Your fears/concerns

of this in Boise. The last 30 seconds are all you have to watch.

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/51596458?from=en-us_msnhp#51596458

Eastern European refugees would buy a run down fixer, and transform it into the nicest house on the street; Somalis so different from our home-grown African Americans, THEIR kids excel in school instead of dealing drugs. So much opportunity still available; it's your choice.

When I first moved to Central America I remember being concerned about what I was really eating. That is, was something in a grocery store or a restaurant what it was supposed to be. I have long since gotten over that concern but I just read an article that suggests maybe my concern was misplaced.

Everyone seems to agree that in Nicaragua kids have poor access to health care, good schools and, well, just about everything else. But, is Nicaragua a bad place to bring up a kid?

I was discussing the mounting evidence that the legal drugs used in the US to fix what are perceived as psychological and behavorial issues have serious site effects -- one of them being violence -- with an NL member. The response I got surprised me. I don't want to out the person who wrote it but I think it is a very interesting point. The message was

The thread at http://www.nicaliving.com/node/20849 has become a bit big and, as is usual, drifted from the original subject. This thread is to discuss one point that has evolved there -- gray areas.

and the story is interesting as well:

From Nicaragua Dispatch:

http://www.nicaraguadispatch.com/news/2012/12/wyndham-nicklaus-say-adios...

Can this level of fraud be perpetrated without some level of Nicaraguan judicial collusion? The $11 million dollar figure is hard to believe. Even living large for 6 years wouldn't burn through that kind of cash. Some of it must be tucked carefully away.

Will this project just be re-branded, and re-sold to new investors, like Pelican Eyes?

all laugh about all of this, with the country full of tourists, roads paved and choked with vehicles, everything we need at the Wal Mart or the Home Depot.

But now is now, and that's the immediate reality:

http://surflifenicaragua.blogspot.com/2010/08/test-of-faith.html

Context and perspective are important, now matter how difficult to achieve.

Ever since the time that our family first started to think of moving to Nicaragua some three years ago, I have been a perpetual lurker (if this is the right term) of nicaliving.com. I have been positively impressed by its content and the erudition of the contributors. Nicaliving has helped us a lot in getting a more solid grasp on a number of practical issues on the jump that I and my family were contemplating.

I am so very happy to say that the resident population of Brits in Nicaragua will shortly rise by two.

18 years ago I met and wooed a truly wonderful, Nicaraguan woman when she was a graduate student in my home town of Lancaster in England. It was true love and after several visits back and forth we married and set up home in the UK. We always had the determined vision that one day we would live in Nicaragua. And so it has come to be that we two and our bilingual teenager daughter are now living in Diria.

I just read on a mailing list that US Social Security disability benefits "probably aren't available outside the US". That is, if you leave the US, you are no longer eligable. I have been told otherwise by another source.

Anyone know the facts behind the rumors?

The USGS is updating access to their earthquake data. The default is now real-time information. You just bring up a page and it will get updated as the data changes.

There are lots of options such as a minimum magnitude, for how long you want the data retained (that is, how old the earthquake is) and, of course, what part of the world you specifically want to monitor. For more details they have a quick start and user guide.

Quite a few people have talked about medicines, medical care, ... contrasting US doctors, US-made//first world-made medications and such with what is the norm in Nicaragua. For that reason, I felt this article in Natural News fits here.

I see two different issues:

• US doctors are better than Nicaragua doctors (maybe)
• US made drugs are higher quality (maybe)

As Dixie has found out, daytime muggings in some urban areas of Nicaragua are more common when it rains because there are fewer witnesses.

http://www.nicaliving.com/node/19854#comment-110497

Please also note that many thieves plan to hit houses late at night there is a heavy rain pounding roofs, because householders who are deep in sleep are less likely to be awakened by the noise of thieves climbing over the roofs and through bushes, or the sound of dogs barking.

im coming into the mga airport and should finish up with immigration around 1am. my destination eventually is SJDS. as i noticed . night time is not the safest time to travel. so i booked a stay with the best western right across the street. many past travelers told me i might even get mugged crossing the street to the best western at 1am. any suggestions?

The discussion started in the Managua airport. It was between Mark Ford and someone who might be a NicaLiving member. The question has to do with what a retiring baby boomer with only $100,000 should do. You can read the advice here. From the letter,

We have purchased property in SJDS and are hoping to move/build with in the next year. There has been a lot of concern voiced about the Pacific Marlin development and I was hoping to get some insight from those that currently own and or live there.