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Justin Keltner (00:00):
When you think of Mexico, you might think of
(00:02):
the popular beach resorts inCancun, the hustle and bustle of
Mexico City, or the, quote,informal economy of Tijuana.
And you might just miss one ofthe hidden gems of this country,
a place that we currently callhome, Guadalajara.
Guadalajara, Mexico, is thesecond largest city of this
country, and is known for itsrich culture, beautiful
architecture, Friendly peopleand cosmopolitan vibe.
(00:25):
There are so many things to doand so many places to explore
that you're never going to getbored.
But, unlike many other cities,in most neighborhoods here, you
feel like you're in a muchsmaller place.
Not a city with over 5 millionpeople.
In this episode, we're going totalk to you about our favorite
things about living inGuadalajara.
Amanda Abella (00:44):
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Justin Keltner (01:23):
So let's get to the first reason that we
absolutely love living inGuadalajara, and that is that
you can have a very high qualityof life at a fraction of the
cost.
The price as other cities in theworld, especially if you're
coming from the U S or Canada.
Now, contrary to popular beliefthat Mexico is just a bunch of
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desert with tumbleweeds rollingaround and then Cabo and Cancun
on either side.
Um, there's actually a lot ofvery cool big cities in Mexico
as well.
And we think that they're reallyoverlooked.
Like a lot of people that,especially from the U S they
come to Mexico, Mexico.
They're like, yeah, we're justgoing to live on the beach.
They go to Puerto Vallarta ormaybe a smaller beach town like
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Sayulita or Bucerias or Playadel Carmen or Tulum.
And I think they're missing outon a big part of the, the
culture and the true Mexicanexperience.
Now, sure, there's a lot ofbeach towns that are a little
bit more local.
We've tried them.
We've done some videos aboutthem.
Not necessarily our vibe either,but there's really a lot of
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hidden gems here, includingGuadalajara that are big cities
and the quality of life you havehere is very, very high.
I mean, we've got a lot ofconveniences that we, we take
advantage of every single daywhere we're at in the
neighborhood called Chapalita,you can walk to grocery stores,
corner stores.
You can walk to the barber shop,the nail salon, the hair salon.
Uh, you can walk to doctors andspecialists and restaurants and
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what else?
So many other things.
Amanda Abella (02:51):
Yeah, there's always something going on in the
city and basically that's whathaving a high quality of life is
like.
Things are a little bit moreslower here than perhaps Mexico
City, so you still get like thatbig city pace without the big
city chaos, which is one of thethings that I like about
Guadalajara, and basically it'sgeo arbitrage.
for the win.
(03:12):
So what is geo arbitrage?
It's when you get paid in ahigher value currency, in this
case USD, because we're bothfrom the United States.
Most of our clients as of rightnow are American and Canadian,
although we do have people fromother countries who are now
watching this channel.
We're more than happy to workwith you guys as well.
And then you go live in a lowervalue currency, in this case,
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the Mexican peso.
There's so many differentcombinations of how you can do
this in terms of geo arbitrage.
That's just our currentcombination.
And, I mean, I'll give anexample because Lorena, who
helps us with the house, shehelps with the cleaning and the
cooking, she's here today, andwe'll send her to the local
shops to go grab food for us andcook for us for the week.
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She spent 17 today on meat,chicken, vegetables.
And another
Justin Keltner (04:00):
15 on other stuff that we needed at the
store.
Amanda Abella (04:03):
Yeah, and that 15 she'll make food for us for most
of the week.
So it's very high qualityliving, fraction of the price.
geo arbitrage for the win allthe way and that's one of the
reasons why we really likeGuadalajara as opposed to, for
example, Mexico City.
My mom was just telling me thisthe other day while we were
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catching up.
She follows some YouTubers whotravel a lot, they're living in
Mexico City, and she's like, I'mglad you guys are in Guadalajara
and not Mexico City because A.
Mexico City looks like purechaos, It is.
I don't know if you've evertried flying through Mexico
City, but it is pretty chaotic.
It's an amazing city, but it isa bit more chaotic than
Guadalajara.
In fact, a lot of people livingin Guadalajara are from Mexico
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City because they needed a breakfrom Mexico City.
But the other thing that shesaid was, you know, I was
watching these YouTubers andthey're saying they're, one of
them's from Argentina, the otherone's from Estonia, and she was
saying how their pay, the rentthat they're paying in Mexico
City was more expensive than therent in Estonia.
And immediately I was like,well, are they in Polanco or
(05:08):
Roma?
Because then they're gettinggringo price if they are in
those places.
So even in terms of even MexicoCity, you can save more money
here on things like rent thanperhaps you would be able to in
Mexico City.
Although if you're coming fromthe U S and Canada, Mexico City
is still a good deal
Justin Keltner (05:26):
compared to any city in the u.
s or canada other than maybesome small towns you're paying A
fifth or a quarter as muchbetween like things like rent
groceries, uh home servicespersonal care pet sitters all
those sorts of things likeyou're you're literally getting
cost of living for You 75percent off in many cases.
(05:49):
Uh, and it's not like you'resacrificing a bunch of
Amanda Abella (05:52):
to do
Justin Keltner (05:53):
that.
I mean, this is a wonderfulneighborhood.
I don't know anywhere in the U.
S.
where you can walk to as manythings.
As you can hear New York thatalso doesn't have a huge problem
with crime and homelessness andeverything else.
I haven't I haven't seen it Uhhere it's very safe even walking
around at night taking our dogout on on walks at you know nine
or ten o'clock or Uh, let's sayyou have a night out you go out
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to the bar Like you're probablynot going to get mugged Walking
back to your house or on the wayto the you know to meet the uber
or anything like that Relativeto a lot of major u.
s cities.
Guadalajara is actuallyextremely safe You People have
asked us, uh, on and off thechannel before we started
posting as much content as wehave about Guadalajara.
They said, well, can you findeverything you need here?
It's like, yeah, there's aWalmart five blocks that way.
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I mean, there's a Home Depot.
There's a lot of local storeslike local hardware stores, um,
local corner stores and thingslike that.
Amanda Abella (06:44):
There's doctors.
There's doctors.
Yeah,
Justin Keltner (06:45):
there's an OXO on every corner, which is kind
of like the 7 Eleven here.
So you can find absolutelyeverything.
