigars into the states
#5- Luggage locks zippers and plastic wrap; Or… how to keep your stowed luggage from being violated by bad boy baggage handlers slugs
#6- A sneak peek at Johnny’s own personal travel kit: Ever wonder how and what I pack in my own travels?
#7- Johnny’s new “Expat Essentials Course” is a blueprint for your “Plan B” and the best way kick-start your exit plan before getting boots on the ground in Latin America. Check out the free intro video to the course now at www.theexpatfiles.com/academy
#8- Check out my “The Expat Files” You Tube channel. See all the fun slides and photos that go along with each show. There are now more than 150 shows posted on my YouTube channel so have a look.
#9- For more of Johnny’s reports, comments, adventures, news, surprises the famous “Expat Concierge Service” and more, check it all out at: www.thenewexpat.com
Friday Nov 16, 2018
Friday Nov 16, 2018
#1- Today we have a Latina and a Gringa lady getting in the final words on mating/dating and mixed culture romantic relationships
#2- Announcing Johnny Mueller’s January 2019 “Expat Insider Seminar”: It will take place from Saturday, January 5th through Friday January 11th. For info and early-bird signup details visit www.TheNewExpat.comand click on the Seminar link
#3- Today we have a case where a listener so seriously hates his soul-deadening first-world job (stuck all day in a cubicle)that it became the final straw that pushed him to get his “Plan B” underway. He’s by no means the Lone Ranger! What about you?
#4- More and more newly arrived expats and gringos are calling themselves Libertarians or believe strongly in libertarian principles. They are definitely NOT affiliated with or have anything in common with republicans or democrats. Even so, they are greatly outnumbered by gringo and expat “do gooder” democrat types with definite socialist leanings, with a huge number of them collecting US public school teacher’s pensions. Hmm, what does that tell you? And as for republicans, they are well outnumbered down here by the more vocal democrats
#5- There is no daylight saving time in Latin America. Why? Because there is no daylight to save! In the vast majority of Latin countries-where gringos set up their “Plan B's”- the sun rises and sets pretty much at the same time every day, more or less at 6 am and 6 pm year round.
#6- Hiking and camping in the boonies of Latin America. It sounds like fun, but isn't it dangerous? Yes, there are always rumors going around to that effect, but are they true?
#7- What might be the proper (or suggested) guns and ammo to have in Latin America? That's always a question from gringos and expats who were used to having guns up in the states for self-defense or sport.
#8- Johnny’s new “Expat Essentials Course” is a blueprint for your “Plan B” and the best way kick-start your exit plan before getting boots on the ground in Latin America. Check out the free intro video to the course now at www.theexpatfiles.com/academy
#9- Check out my “The Expat Files” You Tube channel. See all the fun slides and photos that go along with each show. There are now more than 150 shows posted on my YouTube channel so have a look.
#10- For more of Johnny’s reports, comments, adventures, news, surprises the famous “Expat Concierge Service” and more, check it all out at: www.thenewexpat.com
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
Descriptions- EXPAT FILES SHOW #806- SUN, NOV 11 (11-11-2018):
#1- TEN Things we take for granted up in Cleveland that unfortunately just aren’t on the radar here in Latin America
#2- Announcing Johnny Mueller’s January 2019 “Expat Insider Seminar”: It will take place from Saturday, January 5th through Friday January 11th. For info and early-bird signup details visitwww.TheNewExpat.com and click on the Seminar link
#3- Little known details (or lack thereof) you should consider when looking to rent or buy a property in Latin America
#4- There’s something odd about your Latin kitchen and the selection of kitchen and laundry appliances:
You have your choice of cooking with either a gas or electric or gas stove:There are the pros and cons regarding each… and many other things to consider. In addition, there are some small but important details and things that will have never crossed your mind.
#5- There is sort of an indigenous “bulletproof” glass ceiling: Here’s what that’s all about… and what you need to be aware of.
There is a good chance your household help will be coming from the local indigenous pueblo. There are many many things about that culture you should be clued into, considering that you’ll probably be hiring a maid, maintenance man and/or gardener. It’s the subject of today’s “boots on the ground” story.
#6- Johnny’s new “Expat Essentials Course” is a blueprint for your “Plan B” and the best way kick-start your exit plan before getting boots on the ground in Latin America. Check out the free intro video to the course now at www.theexpatfiles.com/academy
#7- Check out my “The Expat Files” You Tube channel. See all the fun slides and photos that go along with each show. There are now more than 150 shows posted on my YouTube channel so have a look.
#8- For more of Johnny’s reports, comments, adventures, news, surprises the famous “Expat Concierge Service” and more, check it all out at: www.thenewexpat.com
Friday Nov 09, 2018
Friday Nov 09, 2018
Descriptions- EXPAT FILES SHOW #805- FRI, NOV 09 (11-09-2018):
#1- Police radar traps set for gringos and other tourist-trail tricks lard-ass Latin cops have come to rely on for bribes
#2- Announcing Johnny Mueller’s January 2019 “Expat Insider Seminar”: It will take place from Saturday, January 5th through Friday January 11th. For info and early-bird signup details visitwww.TheNewExpat.com and click on the Seminar link
#3- “Clueless” Gringos versus merely “Stupid” Gringos:
There is a difference you know..
#4- “Google Translate”- it’s not such a stellar app after all, there are some definite cons to it.
#5- The fatal flaws found in most all Latin American city street and hwy designs. The perpetual mystery of why so many retarded, pin-headed Latin civil engineers obsess over “one-way” streets
#6- Your lying Latin landlord and what you can expect (or not expect) from one
#7- Latin American “condo” and “residential tower” rules and regs. Yes they have them in writing but are they tough enough? Are they enforced?
#8- Johnny’s new “Expat Essentials Course” is a blueprint for your “Plan B” and the best way kick-start your exit plan before getting boots on the ground in Latin America. Check out the free intro video to the course now at www.theexpatfiles.com/academy
#9- Check out my “The Expat Files” You Tube channel. See all the fun slides and photos that go along with each show. There are now more than 150 shows posted on my YouTube channel so have a look.
#10- For more of Johnny’s reports, comments, adventures, news, surprises the famous “Expat Concierge Service” and more, check it all out at: www.thenewexpat.com