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My very "personal" five reasons:

1. Warm + open people
2. Sub-tropical climate
3. Children-friendly environment
4. "Tranquilo" attitude
5. Construction costs

1- fastest growing country in LATAM (Building 4 world trade center towers and Borders Brazil which is a BRIC country)

2- Cost of living is one of the lowest all around i nthe region

3- Culture very friendly and love foreigners

4- Good healthcare (Very cost effective)

5- FOODS - Natural, Fresh and incredibly healthy!


Addition- Paraguay is quickly moving up the ranks for EASE of doing business.  Internet services are rapidly improving and there are TON and TON of opportunities.

I've been living here for the past 2 years after 8 years in Argentina and ABSOLUTELY love it.

My Facebook profile if you want to connect with me
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Cheers,

Lonnie McRorey
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I would be a Idiot if I should list my 5 best reasons. For what? so that only more foreigners should come and kill this paradise?   You crazy or what?

I live in Paradise, that's my 1 and only reason.

I've visited Paraguay only once, but I will be returning for good in the new year.

The top five reasons I can think of from that encounter are:

1. Friendly people, both in the local community, and in the °µÍø½ûÇø community
2. Delicious and affordable restaurant food (be sure to try the surubi!)
3. Loads of sunshine (I currently live in the rainiest city in Canada, so any sunshine is a plus)
4. Family atmosphere... (lots of kids playing in the park with their parents, aunts and uncles)
5. Cost of living... it's still reasonable, and you can eat and live well as the grocery stores are filled with amazing food for a reasonable price.

Lovely people.
Nice pace to life here.
The birds!  They are plentiful and colourful.
Mangoes falling at your feet.
Delicious street food

I am from the US, so my list reflects a comparison between Paraguay and The United States. My top five reasons for loving my life in Paraguay are:

1.FREEDOM. It sounds weird that someone born in “the land of the free” would find more freedom abroad. Here as a property owner, I ask no one before I do anything with my land. No permits, No arrogant bureaucrat to pass judgment on my project. Put up a shed? Put up a fence? Sink a well? No problem. No fees. In the States, I got flak for putting up a doghouse. Also, I can burn my leaves or cook some burgers on a campfire in my yard without cops with body armor rushing into my yard screaming “Get on the ground” “Show me your permit”.
2.CLIMATE. I hate winter and snow. Here crops grow year round.  There are cold days in July and August, where it can get down into the 30s Fahrenheit, but this doesnÂ’t affect my many fruit trees or my garden. My banana plants were damaged one year, and lost some leaves, but that is about it. Also, there are no hurricanes or earthquakes, and tornados are extremely rare and not large when they do occur.
3.COST OF PROPERTY. I bought a well-made two-bedroom brick house with 3 hectares of land in 2008 for $30,000. In the States this is impossible. I would have had to enslave myself to a bank for thirty years to buy a house, and worry for all that time about paying my mortgage. I own my house outright, and have since day one.
4.COST OF LIVING. While this is rising as time goes by, if you know where to buy, you can find just about anything you want for less than it costs in the States.
5.CORRUPTION. ThatÂ’s right, I like the corruption here. ALL countries on the face of this planet have corrupt governments. The only difference is in who can participate in this corruption. In the States, big banks, like Goldman Sachs can defraud investors for billions of dollars, then pay a paltry 10 or 12 million dollars and not admit any guilt in a “settlement”. Wealthy criminals, in the rare occasions that they are convicted, have the political connections necessary to do any brief prison time they receive in a “country club” prison like Danbury, CT. The traffic police wonÂ’t even pull over a limousine.  The little people live by different rules. If you get pulled over when the traffic cops are trying to make their quota of tickets, look forward to an “excessive speed” ticket, even if you werenÂ’t speeding. You will then probably be saddled with an 80 or $100 ticket, no matter how much talking you do. In Paraguay almost anyone can, and does, participate in the corruption. Here the cops are also out trying to raise revenue. The difference is that the cops here are so poorly paid that a $10 or $20 bribe will get you out of that “excessive speed” ticket that you were innocent of anyway.

Nice post! I would like to add that people in Paraguay are in general happier than Americans. The locals are more friendly and will still speak to a stranger. Not so in the US. Also reasons to celebrate can be anything with no particular holiday needed...now that's living "Paraguayan style"!