It’s the rainy season here, so I took yesterday off to take a look at a couple of apartments here. I’m interested to see if real estate is the screaming bargain everyone says it is. My focus is on a “bachelor pad”, for lack of a better word, so my (excellent) English-speaking agent, Simon Sjoberg, has chosen two penthouse suites in the El Poblado district for our viewing pleasure.
You can find plenty of online advice about how wonderful Colombia is as a retirement destination or just a good place to live. But sometimes these websites are just trying to do a sales job rather than really inform. The worst of these offenders is International Living, in my opinion, which would have you move every month to a new country because the best one in the world is ALWAYS the one they’re marketing books and conferences for. For that matter, I’ve told you mostly just the good stuff myself. So with that in mind, I’m here today to give you the downside of this mountainous country down south. Here’s my list of 5 reasons to avoid Colombia:
I am sitting on a rooftop terrace basking in the morning sun and drinking the best cup of Joe that I’ve ever had. Yes, even better than what I had in Ecuador earlier this year, and better than anything in the States. Rich, robust, and so aromatic that normally just a mere whiff of it from across a room would put a smile on my face. But not today.
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