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Moving to Mexico: 10 Reasons Why We Chose to Live in Guadalajara https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK23vD8_xjc&list=PLh3xKhkMgH_LAY7UV78YMgms-f2e1UcwN&index=23
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Justin Keltner (00:00):
If you've been watching the news at all lately
(00:02):
in the US you see that thingsare getting crazier and crazier
every single day.
And I don't just mean, uh,what's happened the last couple
weeks, if you're watching thisin September of 2025, or perhaps
even the last 6, 12, 18 monthsof.
Of chaos that's been ensuing inthe United States.
(00:23):
Things are getting quite badever since a lot of these things
started happening as as, as longas 18 months ago.
We've been getting more and morerequests every single day from
Americans looking to move toMexico in 2025.
So in this video, we're gonnatalk about the top seven reasons
that they give for wanting tomove to Mexico.
(00:46):
This year.
Now, if you're interested inmoving abroad, if you're
interested in an internationallifestyle, international tax
planning, wealth building, realestate purchases, uh, perhaps
having a Plan B passport, youdefinitely want to hit that
subscribe button and click thenotification bell because we're
coming out with multiple videosand podcast episodes.
(01:08):
Every single week talking aboutthese topics.
I'm also gonna ask that you givethis video a like if you enjoy
it, because it helps us with ourmission of inspiring a million
entrepreneur expats and aspiringexpats with this content.
And if you're like, you knowwhat, Justin, this is the year
that.
(01:29):
We moved to Mexico.
I wanna make it happen.
How can we make this happen now?
Just go to entrepreneurexpat.com/consult and you can
apply for a free consult.
Or if you're not quite thereyet, you can just download our
free Moving to Mexico Guidebelow this video.
so now let's dive into the topseven reasons that Americans are
giving for wanting to move.
(01:49):
To Mexico in 2025.
Number one, and I alluded alittle bit to this earlier, is
the ongoing political tension inthe US Between the heated
political climate there,political assassinations,
division instilled people beingpushed farther and farther
towards the left, farther andfarther towards the right, and
(02:10):
really just this, this.
Overall division that, that thepowers the bee are, are sowing,
uh, amongst the masses.
Things are getting really crazy.
If you're like, no matter whathappens, I'm on the left.
I'm, I'm with the Democrats, orI'm on the right, I'm with the
Republicans.
Well, number one, you probablywouldn't be watching this
channel.
Uh, this channel is really forpeople that are like, you know
(02:31):
what?
Fuck all y'all, because, uh,none of what's happening on
either side really makes a tonof sense.
And it kind of makes you wonder,uh, who's really pulling the
strings here.
This is for.
Free thinkers.
This is for people who realizethat they're kind of trapped in
the matrix, or at least thatthey were trapped in the matrix,
and they're looking to reallyescape it fully.
(02:52):
Uh, so that's what we helppeople do when we get them
second passports and secondresidencies in other countries.
But when you look at thenumbers, and we've done other
videos on this about the safetyof Mexico and things like that.
Statistically, it's now safer ina lot of the regions that expats
live in Mexico versus many ofthe major cities in the us.
(03:12):
So it's not just the politicaltension itself and the threat of
violence, it's the actualviolence and the safety numbers.
But I don't know about you.
Uh, for me personally, I want togo out and take a, take a walk
down the street, not just.
With the feeling that, hey, I'mnot gonna get mugged or
something in, in New York or, oranywhere in LA in Venice and
(03:33):
Santa Monica.
So many places that used to bereally nice are now so
dangerous, uh, in the us.
But I also want to be able toexpress my, my feelings, uh, my
political views, my outlook onthings without fear of political
persecution.
And the irony of this is that somany people attribute Latin
America to, you know, peoplegetting assassinated because of
(03:56):
their political beliefs.
And it's happening right now inthe us.
I don't care which side of the,the aisle you're on, uh, I don't
care what you think specificallyabout certain people that has
happened to.
I will stand up right now andsay like, it is not okay.
Right?
It's one thing to, to say, youknow what, uh, this person might
be saying things that are.
(04:16):
Not true that are, that areoffending a certain group of
people that are maybe bigoted.
And I'm not saying that any ofthose things weren't said.
Again, we're talking about notjust one person, by the way, uh,
but, but many instances of thisnow happening in the us but it's
an entirely different thing tosay, Hey, without due process,
uh, we should be executingpeople in public.
And that's, like I said, an anidea that people previously
(04:38):
associated more than anythingwith like these so-called third
world countries.
