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Don’t move to Colombia.At least not until you’ve read this.

Not the hype. Not the horror stories. The real numbers, the real visas, and the people I’d actually trust with my own move.

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The numbers I wish someone had just shown me.

Real figures. Pesos converted at 3,500 COP/USD... conservative on purpose. They move with the peso.
$1,840
Comfortable monthly budget, one person, Chapinero
183
Days that trigger tax residency (rolling, not calendar)
$0
Colombian income tax on a typical $30K/yr pension
1/3
What a domestic flight costs vs. the same hop in the US
Every figure on this site is shown in pesos and dollars, with the rate I used. I don’t improvise numbers on camera and I won’t here.
You only know what you know. Then you leave — and “normal” stops being universal.
— The whole reason this channel exists
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