Where would you live for a 1 year sabbatical (must be this hemisphere)

[Anonymous]

I am assuming OP means Western Hemisphere so husband can work remote and not have to deal with a huge time difference.

[Anonymous]

Samara, Costa Rica
Mareas Academy

[Anonymous]

Medellin

[Anonymous]

Rio
Sao Paulo

[Anonymous]

Oaxaca

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rio
Sao Paulo

But the primary language in Brazil will be Portuguese, not Spanish.

[Anonymous]

What the hell Rio? Its not a safe city sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a one year sabbatical from a university job and my husband works remotely for an international startup that will allow him to work from any location. My early elementary school aged kid is pretty much bilingual (English-Spanish), and we are hoping to further develop her Spanish.

We want to identify a small town (not a big city) in a Spanish speaking country where she can go to school. We are fine paying for a private/international school, but want most instruction in Spanish. She’s a good student and she’s young, so we are not super concerned with the quality of the education beyond having it in Spanish. We are ok either with the US school year schedule or the south/central American schedule.

The only other considerations besides school are finding a beautiful spot with lots of access to nature.

I would love specific recommendations—e.g. a particular town or school, as opposed to suggesting a whole country. We are really open to all ideas. If you’ve lived somewhere in central/South America or have vacationed somewhere you could imagine living for a year (that’s not a huge city), I would love to hear about it.

Must be this hemisphere.

Where are you a professor, and what do you teach that you do not know that South America is not this hemisphere?

Ummm… Western Hemisphere?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am assuming OP means Western Hemisphere so husband can work remote and not have to deal with a huge time difference.

Well you put that out there much more eloquently than the OP did.
When an OP is this contentious and everyone starts calling everyone an idiot on the thread trying to clarify the (unclear) OP, I much prefer it when everyone stops helping that fool.

Or only give ridiculous advice.

[Anonymous]

Looks like OP checked out. Maybe she's already in Brazil sharpening up her Español.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The countries that come to mind:

Costa Rica
Belize
Panama
Colombia
Argentina

Belize is not Spanish speaking.

OP, if you are still around, my vote is for Puebla, Mexico (if not Mexico City).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What the hell Rio? Its not a safe city sorry.

Rio is fine. You watch too much TV and read scary and salacious articles. Want to be safe in Rio? Easy. Don't go to crime ridden areas. It is uncanny how similar that is to someplace like DC. Or Paris. Or London. Or New York.

[Anonymous]

I'd move to Buenos Aires. Wouldn't want a really small town, you'd have access to good schools and getting to nature and smaller towns is very easy.

[Anonymous]

Oaxaca

[Anonymous]

Merida Mexico