Now, sure, certain, like, highend electronics are a little
more expensive here, but you'resaving way more every month on
rent than what you would pay,let's say, in the difference of
a new iPhone, iPhone, so it'snot really that big of a deal,
and you pay rent every month,and you buy an iPhone maybe once
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every year or two, if that.
Amanda Abella (07:08):
The next thing we really like about Guadalajara,
although I suppose this isbasically Mexico in general, is
that it's very, uh, communityoriented, and people are very
social here, and it's To besocial in Guadalajara number one
because you can walk toeverything and be social but
number two Mexicans are justsocial I think is a part of it
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and in Guadalajara in particularThere's always something going
on.
So for example on Sundays, theywill close down a lot of the
major roads for the ciclovÃa Solike basically everybody on the
city except me because I don'tknow how to ride a bike But
basically everybody learned to
Justin Keltner (07:44):
ride a bike in one of the other videos You
should go watch it.
You'll remind yourself how to doit.
Amanda Abella (07:50):
That's a
Justin Keltner (07:50):
running joke here now.
Amanda Abella (07:52):
Um, but they'll shut down a lot of the the major
streets and things like that andthen everybody will take their
bike out and they will bike allthroughout the city.
So that would be an example ofsomething they do here.
Or yesterday we were at the parkbecause we graduated from our
sixth grade.
Seven month meditation classhere in mexico.
We have a joke that all of ourmexican friends are moonlighting
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shamans So, uh, they had anevent at the park.
They had our graduation.
That was beautiful.
That was in community nowThere's a posada on tuesday,
which is a like christmasparties like a
Justin Keltner (08:25):
barbecue.
Yeah, like a cookout
Amanda Abella (08:27):
No, no, because I asked lorena and she's like I
was like, what do you take to aposada?
And she's like nothing and i'mlike, oh But they're asking, she
goes, Oh, so it's likeconvivian, conviviancia, like a
potluck.
This, anyway, this, this posadais potluck style.
Um, but, and then othersapparently are not, but we got
invited to our first posada.
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One of the, I mean, when we weregoing to that fancy gym down the
street, I had just met people inmy dance class and in five
minutes, they were inviting meout to coffee.
Like there's just alwayssomething going on here because
people are social and they.
They value that part of theirlives.
I think part of what goes on andagain, Mexico in general here,
(09:09):
right?
But we see it definitely inGuadalajara.
Somebody had brought up in thecomments yesterday, which we
noticed yesterday at the park,which is like, The families here
are so happy in, in Guadalajara.
We've seen people
Justin Keltner (09:23):
people out much more often and families.
They're happy, they're at thepark, they're entertaining
themselves, they're having fun.
People here just like toactually be in community, to
enjoy themselves, to enjoytheir, their family.
And that, that was another oneof our points here, which is
people are just like really, uh,happy here in Guadalajara.
Especially compared to a lot of,a lot of places in the U.
(09:44):
S.
or Canada.
They're, they're happy, they'reenjoying life.
It's not about just working allthe time and just living.
to work like it is a lot in theWest.
Amanda Abella (09:54):
Yeah I mean you see people out in the plazas
like enjoying a light show onthe cathedral you see people out
at dinner all the time or havinga coffee or Again, they just
invite you out places fiveminutes after meeting you
because that's mexicans are verywarm like that And uh, you know,
this is something that comes upa lot in expat videos and people
who've lived overseas Mexico isno exception to this rule, which
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is, generally speaking, othercountries and other cultures,
it's a lot easier to be socialthan it is, for example, in the
United States or Canada or theUK.
Justin Keltner (10:30):
Now, another reason that we love Guadalajara,
we hinted at this earlier, butthe neighborhoods are super,
super walkable.
You can walk to the barbershops,to the restaurants, coffee
shops, anything you need ispretty much in walking distance.
I think maybe we use the caronce or twice a month and it's
usually for going out of, out oftown somewhere.
Amanda Abella (10:48):
It's Right,
Justin Keltner (10:49):
it's usually for some kind of trip or if there's
something where we need to takethe dog somewhere with us or
whatever.
Then we'll take the car, butmost of the time we're walking,
occasionally we'll take an Uberto go somewhere once every week,
or once every two weeks, but 90percent of the things we need
are within a 5 to 15 minutewalk, which is amazing, and
because everything is in walkingdistance, you also get a lot
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more exercise versus justhopping in your car and being
super lazy every time you needto go somewhere, so that makes a
huge difference in health, ingetting sun, in being outside,
breathing fresh air, whatever.
All of the above.
It's amazing
Amanda Abella (11:25):
Another thing that we really like about
guadalajara and this is actuallywhy we prefer it to the beaches
to each their own So we're justgoing to give our opinion here
Is that guadalajara has some ofthe best of mexico and what
mexico has to offer in ouropinion?
mixed with international livingand a more cosmopolitan
lifestyle.
So Jalisco, which is the statethat Guadalajara is in, is
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literally the birthplace oftequila and mariachi and some of
the most Mexican things youcould probably think of are from
here in Jalisco.
So you get a lot of that here inthe culture, but it also has a
very cosmopolitan internationalliving.
Like there's a, there's expatsabout an hour away in Chapala.
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And in Ajijic, uh, we'll get tohow easy it is to travel to
places momentarily.
But, you know, there's expatsover there and now there's more
foreigners moving toGuadalajara.
I've seen Americans, Canadians.
You've run into a couple ofUkrainians here in Guadalajara.
There's people from Haiti.
There's people from India.
Um, so it's becoming a much moreinternational living kind of
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city, which Really cool.
It's very multicultural in thatway as opposed to Mexican
beaches at least on the westcoast where our experience has
been Whether it's you know, it'seither basically like an expat
Enclave like Bucerias whereeverything is in English loved
Bucerias.
Don't get us wrong The food wasgood.
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The beach was nice, but likeeverything I didn't see a
Mexican anywhere.
Everybody was American orCanadian.
Um, and that's not necessarilyour vibe.
Like we want to live in othercountries to experience the
other countries.
No, no shade if you prefer thatwe understand that that's just
easier for some people andBucerias is beautiful We got
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kind of a similar vibe inVallarta when we were there Last
year just on a way bigger scaleBucerias Um, and then or so it's
either that where it's like i'mnot even in fucking mexico right
now I'm hanging out with a bunchof americans and canadians like
You're in their little colony.
