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A lot of Westerners,particularly Americans, are
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looking for greener pastures andmore opportunities in other
countries.
They're searching for how toleave the US in record numbers.
We see more and more YouTubechannels popping up of Americans
and also Canadians in WesternEuropeans who have left
traditionally Western countries.
And we're seeing more and morenews articles, including one,
just two days ago on CBS.
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About how Americans are retiringabroad more and more.
In this video, we're gonna beexplaining to you 11 things we
don't worry about anymore sincemoving to Mexico as American
expats because we too joined thebandwagon and left the United
States, and even in the growthof this YouTube channel and how
it's grown so quickly, we knowthat a lot of you are very
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interested in finding some otheroptions.
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So one of the things that'sinteresting going on in the
world right now, which is whatwe keep bringing up, is the fact
that other countries havedeveloped to the point where you
can find a very similar qualityof life in the, uh, United
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States as you would in, forexample, Mexico or Southeast
Asia.
Or Portugal or other, or SouthAmerica.
And a lot of Americans justdon't know this because a lot of
Americans are born and bred intothinking that they are the
number one country in the worldand they're not really number
one at anything when you look atthe rankings.
Um, even making money, I wouldsay like making money and
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innovation.
The United States was a verygood country for that.
But now we see Asia, you know,nipping at the heels of the
United States for that.
So one of the countries wheremaybe 20, 30 years ago, a lot of
Americans would not have everconsidered moving to was Mexico.
And now Americans are like thenumber one immigration group to
Mexico, including us.
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Now they're gonna have to builda border fence the other way,
right?
So there's a lot of, uh, my momcalls it like global musical
chairs.
Going on in the world right nowwith people just moving around
all these different countries.
Uh, a part of that is because,you know, like I said, a lot of
countries, Mexico included, havedeveloped very rapidly.
Uh, you can find similar, if notthe same quality of life here.
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We can make some arguments thatit's better based on the 11
things that we don't have toworry about anymore.
Other things have been, youknow, people work on the
internet now.
Uh, we've been in onlinebusiness 15 years each before we
even started.
This YouTube channel, and now wejust apply all the skills we
learned from the previousbusinesses to this one.
But people work online and theycan literally go anywhere in the
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world.
They don't have to stay stuckanymore.
So we're seeing that thatmusical chairs, we're seeing a
lot of development.
We're seeing co uh, company, Ikeep saying companies, we keep
seeing countries.
Like we recently did a video onVietnam that are now competing
to get more of that foreigninvestment and making it very
attractive.
They are kind of like companiesthough.
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I mean, I would say that youshould treat your, your country
like, like a business that youdo business with and if you
don't like it, go somewhereelse.
So it's not a bad analogyactually, Amanda.
Well, like I said, right.
Um, and there's alsocompetition, so I guess that is
a good business analogy wherenow you have more, uh, uh,
countries competing in order toget more of that foreign
investment.
And that has also.
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Uh, contributed to this globalmusical chairs, as my mother
calls it.
So let's get into these 11things that we don't worry about
since we left the United Statesfor Mexico.
Number one, high cost of living.
That keeps getting even more andmore stupid as the years go by.
So after the initial costs of usmoving here, getting all of our
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paperwork done, our visas,everything else.
And all of the other costsassociated with short-term
travel.
We've been able to get ourpersonal living expenses for the
both of us down to about 2000 USdollars per month.
And we live really well.
We have a lady that helps usclean and cook twice a week.
Uh, we have a nice three-storyhouse with space on the roof for
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my solar panels and spacedownstairs for my servers and
all my other projects.
It's a really big house we'vegot.
Five bedrooms, four bathrooms, aterrace, two patios.
If we were to try to do the samething in any major city in the
US it would probably cost us upinto the five figures every
single month.
Um, for less space, definitely,uh, less luco as we say.
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Not even luxury, but justconvenience.
Um, we can walk to everythinghere.
We'll get into that in anotherpoint here.
But we live very well on$2,000 amonth.
Not each, like total between thetwo of us.
Um, and that's pretty darn good.
And we've been able to save overa year's worth of living
expenses very quickly and evenstart to get into a position to
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buy land or property if we wantto.
And really part of geo arbitrageis to be able to access the same
assets at a lower price point.
It's really one of thoseultimate wealth building hacks.
So not only is the cost ofliving down, but we've, we've
got access to higher qualityinvestments.
