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You don’t need to own a car in Chapala and Ajijic but it also depends on your health needs, your budget, and how adventurous you are. We have a very efficient bus service that runs from east to west on the north shore of the Lake Chapala. But you have to wait for the bus and know what bus to take because there are three bus routes. One goes straight to Guadalajara and doesn’t go through Chapala at all. If you want to go to Chapala and you take that bus, you will end up in...

You don’t need to own a car in Chapala and Ajijic but it also depends on your health needs, your budget, and how adventurous you are. We have a very efficient bus service that runs from east to west on the north shore of the Lake Chapala. But you have to wait for the bus and know what bus to take because there are three bus routes. One goes straight to Guadalajara and doesn’t go through Chapala at all. If you want to go to Chapala and you take that bus, you will end up in Guadalajara. There is another route that goes through all the towns. It stops on each town all the way to Chapala. You might not want to take that one if you are going straight to Chapala because that bus would stop at all of the villages along the way from Ajijic to Chapala. However, it is fairly easy to get accustomed to taking buses here. I see visitors who have been here in Ajijic for only a week and they already know which buses to take. 

 

If you don’t mind climbing the stairs of the bus and probably sometimes not finding any place to sit in the bus, you’re fine without a car. If you are the kind of person who likes the air-conditioner, the possibility of carrying heavy stuff just like me, since I am an artist (I carry my paints and other related items), you would need a car because you don’t want to carry those things in the bus.

 

One of the advantages of taking the bus is that as it goes between towns, the distance from the bus stop from where you are in town, is probably not very large because generally speaking, Ajijic is all of about 6 blocks. A bus ride would cost you 10 pesos (55 cents) at most so it is very economical. It is also not that inconvenient because they do go by fairly often. It just depends on whether you have stuff to carry.

 

One of the advantages of not having a car here in Chapala and Ajijic is if you are a little bit queasy about driving in very narrow spaces and cobblestones with lots of dogs, cats, cows and horses crossing the street. Even if you don’t live in the village, the buses still go right past all the major places like major markets, Wal-Mart and everything else.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is very difficult to get a job in Portugal.  The unemployment rate in must be hovering at 15% at the moment. 

 

It might also be difficult for a foreigner to find a job here but that could also depend on his area of expertise. The Portuguese are trying to attract high value added professions, which is in part why the government came up with the Non-Habitual Resident regime, to try and get highly skilled people to come here or to be transferred...

It is very difficult to get a job in Portugal.  The unemployment rate in must be hovering at 15% at the moment. 

 

It might also be difficult for a foreigner to find a job here but that could also depend on his area of expertise. The Portuguese are trying to attract high value added professions, which is in part why the government came up with the Non-Habitual Resident regime, to try and get highly skilled people to come here or to be transferred here by multinationals.

 

The local job market, though, is extremely tight. So if you are a foreigner, depending on your skill, it may or may not be easy for you to find a job in Portugal. If you are an IT expert, for example, you would find a lot of opportunities here but if you are a doctor or a lawyer, you would probably find the market saturated. There are some niche areas where there is a shortage of really top class professionals.

 

(Logo for Duncan M cGregor Accounting, DMA, whose proprietor Duncan McGregor is an expat doing business in the coastal town of Cascais, Portugal, pictured.)

My friends and I treat Americans like everyone else. There is no Anti-American feeling in Belize. We are big on tourism. Americans do not have to worry about not being treated well by locals in general. Belizeans view Americans and expats like anyone else. The Belizeans don’t have any views about Americans or any other expats than they would have about anyone else, even a native Belizean.

My friends and I treat Americans like everyone else. There is no Anti-American feeling in Belize. We are big on tourism. Americans do not have to worry about not being treated well by locals in general. Belizeans view Americans and expats like anyone else. The Belizeans don’t have any views about Americans or any other expats than they would have about anyone else, even a native Belizean.