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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Vlog 12 November 2023 | After a barrage of posts claiming that Nicaragua is hard and is only suitable for a millionaire we talk about just how easy it is to live here. Nicaragua Living really can be easy. Don't be afraid to come enjoy life in Nicaragua.
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I love the walking and seeing the views, BUT I also love the information... Even from your yard! Thanks for all you do!
I will be in Nicaragua tomorrow, I'm so happy to have the chance to explore the country. Definitely want to meet up with you. Buy you a coffee or dinner and support your incredible channel. Thanks again for sharing your experiences
I'm just back now! I emailed you.
The yard shot with the leaves is fine, but you need more light on your face. Maybe some portable flashlight if a bounce reflector isn't possible?
Love the music Scott❤❤
loving your info. got your name from john Dutcher , been there near Granada for 3 years ish. thank you ill keep following
Awesome, and welcome to the channel!
A very very interesting video !! Well said regarding rich or poor ! Right now, I find it very difficult to live in everwhere in the U.S.!! A pizza costs like $ 20 to $25 !! It used to ve $5.99? back in 80's, it was like $8.99 in early 2000 & til not too long ago ,it was around $15? a few years ago !! Salad 🥗, you have to pay like$17 !! At restaurants here ! In Nicaragua or Ecuador, you pay $3.50 & get a drink with a main dish !! Lol. Often even with a soup or salad !! On top of that ,they're locally grown ingredients & many are organic produces if not the mostly !! What a life !! What a bargain !! But,that's the way it should be !!👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶✈️💞
To be fair, pizza here is a lot more than that, too.
Pizza Hut Family Size: $13
Valenti's 12" Pizza: $9.83
Emanuelle Pizza: $12.50
@ScottAlanMillerVlog ?? Pizza here now around $25 per whole pizza ! So,you guys are doing a lot better there !! Lol.
Oh it is WAY better here. But it's still not cheap like it used to be.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog I see !! Thank you ! 👍
Hello Scott, Alberto from Puerto Rico here. One thing I believe you should do to look even better than you do is to trim your facial hair to have it grow again neatly. What you personally think about it. Give your opinion
Hello again Scott, thanks for continuing with all of this awesome content!
Do you recommend I have antivirus removal software while in Nicaragua? Like FixMeStick?
I replied but it disappeared. Yes, you ALWAYS need antivirus if you run Windows. Where you travel never affects that. Location has no bearing on computer security practices. That said, the ONLY good antivirus product that exists is Windows Defender - it is free, and it comes as a part of Windows. Never disable it, never replace it, never pay for AV. Those are truly "never" items. Anyone trying to sell you AV software is a scammer.
Any third party AV that you pay for has to disable Windows Defender to do its job. That means it puts you at huge risk AND takes your money. Third party AV are actually security risks themselves. They are malware, in a sense.
So the easy answer is: yes, anyone running Windows needs AV because Windows is very insecure and requires extra software to make it secure. If you use a Mac, Linux, Chromebook or similar, you never need antivirus, it does nothing. Those systems are already secure.
But if the answer is: do you install or buy antivirus products... NO, you never buy or install a third party AV product, and you never disable the Windows Defender AV that is included in your OS.
electricity, cars, gas and typically what most foreigners were considered. gringo-worthy food is all CONSIDERABLY more expensive than in the states
Electricity is SO much cheaper than I paid in Texas. About 10% of my US costs ($45 vs. $450). Gas is more, but you don't need to drive like in the States so while "per mile" costs more, I know of no one that pays anywhere close to what they did in the States for driving. And food is definitely cheaper, so much cheaper. Not even ballpark. I don't know how you found a single meal that was even comparable in cost unless going to the tourist zone in SJDS where it is specifically priced for people who didn't shop around for quality or price. That's gringo priced and not Nicaraguan prices at all. In anywhere, even Granada, you can't possibly spend as much as cheap American restaurant prices.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog everything you're saying, we will have to agree to disagree. Yes, you spend less on electricity but that's because you use a lot less. You're not using air conditioner in your house, whereas if you lived in America at the same temperatures, your air conditioner would definitely be on. but here if you ran your air conditioner like you did in the states, you're electricity. bill would be astronomical. as far as gas goes, it depends completely on your lifestyle and your location of living. maybe your lifestyle is conditional to not much driving, but that does not mean that everyone lives the same lifestyle you do. and the fact of the matter is that gas is extremely more expensive per gallon there than in the states. now. maybe you don't drive so you won't use as much gas. but that does not change the fact that gas is extremely more expensive. almost double places in the states. and the food aspect is totally upon your ability to adjust your pallet to the Nicaragua culture. most greengos I know like to shop at La Colonia and we all know that La Colonia is extremely expensive. Yes, if you're more comfortable with your Spanish, more comfort with the culture and want to get deeper into Nicaragua you can go to the markets and find food for much cheaper, but those places are much crazier and the typical gringo would rather the experience of la colonia. let's not even start to get into the prices of electronics like laptops and telephones or even to talk about the prices of cars. All of these things are extremely more expensive in Nicaragua. outsider should also know that Nicaragua can be an extremely dangerous place for people to travel alone. I recommend if anyone is to go to Nicaragua that they should go in a group or with people. safety in numbers , stick to the more touristy areas for safety ,especially in a place like Nicaragua. and I'm not talking about physical attacks.