At a lower cost as well.
Yeah, and I would venture to sayin terms of, you know, the cost,
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one of the things, you know,being business people, what is
money?
Money is an exchange of value.
People get upset when they feellike what they're paying.
They're not actually gettingvalue for taxes.
And that's a big part of what'shappening in the United States
right now.
So, for example, food costs arethrough the roof in the United
States, and uh, it's poorquality food here in Mexico.
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It's still a much lower cost ofliving, um, even for Mexicans.
Now, the area where things gettricky is with housing because
it's just supply and demand.
It is what it is.
But generally speaking, if youlook at the numbers across the
board, then it's still.
Really low cost of living here,even for what people make.
So, um, if you feel like whatyou're paying, you're getting
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actual value for it, then you'renot getting people complaining.
And what we're seeing in the USand Canada, and even parts of
Western Europe is that peopleare paying insane amounts of
money and they feel like they'renot getting very much for it.
That's when you start runninginto problems.
Exactly.
And here we are very happy topay what we pay, even though.
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For, for certain things.
I mean, we're, we're definitelypaying for more services maybe
than we were before.
Like we're getting massagesregularly.
Um, we have help around thehouse.
We didn't have that in, in theus and we're paying for things
that we might not have otherwisebeen paying for because it's so
affordable and because of theutility that we get.
Again, money isn't exchange ofvalue, so when you get more
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utility, uh, for what you'repaying, you're, you're happy to
be paying that and contributingmore and more to.
The local economy.
So number two, we've heard thisa lot, uh, from fellow expats
that have moved to Mexico orother countries outside of the,
the US especially, which ishustle culture.
We do not miss the hustleculture because we just don't
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need to hustle every day whenour expenses are so low and.
Here culturally, Mexico is justa lot more laid back.
Um, we're, we're, we're able towork smart instead of hard
because we're not constantlyunder this like pressure chamber
of just competing and trying tokeep up with your neighbors or
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your friends or whoever else.
Nobody really gives a shit herehow nice your car is or your
house or everything.
Um, people care how you are as aperson much more than that
versus the things that you haveand all, all of the.
The physical assets that you'veaccumulated around you.
Mexicans tend to value family,personal relationships, and
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social time.
And it's just such a morecommunity oriented culture.
Yeah.
And special message to theladies.
'cause I know this is somethingthat also trends onto the
internet, which is the wholesoft life era.
Uh, if you want a soft life,just move out of countries that
don't want you to have one.
Yeah.
That simple.
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So next is the cost ofhealthcare.
You can get excellent qualityhealthcare at a fraction of the
price, and you don't have tofight with insurance all the
time.
So a lot of people don't knowthis or a lot of people will ask
us the question like, Hey, wewanna go to Mexico, but we're
scared of the healthcare.
We'll get that from a lot ofAmericans.
And I'm like, yeah, can youstill find what you need?
Can you see doctors?
We'll get questions like thatall the time.
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And what a lot of people don'trealize is that healthcare in
Mexico is actually very highquality.
Mexico makes up.
40% of the world's medical anddental tourism.
So that should tell yousomething about the quality that
you can find here in Mexico.
Plus doctors makes house,doctors make house calls or eye
doctors actually trying to getover here right now.
And you can communicate withthem on WhatsApp.
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And I would say like every timesomething happens,'cause things
happen, we just don't go into apanic.
So for example.
You had an accident on the roofthe other day.
He's fine.
Right?
Totally fine.
He did not fall off the roof oranything.
I, I was trying to get into thehot tub from my chair.
Uh, long story, I shouldn't havedone that.
I, it was, it was a little riskyand I ended up tumbling and
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somehow tumbling off of a chairslash hot tub.
I managed to scrape.
My back pretty bad.
Like it looks like I fell off a,a scooter in Thailand or
something.
So scratch my back, twist myankle.
Uh, I fell on my hand, so likeI, I beat up my, my arm a little
bit too.
All, all in about a.
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You know, two, three or fourfoot falls.
So I'm still trying to figureout how, how he did that.
And we don't have it on thecameras so we don't know.
But anyway, it was kind ofscary, um, at first'cause we
didn't realize like what theextent of the situation was.
Fortunately ended up not being ahuge deal and we didn't have to
go to a doctor or anything likethat.
But had we have had to go.
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To a doctor, it would not havebankrupted us.
