The Expat Files: Living in Latin America

The Expat Files 7.26.24

#1- Apartment problems you should know about but won’t readily see: 

#2- Saved by the trusty wet/dry vac: 

 

#3- Pre-construction real estate deals:

Are they really good deals?

#4- Mini-split A/C units and tips to know about them:  

#5- Monthly maintenance fees explained:

 

#6- How Latin American National Healthcare systems consistently fail Expat patients:

Today’s sad and tragic boots on the ground story…

 

#7- Be sure to pick up my newly updated, "LATIN AMERICAN HEALTHCARE REPORT":

The new edition for 2024 (and beyond) is available now, including the latest "Stem Cell Clinic" info and data and my top picks for the best treatment centers for expats and gringos. Just go to www.ExpatPlanB.com     

#8- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com 

The Expat Files 7.21.24

#1- The “Gringo Advantage” and Argentina:

Nope, not much…

 

#2- Bidets: don’t knock em’ till you’ve tried em':

Don’t poo poo them just because their a French thing...  

#3- Living in Latin America on $1500 a month:

#4- Middle-age dating facts to consider:

 

#5- Gringos, Expats and personal regrets:

 

#6- Do you have social media anguish?

#7- Gringo/Latina arm-candy relationships:

#8- Be sure to pick up my newly updated, "LATIN AMERICAN HEALTHCARE REPORT":

The new edition for 2024 (and beyond) is available now, including the latest "Stem Cell Clinic" info and data and my top picks for the best treatment centers for expats and gringos. Just go to www.ExpatPlanB.com     

#9- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com 

 

The Expat Files 7.19.24

#1- The problem with cheap-ass skinflint Gringo Expats: 

 

#2- The problem with moto delivery guys:

 

They're everywhere and here's what you need to know…  

#3- When a gringo decides to live in a $200 a month apt in the barrio:

 

#4- The differences between deadbeat Latino dads versus deadbeat stateside dads:  

 

#5- Strange Argentine facts you never knew:

 

#6- Latin American criminals and their luxury Miami homes:

 

#7- How come fatherless Latino kids so positively outshine their stateside counterparts in many ways?

#8- Be sure to pick up my newly updated, "LATIN AMERICAN HEALTHCARE REPORT":

The new edition for 2024 (and beyond) is available now, including the latest "Stem Cell Clinic" info and data and my top picks for the best treatment centers for expats and gringos. Just go to www.ExpatPlanB.com     

#9- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

 

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com 

The Expat Files 7.14.24

#1- Why adjacent Latin country residents often claim Argentinios have an uppity air about them:

Could it be because even the lowly street urchins in Argentina avoid slang and speak proper Spanish?

 

#2- So then how do Argentines feel about other Latin country residents?

Let’s just say they are not forthcoming with complements…

#3- Why lonely lovelorn Gringos and Expats should tune into the new “Que Rico” podcast: 

#4- Biden, Bidets and plumbing tips for your Latin American home or apartment?

#5- Facts about Latin men that north American Gringa ladies really need to consider:

#6- Be sure to pick up my newly updated, "LATIN AMERICAN HEALTHCARE REPORT":

The new edition for 2024 (and beyond) is available now, including the latest "Stem Cell Clinic" info and data and my top picks for the best treatment centers for expats and gringos. Just go to www.ExpatPlanB.com     

#7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at: 

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com  

The Expat Files 7.12.24

#1- Argentina- the whitest country I've ever seen: 

 

#2- Have you heard the term “papa sin sal”?:

It means uninteresting, no spark, no energy… like a potato without salt.

#3- The real estate situation in Argentina:

 

#4- Argentinians love dogs and hate pooper scoopers:

Keep your eyes down and beware of landmines, there’s poop everywhere!!!.

#5- Should Expats report crimes to the local cops or not?

#6- Divorce scars and expats -Part 2

#7- Be sure to pick up my newly updated, "LATIN AMERICAN HEALTHCARE REPORT":

The new edition for 2024 (and beyond) is available now, including the latest "Stem Cell Clinic" info and data and my top picks for the best treatment centers for expats and gringos. Just go to www.ExpatPlanB.com   

#8- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

 bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com 

The Expat Files 7.7.24

#1- Latin America is chock full of real leather products and every Latino with dough wears the real stuff all the time:

If wearing animal products is against your religion you’d better not leave your comfortable cocoon, because if you visit south of the border you’ll be offended at every turn.

 

#2- A word about Argentine steakhouses:

In Buenos Aires, they really do have a top notch steakhouse on practically every corner. Soo..if eating animal products is against your religion you’d better not leave your comfortable cocoon, because if you visit Argentina you’ll be offended at every turn.

