Paradise Lost: Viewer Comment on SJDS 🇳🇮 Nicaragua
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- Responding to a view about the situation with San Juan del Sur #nicaragua A beautiful paradise in the south of Nicaragua that is all but destroyed by tourists, expats, enclave developments, scams, shady businesses, and gringo pricing. So much to love, but so much to drive you away.
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27 May 2024
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You should do an entire episode of gringos scamming gringos in Nicaragua! Go there, Scott!
Oh, that's definitely on my "to make" list. We caught one gringo running scams half a year ago and caught him essentially bragging about doing it on his youtube channel. But he made the mistake of listing how he was stealing from Nicaraguan employees and not paying his taxes. So when we made a response video to him detailing how his "brags" were actually illegal and that his lawyer had flat out told him he could break the law... he was suddenly fleeing the country, lol. Apparently he made it about 48 hours after that video was live.
I've been scammed myself quite a bit before I knew what was going on. Tough learning curve.
Thanks for always speaking the truth and the reality. My friends from the US came and went, we didn't have enough time to visit León. Maybe next time. Have a great night. Jeanina from Matagalpa.
Oh that's too bad that they didn't have time to come to Leon. Leon is definitely a great example of what Nicaragua has to offer. Maybe I can stop by Matagalpa to get some updated footage. I get lots of requests to show it more often.
Do a video about how 99.9 percent of 'Realtors' are scumbag scammers from the US or Canada, just like they are in Canada and US.
We love San Juan Del Sur. Best beach for families because of the calm water. It is like a salty pool.
Getting priced out of Toronto is a good reason to settle in Latin America.
Granada is celebrating 500 years of expats and tourists this year 😐
LMAO. Yes it is. Leon too!
Primarily Spanish tourists, jaja.
Thank you ! You are very helpful, have a great day !
Great explanation of reality in San Juan Del Sur. Do your research, it's important and I appreciate that you keep hammering at this.
I appreciate that
How do you manage rainy season, household and garden pests, surely this would vary by geography. Is geothermal used there, solar? Gracias :)
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
Can easily get really good pizza for $10, coffee for $1.4. Not sure where the guy that made the post is going out to eat. Plenty of places where you can get a good meal for 100 cordobas. I do agree with the prices of property being high in town, but plenty of places outside of town where you can cheap land still.
Last time that I looked just a little outside of town it was the same, decent prices and options. Even right in town wasn't that bad. Like $50K for a full house downtown.
Great Content, Keep it up! just got back from Nica. The first Scam to be aware of is money exchange. Here in the US (MIA) the exchange rate was 27.50 to $1, at the Airport in Managua it was 30 to $1, or 32 to $1 if you exchanged more than $800. However If you are comfortable with it. The Casinos will give you 34 to 1, maybe even a bit more. when the actual exchange rate is 36 to 1
Actual is 37:1. The best rates are always, and the only place you should ever, exchange money in Nicaragua is the street exchangers in front of the banks. They are official. No one else will give you a good rate. Also, there's generally little need to exchange. Credit Cards and USD are accepted universally. It's a dual currency country. If you come only with CDN, just use the ATM to get cash, don't exchange.
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Given you were exchange USD, that makes no sense as USD is an official currency here. It's not "some people accept it", it's literally the second official currency. Everyone from street vendors to hotels accept it, even government offices. In some cases, it is basically required.
If you exchange at all, you'll lose value. If you are just a tourist, stick to USD. If you live here, switch to Cord and use no USD whatsoever, it's slightly more convenient. But whatever you do, avoid exchanging, you just lose value.
Maybe the local people should just stop charging high prices for things and accepting more money. LOL. Then prices will remain low.
Take us to nueva guinea!
That's SO on my list. For real. I want to see the planned city in the jungle!
La GRINGOFICATION de Nicaragua 😮!!!!!
Welcome to Gringolandia!
Supply and demand and unregulated markets. Even Nicaraguans visiting from the states, like myself, get charged gringo prices.
Even Nicaraguans who never left Nicaragua, but look and/or sound too American or are from very distant parts of the country get gringo priced, too!
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog that's so true. 😆
Ya right , the State Dept. would love to have as many of their Gringos working in Nicaragua. Sounds like that nice place will end up like Costa Rica.
It's a risk, but a tiny one.
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"Rancho Santana"... enough said. SJDS seems to be a cancer.
Rancho Santana was an idea of American million investors who did not do there homework. It is a tax lose.
Neighborhoods around Busch Gardens, Tampa; all neighborhoods around Mouseland, Orlando; Old Strip Vegas: NoBoDY would want to live or afford in these crime-infested dumps.
Exactly, tourist areas are generally awful to live in. Anywhere in the world. Cancun or Venice... just awful.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog come visit Florida-E-Dah: America’s ashtray.
I kind of don't want you to discourage certain people from living in San Juan del Sur because I don't want them infecting the rest of the country. 😳
Don't worry, otherwise they just go to Costa Rica.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlogNot true been here13 years I'm from Hawaii and lived in San Juan 7 years NEVER AGAIN!! They just go to Costa Rica is far from true!! I own property in Tola and rent 3 bedroom big house with yard for my 2 Rottweilers for $125 a month in Rivas. My contract runs out this month and I'm going to look at a rental in San Jorge for $400 a month 4 bedroom 3 bath on 1 and a half acres HUGE YARD!!
