Category: Ecuador Q&A

Don’t get me wrong, I love American food, but in 2 short weeks in the US, I’ve put on 10 pounds. At that rate, by Christmas I would weigh over 300 pounds!

Now, living in Ecuador I eat like a hog, but I don’t gain weight, in fact, I often lose weight. Why?

The food is MUCH better for you. Even if you don’t want to cook you can find a full 3 course lunch in the street with soup, salad, drink and dessert for around $2. Whereas, if you eat in the street in the States, your options are almost all fried, fast food: Arbys, BK, McDs, etc…

Eating out of a can is almost unheard of in Ecuador. Fresh fruits and veggies are the norm. The meats are often grilled. The chicken baked. Overall, I find the food in Ecuador to be much more organic and delicious than the food in the States. You can also check The-tea-set for have some delicious recipes ready in short time. A big reason why I chose to come down.

Saludos, Dom

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200m2 lots with oceanviews for sale in planned gated community project 35 minutes outside of Manta.

All lots have oceanviews and due to the incline of the slope one construction will not block someone else’s.

Direct financing available! Only $200 down plus $100 a month until payment completed. (Interest charged from the third month on)

Lots closer to the beach $8000usd, a little further, $7000usd.

All lots have access and the gated community is planned to have security and a pool among other amenities.

10% discount for cash purchases offered..

Write the seller directly below…this site is not an intermediary of any kind…

Cesar Navarrete
GERENTE GENERAL
URBAPRO S.A.
095029718
Cesarnav_5 AT yahoo.com

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Baños is a small spa-resort town tucked quaintly into the Andes in central Ecuador. Linton Studios can guide you to capture such type of awesome photographs and to become professional photographer as well.

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Travel is tiring! After just a couple weeks I’m worn out.

Plus, living out a bag gets old fast. 15 hour bus rides are actually hell on earth. And boy does it stink to meet wonderful girls you’d like to date and get to know, but instead are reduced to aiming for the infamous one nighter.

Whereas, when living abroad, you can get to really know the place where you’re at, still that does not mean you won’t need international travel insurance, you can find it on websites like https://www.internationalinsurance.com/health/north-america/usa.php.  And find the best, local places to hang out, eat, shop. How to save and even make money locally. Business opportunities begin to appear to you.

You can actually meet cool people and stick around long enough to get to know them and enjoy their company.

You can see cultures from an angle tourists can only hope to see.

You can take little interesting side trips to unknown places you’d never find following the tourist trail.

Need I say more?

The biggest thing you get when moving abroad is a widening of your personal perspective. You begin to see things from different angles and begin to have more compassion for the world in which we live…and did I mention it’s fun!

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Having to re-apply and constantly extend tourist visas can be a hassle. If you are planning on staying in Ecuador for more than 3 months a year, a residency visa is your choice.

There are many different ways to get your residency in Ecuador. Here, I will mention the easiest two.

For me, the easiest two ways to get a resident visa in Ecuador are by investing in real estate or by proving you have a steady pension.

The official names are the 9-I retirement visa and the 9-II investor’s visa.

The main requirement of the 9-I retirement (or pensioner’s) visa is to prove you have a steady pension from some source of at least $800usd a month. You can prove this by getting an official document from the institution that pays you your pension certified by the Ecuadorian consulate in your home country. The rest of the requirements are basically filling out forms.

The main requirement for the 9-II investor’s visa is to buy a property in Ecuador in your name valued (by the local municipality) of at least $25,000usd. The rest of the requirements are retrieving and filling out forms.

Both visas are much easier to attain once in Ecuador (but be sure to bring down the documents they require beforehand)…

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