In 2018 a couple from Minneapolis closed on a 3-bedroom colonial in San Felipe de Jesús, walking distance to Antigua. Mid-60s, just retired, they had been comparing five Latin American countries in parallel. The question they posed before signing was a familiar one: "We can afford to retire almost anywhere. Why specifically here?" They got the honest version — not the brochure version. Six weeks later...
Spend any time in Antigua and you'll witness scenes like this: a Guatemalan grandmother teaching her four-year-old granddaughter how to sweep a stone patio in the Cafe Condesa courtyard, patient in a way that's rare in fast-moving cities to the north. The whole exchange takes maybe ten minutes. Nobody is in a hurry. Antigua is a place where time works differently. The "land of eternal spring" framing from...
by Glenn Wilson