#3- The problem with trying to spend money in Argentina:

 

#4- Listen and find out why 99% of Argentine on the ground aren’t much excited by President Milei:

Hint: it isn’t because he hasn’t been doing wonders from day one…

#5- Just who’s been immigrating to Argentina lately?

 

#6- Be sure to pick up my newly updated, "LATIN AMERICAN HEALTHCARE REPORT":

The new edition for 2024 (and beyond) is available now, including the latest "Stem Cell Clinic" info and data and my top picks for the best treatment centers for expats and gringos. Just go to www.ExpatPlanB.com     

#5- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com 

The Expat Files 7.5.24

#1- The “problem” with emotional support dogs is not the dogs themselves:

Today we talk about the ever increasing appearance of emotional support dogs for woke wienies. It's today's first wild and crazy Latin American a boots on the ground story…

#2- Flying US airlines versus Latin American airlines:

#3- Rubbish, plastic and pollution in Latin America:

Who are the biggest pigs, abusers and litterbugs and which Latin countries are the worst culprits?

#4- Be sure to pick up my newly updated, "LATIN AMERICAN HEALTHCARE REPORT":

The new edition for 2024 (and beyond) is available now, including the latest "Stem Cell Clinic" info and data and my top picks for the best treatment centers for expats and gringos. Just go to www.ExpatPlanB.com  

The Expat Files 6.21.24

#1- A rant for all of you EV (electric vehicle) and solar panel off-the-grid naysayers and doubters:

Today you will hear the REAL, hard-ass engineering and material science facts regarding the latest greatest EVs and newest extremely cheap home solar power system energy solutions. I made this rant today simply because I know that so many of you do NOT read or have access to the latest science and solar rags. (or maybe its that reading the science and tech journals are just too boring for some). Anyway, so many of you only hear how solar and EV technology degrades the planet and encourages slave labor mining in 3rd world countries, etc., etc.

Yes, all that was true up till about the last few years but NOT anymore! So listen and you will hear why today's media whiners and smarty pants non - scientific talking heads are all wrong about solar and EV's. Listen and hear a dozen reasons why, if you own your own house and have the roof or yard space, you owe it to yourself (and the planet) to go solar and get an EV asap or forever regret it.

 

#2- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com 

#3- Be sure to pick up my newly updated, "LATIN AMERICAN HEALTHCARE REPORT":

The new edition for 2024 (and beyond) is available now, including the latest "Stem Cell Clinic" info and data and my top picks for the best treatment centers for expats and gringos. Just go to www.ExpatPlanB.com                               

 

 

The Expat Files 6.16.24

#1- Who might I vote for in the USA elections … if a gun was put to my head?

 

#2- The trouble with Starbucks in Latin America: 

 

#3-  A message to the remaining ninnies and fools who are still masking in Latin America:

#4- A word about Colombia’s broken Latino National Healthcare systems:

#5- A health insurance hack for Gringos and Expats who would not otherwise have qualified for a private health insurance plan:        

#6- Expats, divorce, infidelity and the toxic effect of social media:

#7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com 

#8- Be sure to pick up my newly updated, "LATIN AMERICAN HEALTHCARE REPORT":

The new edition for 2024 (and beyond) is available now, including the latest "Stem Cell Clinic" info and data and my top picks for the best treatment centers for expats and gringos. Just go to www.ExpatPlanB.com                               

The Expat Files 6.14.24

#1- How much dough do you think you need to get the hell out of Dodge?

How much is enough-vs- how much you think is enough...    

#2- Dialing 911 in Latin America:

#3- The low down on trying to search Johnny’s Expat Files Show topics:

 

#4- Two new health warnings about your tattoos:

The real and alarming reasons why they fade over time…

 

#5- A sour “note” about Bolero music and other Latino standards for older people:

The songs can actually be pretty well done, but like Jazz music in the USA, young Latinos can’t relate because there's no sex, vulgarity or ass shaking and thus the genre is practically dead.        

 

#6- The problem with popular Latino and Latina singers:

A gringo’s guide to why most famous Latino singers are nothing special, and in fact bore most of us gringos and expats to tears… 

#7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at: 

bewarecaptainmango@gmail.com  

#8- Be sure to pick up my newly updated, "LATIN AMERICAN HEALTHCARE REPORT": 

The new edition for 2024 (and beyond) is available now, including the latest "Stem Cell Clinic" info and data and my top picks for the best treatment centers for expats and gringos. Just go to www.ExpatPlanB.com