Retirees Get Half-price Flights in Ecuador
Date: 12/18/2007
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007
Cuenca, Ecuador
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If you’re 65 or older and looking for an incentive to retire overseas, take a look at what Ecuador can offer you.
Read OnCuenca’s Favorite Expat Café
Date: 11/29/2007
Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007
Cuenca, Ecuador
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On Friday nights, expats gather at Cuenca’s Café Eucalyptus. Officially, we come for the live radio broadcast of a blues program hosted by a U.S. disk jockey. Unofficially, we come for the half-priced drinks and to share conversation. Tall tales are welcome, even encouraged.
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Spotlight on...Salinas, Ecuador
Date: 11/01/2007
Salinas, Ecuador’s largest resort town, is also one of the country’s biggest investment opportunities. Located at Ecuador’s western-most point, Salinas is less than a two-hour drive from the international airport at Guayaquil. Referred to as the Little Miami Beach, the town features an impressive row of white mid- and high-rise condominiums situated on a crescent bay. Although the town has a permanent population of less than 40,000, the number swells to more than 100,000 on holidays when condos, rentals, and hotel rooms are filled to capacity.
Read OnTraveling With the Dollar
Date: 09/28/2007Global travelers are feeling a double pinch this year, first from inflation and second from yet another fall by the U.S. dollar.
Read OnStretch your Dollars in the Land of the Sun
Date: 09/27/2007In just a few years, 60 million U.S. baby boomers will start their retirement. Many pensions and social security payments will be severely squeezed by inflation, leaving people without savings in an uncomfortable position.
Read OnA Tale of Two Expats Doing Business in Ecuador
Date: 06/29/2007Kjetil Haugan arrived in Quito in 1996 with a modest amount of investment capital and a lot of ambition.
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At home in Ecuador: How Mike Sager's inner gypsy led him to Darwin's Paradise
Date: 06/01/2007
A motorcycle-loving, rock-n-rolling free spirit…and honorary Ecuadorian. That about sums up Mike Sager, an expat whose tale began some 10 years ago, in his hometown of Huntington Beach, California. It was from here that Mike embarked on a quest-to forge a new life far from the masses that had crowded once-verdant Orange County.
Read OnMost IL Readers Move to This Perfect Valley
Date: 05/14/2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Vilcabamba, Ecuador
What a sight: a beautiful, sun-bathed valley stretching off into the distance, surrounded by magnificent mountain peaks as far as we could see. The giant geological formation Mandango overlooks the valley, and a sparkling river crashes toward the Pacific. Off in the distance, tucked away at a perfect 5,000 feet, sits the tiny village of Vilcabamba.
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