So there is a certain peace ofmind, uh, that comes with that.
Yeah.
Here, if you, let's say youscrape yourself up, and I didn't
need stitches, fortunately itwas, it was pretty superficial,
just a lot of gauze andneosporin.
But if I would've had to, let'ssay, get stitches somewhere, we
wouldn't have even had to go tolike an urgent care or an
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emergency room.
You can actually go to thepharmacy.
It's about a.
10 minute walk from here andthey have a doctor right there
next to the pharmacy andstitches cost a little under$10
US if you need to get stitchedup.
And this is a real doctor, likethis isn't some weird, um, back,
back alley.
Yeah.
Like sketchy kind of like, it'snot the, it's not like the vet
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doctor from Better Call Saul.
Like this is an actual, youknow, certified human doctor.
Uh, some, in some cases, evenbilingual and may, maybe it's,
you know, one of their, theirfirst, uh.
Few jobs in their career, likeafter that, maybe they, they go
on to a specialty after the reExactly.
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Become a surgeon, but whatever.
But they're gonna do, but thisis an actual doctor.
They can write prescriptions andyou can get the medicine right
there at the pharmacy if youneed it.
We happen to order a couplecreams and things the last few
months off of Rappi or othermedicine that we needed, whether
it's Tylenol or something thatwould.
In the US maybe require aprescription.
Here it's a lot more easy toaccess that.
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Um, if, if you need it, whatevertypes of medicines you need, you
still want to see a doctor forsure.
If you're gonna get anythingthat, that has, let's say,
addictive potential or anythinglike that.
Um, but you can see a doctor,they can write you a
prescription what for whateveryou need.
And you're in and outta there in15 minutes, 20 minutes.
Um.
With the prescription in handand you're not paying more than
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10 to$15, even if you do go seea specialist here, the out of
pocket cost, even if you don'thave any kind of insurance, is
usually less than$60 us.
Which is great.
That's like the full cash payprice, not the copay.
And the doctor will spend 30, 40minutes with you or more, uh,
depending on what you need orwhat, what sort of questions you
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have.
It's not like they're churningthrough patients in 15 minutes
like they would in the US andCanada.
And the other thing that'sreally cool is that if you do
need insurance, like we have formajor medical issues, uh,
fortunately we haven't had touse it, but for any kind of
major medical emergencies,trauma, um.
Accidents.
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Uh, you know, God forbid, likesome, something happens, you
need ongoing treatment.
We only pay about a hundreddollars per month each for that
insurance, and that allows us togo to the best private hospital,
uh, that allows us to go to thebest private hospitals.
With a low deductible, it's,it's typically a thousand
dollars or$2,000 for adeductible, uh, which is
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actually quite low compared to,to the us.
That's just really for majormedical things.
But most cases, even when I wentto the er, uh, few, you know,
few years back with a stomachbug, like a really nasty stomach
bug from some bad street tacosthat we ate in a town outside of
Guadalajara, um, sometimes yougotta be careful with that
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street food if you're not usedto it yet.
Um, but I was there for theentire day.
I had tests run, they gave memedicine.
I was in the hospital for, forpretty much a, a whole day,
almost, almost 12 hours.
And the full bill ended up beingunder$400 for the specialist,
for the treatment, for all thelab work exams, hospital, bed,
like everything.
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Um, so you're not even gonna getclose to a deductible for like a
major medical policy.
99% of the time, it's just therefor peace of mind.
Yeah.
And one thing that's reallyinteresting about Mexico,
because you brought up thepharmacies, you can actually get
a lot of controlled substancesover the counter, uh, in Mexico,
but we don't see people likeabusing them.
Remember that we were in Miamiand you were trying to get, um.
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Uh, Sudafed or something, orwhat was it?
Yeah, I mean, that's not even acontrolled substance per se.
They, they keep it, it sort ofis.
They keep that behind thecounter in the US you have to
show your license, all thatstuff.
Yeah.
You have to show your ID likeyou're, you're a child asking
for permission from them to buythe thing.
And then we were like, howcurious,'cause this stuff is all
over the counter in Mexico.
And then the guy behind thecounter was like, yeah, well
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here people will buy it and useit to make meth.
And we were like, yeah, okay.
Well, yeah, despite the factthat, um.
Most medicines that you needare, are more accessible here.
You don't see anywhere near thesame rates of like addiction or
abuse as you would in the us Andthat's, I I don't know if we
have that on the list here.
