Excellent video topic. Once we finish the importation of our truck, which financially makes no sense, we will meet up here in Leon. My personal importation went well. Permanent residency , for six months at a time, completed in less than 3 weeks. Back on topic, contacting your local Nicaraguan consulate or embassy prior to immigration, is invaluable for getting the maximum amount of personal household goods imported duty free. Especially if you are a Nicaraguan repatriating or retiring here.
The argument that "they should be happy that I'm coming to spend money in their country" reminds me of people who go to casino hotels and complain about paying 10 bucks for parking. I've been in the company of people who will unrepentantly drop 1500 dollars into a slot machine, but be cheap when tipping a server. Point is, if it's really "no big deal" and you're going to spend so much money in country to help the economy, paying a fair amount to import a good shouldn't be a problem.
I think part of it must be that when someone starts to feel rich, they start to feel entitled. "I'm rich, so I shouldn't have to pay." That's a crazy Americanism. Nowhere else in the world do we expect to get rich and THEN get freebies.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog I wrestled in my mind with this one and I think you're right about entitlement. Also, there is resistance by some people to give anything to "little people". Meaning, they have no problem giving to a big institution, someone they judge to be "successful" etc, but somewhere in the psyche it bothers them to think someone unworthy is getting their money. Taylor Swift tickets for 2 grand? Why not. Buy some girl scout cookies? "I didn't bring any cash". That is about as much sense as I've been able to make about that peculiarity of human behavior.
I have a very random question to ask. I will be traveling to Nicaragua later this week. Can you tell me what's the most amount of cordovas I can take out from an ATM. The last time I was there, I ran into so many issues. I just ended up taking it out in dollars.
What about the business equipment that I would use as a Nomad capitalist? Are fast desktops available there powerful enough for CAD applications? Can I write off those expenses for business goods purchased there for work done for my customers in North America?
You're ability to write off expenses depends on what country you are from, not what country you are in. Americans can write off any business expenses anywhere in the world. I don't know about taxes for other countries. We choose to bring in business equipment that we need and pay taxes on it (when applicable, which is about 10% of the time.) It's an itty bitty fee to pay for a hugely more profitable life. $500 of taxes is nothing when you are saving $5,000 every month, lol. You CAN get anything here, but likely they will just buy it in the US and ship it in the same as you, but they'll charge you for doing it. Just do it yourself and get exactly what you need. I moved to more expensive, but non-taxed Mac laptops. I'd rather put the money into more powerful gear than taxes. Might not work for CAD, but a super powerful laptop will never get taxed, but a big desktop might. So that's a balancing act that I do. But at the end of the day, worst case scenario is just pay the import fee and get what you want. Life is so cheap here, there has to be SOMETHING that isn't perfect.
Once I have a car that can cross the border I expect to be up there quite often. For me it is literally just one departmento away! But I can only make so much content. It'll be on here.
Scott - I googled How Much Cash Should You Bring When Traveling to Nicaragua and if scroll down to questions and answers your video shows up!
Nice!
Excellent video topic. Once we finish the importation of our truck, which financially makes no sense, we will meet up here in Leon. My personal importation went well. Permanent residency , for six months at a time, completed in less than 3 weeks. Back on topic, contacting your local Nicaraguan consulate or embassy prior to immigration, is invaluable for getting the maximum amount of personal household goods imported duty free. Especially if you are a Nicaraguan repatriating or retiring here.
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The argument that "they should be happy that I'm coming to spend money in their country" reminds me of people who go to casino hotels and complain about paying 10 bucks for parking.
I've been in the company of people who will unrepentantly drop 1500 dollars into a slot machine, but be cheap when tipping a server.
Point is, if it's really "no big deal" and you're going to spend so much money in country to help the economy, paying a fair amount to import a good shouldn't be a problem.
Right. There is a definitely disconnect when someone says "they should like me for my money" immediately following "they'll never get my money!"
I think part of it must be that when someone starts to feel rich, they start to feel entitled. "I'm rich, so I shouldn't have to pay." That's a crazy Americanism. Nowhere else in the world do we expect to get rich and THEN get freebies.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog I wrestled in my mind with this one and I think you're right about entitlement. Also, there is resistance by some people to give anything to "little people".
Meaning, they have no problem giving to a big institution, someone they judge to be "successful" etc, but somewhere in the psyche it bothers them to think someone unworthy is getting their money.
Taylor Swift tickets for 2 grand? Why not. Buy some girl scout cookies? "I didn't bring any cash".
That is about as much sense as I've been able to make about that peculiarity of human behavior.
I have a very random question to ask. I will be traveling to Nicaragua later this week. Can you tell me what's the most amount of cordovas I can take out from an ATM. The last time I was there, I ran into so many issues. I just ended up taking it out in dollars.
I answer this in today's video!
What about the business equipment that I would use as a Nomad capitalist? Are fast desktops available there powerful enough for CAD applications? Can I write off those expenses for business goods purchased there for work done for my customers in North America?
You're ability to write off expenses depends on what country you are from, not what country you are in. Americans can write off any business expenses anywhere in the world. I don't know about taxes for other countries.
We choose to bring in business equipment that we need and pay taxes on it (when applicable, which is about 10% of the time.) It's an itty bitty fee to pay for a hugely more profitable life. $500 of taxes is nothing when you are saving $5,000 every month, lol.
You CAN get anything here, but likely they will just buy it in the US and ship it in the same as you, but they'll charge you for doing it. Just do it yourself and get exactly what you need.
I moved to more expensive, but non-taxed Mac laptops. I'd rather put the money into more powerful gear than taxes. Might not work for CAD, but a super powerful laptop will never get taxed, but a big desktop might. So that's a balancing act that I do. But at the end of the day, worst case scenario is just pay the import fee and get what you want. Life is so cheap here, there has to be SOMETHING that isn't perfect.
Could you open another channel and start some El Salvador content?
Once I have a car that can cross the border I expect to be up there quite often. For me it is literally just one departmento away! But I can only make so much content. It'll be on here.