@@ThunderWarrior77 "Nicaragua. outsider should also know that Nicaragua can be an extremely dangerous place for people to travel alone." - Have you ever been to Nicaragua? It's infinitely more safe than much of the USA. I am an ex-police officer (20 years and retired). I feel as if I am a pretty good authority on what is safe and what's not... Nicaragua is really a safe place to be. I have lived there for 2 years and have yet to have a time where I haven't felt safe. (I am legally allowed to carry a gun in the USA, but up until recently not in Nicaragua (I am now a resident)). I have no immediate plans of getting a firearm permit here. I don't feel a need.
As far as electricity rates and food rates, I haven't done a comparison, but I pay $380 per month for a 3-bedroom house. Security is $20 a month for the HOA. The water bill is $5.50/month and electricity is about $150/month and we run the AC constantly. (My electric bill in the USA was over $300/month.) And yes I shop at La Colonia. I don't like Nicaraguan food so I haven't adjusted my palette. I go out to eat all the time. I honestly don't know how much I spend each month in total but I would be surprised if for me and my wife if it was more than $1,500. Good luck doing that in most of the USA.
Yes, buying a computer is slightly more expensive, but other things like cell phones, etc... are very affordable here. Printers here are affordable.
So, something you need to buy every 4 or 5 years is more expensive, but almost everything else is so beyond cheap that it many times makes up for that extra expense.
I use a LOT more air conditioning here. You can say I use less, but I have a nine bedroom house here and use quite a bit of AC. Here it is year round, not just half the year, too.
All the things you are saying would make the US 1000% more expensive. Imagine if you told an American "oh, if you drive non-stop all day and don't adjust to anything American and only import European food" that it would be super expensive and then saying that the US is expensive. That's not how comparing costs works.
You can't reasonably find a way to live any kind of comparable lifestyle in Nicaragua that will cost the same or even close to that in the US. It's not even possible.
La Colonia is not expensive when compared to the US. It's very reasonable. It's more than the markets, but you don't need to go to the markets to crush food costs in the US. If you only shop at La Colonia, it's still way cheaper.
Nicaragua is NOT dangerous for someone traveling alone. Not in the least. Not even close to traveling in a group in the US.
And telling people to stick only to the most dangerous areas of the country, the tourist areas, isn't responsible. They aren't dangerous, compared to other places, but they are very dangerous compared to Nicaragua as a whole. Groups of tourists attract danger, specifically.
Also, there's no reasonable way to drive long distances in Nicaragua. Even if fuel was double the US cost (it is not) you drive slowly, with more fuel efficient vehicles, shorter distances. A casual commute in the US could use the same fuel as a full day crossing Nicaragua. We drive SO much more than normal people because of the work that we do, and we save a fortune in gas compared to the US. You are attempting to contrive a way to theoretically make Nicaragua "not super cheap", but it requires doing things that if you've visited Nicaragua you would know aren't reasonably even possible, and even if you did them, it wouldn't likely be MORE expensive, just not "as cheap."
Also, you missed that Nicaragua fuel isn't even available in the US. So that it is "more expensive" isn't really true. It's a higher octane rating for more fuel efficient vehicles. So unless you've accounted for that, your math is quite off.
Right, as Allen said, if you pay an extra $300 for a laptop once every few years, but eat for a $1000 less per month and pay $1000 less in rent... you pay for the difference in the laptop costs every few DAYS. Of course you "can find" individual shopping items that cost more. We say that all of the time. Of course you can't "copy a different country's lifestyle exactly" for cheap anywhere in the world, ever. You can't live exactly like a Nicaraguan in the US for any reasonably amount of money. You'd need seven figures or more to replicate my lifestyle here, for example. Easily. But when you look at the big expensive items, like shoping at La Colonia, going to restaurants, beer, rent, or electric, Nicaragua is SO much cheaper. There's nothing you can reasonably buy that would outweigh those cost advantages.
It's amazing. I like your shows. keep going and stay safe. I would like to get your email to contact you for some purpose if you don't mind.
Thanks. Email is on the RUclips page. ANd in the description. And in the video.