Justin Keltner (13:33):
You're in the little
Amanda Abella (13:33):
colony You Right, or it's like Los Ayala or Gu
Vitos, or Lapita, uh, which wewere at all those places in the
last month or so, which is likevery Mexican, very, very
Mexican.
Um, which is like, you know,that comes with its ups and
downs, right?
So if you don't necessarily likeBanda music, playing 24 7 at
Justin Keltner (13:56):
full volume at
Amanda Abella (13:57):
full volume.
At full volume
Justin Keltner (13:58):
from multiple loudspeakers
Amanda Abella (14:00):
All around you all around
Justin Keltner (14:01):
you different angles,
Amanda Abella (14:03):
Or someone trying to sell you something every 30
seconds, although we did findsome good stuff from the vendors
that were coming around.
Or people shooting off fireworksrandomly in the middle of the
day.
Daisy
Justin Keltner (14:13):
not like
Amanda Abella (14:14):
Daisy did not like the fireworks.
Because it's December 1st,right?
And I'm like, what, are theycelebrating that rent is due?
Like, I'm so confused.
Uh, but we asked, there werefireworks going off at La
Feinita in the middle of theday.
And I was like, what is goingon?
What was that?
Was that a firework?
Yeah, it's fireworks.
I'm like, why are they shootingoff?
Justin Keltner (14:32):
december?
That's why like wait, that's awhole month.
What
Amanda Abella (14:35):
do you
Justin Keltner (14:35):
mean?
Amanda Abella (14:36):
So if you don't like that, cause that's, that's
typical of the Mexican beachesand things like that.
They're a little and a lot of
Justin Keltner (14:42):
small towns, too
Amanda Abella (14:44):
And a little and a lot of the small towns, uh,
they're a little more well, thebeaches are way more chaotic The
the beaches are a little chaoticSo if you don't like the chaos,
like we're just staging ourlives where we're like, you know
What we're we don't want thechaos, but we're not ready for a
retirement community likebusidious either Like can we
find something in the middle?
Uh, guadalajara has been areally good uh mix of What we're
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looking for and I think you justfind that a little bit easier in
the cities In Mexico, thebeaches seem to be in one
extreme or the other.
Justin Keltner (15:18):
Yeah, but even though, you know, you've got a
lot of that internationalliving, you've got a lot of
great things that are fromMexico already in Guadalajara,
you can also travel to a lot ofthose places like the beaches
with ease.
And now with the new road thatthey opened, the new toll road,
you can get to Vallarta in aboutthree hours, three to four
hours, depending on the trafficthere.
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Uh, sometimes even faster ifyou're a speed racer, so there's
a, there's a brand new roadthrough the, through the
mountains that gets you toVallarta.
You can get to Tequila in aboutan hour, hour and a half, uh,
and they also have a really goodinternational airport.
It's one of my favorites becauseyou can fly nonstop from here to
South America, you can fly atleast to Panama City.
(16:02):
And then get to anywhere inSouth America, you can fly non
stop from here to about tenmajor cities or more in the U.
S.
Amanda Abella (16:08):
Madrid.
Justin Keltner (16:08):
Depending on the week, you can fly to Madrid.
Uh, I don't know if they haveflights to Asia yet.
You may need a little hop, skip,and a jump, uh, into Mexico City
first.
But, you can get to pretty muchanywhere from Guadalajara and
the airport, unlike Mexico City,is Well contained it's not
massive.
It's super accessible
Amanda Abella (16:26):
not
Justin Keltner (16:27):
It's not chaotic.
Exactly so it's just a reallygood balance and a really
especially if you're trying toTo be in guadalajara, for
example, but also visit otherplaces in mexico like we are
there's also non stop flights toto a lot of uh, Different, know
state beach cities like not justdriving.
Let's say to vallarta, but youcan also take a short flight Non
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stop now on Valeris to PuertoEscondido, which is in Oaxaca,
and I think probably Oaxaca Cityas well.
I'll have to double check that,but there's a ton of places.
You can go to Miami non stop.
You can go to LA Direct as well.
I believe Dallas.
There's just so many, so manyconnections and
Amanda Abella (17:05):
keep adding new connections as well And new new
routes and flights and thingshere in Guadalajara because the
city's growing pretty fast Uh,and it's actually growing really
fast.
Like, if you look at a lot ofthe architecture videos of
what's going on here, or thedevelopment projects, the air,
uh, airport projects.
I mean, it's, there's a lot ofeconomic opportunity in this
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area in Mexico.
I would argue there's a lot ofeconomic opportunity all over
Mexico.
right now, but you definitelysee a lot of that development
happening here in Guadalajara.
All right, and then probablyreason number one why we love
Guadalajara is the weather.
We love the weather inGuadalajara.
It's very temperate.
It's like California, butwarmer.
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Because California is definitelya lot colder than Guadalajara,
but you have like that temperateclimate all year round.
The only downside is I wasn'tused to it, so like my skin and
hair would like dry out, but youcan it is a
Justin Keltner (17:58):
little bit of a dry.
is a,
Amanda Abella (18:00):
it is dry.
Um, but you know, you just putextra moisturizer and
conditioner and you're prettymuch good to go.
You make sure you take care ofyourself at the salon and
getting your nails done and allthat stuff.
Um, and facials and all that.
Otherwise, yeah, your hair andskin are gonna dry out here in
Guadalajara.
That was a little bitchallenging for me.
Uh, but other than that, otherthan two months out of the year
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where it was unbearably hot, butwe were told that that was a
bit, uh, out of the ordinary forGuadalajara for it to be that
hot.
Other than those two months,it's really freaking nice
weather.
All year round.
I mean, the amount of money wesave by not running air
conditioning, like those of youin Merida or Cancun or Playa del
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Carmen or Puerto Vallarta or thebeach towns, any beach town,
you're going to be running thatAC all the time.
You're spending
Justin Keltner (18:51):
300 a month, which could be half or a third
of your rent, just onelectricity.
For those acs and here onaverage our electric bill comes
out to like maybe 25 30 everymonth
Amanda Abella (19:02):
Yeah, because we barely use the acs We only use
them those two months when it'slike ungodly hot or at night But
other than that, we're notreally using it because you
don't need to use it Inguadalajara because the
weather's so freaking nice allyear round
Justin Keltner (19:20):
And finally, definitely not least, we have a
lot of very friendly peoplehere.
