Stories and tales from people who have decided

to leave their country to live and work in Central,

South America and Caribe

Hello to whoever is reading this. We are a couple from Venice, Italy. We have always dreamed of moving to a warm, sunny country for a long time, but we always built false boundaries and non-existent problems for ourselves (as many people do), perhaps because of our fear of taking a huge step from ou...

This was an interview I was thrilled to be invited to do. I made a business trip to Bogota in 2004, slightly concerned about security issues on departure my fears were quickly assuaged on arrival. We were welcomed as family by my father-in-laws long standing business contacts, and found people in ge...

"...Twelve hours past the scheduled arrival of our four-day vacation, we were finally landing in Puerto Vallarta.After couple hours of sleep, we were lounging by the turquoise swimming pools on manicured tropical grounds , as I wished, doing nothing. I read for a while, then turned my eyes towa...

When it comes down to it, people are people. The real differences come from the way the culture has created variations in the way we look at things. Argentina is an interesting melting pot of European and Latin cultures. Prior to moving to this vast and impressive country in 2005, we had visited fou...

 My Argentine Family Written by Shanie MatthewsI am not a descendant of an Argentinean or married to one. But I have an Argentine family.I moved with my husband, Jamie, to Argentina four years ago. I was 32, married three years, had a non-existent biological clock and the feeling that my l...

Leave it all behind to live and work in Nicaragua BIG CORN ISLAND-NICARAGUAGiorgio writes about his move some years ago to a small island off the coast of Nicaragua. In 1998, I decided to turn my life around and came to Nicaragua with my brother and a friend to work on the construction of an Italian...

Antonello Mercurio began his Mexican adventure in Torreon in 1998. Currently he lives and works in Puerto Vallarta, a wonderful city on the Bahia de Banderas, along the Pacific Ocean. Hello, my name is Antonella Mercurio and I’ve been fortunate enough to grow up in a well-off family, as my fat...

 THE MAYAN RIVIERA- MEXICOThis is a simple testimony to my experience to those who are about to take the first steps in a new adventure, but have a few remaining doubts as to what they might find which are holding them back. The right amount of motivation and a little spirit of adventure will m...

DESTINATION COSTA RICA A few short forays into Sub-Saharan Africa, then here and there in Northern Europe and finally a trip to the Big Apple for a “leave it all behind and just go” kind of experience. But the work in Little Italy was tough, not to mention the deliveries in New Jersey, P...

FROM ITALY TO THE SMALL ANTILLES VIA ASIA My wife and I have now been living and working in Martinique for 5 years. We grew up dreaming about the tropics, and as soon as we left school we started travelling in Asia, backpacks on our shoulders. We were truly smitten by the pure nature of the place, b...

My name is Francesca Chiarelli, I’m 45 years old and my husband is Mexican.Surfing the net, I found this interesting website, dedicated to people who are thinking about changing their lives radically. Well, I would like to tell my story in the hope that it might help someone who reads it, by s...

Time passed by quickly…it’s over a year now since we moved to what back then was just pasture land. Even though we do not have a precise idea of what day is today, we calculate it should be the end of April 2009, which means we have been living the Dream for 17 months… It had bee...

Too much stress, very long winters, an uncertain economic future and the desire to change. This is Marco’s answer when I ask him why he decided to make such an important change and move to Brazil.His professional curriculum shows he was for many years a partner of a shop in one of the biggest ...

Hello, my name is Arthur, I’m 41 years old and since 2001 I’ve been living and working on the San Andres archipelago, Providencia and Santa Catalina (Colombia). Before this despite having a permanent job I had always loved to travel, and had often left jobs in search of new adventures. O...