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We have a debate going on rightnow in the YouTube comments
about whether people looking toleave the us, Canada, and
Western Europe should go toLatin America or Southeast Asia.
We've looked extensively intoboth regions and for now we've
picked Latin America, but we'resuper excited to check out
Southeast Asia in some point.
In the near future.
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In this video, we are going tobe sharing our analysis of both
regions with pros and cons listsfor each.
Now, please note that we'retalking about 40 plus different
countries here, so we're goingto have to do some generalizing.
There's also quite a lot ofnuance, so for example, in both
regions you will find countriesthat are more safe than others.
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Speaking of nuance.
Uh, finding the right place torelocate to is actually a very
nuanced topic.
There is no one size fits allwhen you're looking to relocate
to another country, and we canhelp you decide which region
makes the most sense for you.
All you need to do is book aconsultation call.
Go to entrepreneurexpat.com/consult, and we can
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help you start making sense ofall of this based on what your
particular needs are.
So let's get into it.
Here are some of the pros ofLatin America.
Now one of my favorite prosbeing an aficionado of getting
second residencies and secondcitizenships.
I'm actually looking at anothertwo as well right now outside of
Mexico, but.
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In Latin America, it is mucheasier and a less expensive
process, and by expensive we wemean both in fees and also in
terms of the financialrequirements compared to
Southeast Asia.
One of the main reasons for thatis because Latin America, Mexico
in particular, tends to look atmore of your income instead of
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your assets.
So while in Southeast Asia, youmight be required to show a
significant amount of money inthe bank or in your investments.
In Mexico.
As long as you're showing thegovernment that you have enough
money to support yourself and tocontribute, you're pretty much
okay.
Along those same lines, anotherpro of Latin America is that you
can actually become anaturalized citizen in Latin
America and collect a passport.
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Now in Asia, unless you're goingto Cambodia, which it does have
a citizenship program inCambodia, it's nearly impossible
to become a citizen of an Asiancountry.
So Asia might be better for as aplace to live, or maybe a
long-term residency, althougheven the long-term residencies.
Are a little iffy, right?
In terms of how they work andhow much money is needed, and
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the renewals and all that kindof stuff.
In comparison to Latin America,typically you'll get a temporary
residency, then you'll get yourpermanent, then you become a
naturalized citizen in Mexico.
There are ways to speed up thatprocess.
We can do another video on that,on how you can qualify for
citizenship in two years inMexico instead of five.
If you would like that, let usknow in the comments below, but
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the point here being that inLatin America.
You can collect a passport, uh,and some pretty decent passports
too.
Mexico is a pretty decentpassport.
So is Argentina.
You can go to Russia on aMexican passport.
Yeah.
Without a visa you can.
Right.
And I think Japan as well.
Japan without a visa.
Um, I'm not sure about China.
I.
But, uh, at least Russia andJapan you can go with without a
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visa or license, like visa onentry or something like that.
Um, so Mexico's actually apretty good and decent passport
in a lot of ways.
Some people in this expat spaceactually say it's probably one
of the top passports, uh, in theworld based on their
qualifications and it's growing.
Yeah, a lot of the LatinAmerican passports, whether
that's Mexico, El Salvador, orother countries.
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If they're not already, they'regoing to start to to get much
higher up in the rankings interms of Columbia's gone higher
up in the rankings.
Yeah, things like that.
So if you're interested in asecond citizenship, that's
obviously a lot easier to do inLatin America.
It's damn near or impossible inSoutheast Asia.
Another pro of Latin America isthat Spanish is a lot easier to
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learn.
Some of you may have evenalready learned it in high
school or from your parents.
If, if you've got, uh, Latinorigins or perhaps.
Uh, you've studied it later onin life or you've traveled to
Latin America, you probably knowthat Spanish is not super
difficult of a language tolearn.
I became pretty fluent in abouttwo to three years while living
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in Columbia.
And if you're just trying tolearn conversational Spanish,
you can realistically do that inabout six or seven months from
my experience, especially whenyou're immersing yourself.
In another country, uh, versusif you're in Southeast Asia and
you're trying to learn Thai orVietnamese, you're typically
dealing with accent charactersor perhaps an entirely different
alphabet that you would need tolearn in addition to this, the,
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uh, spoken language.
So with Spanish, you don't haveto struggle as much.
And the other cool thing aboutSpanish is that it's so widely
spoken across.
The region, uh, other than a fewcountries in South America,
Spanish is pretty much thedefacto language.
So you learn that once and youcan live anywhere in Latin
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America.
And even if you go to Brazilwhere they speak Portuguese, you
can get by with Spanish prettyeasily, uh, in Brazil.
So it does open you up to a lotof countries.
To learn Spanish and it's mucheasier to learn.
Okay, next one.
This is super important forthose of you who run businesses.
This comes up all the time, andthis is probably one of our
deciding factors, same timezones in Latin America as the US
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and not super crazy time zonesfor Europe.
So for those of you.
Who have businesses and most ofyour clients are American or
Canadian or European, or youneed to be like on those
hours-ish, then Latin America isa lot easier.
Uh, one of the issues we havewith Southeast Asia is like,
okay, well if we're doing callsfor a business, we're doing
calls at like one in themorning.
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Nobody wants to do that.
Now that being said, uh, we dohave a business plan for
entrepreneur expat.
Where, for example, we, andYouTube is a big part of that,
where we can build in morepassive income.
So we wouldn't have to be doingcalls at one o'clock in the
morning when we decide to go toSoutheast Asia.
But, you know, that's a part ofthe plan and, and we're in
process for that.
But that's definitely a pro ofLatin America is same time
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zones.
If you need those four businesspurposes.
Another thing that expats loveabout Latin America is that
they're super easy flights backhome for business or family
reasons.
Now, if you're traveling back,let's say from Thailand, you
might be on a plane for 12 hoursor even.
Almost an entire day.