And now all of those things thatwe thought about, let's say
Mexico or Columbia, whoironically are, are all becoming
safer and safer are nowhappening in the us And it
saddens me to see that because Iwas born in the us.
I was born and raised inCalifornia.
I lived there, uh, for over twodecades, but.
(05:00):
It's something that when we'rebeing realistic, you know, we're
like, how much more of this canwe take?
And so that's one of the reasonsa lot of people who have reached
out to us for one-on-one helpand even coaching and other
support from our channel, uh,have been telling us now.
Number two is cost of living.
So you can save 50 to 80% ormore.
Just by moving to anothercountry, so as an example, a
(05:23):
family of four in the lake chiparea, uh, that's near
Guadalajara, Mexico, or even inthe city of Guadalajara, can
live pretty comfortably forabout$3,000.
US.
Per month.
Uh, here, my wife and I, it'sjust us and we have two pets.
We've got a, a dog and a cat.
We spend even less than that.
So I was including maybe twochildren, uh, in that estimate
(05:46):
because it's actually probablygonna be closer to 2500, 2600.
But for just the two of us andour pets, like total personal
expenses, we're looking at likemaybe$2,000 per month that
includes rent.
That includes personal care,getting our nails done, our hair
done.
Uh, sometimes they even comehere and do those sorts of
things, massages at home everytwo weeks.
(06:07):
Uh, all of our groceries.
We have a cleaning lady thatcomes twice a week for the type
of lifestyle that we have here.
If we were living, let's say, inSan Francisco or LA or even
Miami, we'd be spending wellover$10,000 a month down the
drain.
Not just making 10 k, but wewould be easily spending 10 KA
month every single month.
Uh, on, you know, rent alone in,in major cities, now you're
(06:29):
talking two, three,$4,000 amonth.
Any sort of, uh, made or househousekeeper or anything like
that, that's easily anotherthousand dollars a month
depending on what they do.
Um, but if they're comingmultiple times a week for an
entire day, uh, you're talkingthousands of dollars.
For these sorts of things.
Uh, and groceries too.
I mean, every time I go toCalifornia, we can't walk out of
(06:51):
Ralph's without spending atleast a hundred dollars just for
snacks or if you're actuallyshopping for all of your meals,
I mean.
500, 600,$800 a month perperson.
In a lot of cases, it's justgotten out of hand, and we spend
maybe$300 a month for the two ofus on groceries.
You can increase that a littlebit if you've got a couple
(07:11):
kiddos as well.
But that number that I gave you,the 2000 or so for a couple and
about 3000, that's including allof our pet care and foods for
them, and, and they eat well,like they're not eating, uh,
cheap.
Uh, croquetas, as we call them,are like dried dog food, like
they're eating, uh, organic rawmeat, like natural diet, uh, all
that, all that kind of stuff.
(07:32):
So you can live very, very wellfor a family of four, for$3,000
a month or less, uh, in prettyclose to US standards as well.
So it just kind of raises thequestion of why would you keep
living somewhere that'sexpensive?
And the quality of life, whichwe'll get into in a minute is
just getting worse and worse,right?
(07:53):
Why not live somewhere that isaffordable, that's safe, and
that also saves you a ton ofmoney so you can invest that
back into your business, or youcan save that and grow your nest
egg.
Now, number three is all of theinvestment opportunity that is
here in Mexico.
So we are personally earning,and by the way, this is not
financial advice.
Disclaimer, consult yourfinancial professional.
(08:14):
We're not giving any sort offinancial or legal or investment
advice here, but we personallyare earning upwards of 10 to
15%.
Per year interest from banks,fintechs, and peer-to-peer
lending systems among others.
Uh, we also have connectionswith people that run different
trading firms here in Mexico.
And is it safe?
(08:34):
Like are, are these safeinvestments?
I mean, it's all relative,right?
Mexico is a lot less regulatedthan the US but I would say that
that's a good thing in many waysbecause.
Here, the capital markets are alot tighter here.
The rate, rate of interest forcredit cards significantly
higher, but that also means thatthe yields on your investments
are going to be higher and noneof those investments are
accessible unless you have aMexican ID card.
(08:57):
So that's like a Mexicanresidence card.
Or later on, you can get aMexican passport for sure, but
at the very least you have tohave some type of legal
residence here in Mexico to haveaccess to those investments.
And we have people that aregetting their residents just to
be able to invest in Mexico andother places in Latin America
because of the amazingopportunity really compared to
(09:19):
to, to more developed markets.
