Can I buy good clothes in Chapala and Ajijic, Mexico?
Chuck Bolotin - Best Mexico Movers
The answer to can you buy good clothes in the Lake Chapala / Ajijic area depends on what kinds of clothes you purchase. First, the good news.
If you buy your clothes at Walmart, we have one right in town and the clothes are about what you would expect.
If you buy your clothes at second hand stores, we have a good amount of those.
If you like traditional Mexican clothes handmade in Chiapas or Oaxaca, you can find those,...
The answer to can you buy good clothes in the Lake Chapala / Ajijic area depends on what kinds of clothes you purchase. First, the good news.
If you buy your clothes at Walmart, we have one right in town and the clothes are about what you would expect.
If you buy your clothes at second hand stores, we have a good amount of those.
If you like traditional Mexican clothes handmade in Chiapas or Oaxaca, you can find those, and they’re quite beautiful and inexpensive.
You can find clothes in Guadalajara (about an hour away) at Costco (just like you would expect) and at several very nice malls, some quite high end (also about what would expect). The picture above is of Andares Mall, which is very, very nice.
What the area is missing is almost any mid-range clothing stores. For those and for shopping with better selection, most expats (especially the women) buy the vast majority of their clothes when they visit north.
What's the closest airport to Coronado, Panama and what are the flights to and from Coronado, Panama?
Nelson Vega
The new airport in Rio Hato (20 minutes from Coronado, Panama) was inaugurated back in November of 2013. The surrounding area is full of beach resorts and residential projects so I believe that it won't take very long until we get more details about local or international flights coming to this airport.
The new airport in Rio Hato (20 minutes from Coronado, Panama) was inaugurated back in November of 2013. The surrounding area is full of beach resorts and residential projects so I believe that it won't take very long until we get more details about local or international flights coming to this airport.
Juan Carlos Espinosa - Hacienda Puerta del Cielo Ecolodge & Spa
I recently visited Hospital Metropolitano Vivian Pellas, a very large, state of the art hospital in Managua. From what I understand, an extremely large percentage (well over 50%) of the doctors in this hospital had some training in the US. Some of them were actually Americans living and working in Nicaragua as physicians.
The primary expat areas in Nicaragua, including Granada (less than an hour away) and San Juan del Sur (an hour and forty-five minutes) and Leom...
I recently visited Hospital Metropolitano Vivian Pellas, a very large, state of the art hospital in Managua. From what I understand, an extremely large percentage (well over 50%) of the doctors in this hospital had some training in the US. Some of them were actually Americans living and working in Nicaragua as physicians.
The primary expat areas in Nicaragua, including Granada (less than an hour away) and San Juan del Sur (an hour and forty-five minutes) and Leom (about an hour and a half), are within easy driving distance to Hospital Metropolitano Vivian Pellas, so this is the hospital you would almost certainly go to.
The music in Belize is a combination of drumming, steel drumming and reggae. There is a variety of music, but there is a lot of drumming.
There is popular music, too, and Spanish music is very influential.
This is definitely a younger generation that is into DJs that I really do not even know. We have many local musicians here, but they are just playing your favorites. People are not really craving for new music down here. They just play the songs...
The music in Belize is a combination of drumming, steel drumming and reggae. There is a variety of music, but there is a lot of drumming.
There is popular music, too, and Spanish music is very influential.
This is definitely a younger generation that is into DJs that I really do not even know. We have many local musicians here, but they are just playing your favorites. People are not really craving for new music down here. They just play the songs that they know and love, with their own interpretation.
Do I need to renounce or relinquish my US citizenship or get a dual citizenship to move or live abroad?
RICH Novak - RE/MAX Beaches & City! INC.
To answer the question directly, it is not necessary for you to relinquish your citizenship or even get a dual citizenship in order to live in Panama. You can be a perpetual tourist, if you follow the rules, or you can get one of the different visas available.
When you come to Panama, you can come as a tourist or a visitor, and stay for 180 days, but then you have to leave the country for 72 hours. Then you can come back again. There are people who are stay in...
To answer the question directly, it is not necessary for you to relinquish your citizenship or even get a dual citizenship in order to live in Panama. You can be a perpetual tourist, if you follow the rules, or you can get one of the different visas available.
When you come to Panama, you can come as a tourist or a visitor, and stay for 180 days, but then you have to leave the country for 72 hours. Then you can come back again. There are people who are stay in Panama indefinitely as perpetual tourists.