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If you've got connectingflights, depending on where in
the US it is you're trying tocome back to versus from Mexico,
from here to Miami or here to lait's only about a two to three
hour flight, either way.
Um, pretty accessible.
There's also a ton of directflights.
I.
You can fly to those places aswell as Dallas, Chicago, New
York, uh, and probably aboutanother five or six different
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cities from Guadalajara nonstopmost days of the week.
Versus if you're in Asia, you'realmost always gonna have to
connect unless maybe you'regoing from a major hub, uh,
perhaps Bangkok to la you couldfly direct.
There's, there's other routes todifferent countries depending on
how big the country is and, uh,where.
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In the US you're going, ifyou're on the West coast, you're
more likely, if you're trying tofly to the West coast, you're
more likely to get a nonstopflight from Asia, but it's still
gonna be expensive, and it'sstill gonna be a really long.
Flight Next is food quality inLatin America is excellent.
Now we have heard that foodquality in Southeast Asia can is
better than the United States.
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But that's not saying sayingmuch.
Yeah, that's not saying a wholelot.
And we have heard that the foodquality in Latin America tends
to be better than in Asia.
However, there is an area offood where Asia, uh, far
surpasses Latin America, butyou'll have to keep watching
this video to find out what thatis.
And another thing that's coolabout Latin America, if you
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really like to have niceweather, um, especially if
you're coming from one of thecolder places in North America,
is that you can pretty muchalways find good weather and
different climates to suit yourpreference.
So when people think of Mexico,traditionally, you might think
that it's a desert and there's.
There's, uh, those tumbleweedson the ground or beaches or
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jungle or just beaches orjungle.
But the reality is there areplaces in Mexico that actually
have snow.
I don't know if they're reallyknown for their ski resorts, but
you can definitely find snowcolder climates, uh, warmer cli
climates depending on the cityyou're in, depending on the
elevation and things like that.
So you can find things all theway from, let's say the east,
uh, Caribbean coast, where itcan get as high as a hundred
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degrees or more in the summerand super humid.
To, you know, when you're, whenyou're near the beach to
mountain climates where it's alot more temperate, like many
places in the US and even allthe way up to snowing in, in the
mountains, depending on how highup you get and the season.
So there's, there definitely canbe seasons here depending on
where you are.
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Here in Guadalajara, it's prettymuch temperate, nice weather all
year round.
A little on the warmer, sunnyside, but we like that.
Next, and this is a big one thata lot of you are concerned about
in Latin America.
Foreigners can own propertydepending on where it is, but
foreigners can own property inLatin America.
So if you're looking into realestate investments and things
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like that, it's gonna be alittle easier for you in Latin
America.
And there's also excellentprivate healthcare here in Latin
America.
And it's a lot cheaper than itis in the us.
Uh, doctors tend to be moreaccessible, spend a lot of time.
With you.
It's not just you're rushed inand out in 15 minutes.
There's really good qualityprivate healthcare in all the
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major cities and pretty solidhealthcare even in the, even in
the towns as well.
Yeah, Mexico alone makes upabout 40% of the world's health
and dental tourism.
I'm willing to bet Thailandmakes up the other portion of
it, or Malaysia or somethinglike that.
So in fairness, both regions areknown for having excellent
private healthcare.
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And in Latin America, there arelarge communities of foreigners,
uh, especially expats from yourcountry, like from the US or
Canada, just about wherever yougo, whether that's Mexico City,
Guadalajara, uh, lake Chapala,and some of the, the towns
around there like Ahah.
There's tons of expatcommunities pretty much all
over.
That can be a pro or a con, Iguess, depending on how you look
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at it.
Um, but you're, you'redefinitely not gonna find any
shortage of Americans here.
Now, the cons of Latin America,because it's not all flowers and
rainbows and glitter.
Anywhere in the world.
So the cons of Latin America,total lack of efficiency for
anything administrative,particularly if it's personal,
administrative things, thingsgetting your passport, a
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driver's license.
Uh, a bank account open, tryingto get your tax ID from the tax
authorities going toimmigration, you're spending
hours or days completing thosekinds of things.
Unfortunately, you don'tnecessarily have to do those
sorts of things all the time,but it is something to, you also
don't have to do them alone,particularly in Mexico.
You can have, uh, not evenattorneys, you could also have
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facilitators who don't have tobe attorneys in Mexico.
We can connect you with many ofthose, so if you're interested
in that, make sure to book thatconsultation below.
Another thing is some countrieslike Costa Rica, Panama, and
Ecuador are actually quiteexpensive.
In some cases, even asexpensive, depending on where
you are as some cities in the usUm, Mexico and Columbia are a
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little less expensive, but moreexpensive than Southeast Asia by
about double or more.
If you're comparing it tocountries like Vietnam.
So while you can save a littlebit of money in Latin America,
it might not be as much as youthink and not as much as you'd
save in many places in SoutheastAsia.
Next one is maybe a deal breakerfor some of you, which is Latin
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America is not as tax friendly.
As Southeast Asia.
In fact, it can be a tax hell inLatin America if you don't know
what you're doing.
Again, we have vettedaccountants, uh, in multiple
countries as well as in theUnited States who work with
expats that we can connect youto.
So book that console if you arelooking for them.
Absolutely.
And one thing that we hear a lotas well is safety.
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So safety is not nearly as badin our opinion in Mexico or or
many other countries in LatinAmerica as it is.
Uh, in the US media as, as faras how they portray it here, um,
it's actually a lot safer thanthe media in the US makes it out
to be because they're focusingon hotspots that do have a lot
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of gang violence or crimes, andthat's not representative of all
of Mexico or all of LatinAmerica.
And most expats are not gonna goto the areas that they talk
about in the US News.
It's not as safe as SoutheastAsia for sure, even though it's
much safer than a lot of placeswe've been to in the us.
And that's one of the things,uh, that we like about it is, is
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there is good safety here inMexico.
Um, and we, you don't have todeal with things like random
violence as much as you would inthe United States, but it's not
quite as safe as Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia tends to be very,very safe.