To be able to get yields onthose investments.
And that's not even getting intoreal estate because that's a
whole other ball game.
Uh, obviously there's realestate that is more of a, of a
steady, uh, like growth sort ofthing.
There's real estate that's a lotmore speculative.
Um, but there are deals to behad in real estate where your
yields are also going to besignificantly higher than a lot
(09:42):
of other countries.
And contrary to perhaps popularbelief, especially in the US
there are a lot of laws hereprotecting real estate
ownership.
For locals and foreigners alike,so you can not only make your
money stretch farther and gofarther, but have a ton of
opportunity to earn upwards of10% per year, in some cases, as
(10:02):
high as 15, 20, 25 with some ofthe things that we've been
seeing.
The number four reason thatpeople are moving from America
to Mexico is the higher qualityof life here versus in the us.
So you can walk everywhere in,in a lot of places in Mexico,
including Guadalajara, where welived for about three years,
(10:22):
people generally tend to be justmore open, more receptive, more
friendly.
Uh, there's a lot more nature.
Uh, there's a lot more just todo, to explore.
Uh, I would also kind of lumpthis in into higher quality of
life, is you have a lot moresort of soft freedoms as well.
Um, so you can, you know, you'renot harassed as much for just,
(10:45):
let's say you're, you know,you're, you're walking your dog
without a leash and she's welltrained, right?
You're not gonna get a$300ticket for that on the sidewalk.
Uh.
Almost any, I've never heard ofthat happening.
Or for jaywalking or for justlike silly things.
The government's not constantlysurveilling you and breathing
down your throat.
There's a lot more soft freedomsand the people are just kinder
(11:07):
and friendlier overall is whateverybody has been telling us.
Now number five is the greatfood quality here.
So a lot of the food, especiallywhere we're at in the Lake Chip
area, and even in places likeGuadalajara, they'll bring the
food in the same day or, orwithin a day from fresh local
farms.
It's very fresh food.
Uh, there aren't as manychemicals that are being put
(11:27):
into the food, and so the, the.
Experience that you have, uh,eating here, I mean, it's easy
to lose weight because you don'thave all these preservatives,
all these chemicals in the food.
Uh, not everything is just likepackaged, processed sugar.
You can find local vendors onthe street selling like, or, you
know, organic or natural sortsof desserts everywhere.
(11:49):
Uh, you can even buy your, uh,pitaya, your dragon fruit or
other, other fruits like on, onthese roadside stands just kind
of coming into into town.
Uh, it's, it's just great andit's all from local farms 15
minutes away in a lot of areaslike where we live here in Al
versus in the us.
So much of the food, even thoughwe have some of the best land
(12:12):
for growing things, so much ofthe food in the US is brought in
from other countries, thousandsof miles away.
I don't understand why.
Uh, a lot of it is, you know,just convenience and money
related, but, uh, the food inMexico tends to be significantly
fresher and by the way, a lotcheaper.
You're talking like 30, 40, 50%cheaper in many cases or more.
(12:36):
Number six, great healthcare.
So the healthcare here inMexico.
Is on par with the us,especially the private
healthcare system and privateinsurance is very affordable.
Amanda and myself, we're in ourthirties.
We spend less than a hundreddollars per month each on
healthcare with lowerdeductibles, better access to
doctors, better network, bettereverything than in the US that
(12:58):
those are for plans with lessthan a thousand dollars US
deductible, and it covers prettymuch everything up to millions
of dollars.
Of coverage, even though Mexicois the second most expensive
healthcare system in, uh, inNorth America, after the us it's
still significantly cheaper thanthe us.
(13:18):
I do recommend you still haveinsurance when you're down here,
uh, but for routine or minoremergency care.
You.
Let's say you have an earinfection or you need some
stitches, or you need to getsome blood work done, most of
those things can be done at, atlike a local facility, including
the doctors right next to many,many pharmacies.
That are in town, and usuallyyou're less than$50 out of
(13:39):
pocket for that.
And that's without insurance.
That's not like your copay.
That's like you go into thedoctor, God forbid you need, you
know, a few stitches in yourfinger or something.
You cut your finger open, uh,you're in and outta that
pharmacy for maybe 20 or$25 USfor that entire visit versus
that same sort of thing.
At urgent care, you're probablygonna be out four or five, six,
$700.
(14:01):
For a 15 minute visit.
