Live in Colombia for a month. Not as a tourist.
Four rooms, filled in order of application. First pick of rooms, the early rate, and a house whose culture you help set.
A 30, 60, or 90 day residency in a house in Envigado, the neighborhood Medellín locals actually live in. Two meals a day from the house kitchen. Spanish five days a week. Training at the polideportivo down the street. Four rooms per cohort, everyone arrives the same week. One monthly price, no bills on top.
Spanish five days a weekTrain at the polideportivoFour housemates, not fortyRun by its live-in host
El Poblado is where Americans go to speak English to each other.
Spend twenty minutes on any Medellín forum and you will find the same confession, over and over: six months in the city, Spanish worse than when they landed. It is not a discipline problem. It is an environment problem. The towers, the coworking floors, the brunch spots: all of it runs in English.
Envigado is a separate municipality just south of the city, and it never got the memo. Brick houses. A church square where old men argue about fútbol. Menús del día for four dollars. Families who have lived on the same block for three generations. You will hear English about once a week, and it will probably be you.
That is the entire premise of this residency. Not a retreat from Colombia. A month inside it, with the logistics already solved: the house, the food, the classes, the training, the people to do it with.
One gated house. Three floors. Four resident rooms per cohort.
The residency runs in a single three-story house in a gated, walkable part of Envigado, a few minutes from the parque and the polideportivo. Every resident gets a private furnished room. The house runs Spanish-first: our staff will speak to you in Spanish, patiently, all month.
Fiber wifi throughout. A dedicated coworking floor, because most residents work US hours and the residency is built around that reality. Cleaning and laundry weekly. Every bill handled. You bring a suitcase and a reason to be here.
Honesty note: photographs of the house itself will be published with the founding cohort. Until then you get the floor plan, the street, and the terms in writing. We would rather under-promise.
Bedrooms · terrace with valley view
Bedrooms · coworking floor
Kitchen · the long table · bedrooms
Five bedrooms in the house. Four go to residents each cohort; one belongs to the house.
A Tuesday, itemized.
Structure is the product. Here is an ordinary Tuesday in residence, hour by hour. Nothing on this schedule is aspirational. It is just what the house does.
Reading the clock in Envigado…
The table and the training.
Two meals a day come out of the house kitchen, Monday through Saturday, cooked by our full-time cook from whatever the local market had that morning. This is not a meal plan. It is a Colombian kitchen you happen to live above.
Training works like this: you pick one discipline for your month at the neighborhood polideportivo, around three sessions a week, with local coaches and local training partners. We pay your coaches up front for the month, which is why it is one discipline per resident. Want a second? You can add it at cost.
And the Spanish is not a class you attend. It is the operating language of the house, backed by a lesson five days a week and a weekly intercambio night where the neighborhood shows up. You will make Colombian friends here. That is not a slogan; it is the schedule.
Then the house goes out. Two dance classes to learn how paisas actually move on a Friday. A theatre night in Spanish. Two guided city days into Comuna 13 and el Centro and the cable cars over the valley. Excursions to the pueblos twice a month. The culture is not an add-on here. It is the curriculum, and it is already paid for.
Who you'll live with, and who runs the house.
The house has a live-in host. Not a booking desk in another country: the person who runs the residency lives in it, eats at the same table, and is the one waiting for you at the airport. Before anything is booked, you talk to them on a fifteen-minute call. You are not wiring money to an anonymous brand. You are meeting the person you will live with.
Your three housemates are chosen, not assigned. A cohort is usually remote professionals working US hours, anywhere from their late twenties into their sixties, and we balance it on purpose. You will not be the only woman in a house of men, or the only person past forty in a group of twenty-somethings. Four people, not forty. That is the whole point of a cohort you could not assemble yourself, and it is what the two-way call is for.
On coming alone, and on safety. The house is gated, on a quiet residential street in one of the calmer, safer corners of the Medellín metro. Every private room locks. You never arrive to a strange city on your own, because someone from the house meets your flight. Help is a WhatsApp message away, day or night. If you are a woman weighing this solo, the small, know-your-housemates cohort is exactly who it was built for.