Okay.
So speaking of which, now let'sgo into the pros of Southeast
Asia.
We already talked about one ofthem, which is safety, but here
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are some others, uh, that we areadding to the list that we
haven't really talked about yet.
So, as we mentioned in the, theprevious list about the cons of
Latin America, this is a pro ofSoutheast Asia, which is there's
a much lower cost of livingcompared to Latin America.
So in countries like Vietnam,you can rent.
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An apartment in a nice touristyarea, not that far from the
beach for three or$400 permonth.
Maybe by the time that you watchthis video, that's not gonna be
true anymore because a lot ofthose countries are growing so
rapidly and increasing tourismand offering, uh, plans for
foreign investment that weren'tavailable in those countries
before.
But as of today, you're gonnasave a lot of money living in
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Vietnam, living in evenThailand, Cambodia, uh, so many
other places versus, or may,maybe Bali, Indonesia, uh,
versus living in Latin America.
Because Latin America is soclose in proximity to the US and
Canada, they have been gettingmore and more tourism over the
years as well as more and moreexpats because of their
proximity and also because ofthe expat friendly immigration
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regulations that they've had.
Next is safety Southeast Asiaand Asia in general is known for
pretty being pretty safe,definitely in comparison to
Latin America.
Although as always, there aresome countries that are safer
than others.
Okay.
Now, one pro, and I'm a big fanof this, of Southeast Asia, is
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the Asian food.
Now, you don't necessarily go toBangkok to order pad Thai.
That's really a dish that wascreated to appeal to the, to the
slightly less, um, spicy lovingAmerican palate.
But you talk about curries, youtalk about a lot of the other
traditional dishes, the FA inin, in Vietnam, and so many of
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the other things that they havethat.
I mean, I, I love Asian food.
I got a pretty good taste of itin the Bay Area and in la, in
California.
But there's nothing like beingin Asia, and that's why we're
looking forward to visiting inthe next year or two because
we're big foodies.
We love the food in LatinAmerica.
I.
But you really cannot find goodAsian food here.
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Unfortunately, that might bechanging a little bit in Mexico
because there are a lot ofpeople from Asia moving to
Mexico, but it hasn't quite hityet.
So we still haven't found reallygood Asian food, uh, anywhere in
Latin America.
So definitely a con.
We do miss the Asian food.
Another pro of Southeast Asia isthe better banking here in
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Mexico.
It's difficult to open a bankaccount, especially for
foreigners.
You don't have very goodcustomer service.
You don't have very goodprotection of your money in a
lot of cases either.
Like they don't have the sametype of debit card protection,
let's say, as you would in theUS versus Southeast Asia tends
to have a lot more consumerprotections in the banking.
Space, they make it easier tobank, they're more friendly.
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And Asia, Singapore specificallyhas like the best banks in the
whole world.
They're known for being thesafest banks, uh, in the whole
world.
So generally speaking, thatregion does have to have, does
tend to have better bankingoptions, at least.
Definitely like the Singaporesand the Malaysias and stuff like
that.
And we also have heard that theinfrastructure in Southeast Asia
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on an average basis is muchbetter than that in Latin
America.
Now I've lived all throughoutLatin America, including in
Columbia, and I visited, uh,Panama as well and kind of just
been all over the place here,and it's gotten better over the
last decade for sure.
But especially in small towns,it tends to be a little hit or
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miss in terms of if you're gonnabe able to get really, really
solid infrastructure.
Now, you can always use thingslike starlink as a backup, but
when we're talking about theaverage internet, I'll, I'll
give you one example, and thisdoesn't even have to do with the
infrastructure per se.
It almost has more to do with,with the culture, um, in terms
of people working remotely and,and things like that.
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But when you go to a randomcafe, even in Guadalajara, they
just don't have their shittogether as far as.
The wifi, like even though theymight have a good ISP, um, they
don't think about puttingmultiple hotspots and things
like that.
I would say that from what we'veheard, especially in tourist.
Uh, areas like Bali or likeBangkok, they tend to think more
about your experience as far asthe infrastructure, making sure
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you've got a good wificonnection at a cafe and things
like that.
Southeast Asia does tend to havebetter infrastructure overall.
Another thing Asia is known foris better housing.
Now that does not mean that thehousing in Latin America is
awful.
Uh, sometimes people will hearabout Asia or Latin America or
Africa.
Africa.
They think people live in mudHuts, uh, which is not true.
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In Latin America, they thinkpeople live, I don't know, with
like banana leaves on the roofor something.
I have no idea.
We will get wild comments.
And in Asia, they also thinkthey live in huts.
Um, sometimes like that is nottrue in any of these regions.
But what we do mean by betterhousing is that in Southeast
Asia, you're definitely gonnafind a lot more modern.
You're gonna find a lot moreluxury In Southeast Asia.
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It is changing, at least fromwhat we're seeing here in
Mexico.
I mean, there's new buildingsgoing up all the time and they
are focusing on more modern.
And more luxury in a lot ofthese buildings.
But you know, Southeast Asia isfamous for being able to have a
luxurious lifestyle and housing,and that was all the high rises
and nice views of the ocean.
Yeah.
And, and all that.
It's not as common here.
Here it's a little bit moretraditional infrastructure.
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The houses are probably older,on average, at least here in
Mexico.
I think our house is about 50 or60 years old.
Yeah.
Next, um, is excellent privatehealthcare in Southeast Asia.
Thailand is famous for it.
Malaysia is famous for it.
So in that sense, they're kindof, uh, on par in terms of
healthcare.
There are areas in SoutheastAsia that are famous for their
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healthcare.
There's areas in Latin America,like Mexico that are famous for
their healthcare.
So in that case it's, it's adraw.
They both have good healthcareand they both also have large
communities of foreigners,digital nomads.
Um, you know, uh, internationalcrowd, both regions of the world
tend to have that because bothregions of the world are, you
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know, very well known to expatsand global citizens.