Oh, and by the way, the doctorshere usually will see you within
about five or 10 minutes of youcoming into the waiting room in
the US in urgent care oremergency rooms or even doctor's
offices.
You're there waiting for hoursfor that doctor to see you for
maybe five minutes becausethey've gotta churn through 5,
6, 7 patients every single hour.
(14:21):
And they're not really givingyou good care.
They're just a shill for bigpharma.
And they're saying, okay, great.
Go take these pills.
Uh, I'll see you again in sixmonths.
Like, that's not healthcare.
At all, and don't even get mestarted on big pharma and
medical and all that.
That's, that's a, that's aseparate channel.
Um, that's a whole, that's awhole deeper, uh, whole other
(14:41):
can of worms.
I'm not gonna get too far intothat, but, uh, for those of you
that know, you know, right.
Uh, here you go to a doctor'soffice.
Let's say you see a specialistand it's 50 or$60 out of pocket,
even without insurance.
They might spend 30, 40, 50minutes or more with you just to
make sure you're properlyoriented.
They've done like a fullanalysis of what's going on.
(15:01):
They talk you through what mightbe happening.
It's much more comprehensive,personable care.
And in most places in Mexico,those doctors will even give you
their personal WhatsApp number.
So if you've got an emergency,you've got a question later, a
follow up thing.
You don't have to wait five orsix weeks or more just to be
able to go in there.
You just ask them a quickquestion over WhatsApp.
They respond within a few hours.
(15:22):
It's great.
I mean, I've never seenanything, uh, like this in the
US unless you're like ultra,ultra rich, uh, and you're
paying 5,000,$10,000 a month forlike a private, uh, one-on-one
doctor concierge.
But you can get those things.
Nearly free in Mexico becausethe systems just operate
differently.
Number seven, and this one is,is kind of really close to my
(15:45):
heart, is we have amazinginfrastructure here in Mexico,
especially for those that areyounger remote workers, digital
nomads and things like that.
So here in our house, in thelake chip area, even though we
live up on a mountain in.
Kind of, you know, not, not inthe middle of a of town or a
city or anything like that.
We're a little little out there'cause we like our view of the
lake and we like, uh, kind ofhaving land and just nature
(16:08):
around us.
We have internet that's almost agigabit up and down, like
similar to what you would have,uh, in Austin or in San
Francisco where you've gotGoogle Fiber or something like
that.
This is fiber optic internet.
It's super fast.
It costs us about$50 per monthand it goes out less frequently
than our Comcast did in.
Places in the US ironically,right?
(16:30):
We've never had issues withvideo calls.
And to be extra safe, we've gota very affordable cellular
internet backup as well.
That is about$15 per month.
So all in, it's still less thana hundred dollars for phenomenal
internet plus a second internetthat we can use.
If, you know, it goes downoccasionally, like for a couple
hours every single month.
If we're on a call, our systemautomatically switches over.
(16:51):
It's amazing.
Uh, I'm sort of the tech wizardhere, so I engineered it.
That was fun.
But, uh, yeah, I mean,everything you need in terms of
infrastructure, if you're in alarger city, you can even find
coworking with, uh, amazinginternet like a WeWork or
similar, uh, maybe RegionalCoworking as well.
So they've got like the bigWeWorks and they've got the
little, uh, smaller kind of momand pop coworks that maybe have.
(17:13):
15 or 20 or 30 different, uh,people there.
And typically they have prettysolid internet there as well.
Um, so you're never gonna belacking infrastructure.
It's modern.
A lot of the, the infrastructurehere was never even, uh,
especially in newer towns, theynever even had the old, uh,
legacy phone systems.
They just went straight to tocellular and then to fiber
(17:34):
optic.
So there are new systems,they're very reliable.
Uh, I love it.
So anybody that says, oh, like,how's the internet in Mexico?
It's not gonna work.
You're not gonna be able to doyour video calls there.
It's total bullshit.
Uh, the infrastructure is greathere.
So if you're looking to relocateto Mexico and you want a little
bit more information, you canjust download our Moving to
(17:55):
Mexico Guide below this video orgo to entrepreneur
expat.com/mexico.
We also have a relocationroadmap ebook available for
sale.
Uh, I can't promise that it'llbe at this price for long, but
currently it's only$27.
So if you wanna buy that, we'regonna pop that link up on the
screen as well, and you canpurchase that relocation roadmap
(18:16):
ebook that's gonna cover all ofthe things that you need to know
and you need to consider whenyou're picking countries, when
you're thinking about yourtimeline, when you're looking at
the basics of generating remoteincome, you can buy that now.
