Our Changing Perceptions of a Country 🇳🇮 Matagalpa
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Filmed in the gorgeous city of Matagalpa, Nicaragua wandering the hilly barrios, today I talk about how our first impression of a country is so often vastly different than what it appears like to us once we get to know it and how our context can so heavily influence our impressions of beauty and safety. Looking back on seven years experience in Nicaragua and Central America.
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2 September 2022
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Selva Negra is a beautiful place to visit and relax!! Say hello to Mausi the owner a wonderful lady and take the full tour of the coffee, cheese, everything they produce up there!! trust me it's amazing!!!
Awesome!
Thank you for filming in Matagalpa.
It's my pleasure. One of my favourite cities, I really love it. I'm so glad that I got a few days to film up there. Can't wait to get to more cities.
Rewatching your Matagalpa videos. I really enjoy all of your videos but this one is especially great. Thx !
Glad you like them! Yeah, I really like this particular one, too. It was fun to make and really meaningful for me and I walked through a really cool part of the city.
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I learned a lot !
Beautiful city. I have an uncle up the street from the Basilica. Was there in July and holy cow, we were freezing. Never thought it could be possible in Nicaragua. This was right during the "hurricane" that swept Southern Nicaragua...
Oh yeah, that'll make it extra cold. But honestly, even under normal conditions, it can be chilly up there. If you think that is cold, you should visit Guate. My gosh, it's so crazy how cold most of Central America actually is.
Great video Scott! Love your commentary and perspective on houses.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The Gentleman that goes by the camera at 43 seconds in is wearing a Nova Scotia Tartan hat. I am from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia and that caught my eye immediately. We will make him an honorary Bluenoser.
LOL, that's awesome. I didn't even catch it.
So glad you took the time to come all the way up here, Matagalpa is surely not as touristic as the cities in the pacific region, but we do have our charm and it's so nice you enjoyed your time here!
GREAT commentary in this one! I haven’t relocated yet but this definitely influences how to gauge the asthetics from a non-American mentality. Thank you for braving those hills on our behalf :)
Thanks so much! I really liked making this one and felt it was an important message. There is so often so much shock at what is different that people miss what a beautiful place it is much of the time and only look through the lens of our local context.
Scott, this is the second time I have watched this video. I think Matagalpa is calling my name.
Still my favourite city here. It's so... chill and fun.
Very profound and philosophical though. I hadn't seen it that way. Thanks for sharing 👍
My pleasure!
The mountains for the win. Leon was fun. Had some good times there, but that heat. The mosquitos. Esteli is also pretty awesome.
You had mosquitos? What part of the city were you in? We see so few.
Great views of Matagalpa! I want the millionaire's yard with a tiny two bedroom house 😁.
Thanks for sharing informative interesting walk n talk. I spent a month in Matagalpa in 2018, looking forward to returning early Jan 2023.
Thanks great. It's such a wonderful city. i love it.
Gracias por compartir
Con gusto!!
Hey! This is my neighborhood 😮😮😮 damn! You were filming so close to my house and couldn't be able to say hi. This is "barrio 5 de Junio"
When she says "wasn't able to say hi", I was texting her trying to get her to come out and join us all weekend. I didn't avoid her ;)
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog yeah. True!
Matagalpa is just a great area overall, it has a different vibe and climate compared to the pacific it’s more rural and mountainous and the dry forest turns to cloud forest, there’s also a lot of nice small safe towns around for people who want a less crowded place. Places like La dalia, San Ramon , Rio blanco and matiguas remind me of the small towns in Appalachia
It really is, I think that it remains my favourite city in Nicaragua.
Interesting analogy.
Thanks for the effort Scott. Much appreciated. Great Vid, and Yes....that is a good way to look at it. Exercise is a good thing!
And I'm getting a lot of it on those days! My foot is still sore.
Amazing to share this insight... and the walk was beautiful! interiors are more important just like with people. Thanks for fortifying my reasons for giving Nicaragua a try soon.
Glad you enjoyed it! Hope you make it soon!
Matagalpa is really nice. Enjoyed the tour Scott and as usual, very informative. Look forward to seeing you down there shortly in Leon.
See you soon!
As a neighborhood gauge I've noticed the very expensive vehicles parked out on narrow streets in your videos. Someone's making good income.
Lovely city, the hills are beautiful.
Saw a Porsche the other day. While the average car is a Kia or Toyota sub-compact, you do see the $40K pickups and the $100K Land Cruisers constantly. There is absolutely money around.
Yeah, definitely. Not everyone can't afford to get that type of vehicle but most of them grow coffee up in the mountains and are considered wealthy people.
With those cars, they would be considered wealthy anywhere in the world.
At 11 minute I see a lexus an a mercedes, i believe you were filming on sunday cuse i see many places and business closed
Awesome video!!
Thanks!! I really liked this one too :)
Hey Scott, I watched this again, I think I told you I’m going to Matagalpa this September for a week. I’m getting excited. You have been a great help for me, I just wanted to let you know that.
Thank you so much, and good luck on visiting Matagalpa! I love it up there. Hopefully you are there for the corn festival.
Beautiful area !
We look forward to getting to Matagalpa at some point. AGREE, about just needing a small place when the weather is nice. Huge reason we are seeking a cooler climate, so we don’t hide inside in the a/c. We still are not sure if Matagalpa is cool enough but we will check it out for sure. Very curious what a 2/2 small apartment or house costs near centro so we can walk everywhere….
