I was on here scouring the site for good stuff to curate and wish I could do so but just as yourself I'd been looking for people who get little to no recognition time and time again. I'm on acidyo's OCD curation team.
Regardless of that I will be following your story as I am from the states and randomly lived in Serbia at one time and have been thinking of moving to South or Central America. For me the states are overvalued in too many ways outside of the currency value. Thanks for motivating and inspiring others and I agree it is good to do things IRL.
Also, I see we both are into social media marketing/management. All of the best.