Now let's talk about some of thecons of Southeast Asia.
So number one, it tends to be alittle bit more difficult to
integrate into the culture.
Now, of course, here in Mexico,Amanda has a little bit more of
a, of an added benefit than Ido, and the fact that she is
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Latina and her family is fromCuba.
And so there's a lot more incommon in terms of the culture,
let's say, than me beingAmerican and Ukrainian being in
Mexico.
But even with that said, I'vefound it, especially with
learning the language and, andtalking to people in the local
language, it's just been a loteasier to integrate into the
local culture, make friends.
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They tend to also have muchsimilar, uh, much more similar
culture cultures in LatinAmerica than they do.
In Asia, it's less of a cultureshock.
It's less of a culture shock,and that's why they say that
Latin America might be a littlebit more of a soft landing than
Southeast Asia might be.
So it's more difficult tointegrate in Southeast Asia.
And it's uh, related to that thelanguages are a lot harder to
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learn.
Like we mentioned the pros ofLatin America, Spanish is a lot
easier to learn than many of thelanguages, and it's also much
more widely spoken and universalversus you go to Southeast Asia
and you're talking about.
So many different languagesacross Asia.
You've got Chinese, you've gotJapanese, uh, and then going
specifically to Southeast Asia,you've got Thai, you've got Viet
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and Vietnam, and uh, Indonesian,right?
You've got all of thesedifferent languages.
So unless you're planning onspending a bunch of time in a
single country and learning thatlanguage, uh, for a number of
years, which.
Some people might not wanna doif they can't get those, uh,
extended residencies right away.
Like, why are you gonna go to acountry that you may only be
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able to stay in for 90 days at atime and invest the time in
learning the local language?
I.
To then have to go and move andtravel somewhere else.
So that's another con is thatthe language languages are much
more difficult to learn.
We talked about this one timezones totally opposite in
Southeast Asia.
So if you have any, if you haveto be like on American or
European business hours,Southeast Asia is basically
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outta the question.
'cause you're going to be onlike this totally reverse.
Schedule that's going to make itpretty difficult.
We also mentioned qualifying forresidency often requires a lot
more money.
Um, and it's also not usuallylike a permanent residency like
Malaysia, you can get apermanent residency by buying,
um, real estate and depositingmoney in a bank account.
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But for example, with Thailand,it's almost like a membership
program, the way that theresidency works.
And then you keep.
Uh, renewing it every few years.
Vietnam doesn't even have aresidency program, but they are
making some changes to that.
We did a video about thatrecently, whereas in Latin
America, it's prettystraightforward.
It's like, do you have money?
Some countries will ask for abackground check, maybe put a
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little bit of money in a bankand you're done.
And you can turn that temporaryinto a permanent, the permanent
into a citizenship.
So like Amanda mentioned, it'svery difficult to get
citizenship.
But in addition to that, ifyou're looking to.
By property in Mexico and othercountries.
In Latin America, it's quiteeasy.
Foreigners generally can ownproperty with some exceptions,
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but in Southeast Asia, best casescenario, you're talking about a
long-term lease.
Even if you quote unquote buythe property, you're not
generally owning the land underthe property and you have a
lease that you have to renewsubject to certain conditions.
Um, they're doing that becausethey're trying to keep most of
the property in the hands of.
Locals, which makes sense, butit does make our lives as expats
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a little bit more difficult.
In certain countries likeMalaysia, they are giving you
long-term residence if you buyproperty and allowing foreigners
to own property outright, butthat's really more of the
exception rather than the rule.
Okay, next con of SoutheastAsia.
For some of you, again, this isa deal breaker depending on
what's going on.
Very long haul flights to get toand from.
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United States, Canada, andEurope.
I mean, we're, we're talking, Idon't know.
I've seen some people travelingfor 24 hours straight.
Yeah.
If you've got connections andlayover time, absolutely.
It can get tricky.
And the final one, which couldbe a pro or a con, depending on
the person, is that SoutheastAsia tends to just be hot and
humid throughout all ofSoutheast Asia.
There are some places likeperhaps maybe C Ang Mai in
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Thailand, which is a littlecooler, or Hanoi in Vietnam is
also a little bit cooler.
But generally speaking, you'relooking at hot and humid.
And even in the cooler placesyou might be looking at more
extreme summers and things likethat.
Uh, that could be a pro or a condepending on the person.
I mean, if you like humidity,they say it's really good for
your skin and it keeps youlooking young.
Um, and again, it depends on, itcould depend on health issues
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and, and things like that.
Which actually, I forgot to addthis as a con to Southeast Asia,
which I.
Could also be a problem in LatinAmerica.
But in Latin America, you havemore options.
There's a lot more airpollution, especially in the big
cities in Southeast Asia.
It's Asia really, really bad.
Yeah.
Like it's kind of bad in, uh,Mexico.
Like Mexico City's horrible forair pollution.
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Guha is not great.
Um, but Gua hot is still rankshigher than a lot of cities.
In Southeast Asia, and again, inLatin America, you have a lot
more options in terms of cities.
Um, and some aren't going to beas bad with the air pollution as
others.
But in Southeast Asia, the airpollution, the burn season, all
that stuff tends to be reallyhorrendous.
So for those of you who perhapshave asthma or sort some sort of
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health concern where airpollution is a problem, uh, you
can forget the cities inSoutheast Asia.
Maybe you're looking more atlike islands and things like
that.
But that is a con that I forgotto put.
On this list, both regions, asyou've heard, have their own
pros and cons, and obviouslythis is not an exhaustive list
and I'm sure a lot of you willsay, Hey, but this country
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We have a debate going on rightnow in the YouTube comments
about whether people looking toleave the us, Canada, and
Western Europe should go toLatin America or Southeast Asia.
We've looked extensively intoboth regions and for now we've
picked Latin America, but we'resuper excited to check out
Southeast Asia in some point.
In the near future.
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In this video, we are going tobe sharing our analysis of both
regions with pros and cons listsfor each.