In addition to the people beinghappy as we mentioned before,
they're very friendly.
They're very accommodating.
Uh, if you don't speak Spanish,most of the people here will go
out of their way to try tounderstand what you're saying or
help you out in some way.
Amanda Abella (19:38):
Google Translate.
Yeah,
Justin Keltner (19:40):
there's just a culture here of being kind and
polite yeah polite and kind toyour neighbor that you don't see
Especially a lot of places inthe West unfortunately.
Amanda Abella (19:50):
Yeah You know I have found that people in
Guadalajara tend to be verypolite and very warm and
welcoming and again very sociallike I was Saying before I mean
I've had situations where likeour neighbor invited me to her
sister's baby shower So I canstart getting to know people,
uh, in the neighborhood or inthe neighborhood, or if we need
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help or needed to call in afavor, like, Hey, we need to
find a place to live.
Uh, can those, we were takinglike a holistic healing class
about a year ago, we're like, weneed to find a place to live.
And immediately.
Yeah.
They were all finding leads andthings like that.
I do, I have found that that ismore common, uh, here in
Guadalajara and in the cities ingeneral, then perhaps the beach
(20:32):
towns where there's a little bitleft to be desired, uh, in that
department.
But again, the beach towns arejust way more chaotic.
Justin Keltner (20:39):
Yeah.
Cause they're mostly just.
It's geared tourists andextracting as much money as they
can from you.
Here, you're living with a lotfewer, I mean, very, there are a
lot of tourists, but compared tothe population.
Amanda Abella (20:50):
Mexican tourists, usually.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Justin Keltner (20:52):
But also, like, most of the people here,
especially in our neighborhood,are not tourists, versus the
average place that you're gonnago by the beach that's at least
nice, it's gonna be saturatedwith tourists.
I don't wanna go live with abunch of American tourists.
Amanda Abella (21:04):
Yeah, me either.
And then when you're in thetourist areas, everything's more
expensive, people are a littlebit more price gougy when it
comes to that, there's, you haveto be a little bit more careful.
And.
Yeah.
Depending on where you are inthe beach the customer service
is lacking.
Uh Here
Justin Keltner (21:19):
it's very good.
Here
Amanda Abella (21:20):
It's very good in guadalajara.
So it's just a different.
It's just a different vibe Okay,like it's like we said in the
beginning of the video We'vebeen traveling a lot throughout
mexico since we arrived wellsince I arrived a couple years
ago you arrived Before I did andwe've been traveling a lot In
the country and what we havecome to realize about ourselves
(21:41):
is we really like You The citiesin Mexico.
They are a vibe, which was kindof surprising because you
thought you were done With I did
Justin Keltner (21:52):
I was bored and I didn't have really a big
network here I wasn't doing thatmuch in the town itself and I
was like, ah I just need to goto the beach and be one with
nature
Amanda Abella (22:00):
Well also
Justin Keltner (22:02):
even before that I got scammed In Puerto
Escondido, trying to find aplace.
I lost a bunch of money on that.
And then on top of that, I wentthere to visit and it was
ungodly, like insufferably hot.
The infrastructure was terrible.
The power went off every 15minutes.
The internet sucked.
I was like, okay, I'm going tostay here in Guadalajara with my
two fiber internet connectionsand a Starlink backup just in
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case and power that's prettystable.
Amanda Abella (22:25):
that We
Justin Keltner (22:26):
didn't even mention the infrastructure, but
yeah.
Compared to the beach towns,especially the more undeveloped
towns where, uh, I, I believeit's a little more desirable for
people that like to, you know,travel and live kind of off the
beaten path.
The infrastructure just is notthat great.
Sure, you have cell service.
Sure, the internet like mostlykind of works, but especially
places like Sayulita, It's justnot that reliable versus in
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Guadalajara.
We've never really had majorproblems with the internet We
have two just because we do somuch online It's nice to have a
backup And if somehow, you knowa tree falls in the line and
whatever and both of ourinternets go out We still have a
star link that we can reactivateUm, but for the most part 99.
99 percent of the time ourinternet is fine, and it's super
fast We have almost a gigabit ofspeed up and down and so You We
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don't have to worry about thingslike infrastructure.
So that's kind of like a bonusreason is the infrastructure is
really, really solid, arguablybetter than a lot of cities in
the U.
S.
because the U.
S.
so spread out and has suchlegacy infrastructure.
I mean, imagine, you know,you're, that's a video You're a
town that only can get Comcastand you're limited to like, 100
megabits down and 10 up orsomething and especially in a
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town.
That's and you're paying out theask for it It's like here.
Everything is fiber.
Amanda Abella (23:37):
That's actually another video We'll have to film
which is things that are you nolonger believe about the United
States after living in theUnited States and one Of those
is like really goodinfrastructure and you're like
well Actually, yes and no But,you know, we've had this
discussion before, those of youwho are more interested in beach
towns, because to each theirown, we just prefer the city
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from what we have seen.
I think that beach towns arereally good for investment
opportunities, especially theones that are more developing.
Um, but for living, I don't wantto live on the beach.
Investment and make money off ofit, sure.
Live, I'm gonna, I'm, I'm gonnastick to Guadalajara on, on that
one.
Justin Keltner (24:18):
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When you think of Mexico, you might think of
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the popular beach resorts inCancun, the hustle and bustle of
Mexico City, or the, quote,informal economy of Tijuana.
And you might just miss one ofthe hidden gems of this country,
a place that we currently callhome, Guadalajara.
Guadalajara, Mexico, is thesecond largest city of this
country, and is known for itsrich culture, beautiful
architecture, Friendly peopleand cosmopolitan vibe.
(00:25):
There are so many things to doand so many places to explore
that you're never going to getbored.
But, unlike many other cities,in most neighborhoods here, you
feel like you're in a muchsmaller place.
Not a city with over 5 millionpeople.
In this episode, we're going totalk to you about our favorite
things about living inGuadalajara.
Amanda Abella (00:44):
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Justin Keltner (01:23):
So let's get to the first reason that we
absolutely love living inGuadalajara, and that is that
you can have a very high qualityof life at a fraction of the
cost.
The price as other cities in theworld, especially if you're
coming from the U S or Canada.