I don't think we do, but I'll,I'll, I'll touch on that, which
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is, the medical system in the USis designed to in, in a lot of
other countries in the, in thewestern world as well.
It's designed to extract.
As much money as it can frompeople and get them addicted to
medicine that they're constantlypaying into the system, uh, to
get versus I would venture tosay, and we're still doing more
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research and understanding moreabout how, how the different
systems works work, butanecdotally and from our
experience in Mexico, I thinkit's much more focused on just
getting you the treatment thatyou need very quickly and not
milking you for everything youhave to the point where.
Thousands and thousands andthousands of people every year,
well, filing bankruptcy formedical issues.
I think I, I have an explanationto that because, because there
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is such a booming medicaltourism industry here.
We were having this chat with alot of our friends who work in
holistic healing here in Mexico.
So here you can find very highquality private healthcare.
You can still find a lot ofpeople, uh, with private
practices, uh, because you havelike the government system as
well.
Mm-hmm.
So we're not talking about that.
We're talking about the private,uh, but there's competition.
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Among all of them in order toget business.
Because medical tourism is sucha huge thing, uh, in Mexico.
So it would like behoove you tobe a good doctor and get things
done and actually heal thepatients.
'cause then that brings in morebusiness.
And on that same note, you don'thave as much of a centrally
controlled system where you'vegot big pharma and the medical
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industrial complex essentiallyin, in cahoots with, with the
insurance companies.
With the doctors and the doctorsbasically.
Funded and educated by thepharmaceutical companies, and
you've got much more of both thewestern medicine and the
traditional, uh, kind of Easternor even traditional Mexican
medicine.
You can't even Mexican medicinefind Mayan medicine.
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Mm-hmm.
In, in Mexico, I remember thefirst time I was in Mexico, I
was down in Chiapas and theyactually had a hospital down
there that practiced Mayanmedicine.
So that's, that's an interestingnote.
Okay, next one.
Random violence.
We don't have to worry aboutthat.
Uh, in Mexico.
One question that we get a lotis Mexico safe?
Um, well, it just kind ofdepends.
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Um, so do you wanna talk aboutthe, the safety, because that is
a question that, that we get alot.
Absolutely.
So the thing that we, we don'tmiss in the US is having to be
constantly on edge.
That god forbid somebody's got.
Uh, a gun or an automatic weaponeven, or, or you're, you're in
a, a crowded mall or subwaystation or going to school like
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last week, just going to yourcollege classes and boom, here
comes a gunman.
And it's not just guns, it'salso like in, in New York, I, I,
we got a lot of shit for thislast time, but I don't care.
There's a lot of places in NewYork that are extremely
dangerous because people areeither mentally unwell or are
part of gangs or whateverthey're doing.
Or Los Angeles, we saw it in LAYeah.
Um, there, there, there'shomeless people.
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Some of them are armed.
Um, a lot of them are mentallyunwell.
There's also just a lot ofpeople, uh, who for whatever
reason are going around randomlystabbing people.
Like you don't see that reallyhappening in Mexico.
Is there more petty crime incertain tourist areas?
Sure.
Uh, do you probably want to nothave your cell phone out in
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areas where people could like,easily go and swoop it on a, on
a motorcycle?
Sure.
Um, there, there are things likethat that happen and yes, in, in
Mexico and in other countries inLatin America, you do want to be
more vigilant of, of certainthings like that, like
pickpocketing and petty crime.
But I would argue that in.
In the us, in the UK andAustralia and a lot of parts of
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Western Europe, it's even moreprevalent than it's here.
Oh.
Uh, Paris and Barcelona are likeinfamous.
Yeah.
For pickpocket.
And you don't see the, the stateDepartment issuing, issuing
level four travel advisors aboutgoing to Paris.
But for the average person, itmight be a lot more dangerous
than, let's say, going toGuadalajara and going to the
touristy areas, areas here.
So it's certainly differentkinds of, of crime.
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But you don't see anywherenearly as much random violence
in Mexico as you do in the UShere.
Yes.
I.
There are issues, uh,potentially between rivaling,
uh, you know, organizations ifyou will, uh, in Mexico, and you
hear about those on the news.
But number one, they'retypically isolated to small
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areas of towns.
Um, for example, like there arecertain types of violence like
that right now.
Encina Loa.
Uh, in Chiapas because not asmuch as before.
