The Expat Files

FOOD PRICES, the COST OF LIVING, and more on BANKS; - Kicking your addiction to 1st World specialty items and why buying locally produced stuff is both smart, and cheap. - Cooking with gas, electricity, or wood. Yes, half the people down here still use wood! (and you’re wondering where the rainforest went?). - High fructose corn syrup, and why it hasn’t caught on down here (thank Buddha). - The many ways a simple 2x4 framing stud down here beats its 1st World equivalent hands down. - When crime pays; Bank robberies in Latin America, and why just YOU might get robbed right outside of your bank.