We don’t live in Chile. We bought ocean bluff property on Chiloe and only plan to spend January-March there when we retire. What we like about Chile is similar to hlf2888, the way of life of the people living there. An extended multi generational family lives all around our property. They live in the moment and are not so uptight like a good percentage of people here in the US. It could just be that our place is in a rural setting and people are uptight in the cities- they did after all over throw the government over an increase in bus fares- I’d say that’s wound pretty tight.
What we love about Chile is it is nothing like the US so when we come down it feels like somewhere else instead of some tourist trap or a continuation of the US. We also loved that property was relatively affordable, we could never afford the same type of property we bought on Chiloe in the US- think Big Sur. We are very happy about Chile being in the southern hemisphere so when the sun sets in Idaho at 5:00PM we can get on a plane and have the sun set at 9:30.