It used to be that so manypeople were going through
Chiapas and other parts of thesouth of Mexico, that there
would be a lot of humantrafficking.
So you'd have to worry aboutgangs that were created as a
result of that, that were tryingto take advantage of people, not
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so much anymore, but in the bigcities, uh, Mexico City,
Guadalajara, you really just donot see a lot of that random
violence.
And when you do have like those.
Those gangs, for example, dothey exist?
Yes, but they exist in the UStoo.
And more importantly here inMexico, yes, there are some
targeted shootings, but thatdoesn't affect the vast majority
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of people.
There isn't a lot of crime.
Again, outside of those, thosehot spots, um, like Cool Khan is
one certain towns by the border.
You do see that sort of thing.
It depends on where you are forsure.
And most of the areas whereexpats are and foreigners are,
uh, you're not.
You're not seeing any of that,you're not gonna see any of that
in your, likely in your entirestay for years or decades living
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in Mexico.
Yeah.
We've had people in the commentswho've been expats for decades
in Mexico and they're like, I'venever seen anything.
Um, go down.
And a lot of people don't knowthis, like a lot of the cities
in Mexico now have comparablecrime rates to a lot of the
cities in the United States, uh,or some cities in Mexico.
And Mexico is getting safer, butthe US is getting more and more
dangerous.
Exactly right.
And so is Canada and so isWestern Europe again,'cause it's
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more like random, um, type ofviolence rather than very
targeted.
Which is what we're seeing here.
You know, cities like Gaman areactually now ranking as safer
than a lot of US cities.
And you can find many that inMexico, which is literally the
safest city in all the Americas.
And there's, you know, sometheories as to why, but we're
not gonna go into those rightnow.
So number six of the list ofthings that we do not have to
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worry about anymore, beingoutside of the us.
Is isolation.
Mexicans, as we mentionedearlier, are very community
oriented, very family oriented.
It's just super easy to besocial in this country.
Uh, we go to meditation classesregularly.
We're actually facilitating, uh,one of the classes right now
where we're basically assistingwith, with that program.
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We're making friends everywhere.
Uh, we go and, you know, getour, our, our haircut or do do
our, you know, nails orsomething and we're going out.
Um, you know, we make friendswith, with owners of, of stores
and other places that we go.
Yeah.
Or even, for example, we justwent out the other night to the
English speaking businessnetworking here in Guang, Ohio.
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Oh, that's right.
We gotta follow up with some ofthose people.
Yeah.
And it was a great event.
It was Mexicans, it wasCanadians.
It was Americans.
There were people from Asiathere.
There were people from all overthe world at this English
speaking business, networkinghere in Guadalajara.
And a lot of these people.
Spoke multiple languages and haddone business all over the
world.
And I had said to you afterward,I'm like, you know, a lot of the
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business events we've been to inthe United States,'cause we both
have been entrepreneurs for over15 years, they're so
transactional and they're solike, I don't know, what's the
word?
Like, so it's, it's more in theUS it's a lot more about just
getting the deal done, gettingin there, buying what you need,
getting out.
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And people are, especially theworkers at those stores, they,
they're, I mean, actuallytrained, I would say, to, to
almost be more like machines onaverage than, than to act like
people and be social and be, befriendly.
There's no like humanconnection, right?
In a lot of like businessnetworking states outside of
maybe a small, I mean, yeah, I,I'm talking about even just like
a store that you go to, you buysomething so that I'll, I'll say
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that the two, the two aspects,so like you go to a store, you
buy something, I mean, now it'sall being replaced with self
self checkout anyway.
They don't even want peopleworking there, but usually.
I would argue in part becausepeople are so underpaid and
they're so stressed financially,especially in, in those jobs
that they, they don't, theydon't even have the, the time to
think about being social, beingfriendly, and, and they're just
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being rushed through onecustomer after the next, after
the next.
That's a huge distinction herewhere you might go into a store
or go to the market or whateverand, and actually have
conversations about life andmake friends and, and so many
other things.
So it's a different vibe.
And then to Amanda's point, whenyou go to a networking, uh,
event in the us.
Oh, what do you, what do you do?
Like they, they're constantlytrying to size you up and figure
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out if, if you're a good fit forthem so that they can sell you
something.
Uh, it's very transactionalversus here, a lot of times it's
also very forced.
Yeah.
