The Expat Files: Living in Latin America

#1- Announcing Johnny’s August 2025 “Expat Insider Seminar”:Join in the fun. Mark August 15th through 22nd on your calendar and join me for a week as we drink from the fire hose in both Guatemala and El Salvador. To get in on the early bird discounts just go to www.expatplanb.com and click on the seminar link. #2- "SIN VERGUENZA” is a phrase you will hear a lot here in Latin America:It means whne...

#1- Announcing Johnny’s August 2025 “Expat Insider Seminar”:Join in the fun. Mark August 15th through 22nd on your calendar and join me in spending the week drinking from the fire hose in both Guatemala and El Salvador… #2- Expats living the “beach house” life:Is it what it’s cracked up to be? Today we discuss the pros and cons of living the Expat beach house retirement dream… #3- A listener...

#1- Announcing Johnny’s August 2025 “Expat Insider Seminar”:Join in the fun and mark August 15th through 22nd on your calender. We’ll be spending that week drinking from the fire hose in both Guatemala and El Salvador… #2- Scammed in Latin America:It’s happened to me a few times, but you live and learn. Don’t think you’re so smart that it can’t happen to you… #3- Latin America is ripe for pyramid...

#1- Announcing Johnny’s August 2025 “Expat Insider Seminar”:Join in the fun and mark August 15th through 22nd on your calender because we’ll be spending the week drinking from the fire hose in both Guatemala and El Salvador… #2- A world travelling Expat listener tells us about his worst Air B&B experiences in Colombia: #3- Huelgas, protests and roadblocks:Get use to it…their just the facts of...

#1- Announcing Johnny’s August 2025 “Expat Insider Seminar”: #2- A world travelling listener chimes in by saying the occasionally disgusting Latin American bathrooms are nothing compared to the crap bathrooms she’s seen in certain parts of Europe#3- More very odd latin American personal names that will make you either laugh or cry: #4- More bad news for all you tattooed folks : #5- Our man in...

#1- The annoying “one upmanship” problem that certain expats and gringos seem to want to bring to the table: #2- Expats and their tired old “war stories”:Why do certain Expats blather on about what they used to own and what they lost in the divorce? Why do they still carry around old photos of that lost beach house and Range Rover? #3- Expats and gringos, be advised that no one wants to see...

#1- When you think your Spanish is better than it really is:A common gringo / expat delusion…#2- (Today by popular demand) The Guatemalan permanent Residency process described in great detail:#3- That weird and crazy “apostille” process:There are two types of “apostilles’ actually. If you apply for residency in any Latino country you will have to be familiar with both of them… #4- How to get...

#1- A word about those very big and nasty flying cucarachas: #2- Boots on the ground in Paraguay:How even smart, astute, Spanish speaking gringos get scammed in Paraguay... #3- Direct from the ER (Emergency Room):Some amazingly brutal Latin American motorcycle crash stats… #4- Bicycle riding in Latin America:Is it safe, enjoyable and recommended for gringos and expats? #5- How Latinos deal with...

#1- The strange phenomena of how certain absolutely talentless Latino males become super-popular, super-rich music DJ’s:Lets see now, they can’t sing, can’t write songs, can’t banter (not much can be done with a 20 word vocabulary) and they can’t play a single musical instrument… WTF? #2- When there’s always an Earthquake, fire or hurricane on the Latin American horizon- what’s the proper...

#1- “Hey Mommy… a Narco’s moved into the neighborhood”- Part 2 #2- Bad with money:How wealthy Latinos routinely waste their dough: #3- Too many houses:Why wealthy Guatemalans generally own three different beautiful homes but oddly enough, none are maintained to gringo standards… #4- A few words about owning a beach house in Latin America:It’s a dream of many. Problem is the maintenance is never...