Now, contrary to popular beliefthat Mexico is just a bunch of
(01:44):
desert with tumbleweeds rollingaround and then Cabo and Cancun
on either side.
Um, there's actually a lot ofvery cool big cities in Mexico
as well.
And we think that they're reallyoverlooked.
Like a lot of people that,especially from the U S they
come to Mexico, Mexico.
They're like, yeah, we're justgoing to live on the beach.
They go to Puerto Vallarta ormaybe a smaller beach town like
(02:05):
Sayulita or Bucerias or Playadel Carmen or Tulum.
And I think they're missing outon a big part of the, the
culture and the true Mexicanexperience.
Now, sure, there's a lot ofbeach towns that are a little
bit more local.
We've tried them.
We've done some videos aboutthem.
Not necessarily our vibe either,but there's really a lot of
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hidden gems here, includingGuadalajara that are big cities
and the quality of life you havehere is very, very high.
I mean, we've got a lot ofconveniences that we, we take
advantage of every single daywhere we're at in the
neighborhood called Chapalita,you can walk to grocery stores,
corner stores.
You can walk to the barber shop,the nail salon, the hair salon.
Uh, you can walk to doctors andspecialists and restaurants and
(02:49):
what else?
So many other things.
Amanda Abella (02:51):
Yeah, there's always something going on in the
city and basically that's whathaving a high quality of life is
like.
Things are a little bit moreslower here than perhaps Mexico
City, so you still get like thatbig city pace without the big
city chaos, which is one of thethings that I like about
Guadalajara, and basically it'sgeo arbitrage.
for the win.
(03:12):
So what is geo arbitrage?
It's when you get paid in ahigher value currency, in this
case USD, because we're bothfrom the United States.
Most of our clients as of rightnow are American and Canadian,
although we do have people fromother countries who are now
watching this channel.
We're more than happy to workwith you guys as well.
And then you go live in a lowervalue currency, in this case,
(03:34):
the Mexican peso.
There's so many differentcombinations of how you can do
this in terms of geo arbitrage.
That's just our currentcombination.
And, I mean, I'll give anexample because Lorena, who
helps us with the house, shehelps with the cleaning and the
cooking, she's here today, andwe'll send her to the local
shops to go grab food for us andcook for us for the week.
(03:55):
She spent 17 today on meat,chicken, vegetables.
And another
Justin Keltner (04:00):
15 on other stuff that we needed at the
store.
Amanda Abella (04:03):
Yeah, and that 15 she'll make food for us for most
of the week.
So it's very high qualityliving, fraction of the price.
geo arbitrage for the win allthe way and that's one of the
reasons why we really likeGuadalajara as opposed to, for
example, Mexico City.
My mom was just telling me thisthe other day while we were
(04:24):
catching up.
She follows some YouTubers whotravel a lot, they're living in
Mexico City, and she's like, I'mglad you guys are in Guadalajara
and not Mexico City because A.
Mexico City looks like purechaos, It is.
I don't know if you've evertried flying through Mexico
City, but it is pretty chaotic.
It's an amazing city, but it isa bit more chaotic than
Guadalajara.
In fact, a lot of people livingin Guadalajara are from Mexico
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City because they needed a breakfrom Mexico City.
But the other thing that shesaid was, you know, I was
watching these YouTubers andthey're saying they're, one of
them's from Argentina, the otherone's from Estonia, and she was
saying how their pay, the rentthat they're paying in Mexico
City was more expensive than therent in Estonia.
And immediately I was like,well, are they in Polanco or
(05:08):
Roma?
Because then they're gettinggringo price if they are in
those places.
So even in terms of even MexicoCity, you can save more money
here on things like rent thanperhaps you would be able to in
Mexico City.
Although if you're coming fromthe U S and Canada, Mexico City
is still a good deal
Justin Keltner (05:26):
compared to any city in the u.
s or canada other than maybesome small towns you're paying A
fifth or a quarter as muchbetween like things like rent
groceries, uh home servicespersonal care pet sitters all
those sorts of things likeyou're you're literally getting
cost of living for You 75percent off in many cases.
(05:49):
Uh, and it's not like you'resacrificing a bunch of
Amanda Abella (05:52):
to do
Justin Keltner (05:53):
that.
I mean, this is a wonderfulneighborhood.
I don't know anywhere in the U.
S.
where you can walk to as manythings.
As you can hear New York thatalso doesn't have a huge problem
with crime and homelessness andeverything else.
I haven't I haven't seen it Uhhere it's very safe even walking
around at night taking our dogout on on walks at you know nine
or ten o'clock or Uh, let's sayyou have a night out you go out
(06:14):
to the bar Like you're probablynot going to get mugged Walking
back to your house or on the wayto the you know to meet the uber
or anything like that Relativeto a lot of major u.
s cities.
Guadalajara is actuallyextremely safe You People have
asked us, uh, on and off thechannel before we started
posting as much content as wehave about Guadalajara.
They said, well, can you findeverything you need here?
It's like, yeah, there's aWalmart five blocks that way.
(06:37):
I mean, there's a Home Depot.
There's a lot of local storeslike local hardware stores, um,
local corner stores and thingslike that.
Amanda Abella (06:44):
There's doctors.
There's doctors.
Yeah,
Justin Keltner (06:45):
there's an OXO on every corner, which is kind
of like the 7 Eleven here.
So you can find absolutelyeverything.
Now, sure, certain, like, highend electronics are a little
more expensive here, but you'resaving way more every month on
rent than what you would pay,let's say, in the difference of
a new iPhone, iPhone, so it'snot really that big of a deal,
and you pay rent every month,and you buy an iPhone maybe once
(07:06):
every year or two, if that.
Amanda Abella (07:08):
The next thing we really like about Guadalajara,
although I suppose this isbasically Mexico in general, is
that it's very, uh, communityoriented, and people are very
social here, and it's To besocial in Guadalajara number one
because you can walk toeverything and be social but
number two Mexicans are justsocial I think is a part of it
(07:30):
and in Guadalajara in particularThere's always something going
on.
So for example on Sundays, theywill close down a lot of the
major roads for the ciclovÃa Solike basically everybody on the
city except me because I don'tknow how to ride a bike But
basically everybody learned to
Justin Keltner (07:44):
ride a bike in one of the other videos You
should go watch it.
You'll remind yourself how to doit.