Now, please note that we'retalking about 40 plus different
countries here, so we're goingto have to do some generalizing.
There's also quite a lot ofnuance, so for example, in both
regions you will find countriesthat are more safe than others.
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Speaking of nuance.
Uh, finding the right place torelocate to is actually a very
nuanced topic.
There is no one size fits allwhen you're looking to relocate
to another country, and we canhelp you decide which region
makes the most sense for you.
All you need to do is book aconsultation call.
Go to entrepreneurexpat.com/consult, and we can
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help you start making sense ofall of this based on what your
particular needs are.
So let's get into it.
Here are some of the pros ofLatin America.
Now one of my favorite prosbeing an aficionado of getting
second residencies and secondcitizenships.
I'm actually looking at anothertwo as well right now outside of
Mexico, but.
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In Latin America, it is mucheasier and a less expensive
process, and by expensive we wemean both in fees and also in
terms of the financialrequirements compared to
Southeast Asia.
One of the main reasons for thatis because Latin America, Mexico
in particular, tends to look atmore of your income instead of
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your assets.
So while in Southeast Asia, youmight be required to show a
significant amount of money inthe bank or in your investments.
In Mexico.
As long as you're showing thegovernment that you have enough
money to support yourself and tocontribute, you're pretty much
okay.
Along those same lines, anotherpro of Latin America is that you
can actually become anaturalized citizen in Latin
America and collect a passport.
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Now in Asia, unless you're goingto Cambodia, which it does have
a citizenship program inCambodia, it's nearly impossible
to become a citizen of an Asiancountry.
So Asia might be better for as aplace to live, or maybe a
long-term residency, althougheven the long-term residencies.
Are a little iffy, right?
In terms of how they work andhow much money is needed, and
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the renewals and all that kindof stuff.
In comparison to Latin America,typically you'll get a temporary
residency, then you'll get yourpermanent, then you become a
naturalized citizen in Mexico.
There are ways to speed up thatprocess.
We can do another video on that,on how you can qualify for
citizenship in two years inMexico instead of five.
If you would like that, let usknow in the comments below, but
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the point here being that inLatin America.
You can collect a passport, uh,and some pretty decent passports
too.
Mexico is a pretty decentpassport.
So is Argentina.
You can go to Russia on aMexican passport.
Yeah.
Without a visa you can.
Right.
And I think Japan as well.
Japan without a visa.
Um, I'm not sure about China.
I.
But, uh, at least Russia andJapan you can go with without a
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visa or license, like visa onentry or something like that.
Um, so Mexico's actually apretty good and decent passport
in a lot of ways.
Some people in this expat spaceactually say it's probably one
of the top passports, uh, in theworld based on their
qualifications and it's growing.
Yeah, a lot of the LatinAmerican passports, whether
that's Mexico, El Salvador, orother countries.
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If they're not already, they'regoing to start to to get much
higher up in the rankings interms of Columbia's gone higher
up in the rankings.
Yeah, things like that.
So if you're interested in asecond citizenship, that's
obviously a lot easier to do inLatin America.
It's damn near or impossible inSoutheast Asia.
Another pro of Latin America isthat Spanish is a lot easier to
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learn.
Some of you may have evenalready learned it in high
school or from your parents.
If, if you've got, uh, Latinorigins or perhaps.
Uh, you've studied it later onin life or you've traveled to
Latin America, you probably knowthat Spanish is not super
difficult of a language tolearn.
I became pretty fluent in abouttwo to three years while living
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in Columbia.
And if you're just trying tolearn conversational Spanish,
you can realistically do that inabout six or seven months from
my experience, especially whenyou're immersing yourself.
In another country, uh, versusif you're in Southeast Asia and
you're trying to learn Thai orVietnamese, you're typically
dealing with accent charactersor perhaps an entirely different
alphabet that you would need tolearn in addition to this, the,
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uh, spoken language.
So with Spanish, you don't haveto struggle as much.
And the other cool thing aboutSpanish is that it's so widely
spoken across.
The region, uh, other than a fewcountries in South America,
Spanish is pretty much thedefacto language.
So you learn that once and youcan live anywhere in Latin
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America.
And even if you go to Brazilwhere they speak Portuguese, you
can get by with Spanish prettyeasily, uh, in Brazil.
So it does open you up to a lotof countries.
To learn Spanish and it's mucheasier to learn.
Okay, next one.
This is super important forthose of you who run businesses.
This comes up all the time, andthis is probably one of our
deciding factors, same timezones in Latin America as the US
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and not super crazy time zonesfor Europe.
So for those of you.
Who have businesses and most ofyour clients are American or
Canadian or European, or youneed to be like on those
hours-ish, then Latin America isa lot easier.
Uh, one of the issues we havewith Southeast Asia is like,
okay, well if we're doing callsfor a business, we're doing
calls at like one in themorning.
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Nobody wants to do that.
Now that being said, uh, we dohave a business plan for
entrepreneur expat.
Where, for example, we, andYouTube is a big part of that,
where we can build in morepassive income.
So we wouldn't have to be doingcalls at one o'clock in the
morning when we decide to go toSoutheast Asia.
But, you know, that's a part ofthe plan and, and we're in
process for that.
But that's definitely a pro ofLatin America is same time
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zones.
If you need those four businesspurposes.
Another thing that expats loveabout Latin America is that
they're super easy flights backhome for business or family
reasons.
Now, if you're traveling back,let's say from Thailand, you
might be on a plane for 12 hoursor even.
Almost an entire day.
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If you've got connectingflights, depending on where in
the US it is you're trying tocome back to versus from Mexico,
from here to Miami or here to lait's only about a two to three
hour flight, either way.
Um, pretty accessible.
There's also a ton of directflights.
I.
You can fly to those places aswell as Dallas, Chicago, New
York, uh, and probably aboutanother five or six different
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cities from Guadalajara nonstopmost days of the week.