Lives in the house. Meets your flight. On the call before you book.
Remote professionals, late 20s to 60s, balanced on purpose.
Gated street, rooms that lock, airport pickup, WhatsApp on call.
What it costs, and what the others charge.
Private room, two meals a day (Mon–Sat), Spanish five days a week, your training discipline, two dance classes, two city tours, a theatre night, two weekend excursions, weekly intercambio, airport pickup and drop-off, arrival kit, every bill.
When your application and deposit land six weeks or more before your cohort starts. Booking early is worth real money to us, so it saves you $500 a month.
One room, two residents, everything included for both. That is $2,249 each, in a private room that is yours. Come learn together, and the early-application rate applies here too.
Math: assembling this yourself in Envigado runs roughly $2,550 to $2,800 a month at retail: a furnished room near the parque ($900+), fifty cooked meals ($350+), a five-day-a-week Spanish tutor ($450 to $600), coached training three times a week ($250+), two guided excursions ($300+), two city tours ($80+), two dance classes ($30+), a theatre night ($40+), coworking ($150), plus the airport runs and the SIM and the person who answers when something breaks. What you cannot assemble at any price: the cohort, the intercambio, and a house that runs in Spanish.
| Program | Price | Meals | Spanish | Training | Excursions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Envigado Residency | $2,997 / mo | Breakfast + dinner, Mon–Sat | 5 days/wk + Spanish-first house | 3 sessions / week | 2 trips + tours, dance, theatre |
| Kagumu, Medellín | $2,499 / 4 wk | Weekday meals not included | University classes | None | Included |
| Nueva Lengua, Medellín | ~$2,600 / mo assembled | Breakfast + dinner, no lunch | Classes | None | Paid add-ons |
| Noma Collective, Medellín | $1,750–2,800 / 3-4 wk | None | None | None | Some events |
| Room-only coliving, Medellín | $600–1,500 / mo | None | None | None | None |
Slide for training + excursions →
Competitor prices as published or assembled from their public rates, July 2026. Check them yourself; we did.
The terms, in plain English.
- The deposit
- $497 reserves your room after your application is accepted. It counts toward your total. It is refunded in full if we do not run your cohort. It is not refunded if you cancel, though you may transfer it once to a later cohort within six months.
- The schedule
- Half of your stay total is due sixty days before your cohort starts; your deposit counts toward it. The balance is due at thirty days. If the half is not paid at sixty days, your room goes to the waitlist and your deposit converts to a transfer credit. Applying inside sixty days? The half is due within seven days of acceptance.
- No rollovers
- Cohorts start together and the house fills in advance. If you leave early or arrive late, we cannot bank the difference. Four rooms is four rooms.
- Stay length
- 30, 60, or 90 days. Same monthly rate at every length. Longer applications get first pick of rooms and cohorts, because they are easier on the house.
- Insurance
- Travel health insurance is required and not provided. You will show proof before arrival.
- House rules
- This is a quiet, working house in a residential barrio. No party guests, no scene. You sign the house rules with your application. If you want Poblado nightlife at your door, we genuinely recommend Poblado.
- The founding cohort
- You would be in the founding cohort, and you should price that honestly, like we have. What is promised above is contractual. What does not exist yet: house photographs, alumni, reviews. What you get for going first: the early rate, first pick of rooms, and a house whose culture you get to set as a founding resident.
Who this is for. Who it is not.
The house wants you if
- You work remotely and have been circling the idea of living in Colombia, and you want a month of the real thing before you commit years to it.
- Your Spanish is stuck at ordering-food level and you know exactly why.
- You are a couple who wants to learn a country together, not tour it.
- You keep a morning routine and want a city that respects it.
Keep your $497 deposit if
- You are here for the Medellín nightlife economy. No judgment. Wrong house.
- You want resort service. This is a home with staff, not a hotel.
- You cannot commit to 30 days. We do not do weeks.
- "Do the classes run in English?" No.