Discover Cuenca Ecuador : Why and Who is Moving Back to North America after ...

Discover Cuenca Ecuador : Why and Who is Moving Back to North America after ...: So you moved to Ecuador and after one year or two you’ve decided to go back home. This happens from time to time. There are numerous reasons...



Sometimes
some of us don’t know how we’re going to feel being away from our close
family members until we actually are gone and living somewhere far
away.  I think that when we first arrive in a new paradise we do not
think we’ll be homesick because we’re so enthralled with the newness of
everything that we don’t have time to be homesick.  We actually think that visiting our children and grandchildren once or twice a year will be enough, but for some people it is not enough.
 

One
foreign couple in Cuenca told us that their children were supposed to
come here and visit but never have in the three years they have lived
here. It’s really expensive to travel abroad…and sometimes it is just
not in the budget to spend thousands of dollars on airfare for family
members.  Some have even told us that the length of travel time
necessary to come all the way to South America,  is not a feasible way
to spend one’s limited time off from work, and cuts in to the actual
'visiting time' too much.
 

Skype
is a wonderful way to visit with family and friends but it is not the
real thing, in fact getting on Skype and seeing your grand babies and
children can make you miss them even more, said one expat to us....<read more> http://www.discovercuencaecuador.com/2015/03/why-and-who-is-moving-back-to-north.html?spref=fb 

South America Just Stood Up: Can I get a big "HELL NO!" 15 MAR 2015

..On Wednesday, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said the member-states of the UNASUR would discuss U.S. aggressions against Venezuelan affairs, describing them as “gross, illegal, shameless, outrageous, and unjustified act of interference.”
The head of UNASUR, Ernesto Samper, has already made clear that the bloc stands behind the democratically-elected government of Nicolas Maduro. 

 

"There is no possibility that UNASUR will validate any attempt to disrupt the democratic process in any country in the region," said Samper.
During a meeting in Quito, Ecuador, which included representatives from other regional bodies including Mercosur, ALBA, Pacific Alliance, the Andean Community, and the Amazon Treaty Cooperation Agreement, Samper added that the sanctions against Venezuela, and the timing of the action, were not good signs.: http://www.removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2015/03/south-america-just-stood-up-can-i-get.html?m=1