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withoutego
Joined 2010
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Living USA/Ecuador 50/50...Possible?

10 years ago

The same question I asked rhetorically years ago on this forum...Is it possible to live half of one's time in Ecuador and the other half in the USA?

Not a legal question. It assumes you have jumped thru all the hoops, dotted all the teez and crossed all the eyes.

No, this question is about the spirit. How does the spirit manage the wrenching that is wrought by going back and forth?

I am doing the research right now. I'm just finishing off four months in Maine, USA.

Last year I did six months in the States. That may have been pent up demand...finally getting all the papers....I could finally stay out of Ecuador a while.

So if I don't know by now who would? I don't know that either. Must depend on the person and their situation.

Lots of folks who offer themselves as examples...wanabeez supposing... or people who've done it - have burned the bridges. They had to. Tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars are offered up to the God of location. As with other Gods, only one at a time may be served.

I have no real property. I have a "camp" on the family estate. I collect my inheritance early. Space for me and my moto. Twelve minutes from the shores of Penobscot bay.

In Cuenca a little apartment on the fourth floor. My exercise machine a stairmaster) between me and the street. Rent, low. My landlady, a beauty. I keep her sweet with a new pair of sunglasses every fall. That's the way its done.

The problem isn't even financial. I make 50% more than the minimum for jubilado residente expats.

I enjoy both ends of this existance. Plenty to do in either hemisphere.

Without budgeting I have no trouble flying back and forth..once a year.

If there is a problem it is emotional. (Sounds like a personal problem!)....One size doesn't fit all. Every person's situation is different. Quite different usually.

Obviously a loner. A couple that could do this would be rare. One couple I know does it, that is, comes and goes, but out of sync with one another.

Its been said somewhere (by someone) that we can only really "know" maybe a dozen other people. The rest are acquaintances. The dozen may become acquaintances too if they disappear for half the year.

Am I trying to distance myself from people...using geography to do it?

Am I trying to crowd source my therapy? Are you still awake?

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