Cheapest places to live

There was a time when people rode trains all over Ecuador, from the capital of Quito to Otovalo, Cuenca, and the coastal port of Guayaquil. More than 60 trains a day departed from the main station in southern Quito. Then came the age of the automobile, which killed off the trains in a lot of …

In most respects, Nicaragua is the cheapest place to travel in Latin America, which makes it the cheapest destination in the Americas period. Since it’s also close and easy to get to for a reasonable airfare, at least for those of us in the U.S. and Canada, your total cost for visiting Nicaragua is going …

Want to find a cheap place to live that’s also an outdoor playground? When I originally put up this post on cool adventure towns in the USA, the current issue of Outside magazine had a Facebook-fueled rundown of the best adventure towns and cities in the USA to live in. In a big upset, the …

I did a post a while back on how I’m living a significantly cheaper life in Mexico than I did in a relatively inexpensive city in the U.S.  But some things cost more—a lot more. You will notice this phenomenon in a lot of the world’s cheapest places to travel. You’ll pay less for almost …