Versus if you're in Asia, you'realmost always gonna have to
connect unless maybe you'regoing from a major hub, uh,
perhaps Bangkok to la you couldfly direct.
There's, there's other routes todifferent countries depending on
how big the country is and, uh,where.
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In the US you're going, ifyou're on the West coast, you're
more likely, if you're trying tofly to the West coast, you're
more likely to get a nonstopflight from Asia, but it's still
gonna be expensive, and it'sstill gonna be a really long.
Flight Next is food quality inLatin America is excellent.
Now we have heard that foodquality in Southeast Asia can is
better than the United States.
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But that's not saying sayingmuch.
Yeah, that's not saying a wholelot.
And we have heard that the foodquality in Latin America tends
to be better than in Asia.
However, there is an area offood where Asia, uh, far
surpasses Latin America, butyou'll have to keep watching
this video to find out what thatis.
And another thing that's coolabout Latin America, if you
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really like to have niceweather, um, especially if
you're coming from one of thecolder places in North America,
is that you can pretty muchalways find good weather and
different climates to suit yourpreference.
So when people think of Mexico,traditionally, you might think
that it's a desert and there's.
There's, uh, those tumbleweedson the ground or beaches or
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jungle or just beaches orjungle.
But the reality is there areplaces in Mexico that actually
have snow.
I don't know if they're reallyknown for their ski resorts, but
you can definitely find snowcolder climates, uh, warmer cli
climates depending on the cityyou're in, depending on the
elevation and things like that.
So you can find things all theway from, let's say the east,
uh, Caribbean coast, where itcan get as high as a hundred
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degrees or more in the summerand super humid.
To, you know, when you're, whenyou're near the beach to
mountain climates where it's alot more temperate, like many
places in the US and even allthe way up to snowing in, in the
mountains, depending on how highup you get and the season.
So there's, there definitely canbe seasons here depending on
where you are.
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Here in Guadalajara, it's prettymuch temperate, nice weather all
year round.
A little on the warmer, sunnyside, but we like that.
Next, and this is a big one thata lot of you are concerned about
in Latin America.
Foreigners can own propertydepending on where it is, but
foreigners can own property inLatin America.
So if you're looking into realestate investments and things
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like that, it's gonna be alittle easier for you in Latin
America.
And there's also excellentprivate healthcare here in Latin
America.
And it's a lot cheaper than itis in the us.
Uh, doctors tend to be moreaccessible, spend a lot of time.
With you.
It's not just you're rushed inand out in 15 minutes.
There's really good qualityprivate healthcare in all the
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major cities and pretty solidhealthcare even in the, even in
the towns as well.
Yeah, Mexico alone makes upabout 40% of the world's health
and dental tourism.
I'm willing to bet Thailandmakes up the other portion of
it, or Malaysia or somethinglike that.
So in fairness, both regions areknown for having excellent
private healthcare.
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And in Latin America, there arelarge communities of foreigners,
uh, especially expats from yourcountry, like from the US or
Canada, just about wherever yougo, whether that's Mexico City,
Guadalajara, uh, lake Chapala,and some of the, the towns
around there like Ahah.
There's tons of expatcommunities pretty much all
over.
That can be a pro or a con, Iguess, depending on how you look
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at it.
Um, but you're, you'redefinitely not gonna find any
shortage of Americans here.
Now, the cons of Latin America,because it's not all flowers and
rainbows and glitter.
Anywhere in the world.
So the cons of Latin America,total lack of efficiency for
anything administrative,particularly if it's personal,
administrative things, thingsgetting your passport, a
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driver's license.
Uh, a bank account open, tryingto get your tax ID from the tax
authorities going toimmigration, you're spending
hours or days completing thosekinds of things.
Unfortunately, you don'tnecessarily have to do those
sorts of things all the time,but it is something to, you also
don't have to do them alone,particularly in Mexico.
You can have, uh, not evenattorneys, you could also have
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facilitators who don't have tobe attorneys in Mexico.
We can connect you with many ofthose, so if you're interested
in that, make sure to book thatconsultation below.
Another thing is some countrieslike Costa Rica, Panama, and
Ecuador are actually quiteexpensive.
In some cases, even asexpensive, depending on where
you are as some cities in the usUm, Mexico and Columbia are a
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little less expensive, but moreexpensive than Southeast Asia by
about double or more.
If you're comparing it tocountries like Vietnam.
So while you can save a littlebit of money in Latin America,
it might not be as much as youthink and not as much as you'd
save in many places in SoutheastAsia.
Next one is maybe a deal breakerfor some of you, which is Latin
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America is not as tax friendly.
As Southeast Asia.
In fact, it can be a tax hell inLatin America if you don't know
what you're doing.
Again, we have vettedaccountants, uh, in multiple
countries as well as in theUnited States who work with
expats that we can connect youto.
So book that console if you arelooking for them.
Absolutely.
And one thing that we hear a lotas well is safety.
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So safety is not nearly as badin our opinion in Mexico or or
many other countries in LatinAmerica as it is.
Uh, in the US media as, as faras how they portray it here, um,
it's actually a lot safer thanthe media in the US makes it out
to be because they're focusingon hotspots that do have a lot
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of gang violence or crimes, andthat's not representative of all
of Mexico or all of LatinAmerica.
And most expats are not gonna goto the areas that they talk
about in the US News.
It's not as safe as SoutheastAsia for sure, even though it's
much safer than a lot of placeswe've been to in the us.
And that's one of the things,uh, that we like about it is, is
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there is good safety here inMexico.
Um, and we, you don't have todeal with things like random
violence as much as you would inthe United States, but it's not
quite as safe as Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia tends to be very,very safe.
Okay.
So speaking of which, now let'sgo into the pros of Southeast
Asia.
We already talked about one ofthem, which is safety, but here
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are some others, uh, that we areadding to the list that we
haven't really talked about yet.
So, as we mentioned in the, theprevious list about the cons of
Latin America, this is a pro ofSoutheast Asia, which is there's
a much lower cost of livingcompared to Latin America.