Great video !
Thx Scott !
Now that I live in León, Matagalpa is downright chilly! lol
Prices depend on what you're looking for. If you're looking for a furnished apartment, not that small but neither that big might cost around $400 a month. On the other hand, a small empty house can cost between $180 - 200 per month.
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Que bien por este gringo puso un enfoque de Maragaloa que nadie habie hecho tomascdexese barrio aunque no subió mucho el chele
RE differing attitudes towards housing, another factor to remember is that houses in the developing world tend to function as bank accounts as well. Because families tend to own the same house for generations, and because of the ways that the savings and investment side of developing economies are structured, they're a way for people to convert cash into investments. That's one reason why you see a lot of houses with bare rebar, whether at the end of a wall, as in 22:29 of your video, or poking out of a second floor slab (called "esperas" in Nica, which I think captures exactly what they're about). Those houses are waiting for the next infusion of cash to complete their concrete columns. RE food, for a luxury meal (assuming you eat beef), try el Pullazo, which is on the Carretera Managua, around 10 min. to the south. Another place you might find interesting is in Guanuca, called la Vita e Bella, which is owned by Gianni, an Italian who's lived there for close to 40 years, since the Revolution in the 80s. I'm jealous - wish I was living there too. I really miss it.
Check the Community Post on RUclips, lol. Made that one just for you.
The "esperas" are really common in North Africa, too. That's where we really got used to them. They are all over the place here, but not to the same degree.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog Makes sense - similar economic parameters, similar economic response.
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Lucky you haven’t seen brawls fights with guns and knives 😅 at la Calle los bares
So far, so good ;)
Scott, what is the best website for Matagalpa apartment hunting….I know boots on the ground is best, but just to get a feel for what you get for different prices. Thx !
There will be literally nothing online. I mean you could poke around on Facebook to see what people are listing, but that's your only option. Let me poke someone up in the mountains to see if they can respond with ideas.
Prices depend on what you're looking for. If you're looking for a furnished apartment, not that small but neither that big might cost around $400 a month. On the other hand, a small empty house can cost between $180 - 200 per month.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog That would be great, Scott. I'm interested, too.
Hi thank you for the video I'm Nicaragua but never been I Matagalpa I live in Costa Rica ; but My husband and my son planning moving to Matagalpa.
My husband is from California I have a question do you have to pay eny taxes there or are you resident already?
I DO pay entry taxes, but it's just a few dollars. I am not a resident. Mostly because I'm gone a lot. Writing this from Guatemala City for example.
Hi Scott - what camera do you use to vlog and walk around?
In most cases I am filming with the GoPro 11. But I use a lot. I have three GoPros, two Insta360s, a Sony, two Olympus and a Fuji that I use for the show. But for walking around in barrios, almost always going to be one of the GoPros, they are definitely the best for that. I used the media kit and either the on board microphone or a Rode Lavalier.
I believe the homes were designed after Roman Villa, not the Moors.
Well the Moors had to get it from somewhere. :) The Moors were part of the Roman Empire the same as Iberia. So they have some common origins in a lot of architecture. But as far as we were taught when I lived in Spain is that the design came down through the Moorish times. Not something the Moors "kept" using that was already the standard.
Homes are painted white is more tradition. in Latin America they painted with Cal, lime substance, because paint hadn't been invented.
I used to live in Spain and it's literally for cooling. At least originally. Spain has cool air but a lot of sun (in the south) so the white paint was all you needed to stay reasonably cool. Same reason why Greece does it in the islands (I used to live there, too.)
Today they do it out of tradition and tourism. But it had a real purpose at the beginning.
que camara usas
Muchas. Pero normalmente un GoPro 12.
Hi Scott, is it more economical to stay in an Airbnb or a modest hotel for a stay in Matalgalpa?
Probably a hotel. AirBnB will be very hard to come by there.
Any good places to go learn how to ride a 🏍 bike? I don’t have time to learn in the US cuz I’m leaving next month
I asked but people with bikes said that they don't know of anywhere. People tend to learn from family here, everyone rides. They recommend getting a scooter, learn on that, then move up to a tiny bike.
What would you pay for a lot like the one for sale.
can you tell me at what minute:second mark the property is?
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How exactly do you plan to make a difference?
Four key ways...
1. Investment. The core money for our businesses is external. So while small, it is purely "additional" money being added to the local economy.
2. Employment. We work hard to employ and employ well. Creating jobs that would not otherwise exist (or saving jobs that would be eliminated) is a big deal for us. We are regularly moving jobs from other regions to Nicaragua, or staffing new positions from Nicaragua, or employing locally.
3. Services. We attempt to go in where services are lacking, so filling a desire in a local market. Instead of competing with local businesses but with a bigger budget, we try to compliment and support good existing businesses and fill in gaps.
4. Exposure. From multiple angles we attempt to expose the amazing culture, travel and life opportunities in this amazing country. A country that is so poorly known outside of its borders and that is constantly fighting an uphill battle against negative marketing from external competitors who are vastly larger than it. The more people learn what it is really like here, the more tourism, investment, employment and relocation we are going to see. What we need most here is more employment, nothing matters more than that right now.
I’ve always wondered why you native English speakers speak so quick, that, in Spanish is unpolite
We wonder the same thing about Spanish. lol Especially in western Mexico they speak SO fast.