Article - Expat in Salinas

SawMan wrote:

Maybe it's a puff piece, but here's a recent article that may be of interest on the author's experience living in Salinas:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/if-you … 2016-12-29

Reprint of November article:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/if-youre-th … 1480302600

$175,000 or more up front for an abode is beyond the scope of many economic refugees.  In addition, doing computer work or being a free Lance writer is for a select few.  Sounds like they have a great life.

Jim Santos for International "Lying".
He sells his blog posts as freelance articles to other online e-magazines.
Highly colorful and entertaining but quite skewed to present a paradisiacal perspective not entirely experienced in the normal day to day life of an expat.
Personally I have found Salinas's North American xpat community to be a bit  homogeneous which leads me to refer to the area as the RedNeck Riviera of Ecuador.

Susan_in_Ecuador wrote:

Highly colorful and entertaining but quite skewed to present a paradisiacal perspective....

Any article about the Ecuador coast published in 2016 after April is suspect to me from the start if it doesn't mention the coastal earthquakes of this year.  Santos made no such mention.

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The article had an IL tone to it - idyllic living for 25% of the cost - but I didn't associate it with IL.  I would not post their crap, or at least now knowingly.

Thanks for that stand-up post.

No surprise about that! The "good ole boys" take their "rednecked-mentality" crap, everywhere they go.

Expats who work from their offshore home locations, and, who really don't need to work for the money, don't boast about it. That was my clue, that the article writer was slightly on the constipated side of life.

Ditto! The writer portrays Ecuador as being some kind of perfect "Utopian" retirement paradise, inhabited by the peaceful likes of Chimpanzees (hallelujah), instead of the usual cadre of financially uptight, socially paranoid, and emotionally grief-stricken people.

I finally read the article to see what the fuss is about, and a couple of observations. It stated, "we cannot carry home more than $20 in groceries", oh that's a good one, because 1 kilogram of beef cubes + 1 kilogram of Chicken Breast + 1/2 kilogram Tilapia fillet easily amount to $20.