Re: Fun Times in Ecuador

Posted by Owen Densmore on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Fun-Times-in-Ecuador-tp7586305p7586312.html

Fascinating! Stuart Brand (Whole Earth Catalog & SFI) would be interested, especially the wireless stunt. He studies creativity at the edge of poverty and large sprawling cities.

I've heard a lot more folks planning to retire to Mexico and other south american places. One went to Ecuador .. the optician to whom I gave your email a while back.

I saw several years ago a site/magazine specializing in "expatriates" .. finding a place, buying a house, identifying communities of interest, taxes, citizenship, the list goes on. I bet there are a lot of these now.

The economics sure makes sense, especially if you're retiring from an expensive area. Adjusting to leaving "home" and familiar surroundings is tough, I remember how well you prepared.

I looked into moving to Italy or possible Ireland. Amazing the small things that get in the way.  At this point I feel more comfortable in Italy than any other EU country. But it is a Big Deal, and Family intervened!

   -- Owen

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:

and is your price for this is $100/Mbit/month?  

I'm on a similar "first mile" (23miles in my case) and they (cnsp) are about to offer 50Mb/s service off of SF Ski Hill... for not much more than my 1.5Mbit/s runs...  I assume the extra cost is a combination of shared total-bandwidth and maybe "scarcity"?

The owner is a friend, so he let me out an antenna on his tower. It is quite common here, except that the ISP usually provides the equipment. Some friend...

On Tuesday, June 30, 2015, Marcus Daniels <[hidden email]> wrote:

Gary writes:

 

Fiber in most cities now, nothing in rural areas. I have a good view of a town 20 km away that has fiber, so have wireless connection from my tower to my ISP. “

 

Is that common, or something you negotiated with the ISP?

Marcus

 

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