By law a Pensionado in Panama does not need a passport and possible Panamanian citizenship, but the government of Panama recently changed that rule, so that now, after a person’s has legally been here for five years, you can apply for citizenship. Nobody that I know has ever become a citizen and received a Panamanian passport that I know of, though, so it is absolutely not necessary in order to stay in Panama.
There are programs like the one they have in Saint Kitts, where you could start with an investment of US $350,000 and receive citizenship. To renounce your citizenship is a gray area. You may want to renounce your citizenship or you may not.
I know a Canadian guy who says that he has done everything to become a citizen of Panama, but the president of Panama needs to approve his application to become a citizen. That is the only thing he is says he needs, and I am waiting to see if that happens.
I am a US citizen and because I am a US citizen living overseas, I have to put up with some crazy laws. Because I am a citizen of the United States, I have to send in a report to Detroit telling the government what money I have in foreign bank accounts, and if I do not tell them, the penalty is 50% per year. So just because you already live in another country, does not relieve you of taxes and some other legal obligations in the US, because you are still a US citizen.
The amount you will spend on food here in Portugal would depend on for how many people you are buying. The cost for a couple with one son would average about $100 to $300 a week.
Sometimes I don’t have lunch at home but we’ll have dinner and sometimes I have a big lunch and I don’t eat dinner, for the cost for us really varies. Going to the supermarket, I spend an average of about €60 (US$ 65 or £43) a week. Then I’ll go to the fruit and...
The amount you will spend on food here in Portugal would depend on for how many people you are buying. The cost for a couple with one son would average about $100 to $300 a week.
Sometimes I don’t have lunch at home but we’ll have dinner and sometimes I have a big lunch and I don’t eat dinner, for the cost for us really varies. Going to the supermarket, I spend an average of about €60 (US$ 65 or £43) a week. Then I’ll go to the fruit and vegetable market, the butcher, the fish market and spend another €50 (US $54 or £36). The cost of food in Portugal is about a quarter less than in England.
To cite some examples, a whole chicken is about €5 (US $5.42 or £3.60). A sliced loaf of white bread costs €70 cents (US $76 or £50). I buy whole wheat bread that is uncut from the bakery that costs me about €1.50 (US $1.62 or £1.08).
The cost of food in the markets in Portugal really varies. I cannot report the exact costs because I am not a supermarket person. I go to the supermarket once a month to buy cleaning product and canned foods. That’s about it. I don’t buy any food from the supermarket. There is a street market close to where I live here in Portugal and every Saturday and Sunday, I go there to buy my vegetables. I buy eggs from free-range chickens from a lady who sells them. I buy all the meat from the butchers and I buy fish from the fish market. The reason why I don’t buy fresh produce from the supermarket is because they don’t taste the same. Most of them come from Spain so they have travelled for days and have been refrigerated. When I put it on the table, it lacks flavor.
It’s like in England. In England, the food is appalling because there is no flavor. When I eat potatoes here in Portugal, they do taste like potatoes. When I go to England, the potatoes don’t taste like anything. Same thing with tomatoes. The tomatoes in Portugal taste and smell like tomatoes but in England don’t taste nor smell like tomatoes. The reason why I like buying from the street market instead of the supermarket is because the food that they sell in the street market comes directly from the producers or farms. That is commonly done in Portugal. The way that I buy is not unusual at all in Portugal. A lot of people buy from the street markets here in Portugal because people like the flavor of food. People who appreciate good flavor in foods go to the street markets. Those people who like processed food or pizzas go to the supermarkets.
Originally from Northern Ireland, and after a 10 year stint of working in the cruise industry and traveling extensively, I decided it was time to settle somewhere and find a "grown-up job"!
I decided on Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. I moved there with little more than two months rent in my pocket and a dream which I was aware would need a lot of luck and hard work to achieve. I arrived in October and was immediately drawn to the climate and the beauty and...
On our road trip through Mexico and on the Best Places in the World to Retire site, we and other contributors to our site are often asked to do a comparison between life in the US and life abroad. In order to be accurate, these comparisons are almost always filled with lots of caveats because it is not often easy to do a fair one-to-one, “apples-to-apples” parallel. However, sometimes, you can, which is exactly what happened to me a few days ago.
Three years ago, I selected Panama as a regional base for my business. I am very pleased with the results and can state, unequivocally, that I accomplished the principle goal.
Moreover, I have been blessed with the opportunity to help many patients heal and put their lives back together. Being able to provide efficient access to affordable life-improving and/or life-saving medical care, is very gratifying.
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