In the United States, like forexample, we've gotten a few
emails that are very interestingwhere I'm like, Hey, you know,
we've moved in a differentdirection.
We're now doing a relocationthing.
And they're like, that's greatfor our audience.
Let's do something like, no,actually it's horrible for your
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audience.
It has nothing to do with youraudience.
But there's that, that.
Constant push.
Mm-hmm.
Kind of a thing, you know?
'cause it's, it's all verycompetitive.
Yeah.
Versus here, you know, one, oneof the friends we met.
At this event, you know, sheshared her, she, she makes these
like, uh, homemade fruit snacksand she shared them with, with
the group and we're gonna go buysome on, on Amazon.
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'cause that's her, that's herbusiness.
And we talked about just, justall sorts of random things like
how they ended up there and lifeand, and travel and like, it was
an, an actually enjoyableexperience.
It didn't feel like I was at aChamber of Commerce event with,
you know, stuffy suitseverywhere.
And.
And here's my business card.
Here's my business card.
Trying to pitch me their, theirnext thing.
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It's, it's just a differentvibe.
Yeah.
The next one is high taxes.
So a lot of Americanentrepreneurs don't realize that
they could actually slash theirtax bill, uh, by moving to
another country, by you.
We're not attorneys or lawyersor CPAs or anything like that.
We do work with a lot of them.
Uh, just for the record.
So this is not tax advice,right?
We do work with a lot of them.
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These things are constantlychanging, so this is just a
state of affairs right now.
So we slash our tax bill thanksto the foreign earned income
exclusion, um, which a lot ofAmerican entrepreneurs can use
in order to slash their tax billwhile they live overseas up to a
certain amount.
And then depending on whatcountry you go to, they have tax
treaties.
Uh, so there's no doubletaxation.
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Mexico is one of the countriesthat has a tax treaty, so
there's no double taxation of UScitizens and for all the
Mexicans complaining in thecomments about the taxes, it
also works the other way around.
So when there's Mexicans livingin the United States.
States and doing business overthere.
They are also not being doubletaxed by two different countries
because of this tax treaty.
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So the other thing that wereally don't miss is this idea
of political polarization herein Mexico.
Oh God.
Yeah.
Every time I log onto Facebookis just horrendous right now.
I've had to unfollow a lot ofpeople on both sides actually.
Yeah, because, um, politics inthe US and I in in other
countries as well, but we knowthe US because we're from there.
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US politics are basically acult.
You're either, you know, all theway in this, on this side of the
line or on this other side ofthe line, and you're trained to
basically hate anybody whobelieves something slightly
different than what you do.
And the irony is the things thatare actually, I.
The most important, hey, likefreedom of speech and, uh, being
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able to have a relationship withwhoever you, you want, as long
as it's, it doesn't cause harmto someone else.
The ability to make money, theability to make money and not be
overly taxed on it.
I mean, those are common thingsthat I think most people on
healthcare sides.
Yeah, like people should behealthy and have access to
healthcare.
Uh, a lot of, I would say themajority of people on both sides
believe in like basic.
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Human rights and things likethat.
But unfortunately, we're taughtto see anybody who doesn't share
our, uh, political affiliationas the enemy.
And they're, they're absolutelynot.
Yeah, the politicalpolarization, I mean, I've, I've
started coming back to Facebookand posting things and, you
know, our content on Facebook isgetting a lot of attention.
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Actually, this video was a postthat we did on Facebook that got
a lot of attention, and I'mlike, oh, there's a video.
Um.
One of the reasons I think we'regetting so much attention with
the entrepreneur expat contenton Facebook is because it's
breaking through all the noise.
Because all I see when I logonto Facebook is the same few
people selling the same fivethings to the same group of
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people.
Or I see everybody bitchingabout politics regardless of
which side they're on.
Um, and now I'm seeing it withthe Canadians too.
I know there's an election.
Things are a little heated.
It's a little crazy.
In Canada as well.
I'm now starting to see theCanadians get a little snippy.
On Facebook, um, as well.
So, you know, it's, it's justnot, it's a dumpster fire.
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It's an absolute dumpster fireover the polarization.
And then you have people likeus, uh, and anybody who's
interested in global citizenshipor living in other countries,
you don't tend to fit into thetwo boxes at all.
Zero, right?
You also realize there's no suchthing as a perfect country, so
you.
You know, make a mix ofdifferent things depending on
what works for you Exactly.
