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I’ll let Edd answer here since he lives in Cuenca….but it might be helpful if you can put a number to moderately priced?

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Oral, I drink the tap water at my home in Cotacachi, I have read many times that the water in Cuenca is potable (drinkable) and the same in Quito. I am uncertain about other areas. However, health professionals will tell you not to drink the tap water. Some people hook up a purification system under the sink or on the faucet. Some use Britta pitchers and filters, others buy bottled water.

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I am not sure how blood is handled here. The hospitals are basically three-tiered: public, social security, and private. Malaria is only in the low-lying areas or the Oriente and parts of the coast and even then, if you go to these regions your chances of catching it are slim…unless you sleep outside in an infested area. But I am sure your health providers would not care about that. And they probably consider the entire country as a “malaria area.”

Maybe someone else on this forum has better answers than I?

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Hi William, there is nothing like that in Quito that I know of — a good idea for someone to start, though…. There is a tourist-type newspaper you can pick up in Mariscal, and I have signed up with various clubs and restaurants to get email blasts of special events. And Quito.com has news of upcoming cultural events.

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Hi Tom, contact Francisco del Castillo about chill weekends at Jama Campay — it’s a great project and he can send you info about it. There is not much in the way of ‘towns’ between Pedernales and Bahia de Caraquez –just small fishing villages and the surfer town of Canoa. So if it were me, I would look at Jama Campay. In my opinion, it is the best community along that coast. Francisco’s email address is franciscodelcastillo@constructoradelcastillo.com. Even if he doesn’t have a chill weekend, he is a great guy and will arrange something for you and he is not hard sell in any way — in fact, he will show or tell you about other real estate in the area. There are other projects along this stretch of coast, too, but do your due diligence…

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Just at $1.50 a gallon for regular and a bit less for diesel. These prices have not changed in the 10 years I’ve been living/traveling in Ecuador.

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Gary, sorry for my late response. Email Ron Moore (remoore2001@yahoo.com) with your questions — please tell him I gave you his email address. Good luck!

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George, your guess is as good as ours…there is no word about this.

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