Re: , wiping prior Re: 10/2016 - Do Expat Mongers Settle Down ... or just slow down?
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Originally Posted by
Jimmydr
You want to fly someplace, we have 10,000 airports.
You want to drive someplace, tons of roads.
Breakdown, call a tow truck, anytime, anyplace.
Get sick, flash your medical card.
on and on and on
Yep, miss the convenience of organization and infrastructure sometimes. But, the Colombian medical care is pretty good here. Flash your cedula, and you get medical attention, but the system of referral and getting "specialty" drugs out of your EPS require more paper-shuffling than in the States. Even the people on SISBEN, the charity care program, get decent care including drugs and durable equipment. Colombia has a pretty decent network of airports. The national airlines provide inexpensive comprehensive coverage of the interior. When Colombia was totally dominated by the FARC, ELN, AUC, et al a few years back, it was impossible to travel by ground without running into problems. Out of necessity, Colombia developed an affordable air travel network with a lot of help from the government. The highway network in Colombia is limited by its topography. The national highway system is mostly two-lane highways that are not even the quality of the pre-US Interstate national highways (think county roads). Slowly but surely, new highways are being built in order to make the country competitive in terms of commerce and trade. National highways are concessions operated and maintained by private enterprises (many of which are foreign owned.) I've got a pretty good roadside service program with my supplemental insurace program underwritten by AIG.
Re: , wiping prior Re: 10/2016 - Do Expat Mongers Settle Down ... or just slow down?
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Originally Posted by
Jimmydr
You want to fly someplace, we have 10,000 airports.
Just to pick on you and tease you about this, Jimmy, when was the last time you went to an airport with less than a 10,000-foot runway, control tower, radar, and a big terminal that you couldn't enter without going through body-scanners and X-ray machines?
For example, an airport like this one:
http://news.insearchofchicas.org/for...2&d=1390923734
I've got 10,000 airports, or I did when I was an active pilot. You've got about 400.
Re: , wiping prior Re: 10/2016 - Do Expat Mongers Settle Down ... or just slow down?
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Originally Posted by
Westy
Just to pick on you and tease you about this, Jimmy, when was the last time you went to an airport with less than a 10,000-foot runway, control tower, radar, and a big terminal that you couldn't enter without going through body-scanners and X-ray machines?
For example, an airport like this one:
Click to see pic
I've got 10,000 airports, or I did when I was an active pilot. You've got about 400.
Vancouver Island, & Portland Maine.
