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Colombia: 3 years, Brazil: 4+ years, Dominican Republic: 1 year, Ecuador: 3 months. Travelled off and on for brief stints to: Panama, China, Kenya, Russia. When it comes to living overseas as an American expat: I've got it down pat.
I'm an example of how to live and work remotely from various countries, including Brazil. I fancy myself a sort of "armchair anthropologist" and like to analyze the peculiarities of the various cultures I encounter in foreign countries. I've lived in Colombia, Germany, China, Russia, Kenya and the Dominican Republic. Of all of those people, I prefer the Brazilians over all the rest.
This website isn’t for tourists — it’s for current and prospective expats who are serious about long-term living abroad, with a particular focus on Latin America.
I’ve lived in various parts of Latin America: Brazil (4+ years), Colombia (2+ years), the Dominican Republic (1 year), and Ecuador (3 months). I also recently spent 4 months in Kenya, along with several shorter stays in Panama.
Over the last 35 years, I’ve traveled to or lived in many other countries outside Latin America, including Holland, China, Russia/Ukraine, Portugal, Mexico, Tunisia, Rwanda, and Ethiopia. This channel explores strategies for expat remote workers and shares insights relevant to the countries where they choose to live — whether they’re working abroad, retiring overseas, or settling more or less permanently in a foreign country.
I also discuss strategies for expats on these other websites:
www.RobInFortaleza.com (Fortaleza, Brazil expat blog)
www.RobInBrazil.com (broader Brazil focus)
www.RobInKenya.com (for those interested in giving Nairobi or Mombasa a shot)
My main youtube channel is here:
My Kenya youtube channel:
I try to maintain some significant adherence to "Christian" principles, though I do not regard myself card-carrying adherent of any specific denomination (other than to say I'm squarely within the protestant camp). The Bible is a clever piece of literature (or, more precisely, a clever patchwork or mosaic of various stories written at different times, and by different authors). I don't speak about it much because the vast majority of "educated" westerners know nothing of it: they have not read it thoroughly as adults. If you're keen to try: you'll need a "study Bible" (google that) and a concordance (google that as well).