@@DenissSanches-nx7ui that sounds like an amazing dog yard. A great dog yard is my #1 requirement when looking for a place to live 😊.
@@DenissSanches-nx7ui How do your dogs do in Nicaragua? It is the biggest reason I haven't already re-located. I worry about the strays, unvaccinated dogs, and - not to be dismissed - tropical parasites. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I have a wonderful, friendly Great Dane and I don't want to make his life miserable, so I just wait... you know.
@@kevinadams9468 My Rottweilers were born here they do fine keep up hearteorm tretments and tick medecine in rainy season and all is good.
I heard rumors the property has been taken from foreigners before is this true?
People repeat that a lot. But I've never found a case of it. It's purely rumor. It's a common story put out by the US and Canada where that actually happens commonly, so it is easy for people to believe. One of the reasons why like investing in Nicaragua is that property rights are (while complicated) far more iron clad than in the North where the government will just take things away. Most times when someone says that they had something taken like that, I ask if they owned it in the first place and that ends the conversation. Often it is people getting caught having stolen something and then claiming that having to give it back is "having something taken from them", but it was never theirs.
If you are worried about governments taking things, that's "a risk" literally everywhere. But places like Nicaragua is much less of a risk than in most places. It's not something that anyone actually here has to worry about. In North America, everyone repeats it. In Nicaragua, no one has heard of it.
Never. They crave foreign investment.
Exactly, and realistically, nearly all countries do. Foreign investment is important even for the US. Once you start seizing foreign investments, everything grinds to a halt. Only a few countries in the world have tried that and it instantly goes into a complete collapse. Not a recession, it's famine and war. People often thing, because the US is so casual about property rights for its own citizens, that globally property isn't that protected. but that's the exception, not the norm. If that really were the case, absolutely no one would buy, ever.
I've never heard of this either. Another piece of disinformation that spreads online that I have heard quite often these past few years.
It begs the question, who benefits from such rumours?
The US and Canada benefit because of several reasons.
1) The US especially has built many policies and careers (and kept people out of prison) by portraying Nicaragua as a lawless land of banditos. If Americans found out about Nicaragua, a lot of people would be in big trouble.
2) The US and Canada benefit heavily from keeping their workforce from flooding out of the country which, if people truly understood what the options were abroad, would happen. Not 100%, but easily 40%. Keeping people ignorant of the nearby options is absolutely critical to keeping their workers inside their borders.
3) Politically, the systems in North America depend on making people think that other government options don't work. They need to downplay the idea that true democracies exist and function. That alternative ideologies can have merit. So much of "we do this because it is the only way" depends on people not checking if that is true.
The problem is actually that the whole industry in SJDS is just catering to the foreigners not for the locals, but only the white rich locals maybe. I was there past July on my vacation from NY and I was not allowed to enter in a nightclub, I was not allowed to enter I was told the reason was that "only if I was dress in white and with no shorts" As I peeked inside and saw others that where wearing shorts and sandals and all different colors, I realized that the only requirement was actually to be a white foreigner, it seems. Of course I looked like a local, and probably make more money than any of the people in the club, but it did not matter, they refused to let me in. I was born in Nicaragua but grew up in NY and was raised here in NY, I would never buy any property in SJDS and I think I will rarely if any go and ever visit SJDS, is not worth it and its in a really sad state of decadence. They can keep that dump, I actually invite all the foreigners to keep coming to SJDS and spend their money and eventually make it worse than what it is. I will stick to the other places that are more beautiful than that town. Poneloya, El Velero, Pochomil, Casares , La Boquita, etc... there is lots of other beaches on the Pacific and then there is the Atlantic side of Nicaragua that's also beautiful. So yes, keep going to SJDS, that includes the US vacationers and the ones that buy the properties in the area, keep bringing the prices up and stay away from the rest of the country.
Tuani?
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog LOL, deacachimba!!!pijudo!!!
I meant, is that the name of the club ;)
Funnily, Deacachimba is a club in Matagalpa, I think.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog Nah, it was the "The Blue...something?" I can't remember
How is SJDS a tourist hub? Are you confusing SJDS with Granada? They have one 4 star motel with 25 rooms which except for Holidays is 80% empty. There are no tourist buses, nor a transportation hub. There only tourist attraction is there Jesus statue which is the 3rd largest in the world. There beaches are mud with no white sand. The only tourists you see are back backers. Maybe 5% of population are expats living on a fixed income. There is very little decent housing which meets western standards. There are lots of places to get a good meal for $5 to $10. The Pronto,' AM/PM charge the same prices as the entire Nica. In almost 4 years I have never been charged a gringo tax, Scammers yes, but mostly the Gringos who invested there money stupidly and have the "Gringo God" mindset you discussed in a former video. This is no paradise
Beaches are mud!?! I've seen beaches all over this hemisphere and very few if any can compare to the beaches around SJdS. Have you been to Marsella, Maderas, or Majagual? If you haven't experienced these beaches (or many others) than I can understand how you may not see this as "paradise" or a tourist spot...after you do it will be obvious.
And I had no problem finding housing that met "western standards"...and for about 1/4 of what something similar would cost in the US.
The beaches aren't mud, the sand it's just yellow
Do you have a green light on? Half of your face is green lol just saying 😉
Yup, it's a colorful desk light and I changed it a few times.