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08-23-2012, 03:52 PM
"In America we don't worship government, we worship God." - President Donald J. Trump
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08-26-2012, 04:18 PM
I have been to san juan del sur and there are nicaraguans living there who make $100 a month cramped eight to a two room house who eat rice twice a day a maybe can afford one new pair of shoes a year. Then foreigners come and plop down a million dollars for a house on the hill overlooking all the poor nicaraguans and they claim that they like the way of life down there and they "needed to get out of the rat race."" Hypocrites. These people keep their money overseas and buy hotels and houses and make themselves out to be "unmaterialistic" and only need "simple things in life" yet not one of them would ever come to central amwrica with nothing and expect to live and earn like a local
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Migration in the Americas: US retirees flock to Nicaragua
08-26-2012, 04:42 PM
San Juan del Sur is where that American dude was before Nicaraguan officials arrested him and have kept him in jail now for some time. There was just a special recently on Anderson Cooper about his case and how the international community has been requesting the UN to put pressure on Nicaragua's government to set this man free. It's a fucked up story and has made me think twice about setting up long-term prospects in a foreign country.
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/20/to...nicaragua/
You never know when some new government or any type of hater could just set you up and run your business and life into the ground. Foreigners are often easy targets for populist politicians. I know of two people personally who had their lives destroyed this way: one man in Panama during the Noriega era where his property was straight up confiscated, and another guy more recently when Hugo Chavez took over Venezuela. This dude's restaurant in Isla Margarita completely collapsed as did most tourism on the island.
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Migration in the Americas: US retirees flock to Nicaragua
08-27-2012, 07:17 AM
Why are they all from California?