There are several specialty furniture stores in the Algarve. There are also furniture stores in the big malls but what you could also do in Algarve is order furniture from the northern part of Portugal, which is one of the best-known areas for the manufacture of furniture using local woods.
There is place in the north of Portugal called Paços de Ferreira, which is essentially the furniture capital of Portugal. Often, people who want furniture made from certain types of woods would have pieces made to order from Paços de Ferreira and have them shipped down to the Algarve.
We have a good amount of quality furniture in Portugal. The quality is very good and the pricing is incredibly great compared to international standards. If I were in Latin America and getting some local hardwood made by a local person, I am pretty certain that I could get it cheaper there but if you were moving to a country and wanted local handmade furniture out of cherry or oak, you would find the price and quality very good here in Portugal.
If you want ready-made furniture from popular brands, we do have IKEA, which is being built near Loulé, so for all those who want a modern, Northern European look, they can go to IKEA. At the moment, the closest IKEA would be in Spain, in Seville or in Lisbon, which is the capital of Portugal. Aside from furniture, you would also find stores that sell rugs, carpets, and accessory stores. There is one accessory store that we like going to because it is high end but not excessively expensive. It’s called A Loja Gato Preto, which literally translates to “the shop of the black cat”. They have some very nice home décor pieces.
(Hampshire dressing table available at the Furniture Store, an English company with an outlet in the Algarve, Portugal, pictured.)
I love the ocean and I’ve been everywhere and I never had any problem anywhere I went. I was in Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco, Manzanillo, Cancun, etc., and I never had a problem.
You can rent a fairly nice house in El Valle de Anton anywhere around 1,000 to 2,000 square feet starting at around $700 a month going up to $2,000 a month depending on what kind of house it is..jpg)
I don’t generally go fishing but recently we went to Rio San Juan, which is the river that divides Costa Rica and Nicaragua and there is a big fishing competition there. People from other countries and also the locals join the fishing competitions. There are also nice places in San Juan del Sur where people go fishing on the ocean. 
The dress code in Belize is “bathing suits.” It’s too hot to wear much clothing in Belize. If you are trumping through the jungle, you would want to wear some pants to protect your legs. When I was going to the construction site, I wore pants and a cotton shirt. I brought three or four more shirts with me, and then I would change them throughout the day just to keep them fresh. It was definitely hot.
Taxation in Colombia: 
