Living in Paraguay

Paraguay's pay falls mid-range, and tax claims very little of it, so against a moderate cost of living a worker is left with a small but genuine margin. What sets it apart from its neighbors is the language barrier, because English does almost no work here, so the country asks for Spanish before nearly anything else. The economy still runs close to the land, and agriculture is where an outsider is likeliest to find an opening, though landing any job without local roots is slow.

Paraguay's diaspora settles overwhelmingly next door: of roughly 746.4K Paraguayans abroad, the largest share by far — 517.4K — lives in Argentina, with Spain a distant second. The number has grown 11% over the past decade, well ahead of the 176.4K foreign-born residents inside the country.