Granada Likes and dislikes

Granada Nicaragua likes and dislikes

Likes

•  People come to your door selling you almost everything you need: water, produce, dvd's, cleaning supplies, gas, cream milk and cheese, home security systems
• The weather is great, a bit hot, but its always warm and almost always sunny!
• The house is open air. It is so lovely to see the sky when I'm hanging out in my living room
• Super kid friendly-everyone is very welcoming and accepting of children. My boys can run around any public place including restaurants and the locals are totally fine with it. I used to try to calm them down, but every body would always say "No te preocupes"or "Tranquila"
• Granada is a super walkable city
• Beaches are close by
• The grocery store has almost all the things I want from home like peanut butter and plain yogurt
• Labor is cheap so getting a babysitter or house cleaner is shockingly affordable
• Its easy to learn or improve your spanish because not too many people speak english and they are almost universally nice about helping you communicate

Dislikes

• Someone is always at your door asking you for something! selling you something or begging for money or whatever
• HOT! Its hot and dusty
• Lots of roaches and mice in the house
• Transportation is really expensive-to get out of town with a private driver will cost at least $40. Chicken buses are definitely a cheap alternative, but seemed a bit daunting with the boys
• I really missed Trader Joe's
• I feel guilty about how little people make down there. We hired a baby sitter for 4 kids for 3 hours and paid her $12. I was told this was too much money to pay but it felt like far too little.
• Going out to dinner was surprisingly expensive, as was lodging and so much of it seems to be foreign owned