

Now Colombia has some baggage coming in, historically speaking. Most Americans conjure up pictures of Cartel violence, when they think of Colombia, not Juan Valdez and his coffee beans.

However, from my own mother’s experience, on a cruise through the Panama Canal and the Carribean, it’s not as scary as the papers would have you believe. She thought it was beautiful, people were friendly, she mentioned she could live there.

Yes, she said, there is a very visible police presence, but she never felt safer on her trip. She felt much safer in Colombia than she did once she got to Florida. She never wanted to go to Florida again. She would have moved to Colombia! So there is still violence, but much lower than a decade ago. It cintinues to go down, with decriminalization, and the fact that Colombia no longer participates in the U.S.’s failed War on Drugs.

Colombia definitely falls into my areas of special research, into the Portuguese and Dutch Sephardic populations of the Carribean category. It also would give us access to Cebtral America, South America and the Carribean.

Culture and adventure score quite highly for Colombia, with Colonial Spanish and indiginous archeology and history abounding. Plus the Carribean for fun and adventure.

Healthcare in Colombia is excellent. In 1991 their newly drafted constitution made healthcare a human right, and a right of all citizens AND foreigners living in Colombia.

If an insurance company denies you a treatment, you can contest it immediately, and a judge has to rule on it in 3 days, and usually on the side of the patient. Thats a good system. A+ in the healthcare department for Colombia.

On to Education in Colombia. Education is good to great in the more populous areas of Colombia, not so great in the rural areas. So education is good for most, but not all. They are making strides to improve, but they still have quite a way to go.

Colombia has decriminalized marijuana, up to 20 grams, and cocaine up to 1 gram, for personal use. That, my dfriends, is civilization. They just got tired, like many other Latin American countries, of being brutalized my the U.S.’s failed drug prohibition policies. So Colombia gets top grades here, or should I say, HIGH grades…lol

Overall, other than education, Colombia scores quite well, top scores really. I guess the caveat would be we would have to stay away, for our home anyway, the more rural parts of the country.

Not sure how different that is from most places really, and if we adjust our parameters to living in cities, not the Bush, than Colombia’s marks are high across the board. Colombia, to the front of the class! you have made the cut.

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