If you are in the downtown areas of Chapala and Ajijic, walking is a fantastic way to move. You want to have good walking shoes because there is a lot of cobblestones and uneven sidewalks. The good weather allows for lots of walking year round so that is a plus.If you are in the downtown areas of Chapala and Ajijic, walking is a fantastic way to move. You want to have good walking shoes because there is a lot of cobblestones and uneven sidewalks. The good weather allows for lots of walking year round so that is a plus.
Local employees in San Juan Del Sur know that they can depend on a certain income. Being a tourist town, the income ebbs and flows. There is a slower season and busy season but businesses have learned to predict and anticipate these changes. My business, which is a school, is thankfully pretty consistent. Children need to go to school year round. It does fluctuate a bit because of some families who move here and later on decide that San Juan Del Sur is not for them or their families. I...Local employees in San Juan Del Sur know that they can depend on a certain income. Being a tourist town, the income ebbs and flows. There is a slower season and busy season but businesses have learned to predict and anticipate these changes. My business, which is a school, is thankfully pretty consistent. Children need to go to school year round. It does fluctuate a bit because of some families who move here and later on decide that San Juan Del Sur is not for them or their families. I have some transitions but it seems to be steady now and growing. In general, I feel that the economy here is pretty stable. 
Off the top of my head, I can’t name a particular doctor practicing in Belize who is trained in a United States medical school, though I am sure there are some here. That being said, there are no medical schools in Belize so all the doctors in this country have studied abroad. There are some very fine institutions in England, Jamaica, Guatemala, Canada, and globally. So while I can’t specify a particular doctor in this country that went to a United States medical school, I am...Off the top of my head, I can’t name a particular doctor practicing in Belize who is trained in a United States medical school, though I am sure there are some here. That being said, there are no medical schools in Belize so all the doctors in this country have studied abroad. There are some very fine institutions in England, Jamaica, Guatemala, Canada, and globally. So while I can’t specify a particular doctor in this country that went to a United States medical school, I am sure if you dug a little bit deeper, you could locate them as well as some other fine doctors and surgeons that have studied, not only in the United States, but in other fine medical institutions across the region and across the globe..jpg)
I am very happy to answer this question because the police in Portugal are not corrupt at all. There is no corruption on that level in Portugal. I would highly recommend that people do not try any Latin American or African tricks of trying to slip in dollar notes into a driver’s license or any funny business like that because that doesn’t work in Europe. That is completely frowned upon and you could well be arrested if you do something like that. If you are coming to...I am very happy to answer this question because the police in Portugal are not corrupt at all. There is no corruption on that level in Portugal. I would highly recommend that people do not try any Latin American or African tricks of trying to slip in dollar notes into a driver’s license or any funny business like that because that doesn’t work in Europe. That is completely frowned upon and you could well be arrested if you do something like that. If you are coming to Portugal, don’t try it. No one expects for corruption to happen at that level. 
My dear husband and I left the good ol’ USA when we sold our home in California in 1994. He told me: “Honey, don’t look back!” We were young and adventurous so we drove from California to Costa Rica.
Many people have this idea that Panama is a backward place with grinding poverty, poor infrastructure, political instability and lots of risk for investors. In fact, while there is poverty there in relative terms, the people are happy, relaxed, friendly and open. Much of the country is pretty much like parts of California or the American south, and was so, long before swarms of gringos arrived at the start of the current economic boom. 
