How much does it cost for a gardener in Yucatan: Riviera Maya, Playa del Carmen, Cancun, Merida, etc?
Jason Waller - Playa del Carmen Real Estate
We have a gardener that comes once a month here in Playa del Carmen, in Yucatan. My neighbor has a gardener that comes twice a month. To come and spend about 3 hours in our yard costs about US $10 to $15.
The cost should be about the same everywhere in Yucatan. Cancun typically is a little more expensive than Playa Del Carmen because it is a big tourist area.
(Home in Quintana Roo, Yucantan, Mexico, pictured.)
We have a gardener that comes once a month here in Playa del Carmen, in Yucatan. My neighbor has a gardener that comes twice a month. To come and spend about 3 hours in our yard costs about US $10 to $15.
The cost should be about the same everywhere in Yucatan. Cancun typically is a little more expensive than Playa Del Carmen because it is a big tourist area.
(Home in Quintana Roo, Yucantan, Mexico, pictured.)
How good are the medical centers, hospitals and health clinics in Cayo, Belize, including San Ignacio and Belmopan, and how close are they?
Roberto Harrison - Chaa Creek
We have a clinic in San Ignacio and we have the Western Regional Hospital, which is the main hospital in the Cayo District and which is located in Belmopan. The clinic in San Ignacio is good for minor injuries or medical care.
However, if you need a surgery or if you have something serious or if you need to deliver a baby, you would be taken to the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan, which is around 30 minutes away from San Ignacio by car. For CAT scans...
We have a clinic in San Ignacio and we have the Western Regional Hospital, which is the main hospital in the Cayo District and which is located in Belmopan. The clinic in San Ignacio is good for minor injuries or medical care.
However, if you need a surgery or if you have something serious or if you need to deliver a baby, you would be taken to the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan, which is around 30 minutes away from San Ignacio by car. For CAT scans and similar procedures, they might take you to Belize City where better equipped hospitals like the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital are located. Belize City is about an hour and half away from San Ignacio by car.
More and more Belizean physicians are going abroad to study and they come back here to Belize to help their own people. Recently, the government has been acquiring better hospital equipment as well.
(Western Regional Hospital, New Born Project, Belmopan, Belize, pictured.)
How does the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion work if I live in Nicaragua?
Tabitha Paddock - Greenback Expat Tax Services
The Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE) is a great tool for those Americans living abroad, including Nicaragua. Basically how it works is if you qualify, you can exclude up to $97,600 USD of Earned Income from tax in the US.
You can qualify using one of two methods, the Physical Presence Test or the Bona Fide Residence Test. For the physical presence test, you simply have to be abroad for 330 days of the year. The Bona Fide test is not based on days abroad,...
The Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE) is a great tool for those Americans living abroad, including Nicaragua. Basically how it works is if you qualify, you can exclude up to $97,600 USD of Earned Income from tax in the US.
You can qualify using one of two methods, the Physical Presence Test or the Bona Fide Residence Test. For the physical presence test, you simply have to be abroad for 330 days of the year. The Bona Fide test is not based on days abroad, rather it is based on your permanency in the foreign country, and your intent to return to the US (or lack thereof).
The FEIE has its drawbacks though... For one it only works on "earned income", thus many retirement funds (pensions, etc) will not be able to be excluded. Also, it does not exclude you from Self Employment Tax if you are self employed.
Carol Bartlett Ribeiro - Carol Bartlett Ribeiro, Property Consultant
On account of there being so many new mobile companies in Portugal, there is a lot of competition, so you can get a bundle including Internet, television, mobile phones, television, and depending on how many foreign calls you want, you can pay anything from €32 up to €78 (about $35 / £23 to $85 / £56).
And there are many very good people here who will do installation and setup. There’s excellent support for that here in...
On account of there being so many new mobile companies in Portugal, there is a lot of competition, so you can get a bundle including Internet, television, mobile phones, television, and depending on how many foreign calls you want, you can pay anything from €32 up to €78 (about $35 / £23 to $85 / £56).
And there are many very good people here who will do installation and setup. There’s excellent support for that here in Portugal.
(A scene from Os Nossos Dias, a Portuguese telenovela, pictured. )
How much do restaurants cost in Bocas Del Toro, Panama?
walter kawano - Bocas del Toro Realty Services, Inc.
Generally speaking, the restaurants in Bocas del Toro cost from about $5 to $16. In addition, there are high end restaurants in Bocas del Toro with prices from $16 to $50 that offer a variety of food such as sushi, steak, sea food, Indian food, Mediterranean cuisine, etc.
Generally speaking, the restaurants in Bocas del Toro cost from about $5 to $16. In addition, there are high end restaurants in Bocas del Toro with prices from $16 to $50 that offer a variety of food such as sushi, steak, sea food, Indian food, Mediterranean cuisine, etc.
Many of my stories involve a place up the hill near us called Hobbitenango, and before I write about building my house here, I must explain what Hobbitenango is. “Tenango” is a Mayan suffix to many of the names of towns in Guatemala, meaning “the place of.” Jocotenango is the place of the Jocos, Alotenango is the place of the Alos, Chimaltenango the place of the Chimals, etc. So this place near us is the place of …. you guessed, the...
My husband recently purchased me a new camera to replace the one stolen on our last trip to Tocumen Airport in Panama City. I haven't had much chance to use it because I had been sick with bronchitis. I love the Nikon Coolpix P600, it is brand new but he got it cheap because it is a discontinued model. It is fabulous, a very easy point and shoot with 60X zoom and audio-video at 1080p.
Today Mary, my housekeeper, brought her sweet seven-year-old son. He...
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