Descriptions - EXPAT FILES SHOW #1488, FRI, JAN 02 (01-02-26): 

#1- What expats need to know about Chat GPT and other AI platforms:

#2- Expat Insider seminar stories that will amaze you:

#3- When the will to “get out of dodge” diminishes with time:

#4- Will your wife or significant other thwarts your Plan B efforts:  

#5- No good deed goes unpunished (that goes for Latin America too): 

#6- 10 most dangerous jobs:

#7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

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#1- The ins and outs and proper steps to having your SS check deposited in your Latin American Bank Account:

#2- Why despite your natural resistance and repusion to brain numbing USA buerocracy …you really need to set up a personal account on the US Social Security website:

Setting up a personal account on the SS  website will eliminate a lot of headaches when things go wrong (and they will go wrong eventually)

#3- DYK that in order to get residency in certain Latin American countries, there are multiple dreaded vaccine requirements?

Yes, this is bad news, but some countries like Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador don’t enforce those rules at all….

#4- Disgusting Latin American culinary surprises you will encounter:  

#5- Tips for gringos and expats who are able to buy Latin American properties with CASH: 

#6- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

#1- 3rd world optimism versus reality:

#2- Why 3rd world countries remain 3rd world as 1st world countries slwly slip into 3rd world status:

#3- How Latinos score on the big 5 personality traits as compared to gringos and expats:  

#4- Getting the Nobel piece (of shit) prize:  

#5- Latin Americans have a certain idea of what your previous life in the USA was like…. and it is all wrong:

#6- Latin American party etiquite:    

#7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

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#1- Expat landlords in Latin America:

Is being a landlord worth the hassle?

#2- 3rd world landlord rental property dilemmas you won’t encounter in the 1st world:

#3- Why Latin American real estate deals don’t seem to make sense to gingos and expats:

You need to look beyond the obvious. Chances are you're not analyzing the secondary factors...

#4- Yo must get it into your head that Latin America is a “renter’s” market:  

#5- How smart Latin American real estate owner’s low-ball their property tax bills:

#6- Why it's true that for most Latinos owning a home is practically the only way to beat inflation:    

#7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

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#1- Latina eating habits that bug gringos and expats:

Should you mention them or hold your tongue?

#2- Poor food safety and bad hygiene habits in Latino markets:

#3- The foolish dating app traps gringos and expats routinely fall for:  

#4- Guilty pleasures -Part 2:  

#5- The Latin American minimum wage battles:

#6- Data shows we are about 20% worse looking and less handsome than we think we are:

Is that good or bad news?     

#7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

[email protected] 

#1- The downside of being bilingual:

Yes, it's true, some people say there is a downside…

#2- The 3rd world inferiority complex:

#3- The “not so obvious’ signs that you are experiencing a 3rd world country:

By the way, the USA is moving along on that fast track path…

#4- Driving self-defense tips when on the road in Latin America:  

#5- A word about gringo fashion sense or lack of it, sometimes referred to as the Gringo / Latino  “bling” gap:

#6- Latin American “Acts of God”(or not);

#7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

[email protected] 

#1- DYK there groups of expat gringos holding no kings protesters in Latin America?

WTF?

#2- Travel… the best education in the world:

#3- The things your cleaning lady gets away with behind your back:  

#4- No one likes a gringo “know it all”:  

#5- Why is it so many fakebook expat groups seem to be made up of vocal, cringy,anti-capitalist, anti-trump wokesters?

Thankfully though, they're found almost exclusively on the gringo tourist trail…     

#6- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

[email protected] 

#1- Guilty pleasures:

I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours…

#2- The dark side of love and romance in Latin America:

#3- TEN more good reasons to get the hell out of Dodge:  

#4- Do Latina women lie when they openly compliment average gringo men on their looks and tell them that they are sooo handsome…

#5- How Latinas classify and rate other Latinas:

Often times Latinas are their own worst critics…

#6- comparing Latin American Junk food versus typical American junk food:

#7- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

[email protected] 

#1- The cost of dying in Latin America:

#2- What about wills, testaments and powers of attorney in Latin America:

#3- You won’t believe the crazy differences between Latino funerals held in the campo (out in boonies) versus a typical funerals held in the city:  

#4- Being a weekday Catholic in Latin America:

Its awful confusing and definitely not logical…

#5- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

[email protected] 

#1- Nagging tax problems certain expats have long after they get out of dodge:

#2- The real cost of being middle class in Latin America:

#3- Why gringoized enclaves in Latin America can often be so disappointing to certain types of expats:  

#4- Living in Latin America means you eventually will get passed counterfeit money:

It's not a matter of if, but when… 

#5- How I can easily spot a counterfeit funny money bill:

 My personal trick…

#6- Our own Expat Captain Mango has developed a unique one-on-one Crypto consulting and training service (he’s been deep into crypto since 2013). To get started, email him at:

[email protected]