With the greatest of respect to InternationLiving.com (whoever they are) the Globe and Mail and all others pushing this story today, we offer a polite “Don’t be silly” It may be true, as the stories go, that retiring overseas “has captured the imagination and attention of post 50s looking for adventure and affordability”, but if they’ve got their wits about them, they’ll forget it. It’s true that to live in Ecuador is to live very cheaply. The story cites dinner out for $2.50. The reason prices are so cheap however is because people are very poor. Poor as in poverty. Poverty as in do you want to live with that? Do you want to flaunt your Leaside affluence around the metropolis of Quito? Hmm? Then there’s your family, friends and pensions. How’s your Spanish? How are your pre-colonial American dialects? They have more than 24 there spoken by nearly three million inhabitants. It might be fun to visit.
