The main guide on this site is built to answer one question: how do you move to Paraguay, end-to-end. That guide is canonical, evergreen, and built to update slowly.
This blog is the opposite. It’s where we write the small, dated, sometimes opinionated things that don’t fit a reference manual. Three categories, mostly.
What you’ll find here
Field notes. When a DNM office reorganises its waiting list, when SUACE changes its document checklist, when a bank quietly stops opening accounts for tourists — that’s the news that costs people weeks. Reference pages get updated; the blog tells you what changed and why.
Reader stories. People who have actually moved write up what their first six months looked like, what they wish they’d known, how it cost vs the calculator’s estimate. These are not testimonials. They’re case studies, sometimes including the parts that didn’t work.
Deeper context. History, culture, language, food — the things that won’t change your residency timeline but will change whether you stay past year three. Why Tereré matters. What “Karai” means. Where the Mennonite colonies came from. Why Paraguayan Spanish sounds the way it does.
What you won’t find here
No syndicated content. No “10 best places in Paraguay” lists. No affiliate-linked relocation services dressed up as advice. No AI-generated filler — every post here is written by a human who has either lived through the thing or interviewed someone who has.
How often
Weekly to start, settling into a rhythm of roughly two field-note posts and one longer story per month. New posts go out in English and Spanish at the same time; other languages follow when we have a translator on hand for that locale.
If you want to be told when new posts land, subscribe to the RSS feed (/en/blog/rss.xml) — or watch the front page, where the latest three always sit above the fold.
Welcome aboard.