Amanda Abella (07:50):
That's a
Justin Keltner (07:50):
running joke here now.
Amanda Abella (07:52):
Um, but they'll shut down a lot of the the major
streets and things like that andthen everybody will take their
bike out and they will bike allthroughout the city.
So that would be an example ofsomething they do here.
Or yesterday we were at the parkbecause we graduated from our
sixth grade.
Seven month meditation classhere in mexico.
We have a joke that all of ourmexican friends are moonlighting
(08:14):
shamans So, uh, they had anevent at the park.
They had our graduation.
That was beautiful.
That was in community nowThere's a posada on tuesday,
which is a like christmasparties like a
Justin Keltner (08:25):
barbecue.
Yeah, like a cookout
Amanda Abella (08:27):
No, no, because I asked lorena and she's like I
was like, what do you take to aposada?
And she's like nothing and i'mlike, oh But they're asking, she
goes, Oh, so it's likeconvivian, conviviancia, like a
potluck.
This, anyway, this, this posadais potluck style.
Um, but, and then othersapparently are not, but we got
invited to our first posada.
(08:47):
One of the, I mean, when we weregoing to that fancy gym down the
street, I had just met people inmy dance class and in five
minutes, they were inviting meout to coffee.
Like there's just alwayssomething going on here because
people are social and they.
They value that part of theirlives.
I think part of what goes on andagain, Mexico in general here,
(09:09):
right?
But we see it definitely inGuadalajara.
Somebody had brought up in thecomments yesterday, which we
noticed yesterday at the park,which is like, The families here
are so happy in, in Guadalajara.
We've seen people
Justin Keltner (09:23):
people out much more often and families.
They're happy, they're at thepark, they're entertaining
themselves, they're having fun.
People here just like toactually be in community, to
enjoy themselves, to enjoytheir, their family.
And that, that was another oneof our points here, which is
people are just like really, uh,happy here in Guadalajara.
Especially compared to a lot of,a lot of places in the U.
(09:44):
S.
or Canada.
They're, they're happy, they'reenjoying life.
It's not about just working allthe time and just living.
to work like it is a lot in theWest.
Amanda Abella (09:54):
Yeah I mean you see people out in the plazas
like enjoying a light show onthe cathedral you see people out
at dinner all the time or havinga coffee or Again, they just
invite you out places fiveminutes after meeting you
because that's mexicans are verywarm like that And uh, you know,
this is something that comes upa lot in expat videos and people
who've lived overseas Mexico isno exception to this rule, which
(10:18):
is, generally speaking, othercountries and other cultures,
it's a lot easier to be socialthan it is, for example, in the
United States or Canada or theUK.
Justin Keltner (10:30):
Now, another reason that we love Guadalajara,
we hinted at this earlier, butthe neighborhoods are super,
super walkable.
You can walk to the barbershops,to the restaurants, coffee
shops, anything you need ispretty much in walking distance.
I think maybe we use the caronce or twice a month and it's
usually for going out of, out oftown somewhere.
Amanda Abella (10:48):
It's Right,
Justin Keltner (10:49):
it's usually for some kind of trip or if there's
something where we need to takethe dog somewhere with us or
whatever.
Then we'll take the car, butmost of the time we're walking,
occasionally we'll take an Uberto go somewhere once every week,
or once every two weeks, but 90percent of the things we need
are within a 5 to 15 minutewalk, which is amazing, and
because everything is in walkingdistance, you also get a lot
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more exercise versus justhopping in your car and being
super lazy every time you needto go somewhere, so that makes a
huge difference in health, ingetting sun, in being outside,
breathing fresh air, whatever.
All of the above.
It's amazing
Amanda Abella (11:25):
Another thing that we really like about
guadalajara and this is actuallywhy we prefer it to the beaches
to each their own So we're justgoing to give our opinion here
Is that guadalajara has some ofthe best of mexico and what
mexico has to offer in ouropinion?
mixed with international livingand a more cosmopolitan
lifestyle.
So Jalisco, which is the statethat Guadalajara is in, is
(11:48):
literally the birthplace oftequila and mariachi and some of
the most Mexican things youcould probably think of are from
here in Jalisco.
So you get a lot of that here inthe culture, but it also has a
very cosmopolitan internationalliving.
Like there's a, there's expatsabout an hour away in Chapala.
(12:10):
And in Ajijic, uh, we'll get tohow easy it is to travel to
places momentarily.
But, you know, there's expatsover there and now there's more
foreigners moving toGuadalajara.
I've seen Americans, Canadians.
You've run into a couple ofUkrainians here in Guadalajara.
There's people from Haiti.
There's people from India.
Um, so it's becoming a much moreinternational living kind of
(12:31):
city, which Really cool.
It's very multicultural in thatway as opposed to Mexican
beaches at least on the westcoast where our experience has
been Whether it's you know, it'seither basically like an expat
Enclave like Bucerias whereeverything is in English loved
Bucerias.
Don't get us wrong The food wasgood.
(12:51):
The beach was nice, but likeeverything I didn't see a
Mexican anywhere.
Everybody was American orCanadian.
Um, and that's not necessarilyour vibe.
Like we want to live in othercountries to experience the
other countries.
No, no shade if you prefer thatwe understand that that's just
easier for some people andBucerias is beautiful We got
(13:12):
kind of a similar vibe inVallarta when we were there Last
year just on a way bigger scaleBucerias Um, and then or so it's
either that where it's like i'mnot even in fucking mexico right
now I'm hanging out with a bunchof americans and canadians like
You're in their little colony.
Justin Keltner (13:33):
You're in the little
Amanda Abella (13:33):
colony You Right, or it's like Los Ayala or Gu
Vitos, or Lapita, uh, which wewere at all those places in the
last month or so, which is likevery Mexican, very, very
Mexican.
Um, which is like, you know,that comes with its ups and
downs, right?
So if you don't necessarily likeBanda music, playing 24 7 at
Justin Keltner (13:56):
full volume at
Amanda Abella (13:57):
full volume.
At full volume
Justin Keltner (13:58):
from multiple loudspeakers
Amanda Abella (14:00):
All around you all around
Justin Keltner (14:01):
you different angles,
Amanda Abella (14:03):
Or someone trying to sell you something every 30
seconds, although we did findsome good stuff from the vendors
that were coming around.
Or people shooting off fireworksrandomly in the middle of the
day.
