Taghazout (Morocco)

• Complex-surgery/oncology national referral tier
  Casablanca (Cheikh Khalifa International, Mohammed VI University Hospital)
  Marrakech's own CIM/Mohammed VI CHU are strong for a secondary city but not the national top tier; real referral line for the most complex cases likely runs to Casablanca — an inference from where capability concentrates, not a confirmed Marrakech-specific medevac policy
• Kidnapping/cartel-extortion risk specifically targeting foreigners
  Not yet researched
  Not found in either Marrakech's or Taghazout's own research — no keyword hit for this mechanism anywhere in Morocco's files, distinct from the already-checked "no organized anti-nomad backlash" community finding
• Pet import (cat) — species-specific requirement verification
  Not yet researched
  Whether cat rabies-titer timing or quarantine requirements differ from the dog findings above has not been checked
• Distance to emergency care
  20–30 minutes (to Agadir)
  Only a local health centre exists in Taghazout itself; real emergency/hospital-level care (AKDITAL Agadir International, Hôpital Hassan II) is a 20km drive — meaningfully shorter than Atitlán's 2.5-3 hour reference point this project uses
• In-town hospital-level care (system capability, distinct from distance)
  No
  No hospital-level facility at any tier sits in Taghazout itself — only a local health centre and private practitioners for minor ailments; all real hospital-level options (AKDITAL, Hôpital Hassan II, Polyclinique de la CNSS) are in Agadir. Kept as its own Healthcare-criterion row, separate from the Safety-linked distance row above, per the criterion's own exclusion of travel-time from its score
• Local Taghazout-specific crime rate
  Not yet researched
  Unlike Marrakech's own Numbeo crime/safety index, no location-specific figure was found for Taghazout

How you'd actually get to stay — the real routes, their income floors, and how long they realistically take, not the marketing version.

• Carte de Séjour pour Inactif accepts passive income as qualifying proof
  Not yet checked
  Not confirmed how passive (non-pension) income generally would be classified; the 20% flat-rate carve-out applies to certain employment income specifically, not confirmed to extend to passive income
• Carte de Séjour pour Inactif converts to permanent residency/naturalization
  Yes
  Naturalization eligibility after 5 years continuous legal residence — a real, if slower, on-ramp; not confirmed whether any of Morocco's 8 permit categories has a Colombia-style dead end
• Carte de Séjour pour Inactif income threshold
  1000–1650 $/month
  No single published figure — Decree 2-09-607 leaves it to case-by-case assessment, roughly €1,000-1,500/month per the sources cross-checked
• Melkia vs. titre foncier title-fraud pattern (national mechanism)
  Yes
  General mechanism nationally; location-specific severity documented per-location below
• Pet import (dog) — rabies titer / quarantine requirement
  Titer required (>0.5 IU/ml, 30+ days post-vaccination, 3+ months before entry); no mandatory quarantine if documentation complete
  Morocco is not on the rabies-free/low-risk list, so the full import path applies — a real multi-month (3-4mo) lead time, workable but not a footnote
• Private health insurance — monthly cost
  50–200 $/month
  $50-150/month local Moroccan plans; $100-200/month international-coverage plans. No age-tiered rate card found from any source.
• Private health insurance — new-applicant age enrollment ceiling
  ~65-70 (insurer-dependent); 'extremely expensive' past 60 years
  Not a formal visa-eligibility gate — the Inactif route's own documentation list requires a medical certificate but not proof of insurance, unlike the Student visa's explicit €30,000 minimum-coverage requirement. A real practical cost/access risk for an older applicant, single-sourced for the exact ages.
• Property ownership restricted-zone equivalent
  No
  Full freehold nationwide, no coastal/border band equivalent to Guatemala/Mexico — a genuine structural difference (cross-candidate restricted-zone check)
• Public (AMO/RAMED) health insurance access for non-employed foreign residents
  No
  Formal employment or permanent residency triggers AMO enrollment; a Carte de Séjour pour Inactif holder is not automatically covered and must arrange private insurance. Public ER departments remain accessible to all in a genuine emergency regardless of coverage.
• Tax residency worldwide-income trigger
  183 days/year
  Not territorial like Guatemala's system

Can you buy here, and what it actually takes to do it — ownership rules, structures, and real price bands, not listing-site optimism.

• Budget-tier ownership price data
  Not yet researched
  Only investment/holiday-tier listings found (3.4M-8.5M DH range)
• Property title risk — untitled village land
  >95% % of village transactions
  Corrected finding: first pass wrongly concluded "no title-fraud pattern"; re-read found >95% of village transactions are done without processed titles, sold on family assertion — a thinner evidentiary base than Marrakech's melkia finding, held at Not yet checked, not a lesser risk

What a month here actually runs, in real numbers — not a nomad-blog average built for a lifestyle that isn't yours.

• Agadir-proxy cross-check
  ~930–945 $/month
  Neither Numbeo, Expatistan, nor HCP tracks Taghazout itself; Agadir (20-25km away) is the nearest tracked proxy — a lean toward the $850-1,000+ range, not a resolution
• Cost of living range (unreconciled)
  619–1407 $/month
  Two aggregators disagree by more than 2x; real range, not picked between
• Coworking + coliving package pricing
  600–1100 €/month
  Bundles accommodation and meals — a materially different figure than the bare rent/cost-of-living range, not additive to it
• Rent — average
  ~548 $/month
  Ocean-view units in Taghazout itself can run double an equivalent "upper Tamraght" unit

Who else lives here, how you'd actually meet them, and what it's like once the novelty wears off.

Not yet researched — a gap, not a claim that nothing is true here.

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