So in countries like Vietnam,you can rent.
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An apartment in a nice touristyarea, not that far from the
beach for three or$400 permonth.
Maybe by the time that you watchthis video, that's not gonna be
true anymore because a lot ofthose countries are growing so
rapidly and increasing tourismand offering, uh, plans for
foreign investment that weren'tavailable in those countries
before.
But as of today, you're gonnasave a lot of money living in
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Vietnam, living in evenThailand, Cambodia, uh, so many
other places versus, or may,maybe Bali, Indonesia, uh,
versus living in Latin America.
Because Latin America is soclose in proximity to the US and
Canada, they have been gettingmore and more tourism over the
years as well as more and moreexpats because of their
proximity and also because ofthe expat friendly immigration
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regulations that they've had.
Next is safety Southeast Asiaand Asia in general is known for
pretty being pretty safe,definitely in comparison to
Latin America.
Although as always, there aresome countries that are safer
than others.
Okay.
Now, one pro, and I'm a big fanof this, of Southeast Asia, is
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the Asian food.
Now, you don't necessarily go toBangkok to order pad Thai.
That's really a dish that wascreated to appeal to the, to the
slightly less, um, spicy lovingAmerican palate.
But you talk about curries, youtalk about a lot of the other
traditional dishes, the FA inin, in Vietnam, and so many of
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the other things that they havethat.
I mean, I, I love Asian food.
I got a pretty good taste of itin the Bay Area and in la, in
California.
But there's nothing like beingin Asia, and that's why we're
looking forward to visiting inthe next year or two because
we're big foodies.
We love the food in LatinAmerica.
I.
But you really cannot find goodAsian food here.
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Unfortunately, that might bechanging a little bit in Mexico
because there are a lot ofpeople from Asia moving to
Mexico, but it hasn't quite hityet.
So we still haven't found reallygood Asian food, uh, anywhere in
Latin America.
So definitely a con.
We do miss the Asian food.
Another pro of Southeast Asia isthe better banking here in
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Mexico.
It's difficult to open a bankaccount, especially for
foreigners.
You don't have very goodcustomer service.
You don't have very goodprotection of your money in a
lot of cases either.
Like they don't have the sametype of debit card protection,
let's say, as you would in theUS versus Southeast Asia tends
to have a lot more consumerprotections in the banking.
Space, they make it easier tobank, they're more friendly.
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And Asia, Singapore specificallyhas like the best banks in the
whole world.
They're known for being thesafest banks, uh, in the whole
world.
So generally speaking, thatregion does have to have, does
tend to have better bankingoptions, at least.
Definitely like the Singaporesand the Malaysias and stuff like
that.
And we also have heard that theinfrastructure in Southeast Asia
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on an average basis is muchbetter than that in Latin
America.
Now I've lived all throughoutLatin America, including in
Columbia, and I visited, uh,Panama as well and kind of just
been all over the place here,and it's gotten better over the
last decade for sure.
But especially in small towns,it tends to be a little hit or
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miss in terms of if you're gonnabe able to get really, really
solid infrastructure.
Now, you can always use thingslike starlink as a backup, but
when we're talking about theaverage internet, I'll, I'll
give you one example, and thisdoesn't even have to do with the
infrastructure per se.
It almost has more to do with,with the culture, um, in terms
of people working remotely and,and things like that.
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But when you go to a randomcafe, even in Guadalajara, they
just don't have their shittogether as far as.
The wifi, like even though theymight have a good ISP, um, they
don't think about puttingmultiple hotspots and things
like that.
I would say that from what we'veheard, especially in tourist.
Uh, areas like Bali or likeBangkok, they tend to think more
about your experience as far asthe infrastructure, making sure
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you've got a good wificonnection at a cafe and things
like that.
Southeast Asia does tend to havebetter infrastructure overall.
Another thing Asia is known foris better housing.
Now that does not mean that thehousing in Latin America is
awful.
Uh, sometimes people will hearabout Asia or Latin America or
Africa.
Africa.
They think people live in mudHuts, uh, which is not true.
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In Latin America, they thinkpeople live, I don't know, with
like banana leaves on the roofor something.
I have no idea.
We will get wild comments.
And in Asia, they also thinkthey live in huts.
Um, sometimes like that is nottrue in any of these regions.
But what we do mean by betterhousing is that in Southeast
Asia, you're definitely gonnafind a lot more modern.
You're gonna find a lot moreluxury In Southeast Asia.
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It is changing, at least fromwhat we're seeing here in
Mexico.
I mean, there's new buildingsgoing up all the time and they
are focusing on more modern.
And more luxury in a lot ofthese buildings.
But you know, Southeast Asia isfamous for being able to have a
luxurious lifestyle and housing,and that was all the high rises
and nice views of the ocean.
Yeah.
And, and all that.
It's not as common here.
Here it's a little bit moretraditional infrastructure.
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The houses are probably older,on average, at least here in
Mexico.
I think our house is about 50 or60 years old.
Yeah.
Next, um, is excellent privatehealthcare in Southeast Asia.
Thailand is famous for it.
Malaysia is famous for it.
So in that sense, they're kindof, uh, on par in terms of
healthcare.
There are areas in SoutheastAsia that are famous for their
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healthcare.
There's areas in Latin America,like Mexico that are famous for
their healthcare.
So in that case it's, it's adraw.
They both have good healthcareand they both also have large
communities of foreigners,digital nomads.
Um, you know, uh, internationalcrowd, both regions of the world
tend to have that because bothregions of the world are, you
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know, very well known to expatsand global citizens.
Now let's talk about some of thecons of Southeast Asia.
So number one, it tends to be alittle bit more difficult to
integrate into the culture.
Now, of course, here in Mexico,Amanda has a little bit more of
a, of an added benefit than Ido, and the fact that she is
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Latina and her family is fromCuba.
And so there's a lot more incommon in terms of the culture,
let's say, than me beingAmerican and Ukrainian being in
Mexico.