On our website, we're gonnainclude a link to it right here,
and you can read that.
We'd love to hear your feedbackas well.
As always, make sure it'll likeand subscribe.
(18:38):
Don't miss, uh, any of theamazing content that we have
coming out on this channelbecause we wanna help you on
your expat journey.
Uh, we hope to see you again onthe next video, and thanks again
for being a part of thiscommunity.
If you've been watching the news at all lately
(00:02):
in the US you see that thingsare getting crazier and crazier
every single day.
And I don't just mean, uh,what's happened the last couple
weeks, if you're watching thisin September of 2025, or perhaps
even the last 6, 12, 18 monthsof.
Of chaos that's been ensuing inthe United States.
(00:23):
Things are getting quite badever since a lot of these things
started happening as as, as longas 18 months ago.
We've been getting more and morerequests every single day from
Americans looking to move toMexico in 2025.
So in this video, we're gonnatalk about the top seven reasons
that they give for wanting tomove to Mexico.
(00:46):
This year.
Now, if you're interested inmoving abroad, if you're
interested in an internationallifestyle, international tax
planning, wealth building, realestate purchases, uh, perhaps
having a Plan B passport, youdefinitely want to hit that
subscribe button and click thenotification bell because we're
coming out with multiple videosand podcast episodes.
(01:08):
Every single week talking aboutthese topics.
I'm also gonna ask that you givethis video a like if you enjoy
it, because it helps us with ourmission of inspiring a million
entrepreneur expats and aspiringexpats with this content.
And if you're like, you knowwhat, Justin, this is the year
that.
(01:29):
We moved to Mexico.
I wanna make it happen.
How can we make this happen now?
Just go to entrepreneurexpat.com/consult and you can
apply for a free consult.
Or if you're not quite thereyet, you can just download our
free Moving to Mexico Guidebelow this video.
so now let's dive into the topseven reasons that Americans are
giving for wanting to move.
(01:49):
To Mexico in 2025.
Number one, and I alluded alittle bit to this earlier, is
the ongoing political tension inthe US Between the heated
political climate there,political assassinations,
division instilled people beingpushed farther and farther
towards the left, farther andfarther towards the right, and
(02:10):
really just this, this.
Overall division that, that thepowers the bee are, are sowing,
uh, amongst the masses.
Things are getting really crazy.
If you're like, no matter whathappens, I'm on the left.
I'm, I'm with the Democrats, orI'm on the right, I'm with the
Republicans.
Well, number one, you probablywouldn't be watching this
channel.
Uh, this channel is really forpeople that are like, you know
(02:31):
what?
Fuck all y'all, because, uh,none of what's happening on
either side really makes a tonof sense.
And it kind of makes you wonder,uh, who's really pulling the
strings here.
This is for.
Free thinkers.
This is for people who realizethat they're kind of trapped in
the matrix, or at least thatthey were trapped in the matrix,
and they're looking to reallyescape it fully.
(02:52):
Uh, so that's what we helppeople do when we get them
second passports and secondresidencies in other countries.
But when you look at thenumbers, and we've done other
videos on this about the safetyof Mexico and things like that.
Statistically, it's now safer ina lot of the regions that expats
live in Mexico versus many ofthe major cities in the us.
(03:12):
So it's not just the politicaltension itself and the threat of
violence, it's the actualviolence and the safety numbers.
But I don't know about you.
Uh, for me personally, I want togo out and take a, take a walk
down the street, not just.
With the feeling that, hey, I'mnot gonna get mugged or
something in, in New York or, oranywhere in LA in Venice and
(03:33):
Santa Monica.
So many places that used to bereally nice are now so
dangerous, uh, in the us.
But I also want to be able toexpress my, my feelings, uh, my
political views, my outlook onthings without fear of political
persecution.
And the irony of this is that somany people attribute Latin
America to, you know, peoplegetting assassinated because of
(03:56):
their political beliefs.
And it's happening right now inthe us.
I don't care which side of the,the aisle you're on, uh, I don't
care what you think specificallyabout certain people that has
happened to.
I will stand up right now andsay like, it is not okay.
Right?
It's one thing to, to say, youknow what, uh, this person might
be saying things that are.
(04:16):
Not true that are, that areoffending a certain group of
people that are maybe bigoted.
And I'm not saying that any ofthose things weren't said.
Again, we're talking about notjust one person, by the way, uh,
but, but many instances of thisnow happening in the us but it's
an entirely different thing tosay, Hey, without due process,
uh, we should be executingpeople in public.
