The neighborhood that I lived in when I first moved to San Miguel de Allende and where I built my first home was a very Mexican working class neighborhood where I was able to observe that women were treated as second-class citizens by their Mexican boyfriends, fathers, or brothers. 
At Perla Escondida, a condo complex in Ambergris Caye with 24 units, an 800 square foot unit with 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom sells for US $200,000. It’s about a mile from San Pedro town center and it’s right on the beach, so it has an ocean view. They have a swimming pool. You can do your morning exercise, go 15 minutes to the center of town and have breakfast at Estelli. (They serve breakfast at Estelli all day. If you go out at 4 PM, you can still get breakfast at...
The number one sport in Portugal is soccer. Then I would say, all these basketball, handball, and all these other sports with balls, that tend to be second and third steps. But basically it’s soccer, which here in Portugal, we call soccer.
Nicaragua is still a very poor country and there are numerous opportunities to contribute—medically, sponsoring, education, veterinary, animals, schooling, English teaching or helping with English; so many opportunities to help and contribute. Nobody would have a problem leveraging their own skills. Apology- sort of!
Editor's note: Written in response to Is an Expat Living Abroad a True American?
1. In my view, being an American is more than the happy accident of how the geography of your birth bestowed upon you citizenship, or even where you physically reside. In my view, being an American is subscribing to a set of shared American values. “America” is more than a piece of paper or a place. “America” is an idea.
2. In my view, the first principle...
2. In my view, the first principle...
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.