Daisy
Justin Keltner (14:13):
not like
Amanda Abella (14:14):
Daisy did not like the fireworks.
Because it's December 1st,right?
And I'm like, what, are theycelebrating that rent is due?
Like, I'm so confused.
Uh, but we asked, there werefireworks going off at La
Feinita in the middle of theday.
And I was like, what is goingon?
What was that?
Was that a firework?
Yeah, it's fireworks.
I'm like, why are they shootingoff?
Justin Keltner (14:32):
december?
That's why like wait, that's awhole month.
What
Amanda Abella (14:35):
do you
Justin Keltner (14:35):
mean?
Amanda Abella (14:36):
So if you don't like that, cause that's, that's
typical of the Mexican beachesand things like that.
They're a little and a lot of
Justin Keltner (14:42):
small towns, too
Amanda Abella (14:44):
And a little and a lot of the small towns, uh,
they're a little more well, thebeaches are way more chaotic The
the beaches are a little chaoticSo if you don't like the chaos,
like we're just staging ourlives where we're like, you know
What we're we don't want thechaos, but we're not ready for a
retirement community likebusidious either Like can we
find something in the middle?
Uh, guadalajara has been areally good uh mix of What we're
(15:09):
looking for and I think you justfind that a little bit easier in
the cities In Mexico, thebeaches seem to be in one
extreme or the other.
Justin Keltner (15:18):
Yeah, but even though, you know, you've got a
lot of that internationalliving, you've got a lot of
great things that are fromMexico already in Guadalajara,
you can also travel to a lot ofthose places like the beaches
with ease.
And now with the new road thatthey opened, the new toll road,
you can get to Vallarta in aboutthree hours, three to four
hours, depending on the trafficthere.
(15:40):
Uh, sometimes even faster ifyou're a speed racer, so there's
a, there's a brand new roadthrough the, through the
mountains that gets you toVallarta.
You can get to Tequila in aboutan hour, hour and a half, uh,
and they also have a really goodinternational airport.
It's one of my favorites becauseyou can fly nonstop from here to
South America, you can fly atleast to Panama City.
(16:02):
And then get to anywhere inSouth America, you can fly non
stop from here to about tenmajor cities or more in the U.
S.
Amanda Abella (16:08):
Madrid.
Justin Keltner (16:08):
Depending on the week, you can fly to Madrid.
Uh, I don't know if they haveflights to Asia yet.
You may need a little hop, skip,and a jump, uh, into Mexico City
first.
But, you can get to pretty muchanywhere from Guadalajara and
the airport, unlike Mexico City,is Well contained it's not
massive.
It's super accessible
Amanda Abella (16:26):
not
Justin Keltner (16:27):
It's not chaotic.
Exactly so it's just a reallygood balance and a really
especially if you're trying toTo be in guadalajara, for
example, but also visit otherplaces in mexico like we are
there's also non stop flights toto a lot of uh, Different, know
state beach cities like not justdriving.
Let's say to vallarta, but youcan also take a short flight Non
(16:48):
stop now on Valeris to PuertoEscondido, which is in Oaxaca,
and I think probably Oaxaca Cityas well.
I'll have to double check that,but there's a ton of places.
You can go to Miami non stop.
You can go to LA Direct as well.
I believe Dallas.
There's just so many, so manyconnections and
Amanda Abella (17:05):
keep adding new connections as well And new new
routes and flights and thingshere in Guadalajara because the
city's growing pretty fast Uh,and it's actually growing really
fast.
Like, if you look at a lot ofthe architecture videos of
what's going on here, or thedevelopment projects, the air,
uh, airport projects.
I mean, it's, there's a lot ofeconomic opportunity in this
(17:25):
area in Mexico.
I would argue there's a lot ofeconomic opportunity all over
Mexico.
right now, but you definitelysee a lot of that development
happening here in Guadalajara.
All right, and then probablyreason number one why we love
Guadalajara is the weather.
We love the weather inGuadalajara.
It's very temperate.
It's like California, butwarmer.
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Because California is definitelya lot colder than Guadalajara,
but you have like that temperateclimate all year round.
The only downside is I wasn'tused to it, so like my skin and
hair would like dry out, but youcan it is a
Justin Keltner (17:58):
little bit of a dry.
is a,
Amanda Abella (18:00):
it is dry.
Um, but you know, you just putextra moisturizer and
conditioner and you're prettymuch good to go.
You make sure you take care ofyourself at the salon and
getting your nails done and allthat stuff.
Um, and facials and all that.
Otherwise, yeah, your hair andskin are gonna dry out here in
Guadalajara.
That was a little bitchallenging for me.
Uh, but other than that, otherthan two months out of the year
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where it was unbearably hot, butwe were told that that was a
bit, uh, out of the ordinary forGuadalajara for it to be that
hot.
Other than those two months,it's really freaking nice
weather.
All year round.
I mean, the amount of money wesave by not running air
conditioning, like those of youin Merida or Cancun or Playa del
(18:45):
Carmen or Puerto Vallarta or thebeach towns, any beach town,
you're going to be running thatAC all the time.
You're spending
Justin Keltner (18:51):
300 a month, which could be half or a third
of your rent, just onelectricity.
For those acs and here onaverage our electric bill comes
out to like maybe 25 30 everymonth
Amanda Abella (19:02):
Yeah, because we barely use the acs We only use
them those two months when it'slike ungodly hot or at night But
other than that, we're notreally using it because you
don't need to use it Inguadalajara because the
weather's so freaking nice allyear round
Justin Keltner (19:20):
And finally, definitely not least, we have a
lot of very friendly peoplehere.
In addition to the people beinghappy as we mentioned before,
they're very friendly.
They're very accommodating.
Uh, if you don't speak Spanish,most of the people here will go
out of their way to try tounderstand what you're saying or
help you out in some way.
Amanda Abella (19:38):
Google Translate.
Yeah,
Justin Keltner (19:40):
there's just a culture here of being kind and
polite yeah polite and kind toyour neighbor that you don't see
Especially a lot of places inthe West unfortunately.
Amanda Abella (19:50):
Yeah You know I have found that people in
Guadalajara tend to be verypolite and very warm and
welcoming and again very sociallike I was Saying before I mean
I've had situations where likeour neighbor invited me to her
sister's baby shower So I canstart getting to know people,
uh, in the neighborhood or inthe neighborhood, or if we need
(20:10):
help or needed to call in afavor, like, Hey, we need to
find a place to live.