And that's, like I said, an anidea that people previously
(04:38):
associated more than anythingwith like these so-called third
world countries.
And now all of those things thatwe thought about, let's say
Mexico or Columbia, whoironically are, are all becoming
safer and safer are nowhappening in the us And it
saddens me to see that because Iwas born in the us.
I was born and raised inCalifornia.
I lived there, uh, for over twodecades, but.
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It's something that when we'rebeing realistic, you know, we're
like, how much more of this canwe take?
And so that's one of the reasonsa lot of people who have reached
out to us for one-on-one helpand even coaching and other
support from our channel, uh,have been telling us now.
Number two is cost of living.
So you can save 50 to 80% ormore.
Just by moving to anothercountry, so as an example, a
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family of four in the lake chiparea, uh, that's near
Guadalajara, Mexico, or even inthe city of Guadalajara, can
live pretty comfortably forabout$3,000.
US.
Per month.
Uh, here, my wife and I, it'sjust us and we have two pets.
We've got a, a dog and a cat.
We spend even less than that.
So I was including maybe twochildren, uh, in that estimate
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because it's actually probablygonna be closer to 2500, 2600.
But for just the two of us andour pets, like total personal
expenses, we're looking at likemaybe$2,000 per month that
includes rent.
That includes personal care,getting our nails done, our hair
done.
Uh, sometimes they even comehere and do those sorts of
things, massages at home everytwo weeks.
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Uh, all of our groceries.
We have a cleaning lady thatcomes twice a week for the type
of lifestyle that we have here.
If we were living, let's say, inSan Francisco or LA or even
Miami, we'd be spending wellover$10,000 a month down the
drain.
Not just making 10 k, but wewould be easily spending 10 KA
month every single month.
Uh, on, you know, rent alone in,in major cities, now you're
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talking two, three,$4,000 amonth.
Any sort of, uh, made or househousekeeper or anything like
that, that's easily anotherthousand dollars a month
depending on what they do.
Um, but if they're comingmultiple times a week for an
entire day, uh, you're talkingthousands of dollars.
For these sorts of things.
Uh, and groceries too.
I mean, every time I go toCalifornia, we can't walk out of
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Ralph's without spending atleast a hundred dollars just for
snacks or if you're actuallyshopping for all of your meals,
I mean.
500, 600,$800 a month perperson.
In a lot of cases, it's justgotten out of hand, and we spend
maybe$300 a month for the two ofus on groceries.
You can increase that a littlebit if you've got a couple
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kiddos as well.
But that number that I gave you,the 2000 or so for a couple and
about 3000, that's including allof our pet care and foods for
them, and, and they eat well,like they're not eating, uh,
cheap.
Uh, croquetas, as we call them,are like dried dog food, like
they're eating, uh, organic rawmeat, like natural diet, uh, all
that, all that kind of stuff.
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So you can live very, very wellfor a family of four, for$3,000
a month or less, uh, in prettyclose to US standards as well.
So it just kind of raises thequestion of why would you keep
living somewhere that'sexpensive?
And the quality of life, whichwe'll get into in a minute is
just getting worse and worse,right?
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Why not live somewhere that isaffordable, that's safe, and
that also saves you a ton ofmoney so you can invest that
back into your business, or youcan save that and grow your nest
egg.
Now, number three is all of theinvestment opportunity that is
here in Mexico.
So we are personally earning,and by the way, this is not
financial advice.
Disclaimer, consult yourfinancial professional.
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We're not giving any sort offinancial or legal or investment
advice here, but we personallyare earning upwards of 10 to
15%.
Per year interest from banks,fintechs, and peer-to-peer
lending systems among others.
Uh, we also have connectionswith people that run different
trading firms here in Mexico.
And is it safe?
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Like are, are these safeinvestments?
I mean, it's all relative,right?
Mexico is a lot less regulatedthan the US but I would say that
that's a good thing in many waysbecause.
Here, the capital markets are alot tighter here.
The rate, rate of interest forcredit cards significantly
higher, but that also means thatthe yields on your investments
are going to be higher and noneof those investments are
accessible unless you have aMexican ID card.
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So that's like a Mexicanresidence card.
Or later on, you can get aMexican passport for sure, but
at the very least you have tohave some type of legal
residence here in Mexico to haveaccess to those investments.
And we have people that aregetting their residents just to
be able to invest in Mexico andother places in Latin America
because of the amazingopportunity really compared to
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to, to more developed markets.
