Cuenca Move 2016
Retiring to Ecuador Can Be Stressful? Part 1
Retiring to Ecuador Can be Stressful? Part 1 We moved to Ecuador June 3 of 2016, and love it here, but retirement to a foreign country is not all smooth sailing. Having never retired or moved to a foreign country before, I didn’t expect a hard landing with choppy waters! Given my years […]
Fluffing our Nest: Prepping to Move into our New House
I can’t believe 2 months have gone by without blogging! Before another month slips away, I want to share some of what we’ve been up to. Mostly it’s been prepping to move into our new house. In a flurry of activity at the end of January, we secured our “Professional Residency Visas,” our cedulas (nat’l ID cards), and bought a […]
Furniture Shopping in Cuenca
Furniture Shopping As promised in the last post of 2016, here’s what we’ve learned about furniture in Cuenca to date. More challenging than finding a place to live has been shopping for furniture. There is a Cuenca style of furniture that we are not enamored of and our apartment is too small to fit a standard […]
Cuenca Housing Market: Renting and Buying
Cuenca Housing Market: Renting and Buying There are a number of Cuenca expat blogs that have discussed the local housing market over the past 8 years — see blogroll. However, a lot has changed since 2009, when International Living listed Cuenca as the #1 retirement destination in the world. As recently as five years ago […]