Is there a lot of crime in Vilcabamba?
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"The main crime in Ecuador is theft so whenever you are you have to be aware of that. Occasional home robberies happen in any area of the country," remarked another expat who made the move to Vilcabamba, Ecuador.
"Vilcambamba is a small village, now overrun with Americans, a ghetto that is a mugging and break-in mecca. It seems only yesterday that Vilcabamba was a somnolent little town with great weather..not worth more than a drive-through just before Xmas when the trees turn golden, with local nutty stories the locals used to tell wildly gullible tourists. Now known as such as an expat enclave it has attracted sorts like bees to honey. But expats bring their culture and guns with them and now it is a focus of much crime. It is no longer "Ecuadorian", per se. It is a colony. Lots of break-ins and muggings are the current reports. These events soon become armed on both sides," explained one expat living in Vilcabamba, Ecuador.
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Is there a lot of crime in Vilcabamba?
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