To be able to get yields onthose investments.
And that's not even getting intoreal estate because that's a
whole other ball game.
Uh, obviously there's realestate that is more of a, of a
steady, uh, like growth sort ofthing.
There's real estate that's a lotmore speculative.
Um, but there are deals to behad in real estate where your
yields are also going to besignificantly higher than a lot
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of other countries.
And contrary to perhaps popularbelief, especially in the US
there are a lot of laws hereprotecting real estate
ownership.
For locals and foreigners alike,so you can not only make your
money stretch farther and gofarther, but have a ton of
opportunity to earn upwards of10% per year, in some cases, as
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high as 15, 20, 25 with some ofthe things that we've been
seeing.
The number four reason thatpeople are moving from America
to Mexico is the higher qualityof life here versus in the us.
So you can walk everywhere in,in a lot of places in Mexico,
including Guadalajara, where welived for about three years,
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people generally tend to be justmore open, more receptive, more
friendly.
Uh, there's a lot more nature.
Uh, there's a lot more just todo, to explore.
Uh, I would also kind of lumpthis in into higher quality of
life, is you have a lot moresort of soft freedoms as well.
Um, so you can, you know, you'renot harassed as much for just,
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let's say you're, you know,you're, you're walking your dog
without a leash and she's welltrained, right?
You're not gonna get a$300ticket for that on the sidewalk.
Uh.
Almost any, I've never heard ofthat happening.
Or for jaywalking or for justlike silly things.
The government's not constantlysurveilling you and breathing
down your throat.
There's a lot more soft freedomsand the people are just kinder
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and friendlier overall is whateverybody has been telling us.
Now number five is the greatfood quality here.
So a lot of the food, especiallywhere we're at in the Lake Chip
area, and even in places likeGuadalajara, they'll bring the
food in the same day or, orwithin a day from fresh local
farms.
It's very fresh food.
Uh, there aren't as manychemicals that are being put
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into the food, and so the, the.
Experience that you have, uh,eating here, I mean, it's easy
to lose weight because you don'thave all these preservatives,
all these chemicals in the food.
Uh, not everything is just likepackaged, processed sugar.
You can find local vendors onthe street selling like, or, you
know, organic or natural sortsof desserts everywhere.
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Uh, you can even buy your, uh,pitaya, your dragon fruit or
other, other fruits like on, onthese roadside stands just kind
of coming into into town.
Uh, it's, it's just great andit's all from local farms 15
minutes away in a lot of areaslike where we live here in Al
versus in the us.
So much of the food, even thoughwe have some of the best land
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for growing things, so much ofthe food in the US is brought in
from other countries, thousandsof miles away.
I don't understand why.
Uh, a lot of it is, you know,just convenience and money
related, but, uh, the food inMexico tends to be significantly
fresher and by the way, a lotcheaper.
You're talking like 30, 40, 50%cheaper in many cases or more.
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Number six, great healthcare.
So the healthcare here inMexico.
Is on par with the us,especially the private
healthcare system and privateinsurance is very affordable.
Amanda and myself, we're in ourthirties.
We spend less than a hundreddollars per month each on
healthcare with lowerdeductibles, better access to
doctors, better network, bettereverything than in the US that
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those are for plans with lessthan a thousand dollars US
deductible, and it covers prettymuch everything up to millions
of dollars.
Of coverage, even though Mexicois the second most expensive
healthcare system in, uh, inNorth America, after the us it's
still significantly cheaper thanthe us.
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I do recommend you still haveinsurance when you're down here,
uh, but for routine or minoremergency care.
You.
Let's say you have an earinfection or you need some
stitches, or you need to getsome blood work done, most of
those things can be done at, atlike a local facility, including
the doctors right next to many,many pharmacies.
That are in town, and usuallyyou're less than$50 out of
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pocket for that.
And that's without insurance.
That's not like your copay.
That's like you go into thedoctor, God forbid you need, you
know, a few stitches in yourfinger or something.
You cut your finger open, uh,you're in and outta that
pharmacy for maybe 20 or$25 USfor that entire visit versus
that same sort of thing.
At urgent care, you're probablygonna be out four or five, six,
$700.
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For a 15 minute visit.
Oh, and by the way, the doctorshere usually will see you within
about five or 10 minutes of youcoming into the waiting room in
the US in urgent care oremergency rooms or even doctor's
offices.
