Changing Our Views on Shopping | Vlog 18 September 2022
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- After more than a year living in Nicaragua, we have certainly found that the way that we think about shopping, owning things, and moving things from one country to another has certainly changed. Our need to own things is totally different and the how and what we buy is very different than what it was before we moved away from the United States.
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Excellent content thanks for sharing Scott 👍
Thanks and you are most welcome!
Yes through the lens!! Thank you!!
You got it! Jaja
This was a great neighborhood walk. I want to go to all the food trucks!! 🥰
Thank you 🤗
24:01: Guapollon - Great Chicken Restaurant (fast food) - Inexpensive, fast and good.
and easy to find. they are all over.
I love this channel, learning about so much!
Thank you so much. Everyone is so supportive. I love this community.
Thank you for letting us live in your camera. I'm not sure I could walk near as much as you do but look forward to doing as much as I can in a few years when I retire. These videos are great. I'm not sure how you do anything with a full time job, family, a hotel, etc. Anyway, thank you so much.
You are most welcome, and .... it is definitely a challenge. It takes a lot of time and hard work. But I love doing it. But it is true, I often feel pretty exhausted. I really want to find a way to shift towards doing this (not just the vlog, but other shows) full time, it's just more fun and would be so great to be able to focus more. I am hopeful that the new show with Aprille will take me in that direction.
I love your videos, i see you from Miami,Florida. Always, you walk alone, i want to know are you feel safe overthere,?
Yes, I feel very safe. I get asked that a lot. If you look back about a week, I made a video talking about what precautions I take, what the risks are, and why I do it. But I never fear for my personal safety. The biggest risk is someone grabbing my camera from me. That would be sad, but it isn't scary. I feel very comfortable walking alone anywhere in the country. Even at night. I can't make videos at night, but I walk the cities at night every night and it isn't scary at all.
And thanks so much!
My wife is american , his relative family are Nicaraguan. I want visit the country next December, i want to go Leon, look colorful town..
Nice philosophical take on breaking through the fog of consumerism! Your energy is amazing, can I buy some??☮😂
Jaja, thanks so much! I'm the traveling Central American philosopher! That's my vibe. I need that on coffee cups.
I have personally experienced both shopping scenarios. In my opinion will be great to have more shopping options in Nicaragua and being able to return undesirable items like in the USA, but rethink before purchasing like Nicaraguans do. In Nicaragua credit and consuming accessibility is not as flexible as it is in the USA. Therefore, most people usually get what they really need and can afford. Nicaragua’s popular stores sign: “Hoy no hay credito, mañana si!” 😉
I'm addicted to the barrio walk and talk segments, thanks again! Any chance you and/or a guest could talk about gaining residency via investment? (via business, farm, teak/forestry etc etc) I understand its > $30,000, but there is so little info online. Any info or personal experiences would be greatly appreciated. (Since the Nica govt raised the minimum monthly requirements for the other ways to gain residency, I may need to go that route.)😊
I think he has done a couple of videos about that. This is one I saw on the playlist: ua-cam.com/video/yOM5OBUZSjc/v-deo.html
I have done some, but need to do more. I plan to grab my attorney (who makes a surprise appearance in the video I filmed yesterday so look for her to wave in a crowd next week, lol) who is a national level specialist in this who can answer a lot of very current questions. Maybe I can get her to do it annually so that we can do updates. But I'll provide some basics on my own, too. I'm doing this so I'm pretty aware.
Quick highlights are that it is the path that gives you the best options and treatment (the gov't wants investors more than retirees), it is $30,000 US or more, has to be into a viable, official, Nica business of certain types (some business types apply, some do not so be careful, there are a lot of hucksters down south that sell people investment schemes that aren't valid and once they have your $30K they let the government tell you that you didn't follow the path), and you need all the standard ID and verification paperwork for the money transfers and who yo uare and background checks and so forth. It's pretty straightforward overall.
Generally I say don't think of it as "investing" but as loaning $30K to the economy and hopefully it doesn't depreciate. Don't expect it to really make money. It's too small of an amount to do anything at scale and you'll have little chance of overcoming the overhead of a business at that size. But that's not the goal. The goal is residency. And it isn't PAYING $30K for residency, it's "putting money into the economy" that, if done well, you can take out again should you decide to leave. Or, if you just enjoy running a business, of course you can put in sweat equity or more money and grow something as well.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog thanks Scott! Yes, its about residency for me, not ROI at all. (hope not to lose, of course, but no expectation of financial gain) I did watch your post on residencies and it was informative. Looking for current specifics/or reference to good intel and details. Perhaps I can make an appt w a lawyer when I visit as well. Regardless, I appreciate your insights and experience.😊
Park benches face the street. Odd. My guess flooding on the streets with fast moving cars cause splash on the paint on walls of homes to peel. Not much natural drainage as its flatish. Best to have property on streets that have a slope.
I doubt that that is true because I'm out there all of the time and have never seen that splashing at all. It's a good theory, but I see it in places (like today, I was literally thinking about it while out walking twenty minutes ago) where splashes wouldn't be able to happen like that, and fast moving cars really don't exist on these streets - especially if there is water, but you can normally walk the sidewalks where those marks are in the rain and not get splashed by cars, and they are very uniform which car splashes would not be.
Benches face the street, I believe, because sitting and watching your kids isn't the thing to do (kids are often there on their own) and sitting and talking to people on the sidewalk or people watching is a thing to do. So the culture is reversed from the US where you'd go to the park to look inward. Here you go to the park to look outward.
I should point out, many parks have benches that face both directions. That's quite typical.
Hey, Inspector Gadget 😂 I can't figure out how you film when your hands are free. Please enlighten me.😊
When did I do this magic?
😂😂😂 Well, there's my answer.
What was I doing in this particular case?
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog I learned the answer when you started talking about the Go Pro . Did you get my message about the Hyper View 4K? Have you heard of this GoPro?