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> You can come here with $3,000 in month and social security and live a very nice lifestyle. The downside is, it has begin to price out an exclude many of the citizens

It seems that every new apartment in San Salvador is being built to cater that income bracket. In the coastal region is even more. It's pricing out 97% of the Salvadorans who earn less than $3000 a month.

Judging from the instagram accounts of my friends in El Salvador, they are no longer taking local vacations. A week vacation to Mexico or Colombia, even including airfare, can be cheaper than a local one.



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