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Uh, but you don't tend to fit inthat box.
And we see it in the commentsall the time.
We try and be as nuanced aspossible.
We try and show all the sides.
Uh, we try and show the globalcitizen perspective of things
and we'll see it in the commentswhere people are just having a,
a, like a conniption in thecomments on one side or the
other just because they didn'tagree with two things.
That we said, and I'm like,that's not normal behavior.
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No.
It's, it's really not, it's notnormal behavior, but that's
what's going on in the UnitedStates where people are adding
each other's throats and whatthey don't realize in parts of
Canada and what they don'trealize is, uh, all of that
stuff is happening to keepeverybody separated.
Yeah.
It's, it's, it's part of theplan.
They work for the same team.
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Yeah.
At the end of the day.
Not, you know, there's nuance,right?
So, so don't come after us inthe comments and say, no, this
is good.
Sure, it is completelydifferent.
But if you, if you windeverything back to its core
roots, they're all promoting thesame globalist agenda almost a
hundred percent of the time.
There's exceptions, there'sslight exceptions here and
there, whether it, it is aspecific politician.
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Um, or one of their policiesthat, okay, maybe it's going
against the status quo a littlebit, but at the end of the day,
four years, E every four yearsin the US you think that you
have this massive regime changeand that things are gonna be
super different, but they neverare.
Yeah, they never are.
And then when you starttraveling a lot and living in
other countries and uh, engagingwith people who live in
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different countries, you justrealize like everybody's the
same.
Like, why are we all arguingover this dumb shit at end day?
Yeah.
And Mexicans don't fight aboutpolitics constantly.
Not quite like this.
Maybe there's a little bit ofheat around elections and you
know, somebody will say, Hey, Ibelieve this thing and this
person should win and whatever.
But families aren't breaking upbecause of it.
Right?
Yes.
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Like, that's not a thing here.
That's a, that's a thing in mostof the world.
That's, that's actually a thingin the United States where
family members have stoppedtalking to each other, uh, over
politics.
I'm like, that's that's civilwar vibes, y'all.
That is, that is, that's thedirection things seem to be
headed.
That's okay.
So next one, which is related iswhen you, at least in Mexico,
but we know in a lot of othercountries that expats are
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interested in, they tell us thesame, uh, people aren't.
As anxious as Americans are,Americans are to the point where
they're so anxious they canbarely function.
And again, we see it in thecomments, we see it on Facebook,
we feel it when we go back.
How many expats go back Unlessyou go to Miami?
So what everybody has said, andI agree, but how many expats go
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back and they're like, as soonas I get off the plane, my blood
pressure rises.
Absolutely.
Or my anxiety goes through theroof.
No one really smiles at eachother in the US anymore.
I made the mistake when I, whenI, uh, was in the middle of, uh,
you know, coming back to the USafter being in Columbia for, for
several years of saying hi tothe people, my fellow elevator
mates in Hollywood, California.
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And people just looked at melike, what the hell is wrong
with this guy?
And I was like, but you, all thetime, you're in, you're in
Medellin, you're in Guadalajara.
Uh, definitely anywhere in LatinAmerica.
Uh, and I would imagine a lot ofother parts of the world as well
where you say hello to peoplearound you because you're
humans.
Uh, also inhabiting this thingthat we call earth, right?
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Sharing this human existencewith, with your fellow planet
mates.
Uh, and it's just very normal tobe like, oh, hey, what's up?
I hope you're having a good day.
And people don't think thatthat's odd.
Um, you people acknowledge eachother's existence here.
And let's not even get startedon the crisis of homelessness
and mental health in a lot ofthe US cities where like you
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just don't see that here becausepeople have their family as a
support system.
Whereas in the US, whether youwant to call it a conspiracy or
not.
There's this huge degradation ofthe family unit and the family
system and people aren't asconnected.
You know, back to the politicsand like how politics splits
families apart, there's so manyother things as well.
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Money and, and both parents, uh,having to, having to work and
the kid being raised basicallyby the government and whatever
else.
Uh, there's so many things goingon in the US that cause this.
Yeah.
And that's also a culture thingthat's not just a, a, a
government thing.
That's also a culture thingwhere the United States is all
about the rugged individualism.
Um, you know, and individualismhas its good side and its bad
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side, but a lot of people havesaid, Hey, in the United States
it's gone kind of overboard.
