Caracas - Post Report Question and Answers

What do you wish you had known about this particular city/country before moving there?

I'm not sure knowing or not knowing how things are here could have prepared me any better. It's a challenging place with a complicated economic system, lots of crime, endemic shortages, and a hostile government. I'm not sure there's anything you can do but just plunge in, be brave, and do your best. - May 2015


What things were available on the local economy... but it's ever changing. - Apr 2015


How much worse things would become. When I accepted the job in 2012, things weren't that bad. By 2013 things were dicey but livable. In 2014, the country is circling the drain, and this roller coaster hasn't yet hit the bottom. - Nov 2014


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