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Hola! We are a family of five on a five year plan to relocate to chile. We are farmers, we have a beverage business we would like to relocate there. We are very white looking although we all are native american and spanish blooded. I want to be in a place that values self sustaining qualities and trade and health. We want to be somewhere we can have a healthy community of people that dont mind us being american and welcome the positive we want to do for the community we wind up in. We need help on all levels of this move. We would like to grow old in chile. We would like our childresn to got to highschool, live , and work in chile as well. Thanks for reading !

Welcome!
One word: "search".
When I found this forum last year, just about every answer to every question I had could be found via this site's search function and wiki. I've had to post very few questions.
Researching will keep you busy for weeks, and will help you decide if Chile is right for you.

Intuition and some research...Ive been looking at the forum and its very helpfull..its scary but i fell in my heart for the safety of our future this could be a good place

rocknrollhighschool wrote:Intuition and some research...Ive been looking at the forum and its very helpfull..its scary but i fell in my heart for the safety of our future this could be a good place

Trust your intuition.
It's odd, I wasn't scared at all. Not even a little bit. I knew it was the right thing to do and have no regrets. The US had become so frightening that moving here and dealing with these issues and inconveniences is nothing. We're much more at peace out of the US.
Just my experience.
If you follow through (to Chile or another country) you will be one of the few. Americans have great difficulty with this. It's nearly impossible for them to clear their head and see the world objectively, not through the US prism of propaganda.
The world is drastically and forever changed, and will be more so over the next few years. Your choice is to struggle to cope amidst the chaos, or live life as relatively safely and peacefully as possible. That might be in Chile, or another country, but it won't be the US.

California South wrote:Trust your intuition.
It's odd, I wasn't scared at all. Not even a little bit. I knew it was the right thing to do and have no regrets. The US had become so frightening that moving here and dealing with these issues and inconveniences is nothing. We're much more at peace out of the US.
Just my experience.
If you follow through (to Chile or another country) you will be one of the few. Americans have great difficulty with this. It's nearly impossible for them to clear their head and see the world objectively, not through the US prism of propaganda.
The world is drastically and forever changed, and will be more so over the next few years. Your choice is to struggle to cope amidst the chaos, or live life as relatively safely and peacefully as possible. That might be in Chile, or another country, but it won't be the US.

Your words have not only a ring of truth but a whole song. I swore I would never come back to my birth place ever again not knowing that I was better off here than in the US. I've found peace and contentment and I'm not longer blinded by the US propaganda and their " Land of the Free", "Land of Opportunity", " The greatest country in the world" and " American Dream" bullshit....I finally saw the light and once again I'm living The Chilean Dream with all its inconveniences and faults. I'm happier here than I've ever been. Zero regrets, just laughter.

rocknrollhighschool wrote: We are farmers, we have a beverage business we would like to relocate there.

Are you a moonshiner?? If you are, this is your place!

California South wrote:

rocknrollhighschool wrote:Intuition and some research...Ive been looking at the forum and its very helpfull..its scary but i fell in my heart for the safety of our future this could be a good place

Trust your intuition.
It's odd, I wasn't scared at all. Not even a little bit. I knew it was the right thing to do and have no regrets. The US had become so frightening that moving here and dealing with these issues and inconveniences is nothing. We're much more at peace out of the US.
Just my experience.
If you follow through (to Chile or another country) you will be one of the few. Americans have great difficulty with this. It's nearly impossible for them to clear their head and see the world objectively, not through the US prism of propaganda.
The world is drastically and forever changed, and will be more so over the next few years. Your choice is to struggle to cope amidst the chaos, or live life as relatively safely and peacefully as possible. That might be in Chile, or another country, but it won't be the US.

Hello, my first post on this forum. I have been contemplating the possibility of leaving the US for over a year now, and the feeling that I need to has become more urgent in the last few months. Like a poster above mentioned, this post rang true to me. I guess I am just nervous that leaving the US and moving to a place like Chile might not be the best thing for my family. I'd like to talk more with you about your experience, but I will research the forum first.

Gloria wrote:

California South wrote:Trust your intuition.
It's odd, I wasn't scared at all. Not even a little bit. I knew it was the right thing to do and have no regrets. The US had become so frightening that moving here and dealing with these issues and inconveniences is nothing. We're much more at peace out of the US.
Just my experience.
If you follow through (to Chile or another country) you will be one of the few. Americans have great difficulty with this. It's nearly impossible for them to clear their head and see the world objectively, not through the US prism of propaganda.
The world is drastically and forever changed, and will be more so over the next few years. Your choice is to struggle to cope amidst the chaos, or live life as relatively safely and peacefully as possible. That might be in Chile, or another country, but it won't be the US.

Your words have not only a ring of truth but a whole song. I swore I would never come back to my birth place ever again not knowing that I was better off here than in the US. I've found peace and contentment and I'm not longer blinded by the US propaganda and their " Land of the Free", "Land of Opportunity", " The greatest country in the world" and " American Dream" bullshit....I finally saw the light and once again I'm living The Chilean Dream with all its inconveniences and faults. I'm happier here than I've ever been. Zero regrets, just laughter.

Yea, the deprogramming can take a lifetime, and I have booked over half my lifetime already trying to undo it. My father had given me a fairly good head-start from childhood, but was also limited by his own generation of programming. Still, he did a good job of at least instilling a belief that that the most unpatriotic thing you could do as an American (or any other country for that matter) was fail to question your country.

I still catch myself from time to time having a very American moment or perspective on something (which my wife's hobby is pointing them out to me and then teasing me about them). Of course not everything about the United States is bad, but man does it get harder and harder to come up with a list of any length as the years go by. Even many of the formally good things, become rather questionable with a few years of perspective on them.

Welcome. You are off to a good start.

Gloria wrote:

rocknrollhighschool wrote: We are farmers, we have a beverage business we would like to relocate there.

Are you a moonshiner?? If you are, this is your place!

Gloria, that is a GREAT idea! Tennessee Moonshine. I can see the label on the jug - a couple farmer lookin dudes in overalls chuggin away, ya know how they support the jug on their arm as they drink the moonshine, and a still behind them. Is it legal in Chile to make your own shine?

And now back to the regularly scheduled thread....

Chuck J 3.0 wrote:

Gloria wrote:

rocknrollhighschool wrote: We are farmers, we have a beverage business we would like to relocate there.

Are you a moonshiner?? If you are, this is your place!

Gloria, that is a GREAT idea! Tennessee Moonshine. I can see the label on the jug - a couple farmer lookin dudes in overalls chuggin away, ya know how they support the jug on their arm as they drink the moonshine, and a still behind them. Is it legal in Chile to make your own shine?

No, it is not...is it anything legal anymore? Hell no, but who cares, you can still do it....if you live in the country that is...

Hello we are actually an American family of seven living in Puente Alto, we can tell you alot about our experience in Chile, just know that you need to be prepared for life here, it is very different and right now is a good time to view things objectively, although the only way you are going to learn is through trial and error. Let me know when you are leaving and we can better know how to help you.
Sarai