And then in other countries youhave more of that, uh,
collective, uh, kind ofmentality where it's more about
the community, which also hasits pros and its cons.
Right.
So neither are perfect, but Ithink it's figuring out how to
find that blend.
And it seems like a lot ofAmericans are finding a way to
balance out that, you know,hyper individualism in the
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United States.
That's leading to a lot ofproblems.
So the next thing that wedefinitely do not miss about the
US living in Mexico is needing acar.
Where we're at in thisneighborhood here in
Guadalajara, we can walk toeverything we need, the hair
places, the food places,restaurants, coffee shops,
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pharmacy, doctors, banks,pharmacy, absolutely everything.
We do not need a car.
Sometimes I'll get on my, mylittle scooter, um, my little
electric scooter and, and youknow, to, to explore around
more.
We have a car, we probablywon't, won't have it for too
long because it's just.
Really unnecessary.
Uh, Uber's also a lot cheaper,even relative to the salaries
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here.
So people can get around anUber, people can get around a
taxi.
There's decent publictransportation in these days.
There's decent publictransportation and you're not
paying a hundred dollars to gofive miles from the airport to
wherever you live in an Uber,uh, because of how inflated gas
and the taxes and everythingelse are.
So that means that things tendto be built in a way where you
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don't have, uh.
Necessarily like suburbs, theway you do in the US where you
just have to drive everywhere.
There's more of a city centerkind of vibe, and there's
neighborhoods that have betterurban planning.
So you can walk within 10 blocksto almost everything you would
need in most neighborhoods, atleast the ones that are expat
friendly here in Guadalajara andother cities in Mexico.
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And finally, we don't have toworry about crap in the food
supply.
So every single time I do aninterview for Expat Story
series, and I think every singletime you've done an interview
too.
Inevitably food quality in theUnited States will come up as a
topic of conversation on theinterview because expats who
live all over the world havenoticed that food quality in the
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United States is absolutelyterrible and you don't really
realize it until you go to othercountries.
So a lot of the things that theUS allows in their food supply
is actually illegal.
Um, in other countries and also,uh, I've noticed that portions
in the United States are likemassive in comparison to a lot
of other countries as well.
You always need like yoursupersize fries and soda and all
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that kind of stuff.
Um.
And let's be real.
The food system is built to keepyou sick, uh, in the United
States.
So quality of food is definitelynot something we have to worry
about.
Um, I will say the first coupleyears I was in our first year,
year and a half, because therewas so much going on, we were
doing more short-term travelexploring the country than we
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officially moved, andimmigration and wedding and all
kinds of stuff.
That, you know, we gained alittle bit of weight because we
just weren't paying attention.
We were also on a cruise, honey.
Yeah.
We were also on a cruise.
Right.
We weren't paying two of them inthat time period.
So we weren't paying attentionto what we were eating.
But once we decided to starttaking it seriously and be like,
we're gonna go to the gym threeor four times a week, we're
gonna eat more healthy.
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It's like the, the weight juststarted to fall off.
Um, you know, and we startedgetting toned very quickly.
Whereas in the United States,you know, people struggle with
that a lot more.
Yeah, and it's just because ofall the, all the preservatives,
that's a big thing.
There's, there's preservativesin the food, there's toxic
chemicals in the food.
Uh, there's glyphosate, there'sso many other things.
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I mean, we're not, we're notdoctors or nutritionists, so I,
I don't feel confident speakingabout the, the individual
elements until we do moreresearch into this.
But from personal experience andfrom everything we've heard.
Uh, when we go to the US we tendto gain a lot more weight.
We tend to feel, and when we getsick, we get sick.
We tend to feel sluggish, um,here, like less digestive
issues, uh, more energy, easierto, to to exercise.
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Easier to lose weight.
I don't gain weight even if I doeat like a larger portion of a
restaurant or something.
I know that the stuff in thefood is a lot more natural.
I can walk to the butcher shopabout five blocks away and get
meat from Jalisco, like from afarm a couple hours away.
Not everything is imported fromother countries.
It's just healthier.
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It's healthier, because the, thelaws for sure are more catered
towards providing healthier foodversus in the us but more
importantly, people just areused to eating healthier natural
food from.
Closer from your, yourneighborhood or from, uh, the
surrounding area that you're in,and not having it shipped across
so many different state lines oreven country lines to get to you
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where it has to be preserved andinjected with a bunch of
chemicals.
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