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@ ChineduOpara - From your lips to God's ears! Spot on.My very first visit and extended 4 month stay was to Bogota in November of 1990, those were different times for sure.Fast forward 35 years and been living the past 10 YEARS right outside ... Read More

Hi James - What it entails you ask?Well once you decide to make Colombia your home everything will fall into place (pension visa, cedula, health insurance, bank account, etc.) but first things first:How many times have you visited Colombia and which ... Read More

Yes I have been filing here in Colombia for a number of years (US citizen). The last 2 digits of my NIT are 30 so my deadline date this year is Sept 2nd, I think it changes a bit every tax year, but just today sent off all my info to my attorney, ... Read More

Another try to upload the photo........ Read More

So yesterday I found myself across the street from Falabella located in the San Diego mall (central Medellin) and so stopped in for a look at the various coffee pots, what a good selection and saw these non Bialetti style but Italian design/built ... Read More

Good comments here on this post. I too have been a Bancolombia client for 10 plus years and my experience has been very good. Have had real estate mortgages (all paid off), numerous credit cards, lines of credit, have wired large sums through my ... Read More

No they carry the name brand, here is a snap shot:https://www.falabella.com.co/falabella-co/search?Ntt=Bialetti+moka Read More

At the risk of sounding boastful my passion is doing road trips everywhere in Colombia and even down into Ecuador, always starting/ending my road trips at my home in Medellin.I do 3 or 4 of these long road trips every year and am gone from a few ... Read More

Your welcome. Sorry can't pinpoint which cafe but have seen them occasionally....so the best advice I can give you is to head over to a mall, perhaps El Tesoro or San Diego and check out the cafes, boutique shops and your sure to find it.Hope this ... Read More

What do you mean by "one day dramas"? How young? Whats the age gap? How is your Spanish? How much time have you really spent with her and her family/friends in her culture/environment? Where and when/how did you meet?Simply put long distance ... Read More

Yes head straight over to Falabella as they carry this brand. I have also seen them in various higher end boutique cafe shops not only in Medellin but Bogota and certainly the ones down in the coffee region/Armenia/etc.And if you are willing to wait ... Read More

If your a local Colombian be it here in Medellin or Bogota or Cali there are scam lottery tickets for sale, we are talking big time scam where thousands of Colombians have been scammed from fake lottery's.At root is corruption, it's in the culture ... Read More

Facebook Marketplace weather you are buying or selling is full of fraud and scams. If your buying or selling some scammers go to every conceivable idea how to make contact and build a story that seems legit (con job) then try to take you.Now I'm a ... Read More

@ nico peligro - "hot and ugly" for which reasons I ask to the OP in my post above three leading questions:** Does your Colombian wife have family there?** This is the Valle de Cauca region, have you visited before?** To each his own but I am curios ... Read More

Hi JC, welcome to the forum!I'm responding to your post as I don't see any response, so for what it is worth here is my experience with Cartago:Yes certainly the area has a "growing number" of expats (primarily nearby Armenia, Pereria and across ... Read More