> You can come here with $3,000 in month and social security and live a very nice lifestyle. The downside is, it has begin to price out an exclude many of the citizens
It seems that every new apartment in San Salvador is being built to cater that income bracket. In the coastal region is even more. It's pricing out 97% of the Salvadorans who earn less than $3000 a month.
Judging from the instagram accounts of my friends in El Salvador, they are no longer taking local vacations. A week vacation to Mexico or Colombia, even including airfare, can be cheaper than a local one.
There is a market for long distance food deliveries. Even more international. When a friend hears I'll be travelling nearby, its not uncommon for me to get special requests for food not available locally.
Bringing Central American fried chicken into the U.S in family trips was so common, that the fried chicken restaurant had to make special packaging so the smell wouldn't escape from the box to the airplane cabin.
I'm not sure if this is still the case. But some years ago when paying with a mag stripe card in two South American countries seemed to type the CVV code on the POS terminal. This was different from other countries where they type the last four digits of the card number.
It seems that every new apartment in San Salvador is being built to cater that income bracket. In the coastal region is even more. It's pricing out 97% of the Salvadorans who earn less than $3000 a month.
Judging from the instagram accounts of my friends in El Salvador, they are no longer taking local vacations. A week vacation to Mexico or Colombia, even including airfare, can be cheaper than a local one.