Asuncion - Post Report Question and Answers
If you move here, you can leave behind your:
Small cars - Aug 2022
Coats and impatience. - Jan 2021
Driving rules. You can bike but I would not bike in the streets ever! - Jun 2019
Winter parka. - Aug 2018
Thoughts that you can turn left at an intersection. It seems to me that one of the most maddening parts of driving here is the inability to turn left anywhere! - Jun 2018
Snow gear! - May 2016
Winter coat, wool clothing, snow gear, mountain climbing gear, scuba gear... - Sep 2015
love of mountains and beaches. PY doesn't have them. You can take vacations to Brazil and Argentina easily enough though to get your fill. - Apr 2015
Expensive clothes (humidity = mold, also moths are present). Low clearance vehicles. Non-present vehicle brands i.e. Buick, Cadillac, GMC. - Aug 2014
Parkas (however many Paraguayans use them everytime we get down into the 50's or 60's F), bicycles (unless you plan to haul it to a park to bike), watch (things rarely start on time). - Jul 2013
Most items are available locally, so don't feel you have to buy everything for Paraguay. - Aug 2011
notion that this will be over soon. Even if you leave tomorrow, that's an eternity away. - Jun 2011
Your thick winter coats and boots (unless you want to look Paraguayan, but then you'll sweat from wearing them when it's 50 outside). Any 110 appliance that you really don't need. It's a pain in the butt trying to use all your appliances and plugging and unplugging them to get them to work. - Feb 2011
winter clothes and savings account. You'll be adding to it. - Apr 2010
Watch and cold weather gear. - May 2008