having lived in multiple latin american 3rd world countries after leaving the u.s. i have to disagree with most of what i'm hearing. these countries all have strong expat communities, great/cheap health care, english spoken everywhere, first class food. i mean, lets put it this way - i made 150k per year or so in the u.s. before real estate tanked. here in the south i make only 24k online per year and my standard of living is much much higher than it was in the states. maids, massues (professional), huge parties, i work four hours per day, no phone, no bills, no reason to own a car - taxis are cheap and everywhere. there are many people like me here and the only thing we all have in common is that we never want to go home again, yup, all of our shitholes have wireless high speed internet, hbo and everything else.
