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Nicaragua: vacastion spot/second home:opinions?
Samantha Brown (Travel Channel): crime rate lower than U.S., Granada looks like a really cool city, pretty countryside. Anybody been there...recently?
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Seems odd to have such a low crime rate, with such poverty. I guess they are the docile type of poor.
from the CIA factbook: Nicaragua has widespread underemployment, one of the highest degrees of income inequality in the world, and the third lowest per capita income in the Western Hemisphere. Population below the poverty line: 48% (2005) transshipment point for cocaine destined for the US and transshipment point for arms-for-drugs dealing |
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Ask the Costa ricans what they think about them...good waves tho, cheaper than CR.
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I was there last year, most of the time working in a poor village.
Spent one night on a tourist beach area. Nice place, but it was a bit odd to see the poverty just one block inland from the high-end beach property. Friendly people, but I could never get used to the income disparity. I felt more comfortable in the poverty-stricken inland village than at the beach with the wild mix of rich and poor. The capital city of Managua also has rich and poor, but with plenty of both, and also a middle class, there isn't the obviously huge gap. Just a thriving city of all kinds of people. Not many Americans there. Most Americans who buy property there get a nice place on a sunny beach, with extreme poverty only a block or two away. I wouldn't like that. Last edited by Dantilla; 11-17-2008 at 02:36 PM.. |
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All of the Caribbean & Central America has the same income disparity. It doesn't matter where you go, if you step off the resort (or out of the expat community) poverty is close by.
For home buying, you have to take a long look at the stability of the gov't. A high degree of income inequality does not bode well for the future. Look at what is happening in South America. A lot of gov'ts - in theory, democratically elected - are moving left. Ian
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my brother went last year. enjoyed it. he went with some doctor friends that go every year
he posted his pics of the trip here http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanfro/ i could think of a billion other places i would rather live, like belize or costa rica
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