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The water supply in Puerto Vallarta is very reliable. In fact, I’ve never experienced water disruptions before. I live in a house on a newer development where the water supply is underground.

 

We just get our regular city water and don’t have our own water storage. There hasn’t been a time when the water supply went out, and we’ve been there for two years.

 

(Food and drink, the michelada, sampled with the...

The water supply in Puerto Vallarta is very reliable. In fact, I’ve never experienced water disruptions before. I live in a house on a newer development where the water supply is underground.

 

We just get our regular city water and don’t have our own water storage. There hasn’t been a time when the water supply went out, and we’ve been there for two years.

 

(Food and drink, the michelada, sampled with the Vallarta Food Tour, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, pictured.)

When living or retiring abroad, you need to look into taxation, financial planning, and citizenship. It’s important to know how these factors would affect making the decision of living or retiring abroad. You need to know the limitations in the length of stay allowed in certain countries, as well as financial restrictions.

 

For example, countries within the European Union allow only 90 days of stay, and you need to know this before visiting any of...

When living or retiring abroad, you need to look into taxation, financial planning, and citizenship. It’s important to know how these factors would affect making the decision of living or retiring abroad. You need to know the limitations in the length of stay allowed in certain countries, as well as financial restrictions.

 

For example, countries within the European Union allow only 90 days of stay, and you need to know this before visiting any of those countries.

 

There are limitations in every country and you need to get the most updated information on the travel and financial restrictions; what you can and can’t do financially, how you need to report income, etc. I would get advice from professionals before I make the decision of which country in which to retire.  

 

(Greek Orthodox church in Santorini, Greece, pictured.)

You do not necessarily need to become a permanent resident of Nicaragua in order to live here.  I, for example, am not a permanent resident.  I am currently staying on a tourist visa and living here in Managua.  There are some limitations to being here on a tourist visa, however:

You do not necessarily need to become a permanent resident of Nicaragua in order to live here.  I, for example, am not a permanent resident.  I am currently staying on a tourist visa and living here in Managua.  There are some limitations to being here on a tourist visa, however:

There are a number of benefits to maintaining residency if you do indeed decide to relocate to Nicaragua full time.  Foreign investors, retirees, individuals married to Nicaraguan citizens, and individuals sponsored by employers may have an easier time obtaining their residency. Requirements for Nicaraguan residency can be found at the US Embassy in Managua's webpage.

Placencia is a 16-mile peninsula in Belize. Seine Bight, which is where I am originally from, is 3 miles down at the end of the peninsula. Placencia was, from what I understand, basically a pirate community at one point. Afterwards, they then had people from Mango Creek and Monkey River, which are across a lagoon, who were the first ones to inhabit Seine Bite after the pirates left.

 

The area, Seine Bight got its name from what the geography looks like when...

Placencia is a 16-mile peninsula in Belize. Seine Bight, which is where I am originally from, is 3 miles down at the end of the peninsula. Placencia was, from what I understand, basically a pirate community at one point. Afterwards, they then had people from Mango Creek and Monkey River, which are across a lagoon, who were the first ones to inhabit Seine Bite after the pirates left.

 

The area, Seine Bight got its name from what the geography looks like when viewed from the ocean (a “bight” or curve in the shoreline) and the local word for net, with is seine. The fishermen used to hang seines (nets) that they use to catch fish, on the bight.

 

Pirate communities were the first inhabitants of Seine Bight. They were using it as a hiding place. When the pirates left, the people from across the lagoon came over and it became a little, sleepy fishing community. This was not so long ago; I can still remember it as a child.

 

The Garifuna only came in Belize in 1832 and we started spreading over the country. All of these happened over an extended period of time.

 

The Garifuna were the descendants of African slaves that had a shipwreck near St. Vincent islands. When they had this shipwreck, those who swam and survived got mixed with the Arawaks and the Caribs who were already living on the island of St. Vincent. These different groups of people got mixed and are now known as the Garifuna people. Our language has a certain background from Africa and a certain background from the Arawak and the Carib people of the Caribbean islands. Our language and the name of our people is Garifuna, which also loosely translates to “cassava-eating people.” The people from Africa were into planting food.

 

The leader of the Garifuna people was Joseph Shatillier, who led the Garifuna people to travel this way towards Belize. They had another shipwreck near Honduras. They were looking for land and the closest was Honduras, so the Garifunas first landed on the coasts of Honduras. Garifuna as a people like to venture and try new things and new places.

 

Some Garifunas landed here in Belize, first in Punta Gorda, which is nearer to Honduras,

and then they started spreading. There are Garifuna people in Punta Gorda, in Georgetown, in Seine Bight, in Hopkins, in Dangriga, and in Belize City. We also have a little community in Corazal as well. The Garifuna spread and we have settlements in different parts of the country of Belize.