You're there waiting for hoursfor that doctor to see you for
maybe five minutes becausethey've gotta churn through 5,
6, 7 patients every single hour.
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And they're not really givingyou good care.
They're just a shill for bigpharma.
And they're saying, okay, great.
Go take these pills.
Uh, I'll see you again in sixmonths.
Like, that's not healthcare.
At all, and don't even get mestarted on big pharma and
medical and all that.
That's, that's a, that's aseparate channel.
Um, that's a whole, that's awhole deeper, uh, whole other
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can of worms.
I'm not gonna get too far intothat, but, uh, for those of you
that know, you know, right.
Uh, here you go to a doctor'soffice.
Let's say you see a specialistand it's 50 or$60 out of pocket,
even without insurance.
They might spend 30, 40, 50minutes or more with you just to
make sure you're properlyoriented.
They've done like a fullanalysis of what's going on.
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They talk you through what mightbe happening.
It's much more comprehensive,personable care.
And in most places in Mexico,those doctors will even give you
their personal WhatsApp number.
So if you've got an emergency,you've got a question later, a
follow up thing.
You don't have to wait five orsix weeks or more just to be
able to go in there.
You just ask them a quickquestion over WhatsApp.
They respond within a few hours.
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It's great.
I mean, I've never seenanything, uh, like this in the
US unless you're like ultra,ultra rich, uh, and you're
paying 5,000,$10,000 a month forlike a private, uh, one-on-one
doctor concierge.
But you can get those things.
Nearly free in Mexico becausethe systems just operate
differently.
Number seven, and this one is,is kind of really close to my
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heart, is we have amazinginfrastructure here in Mexico,
especially for those that areyounger remote workers, digital
nomads and things like that.
So here in our house, in thelake chip area, even though we
live up on a mountain in.
Kind of, you know, not, not inthe middle of a of town or a
city or anything like that.
We're a little little out there'cause we like our view of the
lake and we like, uh, kind ofhaving land and just nature
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around us.
We have internet that's almost agigabit up and down, like
similar to what you would have,uh, in Austin or in San
Francisco where you've gotGoogle Fiber or something like
that.
This is fiber optic internet.
It's super fast.
It costs us about$50 per monthand it goes out less frequently
than our Comcast did in.
Places in the US ironically,right?
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We've never had issues withvideo calls.
And to be extra safe, we've gota very affordable cellular
internet backup as well.
That is about$15 per month.
So all in, it's still less thana hundred dollars for phenomenal
internet plus a second internetthat we can use.
If, you know, it goes downoccasionally, like for a couple
hours every single month.
If we're on a call, our systemautomatically switches over.
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It's amazing.
Uh, I'm sort of the tech wizardhere, so I engineered it.
That was fun.
But, uh, yeah, I mean,everything you need in terms of
infrastructure, if you're in alarger city, you can even find
coworking with, uh, amazinginternet like a WeWork or
similar, uh, maybe RegionalCoworking as well.
So they've got like the bigWeWorks and they've got the
little, uh, smaller kind of momand pop coworks that maybe have.
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15 or 20 or 30 different, uh,people there.
And typically they have prettysolid internet there as well.
Um, so you're never gonna belacking infrastructure.
It's modern.
A lot of the, the infrastructurehere was never even, uh,
especially in newer towns, theynever even had the old, uh,
legacy phone systems.
They just went straight to tocellular and then to fiber
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optic.
So there are new systems,they're very reliable.
Uh, I love it.
So anybody that says, oh, like,how's the internet in Mexico?
It's not gonna work.
You're not gonna be able to doyour video calls there.
It's total bullshit.
Uh, the infrastructure is greathere.
So if you're looking to relocateto Mexico and you want a little
bit more information, you canjust download our Moving to
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Mexico Guide below this video orgo to entrepreneur
expat.com/mexico.
We also have a relocationroadmap ebook available for
sale.
Uh, I can't promise that it'llbe at this price for long, but
currently it's only$27.
So if you wanna buy that, we'regonna pop that link up on the
screen as well, and you canpurchase that relocation roadmap
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ebook that's gonna cover all ofthe things that you need to know
and you need to consider whenyou're picking countries, when
you're thinking about yourtimeline, when you're looking at
the basics of generating remoteincome, you can buy that now.
On our website, we're gonnainclude a link to it right here,
and you can read that.
We'd love to hear your feedbackas well.
As always, make sure it'll likeand subscribe.
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Don't miss, uh, any of theamazing content that we have
coming out on this channelbecause we wanna help you on
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