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Depending on the area that you are moving to in Mexico, there might be really good furniture stores. There are lots of furniture stores in Mexico where you can buy good quality furniture just like in the US. We also have stores like Home Depot, Costco, Walmart, etc. Most of them are in the large cities. 
 
However, if you are moving into one of the smaller towns, you might not have access to furniture stores that sell nice furniture. If you are living close to the border of...

Depending on the area that you are moving to in Mexico, there might be really good furniture stores. There are lots of furniture stores in Mexico where you can buy good quality furniture just like in the US. We also have stores like Home Depot, Costco, Walmart, etc. Most of them are in the large cities. 
 
However, if you are moving into one of the smaller towns, you might not have access to furniture stores that sell nice furniture. If you are living close to the border of US and Mexico, you can do your shopping in the US and bring your purchases home to Mexico. You are allowed to cross with around US $150 worth of merchandise from the US into Mexico without paying import taxes on them. If your purchases are in excess of $150, then you pay taxes on the amount in excess of $150.  

 

(Liverpool department store sells furniture in Mexico, pictured.)

The Nicaraguan-trained doctors are very good (and I speak with the perspective of knowing the medical care system in Miami, Florida).  The Nicaraguan doctors about my age went to medical school in Leon, which is one of the best medical schools in Central America, and one to which people come to study from many foreign countries.  Afterwards, a very large percentage of Nicaraguan doctors do at least some study in the US.

The Nicaraguan-trained doctors are very good (and I speak with the perspective of knowing the medical care system in Miami, Florida).  The Nicaraguan doctors about my age went to medical school in Leon, which is one of the best medical schools in Central America, and one to which people come to study from many foreign countries.  Afterwards, a very large percentage of Nicaraguan doctors do at least some study in the US.

The road is in reasonably good condition. There are only two sections that have expansive soil under it, which had some pretty serious movement. There are some reasonably good-sized potholes every now and then in the village area, where you have the high hustle and bustle of the metropolitan style Belizean village.

The road is in reasonably good condition. There are only two sections that have expansive soil under it, which had some pretty serious movement. There are some reasonably good-sized potholes every now and then in the village area, where you have the high hustle and bustle of the metropolitan style Belizean village.

Not only does Lourdes Miranda have one of the best answers she is also  one of the very best attorneys in Boquete.

Not only does Lourdes Miranda have one of the best answers she is also  one of the very best attorneys in Boquete.

For most of the civilized countries, Portugal is really, really cheap. The minimum wage salary in Portugal by law is €450 (US $669) so that’s what you get paid if you work at McDonald’s or in a toll shop in the motorway or in a restaurant or something like that. So therefore, properties to rent have to be within budget for people like these; they have to afford an apartment for €200 (US $223). But this is normally in the worst areas a long way out from the city center...

For most of the civilized countries, Portugal is really, really cheap. The minimum wage salary in Portugal by law is €450 (US $669) so that’s what you get paid if you work at McDonald’s or in a toll shop in the motorway or in a restaurant or something like that. So therefore, properties to rent have to be within budget for people like these; they have to afford an apartment for €200 (US $223). But this is normally in the worst areas a long way out from the city center or the main area.
 
The place where I live, in Cascais (a suburb of Lisbon) is one of the most expensive in Portugal.  Cascais is the Beverly Hills of Portugal. To rent a 3-bedroom apartment in a condominium here with a swimming pool and garden and gym and all these infrastructures, will be about €2,000 (US $2,233). 
 
The Portuguese have a few bad habits. One of them is coffee. During the day they go 4 or 5 times for coffee; they interrupt their work to have coffee 6 times.   They go to the coffee shop to have an espresso.
 
In Portugal we don’t drink the coffee with milk. You know those big buckets you drink in America? Here, it’s espresso. The Portuguese are addicted to espresso coffee. Most of them interrupt their work during the day 4 or 5 times or more just to have an espresso, which affects their productivity.
 
And not only that.  Companies normally give you an hour or an hour and a half for lunch, but if you own your business or you have a high position in your company, your lunch will take 2 and a half hours. That is a must. And some Portuguese might even do the siesta after the lunch, which is sleeping for half and hour in the couch. But then, they don’t really leave the office at 5 o’clock. We leave the office at 7, 8 or 9 in the evening.  To justify the times you went for coffee and a long lunch meal you had and then after you finish working and you leave at 9 o’clock, you go for a beer and you go for some Portuguese tapas (small plates). 
 
And then you go to the restaurant at 10:30 PM and that’s when you start having your dinner at 10:30. If you’re young, you go out at night, and the nightlife starts very late in Portugal. That’s another bad habit we have. It starts very late. The club or the disco opens at midnight or 1 o’clock and may not close until 7 in the morning the following day. So you actually see a lot of youngsters leaving the clubs at 7 in the morning, putting on a tie, and going straight in the office. Maybe that’s why they need 2 coffees or 5 or 10.
 
As a culture, we spend a lot of time out of the house, in the outdoors, in the open air places. We love open-air places. All the coffee shops and all the restaurants have tables and chairs to sit outside because the weather is always good. We like to talk, we like to drink, and we like to eat.  

 

(Coffee house in Portugal, pictured.)