My bad again, this time I used USD but I did not specify
[QUOTE=Osteoknot;2598691]I was happy staying with my GF in a $111 per month Strata 2 casa on the side of a mountain in San Javier. That is a little too extreme for most gringos. I just set Catgirl up in a high rise 3 BR 1 bath ground floor apartment in Aurora in a great neighborhood, for $123 per month, not including utilities and Internet.[/QUOTE]Above examples were $111 USD and $123 USD. I will try to be more consistent in the future. Remember both Colombia and the USA use the $, so if you only put the $ in front of the number and nothing else like I just did, it might get interpreted the wrong way.
Mil COP is 1000's of Colombian pesos, therefore 100 mil COP = 100.000 Colombian pesos, nothing to do with Mexican pesos. And that is not a typo, Colombians use periods instead of commas. There would be two digits after the last period if you were including centavos or cents, just like in the USA. One peso is divided into 1000 centavos. That should get your attention right away because if there is are 1000 centavos to a peso, how can there only be two digits for the centavos after the final period? That is because one centavo has an extremely low value, about one quarter of one hundredth of a penny. Therefore, out of convention cash transactions are listed to the nearest 50 centavos and you only need two digits.
There is such a thing as centavo coins but they are rarely used and I have not seen them because a centavo has such low value. Supposedly there is a 1 centavo coin which as just stated would be the equivalent of. 00026 USD or about one quarter of a hundredth of a penny. That is pretty fuckin small. The lowest coin you will probably seen in circulation is a 50 peso coin which is a tiny fraction over one penny. Cash transactions are typically rounded to the nearest 50 pesos and the 50 peso coin is generally the smallest coin in circulation. Fifty pesos or 50 COP (no mil) is 50 times the value of one centavo or. 00026 which comes out to a little more than a penny. Because of these extremely small numbers, cash transactions are rounded to the nearest 50 centavos. Finally, for example if something cost four thousand five hundred COP and 250 centavos, it would be written $4. 500.25 (you are assuming COP in this example because only periods are being used, and the fucking auto-editor on the Web site sucks and automatically puts two spaces after the period and the moderators here are inconsistent about correcting it). Clear as mud? Please, someone, anyone, cross check what I wrote. Thanks for your help.
Thanks for that feedback, but isn't that what I said? No matter
[QUOTE=Surfer500;2598951]Your correct in that you don't know what your talking about. You supposedly may be able to qualify to become a citizen after residing in Colombia for five years, albeit if your under 65 you will have to take I believe a written and verbal test.[/QUOTE]And in order to reside for five years, I believe you need an Immigration and not a Tourist visa. But hey, I am not about being right, I am about the truth, so I love being challenged, keep it coming.
[QUOTE=Osteoknot;2598723]There is a timeline, I think it's five years before you can apply for residency.[/QUOTE]Mainly, I thought the guy was asking about how much "wealth" you needed for an Immigration visa, and think I answered that as a balance in a bank account that shows ten times the monthly minimum wage of a Colombian, for ten to twelve months. That is my plan. Since I have not actually filled out the visa application yet, I don't what the real world results will be.