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My first few years in Belize, when people would ask what I missed the most, my response was always the same: Beer! To be clear, there was beer available in Belize; but there were only four varieties, and they all came from the same company. When you ordered a "beer," restaurants would bring you a Belikin—The Beer of Belize.
Take its small size and low population density, add English as the official language, with an easy-to-use exchange rate, and easy access in and out of the country, and you’ll start to see why Belize has become an expat hotspot.
“Why are we waiting?” That was the question I posed to my wife, Heather, as we laid in bed one night back in 2018. For years, we’d been talking about opening a small beach resort in the Caribbean, but as working parents, the discussion had always begun and ended with, “Once the kids have finished school…”