Uh, can those, we were takinglike a holistic healing class
about a year ago, we're like, weneed to find a place to live.
And immediately.
Yeah.
They were all finding leads andthings like that.
I do, I have found that that ismore common, uh, here in
Guadalajara and in the cities ingeneral, then perhaps the beach
(20:32):
towns where there's a little bitleft to be desired, uh, in that
department.
But again, the beach towns arejust way more chaotic.
Justin Keltner (20:39):
Yeah.
Cause they're mostly just.
It's geared tourists andextracting as much money as they
can from you.
Here, you're living with a lotfewer, I mean, very, there are a
lot of tourists, but compared tothe population.
Amanda Abella (20:50):
Mexican tourists, usually.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Justin Keltner (20:52):
But also, like, most of the people here,
especially in our neighborhood,are not tourists, versus the
average place that you're gonnago by the beach that's at least
nice, it's gonna be saturatedwith tourists.
I don't wanna go live with abunch of American tourists.
Amanda Abella (21:04):
Yeah, me either.
And then when you're in thetourist areas, everything's more
expensive, people are a littlebit more price gougy when it
comes to that, there's, you haveto be a little bit more careful.
And.
Yeah.
Depending on where you are inthe beach the customer service
is lacking.
Uh Here
Justin Keltner (21:19):
it's very good.
Here
Amanda Abella (21:20):
It's very good in guadalajara.
So it's just a different.
It's just a different vibe Okay,like it's like we said in the
beginning of the video We'vebeen traveling a lot throughout
mexico since we arrived wellsince I arrived a couple years
ago you arrived Before I did andwe've been traveling a lot In
the country and what we havecome to realize about ourselves
(21:41):
is we really like You The citiesin Mexico.
They are a vibe, which was kindof surprising because you
thought you were done With I did
Justin Keltner (21:52):
I was bored and I didn't have really a big
network here I wasn't doing thatmuch in the town itself and I
was like, ah I just need to goto the beach and be one with
nature
Amanda Abella (22:00):
Well also
Justin Keltner (22:02):
even before that I got scammed In Puerto
Escondido, trying to find aplace.
I lost a bunch of money on that.
And then on top of that, I wentthere to visit and it was
ungodly, like insufferably hot.
The infrastructure was terrible.
The power went off every 15minutes.
The internet sucked.
I was like, okay, I'm going tostay here in Guadalajara with my
two fiber internet connectionsand a Starlink backup just in
(22:23):
case and power that's prettystable.
Amanda Abella (22:25):
that We
Justin Keltner (22:26):
didn't even mention the infrastructure, but
yeah.
Compared to the beach towns,especially the more undeveloped
towns where, uh, I, I believeit's a little more desirable for
people that like to, you know,travel and live kind of off the
beaten path.
The infrastructure just is notthat great.
Sure, you have cell service.
Sure, the internet like mostlykind of works, but especially
places like Sayulita, It's justnot that reliable versus in
(22:46):
Guadalajara.
We've never really had majorproblems with the internet We
have two just because we do somuch online It's nice to have a
backup And if somehow, you knowa tree falls in the line and
whatever and both of ourinternets go out We still have a
star link that we can reactivateUm, but for the most part 99.
99 percent of the time ourinternet is fine, and it's super
fast We have almost a gigabit ofspeed up and down and so You We
(23:11):
don't have to worry about thingslike infrastructure.
So that's kind of like a bonusreason is the infrastructure is
really, really solid, arguablybetter than a lot of cities in
the U.
S.
because the U.
S.
so spread out and has suchlegacy infrastructure.
I mean, imagine, you know,you're, that's a video You're a
town that only can get Comcastand you're limited to like, 100
megabits down and 10 up orsomething and especially in a
(23:33):
town.
That's and you're paying out theask for it It's like here.
Everything is fiber.
Amanda Abella (23:37):
That's actually another video We'll have to film
which is things that are you nolonger believe about the United
States after living in theUnited States and one Of those
is like really goodinfrastructure and you're like
well Actually, yes and no But,you know, we've had this
discussion before, those of youwho are more interested in beach
towns, because to each theirown, we just prefer the city
(23:58):
from what we have seen.
I think that beach towns arereally good for investment
opportunities, especially theones that are more developing.
Um, but for living, I don't wantto live on the beach.
Investment and make money off ofit, sure.
Live, I'm gonna, I'm, I'm gonnastick to Guadalajara on, on that
one.
Justin Keltner (24:18):
And if you'd like to join us here in
Guadalajara or somewhere else inMexico, city of your choice, if
you're looking to come downhere, explore Mexico and check
out what it might be like toactually live here, then you're
definitely going to want tofirst download our living in
Mexico guide.
And if you're interested inrelocation services, you can see
the link below it's entrepreneurexpat.
(24:40):
com slash
Amanda Abella (24:41):
relocation,
Justin Keltner (24:42):
relocation.
And book a call where we cantalk to you about working out
all of the logistics so that youcan get here safely easily and
efficiently And if you need anonline location independent
business to be able to do that,if you're still working on
getting that remote incomegoing, then you can also find
the link below or go toentrepreneurexpat.
(25:02):
com slash call.
And we will chat about buildingyou a location independent
business so that you canactually focus on enjoying your
life, serving people that needyou and not working for somebody
that you hate doing somethingthat you do not love.
Instead, do what you love, do itfrom anywhere.
Live the life of your dreams.
That's what we're all about hereguys
Amanda Abella (25:24):
basically if you already meet all the
requirements for moving tomexico all the financial
requirements for investing ormoving Then make sure to book a
relocation call because we canactually hook you up with our
Real estate agents, uh,attorneys to help you with the
immigration process, accountantswho will actually work with
expats.
And if you haven't hit thosefinancial requirements yet, or
(25:46):
you are still stuck at a jobthat does not allow you to work
remotely, then the place thatyou need to start is a location
independent businessconsultation.
Cause that would be the problemthat we need to solve first
before we could get you toMexico or really anywhere that
you want to go in the world.
So
Justin Keltner (26:03):
So book one of those calls below depending on
your needs We will be having achat very soon And thank you so
much for being a subscriber Makesure you click that subscribe
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