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walka19walka64 wrote:

if you are wanting to work but do not have a Colombian National I.D. Card - do not come....

if you are wanting to rent a place with no Colombian National I.D. Card - do not come.

My research shows it鈥檚 not difficult to get the ID card.

A temporary visa (aka TP visa) entitles you to obtain the ID card, known as a 肠茅诲耻濒补. There are a lot of different TP鈥檚 available.聽 For a list of the easy requirements to obtain the ID card, visit .... The only tricky requirement I see is that you need to get a blood test -- and how hard is that, really?聽 The other requirements are a breeze.

What鈥檚 this business about 鈥渄epending on where you are, if you do not know Spanish - do not come鈥� ?聽 That needs more explanation, Walka Walka.

cccmedia

rsmith1742 wrote:

I do not speak Spanish, my wife is Colombian and I have no problema.

鈥楩ess up, Smitty.聽 Everybody has problemas.

rsmith1742 wrote:

my Seniorita solve each and every challenge and never let them become a problem.聽 This retired Marine only sees opportunity while others ponder problems...
Semper Fidelis
Randy

Author-lecturer Robert Fritz convincingly taught -- in Advanced DMA -- that every problem is an opportunity.

So both sides appear to be correctly focused, based on Marine Randy鈥檚 post.

cccmedia

Texas Bred wrote:

It's true that the quality of good food is lacking in Colombia.聽 We tend to eat most of our metals at home since we find the quanity of food served in restaurants is small and the pricing is too high in pricing.

It's difficult to even cook a great meal at home. They just don't carry high quality products. I have never even once seen basil, and I made it a mission to find basil just because. Even if I didn't want basil, I'd go look at the spices to see. Never have it.

I ate at a Korean restaurant in Villa de Leyva and it was okay. Nothing superb like I expect from Korean food. But I left them a great review on tripadvisor because I know it's got to be super difficult to recreate Korean food with Colombian ingredients. I spent HALF a day looking for shrimp in Villa de Leyva. I kept going store to store to store and no shrimp. Finally I asked a policeman and he pointed me to a butchershop that had some little frozen bags of shrimp.

I guess I'm spoiled by the options we have in the States. I went to a Mexican restaurant in Bogota a couple of times that was fine, but not great. But I think they were doing the best they could with what they had. There's no Monterrey Jack in Bogota.

If you want great food in Colombia, I'd advise to eat at a Peruvian restaurant. They know their stuff as far as cooking. Good food, but expensive compared to other options.

akabo wrote:

I don't think Colombia is a very welcoming place for retirees.... I am referring to the rules....

Colombia is not retiree friendly for people with options (retiree that can afford to live almost anywhere).

- Opting out (from becoming) a tax resident. One would come for 180 days at a time (the snowbird option).

- Assuming you have a six-month visa, renting becomes an issue. Most places only rent on a one-year lease, mostly unfurnished, and require formal documents available to the native and permanent resident.

The tax situation can theoretically be onerous for Expats with certain types of income.

For others, especially those with a creative/knowledgeable COL accountant or attorney, it鈥檚 not a problem .. or not much of one.聽

Last week I received a tax opinion which indicates I would not be taxed heavily if at all.聽

I recommend that聽 someone truly interested in living in Colombia get a tax opinion from a professional in La Rep煤blica before throwing in the towel on 183-days-plus per year.聽

The accountant鈥檚 opinion I received was gratis, based on my interest in having a law firm provide paid visa-service to me.聽 Now they鈥檙e getting my visa business .. and -- when the time comes to file for tax year 2017 -- they or the accountant they use will get my Colombia tax-filing business.

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Your point about difficulties in doing a six-month rental are valid.聽 Of course, Colombia is not unique in lacking short-term rentals at a rent-level anywhere near as low as year-long unfurnished rentals.聽 Shorter-term rentals are available in some places, but not at $275 a month.

cccmedia in La Zona Cafeteria

akabo wrote:

the 6 months visa is not even guaranteed.

Though this assertion is technically true, I think it鈥檚 completely off-base.

Colombia, as I can tell from my research, makes it incredibly easy and inexpensive for an Expat to get a 90-day tourist-stamp 鈥渧isa鈥� extended to 180 days total.

If you have knowledge of an Expat ever having been denied a 90-day extension, Akabo, I鈥檇 like to know about it.聽 That goes for other posters, as well.

cccmedia in La Zona

cccmedia wrote:

akabo wrote:

the 6 months visa is not even guaranteed.

Though this assertion is technically true, I think it鈥檚 completely off-base.

Colombia, as I can tell from my research, makes it incredibly easy and inexpensive for an Expat to get a 90-day tourist-stamp 鈥渧isa鈥� extended to 180 days total.

If you have knowledge of an Expat ever having been denied a 90-day extension, Akabo, I鈥檇 like to know about it.聽 That goes for other posters, as well.

cccmedia in La Zona

@cccmedia,

My comment is based on information gathered in this forum. This thread discussed this issue (/forum/viewtopic.php?id=417575). As per post #2, you may or may not get the 90-day visa upon arrival. He even cited that some people get only 30-day visa.

akabo wrote:

As per post #2, you may or may not get the 90-day visa upon arrival. He even cited that some people get only 30-day visa.

Last month (December 2016), when I got to the EC-COL border at Rumichaca (southwestern Colombia), I did not take it for granted that I would get the 90 days I wanted.

I told the COL border agent the purpose of my trip and specifically requested the full 90 days, which he cheerfully granted.

Although it鈥檚 certain that some Expats have received fewer than 90 days, I have not heard or read of a border agent refusing a request for 90 days in Colombia during the past two years.

On the linked thread that Akabo provided, a poster named Markcol stated in 2014 that some (unnamed) persons supposedly did not receive 90 days as requested.聽 I do not accept that this old and unverifiable third-party statement reflects current realities.

Naturally, if some traveler has already spent time in Colombia during a 365-day period, the border agent may be required to allow fewer than 90 additional days to accommodate the 180-day annual limit for 鈥渢ourists."

cccmedia in La Zona Cafeteria

Peter Stiles wrote:

How about a 4 course lunch ... all for 10,500 pesos?

We鈥檙e in favor of it.

We note that Subachoque (population 16,000) is 28 miles from Bogot谩 in the Cundinamarca department.

聽 -- cccmedia in La Zona Cafeteria