Moving to San Juan Del Sur

Well, I may need one of them that speaks English--but that's very part-time.

You probably were learning about Windoze or some such junk. IT is not bad as long as it is all Linux.

i don't think the expat community is large enough to support that there. but since i only have a lot there, i don't know. can someone chime in as to size of expat community? that was your target market?

I mostly stay around Granada and Ometepe, but each time I have visited SJDS, I've been dissapointed with the internet cafe scene there, crowded,old machines, dial up and twice the price of other places. But I certainly haven't been every where there. Maybe your IT back ground could help there. A small casino with maybe a dozen slots and a video juke box.. I think a small 6 machine coin op laundromat would work well in SJDL maybe with a small cafe thing, an idea I swiped from NL's Bobby and like FYL says I think Dortitos may be considered health food in SJDL. There is an element of the surf dude crowd that might like a smoothie or a avocado and sprout sandwhich but these are the "discount" travelers... The more established SJDL crowd seems to have a few more bucks for some little luxeries from home and it's a long way to Rivas for a little grocery shopping. I am getting close to starting a sort of natural food business in Nica soon as well,

We need a hippie vegetarian business here. I want to buy:

• Sprouts of all sorts or seeds to make them
• Tofu
• Prepared veggie means with flavor (unlike Comedor de Soya)
• ...

Unfortunately, that business would probably only have between 1 and 10 customers here.

As for SJdS, I think the only hippie vegetarian stuff you could sell was vegetarian beer and most people there:

1. Don't know most beer isn't vegetarian
2. Don't care

More seriously, there used to be a restaurant in Seattle, the the Sanitary Market Building. (Yup, that really is it's name.) A friend of mine ate there a few times and they realized it was vegetarian and asked the owner why he didn't say it was a vegetarian restaurant. The owner said "It isn't a vegetarian restaurant--we just don't cook with meat."

I don't try to fake meat dishes here but I don't know what to call "meat loaf" without meat. Or TSP or tofu flavored with sage and such that makes pig eaters ask if there is sausage in it. If I needed another career I would probably open one of those "not vegetarian but we don't cook with meat" restaurants.