But even with that said, I'vefound it, especially with
learning the language and, andtalking to people in the local
language, it's just been a loteasier to integrate into the
local culture, make friends.
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They tend to also have muchsimilar, uh, much more similar
culture cultures in LatinAmerica than they do.
In Asia, it's less of a cultureshock.
It's less of a culture shock,and that's why they say that
Latin America might be a littlebit more of a soft landing than
Southeast Asia might be.
So it's more difficult tointegrate in Southeast Asia.
And it's uh, related to that thelanguages are a lot harder to
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learn.
Like we mentioned the pros ofLatin America, Spanish is a lot
easier to learn than many of thelanguages, and it's also much
more widely spoken and universalversus you go to Southeast Asia
and you're talking about.
So many different languagesacross Asia.
You've got Chinese, you've gotJapanese, uh, and then going
specifically to Southeast Asia,you've got Thai, you've got Viet
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and Vietnam, and uh, Indonesian,right?
You've got all of thesedifferent languages.
So unless you're planning onspending a bunch of time in a
single country and learning thatlanguage, uh, for a number of
years, which.
Some people might not wanna doif they can't get those, uh,
extended residencies right away.
Like, why are you gonna go to acountry that you may only be
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able to stay in for 90 days at atime and invest the time in
learning the local language?
I.
To then have to go and move andtravel somewhere else.
So that's another con is thatthe language languages are much
more difficult to learn.
We talked about this one timezones totally opposite in
Southeast Asia.
So if you have any, if you haveto be like on American or
European business hours,Southeast Asia is basically
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outta the question.
'cause you're going to be onlike this totally reverse.
Schedule that's going to make itpretty difficult.
We also mentioned qualifying forresidency often requires a lot
more money.
Um, and it's also not usuallylike a permanent residency like
Malaysia, you can get apermanent residency by buying,
um, real estate and depositingmoney in a bank account.
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But for example, with Thailand,it's almost like a membership
program, the way that theresidency works.
And then you keep.
Uh, renewing it every few years.
Vietnam doesn't even have aresidency program, but they are
making some changes to that.
We did a video about thatrecently, whereas in Latin
America, it's prettystraightforward.
It's like, do you have money?
Some countries will ask for abackground check, maybe put a
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little bit of money in a bankand you're done.
And you can turn that temporaryinto a permanent, the permanent
into a citizenship.
So like Amanda mentioned, it'svery difficult to get
citizenship.
But in addition to that, ifyou're looking to.
By property in Mexico and othercountries.
In Latin America, it's quiteeasy.
Foreigners generally can ownproperty with some exceptions,
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but in Southeast Asia, best casescenario, you're talking about a
long-term lease.
Even if you quote unquote buythe property, you're not
generally owning the land underthe property and you have a
lease that you have to renewsubject to certain conditions.
Um, they're doing that becausethey're trying to keep most of
the property in the hands of.
Locals, which makes sense, butit does make our lives as expats
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a little bit more difficult.
In certain countries likeMalaysia, they are giving you
long-term residence if you buyproperty and allowing foreigners
to own property outright, butthat's really more of the
exception rather than the rule.
Okay, next con of SoutheastAsia.
For some of you, again, this isa deal breaker depending on
what's going on.
Very long haul flights to get toand from.
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United States, Canada, andEurope.
I mean, we're, we're talking, Idon't know.
I've seen some people travelingfor 24 hours straight.
Yeah.
If you've got connections andlayover time, absolutely.
It can get tricky.
And the final one, which couldbe a pro or a con, depending on
the person, is that SoutheastAsia tends to just be hot and
humid throughout all ofSoutheast Asia.
There are some places likeperhaps maybe C Ang Mai in
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Thailand, which is a littlecooler, or Hanoi in Vietnam is
also a little bit cooler.
But generally speaking, you'relooking at hot and humid.
And even in the cooler placesyou might be looking at more
extreme summers and things likethat.
Uh, that could be a pro or a condepending on the person.
I mean, if you like humidity,they say it's really good for
your skin and it keeps youlooking young.
Um, and again, it depends on, itcould depend on health issues
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and, and things like that.
Which actually, I forgot to addthis as a con to Southeast Asia,
which I.
Could also be a problem in LatinAmerica.
But in Latin America, you havemore options.
There's a lot more airpollution, especially in the big
cities in Southeast Asia.
It's Asia really, really bad.
Yeah.
Like it's kind of bad in, uh,Mexico.
Like Mexico City's horrible forair pollution.
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Guha is not great.
Um, but Gua hot is still rankshigher than a lot of cities.
In Southeast Asia, and again, inLatin America, you have a lot
more options in terms of cities.
Um, and some aren't going to beas bad with the air pollution as
others.
But in Southeast Asia, the airpollution, the burn season, all
that stuff tends to be reallyhorrendous.
So for those of you who perhapshave asthma or sort some sort of
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health concern where airpollution is a problem, uh, you
can forget the cities inSoutheast Asia.
Maybe you're looking more atlike islands and things like
that.
But that is a con that I forgotto put.
On this list, both regions, asyou've heard, have their own
pros and cons, and obviouslythis is not an exhaustive list
and I'm sure a lot of you willsay, Hey, but this country
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doesn't fit in the mold of whatyou've said.
And, and absolutely this doesn'tapply a hundred percent across
the board.
We're totally generalizing here.
If you've got any, any feedbackor maybe any outliers, feel free
to share those in the comments.
Like, Hey, I think that thiscountry actually, um, doesn't
necessarily follow that thingthat you said.
We'd love to hear about itbecause we're always looking.
To learn more about thosedifferent countries in these two
(25:37):
regions.
So based on the list, which onewould you pick?
Let us know in the commentswhich one you like better and
why does Mexico and LatinAmerica perhaps win?
Or do countries like Vietnam andThailand and Southeast Asia seem
to tickle your fancy a littlebit more?
Just let us know.
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