Security Impressions of Latin America | Razor Wire in Nicaragua | Why Americans Think It Looks Crazy
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Vlog 11 January 2023 | So often Latin America can look dangerous to North American eyes because there is so much barbed wire, razor wire, broken glass topped walls and so forth. But is this just a different cultural context? What about those bars on the windows. Today, we talk about how this looks to the outside world and how it looks from the inside.
Here in Nicaragua we rarely have ways to lock our houses. We don't have glass on the windows, we have open atriums, and we live outside. We don't lock up in our houses. It sounds scary and oppressive to have to lock your doors and stay inside all of the time like in the US.
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Well done. Very interesting topic.
thanks, Scott! Great reminder to rethink why things are the way they are from place to place, culture to culture, etc. lovely area
Great video Scott as always. Loved it. Thanks
Thanks 👍
I lived in Berlin (1980s) when the Wall was still standing. My first day there I photographed some graffiti, and I have the picture even today: "Good fences make good neighbors." In agree.
Interesting.
1/18/23 Awesome yard and house.
Interesting. In America people lock their houses. In Nicaragua they lock their yards. Great way of explaining it!
Took me two years to realize that that was what was happening, jaja.
Great topic and so glad you addressed this! I’m also so happy for the pups to have that yard and you aren’t walking yourself ragged every day and night to exercise them! Looks like you’re settling in quite well.
High wall you see in very old construction from the colony period. Styles from Spain, british heritage countries have differnent style.
The style, yes. This particular wall is only 50 years old and in an area that didnt have a colonial population. But it is copied from the colonial walls a couple miles away for sure.
Im from a town in Costa Rica called Santo Domingo de Heredia and can see both old spanish adobe style houses(sadly each day less) and victorian houses with out walls.
@@granospaz4156 I saw some of that in the capital there, too. Very cool architecture and history.
Very interesting video. You mention animals, and cats... is it possible a jaguar could enter the home lol?
Yes, absolutely, if you had one. Jaguars are so rare that they were believed to be extinct in NIcaragua. But one was caught by a camera in 2015, so it is known that one exists. So while it is plausible that if you raised a jaguar in a zoo, and trained it to enter houses, and snuck it up to the house and instructed it to enter that it could do so (not THIS house, this one is closed, but normal colonial style homes with the open roof in the middle design) because razor wire would not slow it down or it could just jump over. But they are so rare and they are from the jungle, which is nowhere near populated Nicaragua (it's not even considered to be "Nicaragua", it's a territory that Nicaragua controls but the region isn't a Nicaraguan zone) that it would be akin to wondering if panda's being flown in by UFOs could get in the house. Yes, IF that was a risk, it would pose a problem. But there's zero risk of jaguars, even if you lived in the jungle, in a tent.
Tracking of the one known jaguar sighting suggests that they moved to Costa Rica years ago as well. So it is believe that Nicaragua is once again jaguar free.
Great video. Yep, when we lived in Costa Rica, the same deal. They also cement pieces of broken bottle along the tops of big cement walls.
Curious what the laws are in Nicaragua when you wake up in the middle of the night and someone is in your house.
Here, the intruder would be shot. We would assume they are armed.
You are definitely able to defend your homes here. And yeah, the glass tops are everywhere in Latin America. Saw a lot in Panama when we lived there.
The double wall with security guard does seem a bit over kill, but I don't know how common these home invasions are in Nicaragua so I'll refrain from saying to much.
Overkill? But it's less than you do in the US or Canada. Remember it's LESS, not more. Because there are no home invasions. So we don't need the locked up houses. Imagine if we had to lock our doors to stay safe! Most of us do lock doors while we sleep, if I don't I get all kinds of things in the house (cats, lizards, who knows what.) But we don't have to. Can you say the same in the US? Sure, in some super rural areas. But is there any city where you can sleep with your doors literally wide open and feel safe?
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog Probably not, and yea I'm getting it more now, it's not really so much that you're doing less persay, but it's a different way of handling the situation and as you say a cultural change.
But no, I get it and it's kind of cool, I guess I just question the cost of it all, a walled off house in a walled off gated community, must have been pricey to build all of that even in Nicaragua, but you got a good lifestyle there bro no doubt, the sense of security as you say would be very high.
Jaja, nothing is pricey here. Yes, giant walls aren't cheap, but they are also built by developers spreading the cost among lots of houses. We have a giant estate elsewhere and are looking at walling it similarly for privacy reasons (people get nosey) and it isn't cheap. But it's many times the size of a normal development, too. So we are doing a wall for the equivalent of dozens of homes. If you live in the city you only need to wall against the street. If you live in the country country, people tend to just use fence. It's here on the edge of the city in gated communities that we do such large one because it's where it makes sense.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog Yea, that makes sense.
How many acres of land is that and what did it cost to get the wall made?
I didn't build it, it's been here for half a century at least, lol.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog Wow
Yeah, it's actually a classic estate.
One of the favorites for entry is to throw a hammock over and over they go. I had a girlrind in Panama that could climb over as though it was nothing and she was 65 years old.
Everyone I knew in Nicaragua that had their house broken int encountered 3 or more armed men. At least one with an AK. Nothing worth losing your life over. And having a vehicle makes you ar prime target. Much easier to take your big flat screen.
Your best security is your neighbors or said Saffety in Numbers.
Been here solid almost three years, in and out for eight, still haven't had even a third hand "I once heard from a neighbor..." story anything like this. How the heck have you met even two people who had this happen let alone "everyone you knew?" This story doesn't make sense. I hang out in Ciudad Sandino, often called the most dangerous barrio in Nicaragua, and while I admit it's sketchy, no one has ever had a story even close to this. I'm not talking first hand, I'm talking second hand even!
Are you sure you're even thinking of Nicaragua? This is so unlikely. And would require that you have never met more than one or two people.
Given that you think snakes with a zero 0% fatality rate are a standard assisnation tactic and you didn't even research the snake, your stores have one thing in common... they don't add up or match anything resembling reality.