It Takes Time to Evaluate a New Country 🇳🇮

[@kristiorcutt534]

Looks and sounds fantastic!

[@madhuhadas15370]

Wao, you read my mind. I thought that he needed a response from you as a knowledgeable person in Nicaragua. Good you did.

[@livingabroadwitheric]

Fantastic topic! Spot on info and AMAZING new cameras bruh! Your channel is in a higher stratosphere now 🎉

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

Thanks! :) I'm so excited to have the new cameras. Makes filming bother easier and more fun.

[@shemade9521]

Even moving from one province to another here in CA I had to readjust in so many ways about how people do things and even how certain things are more accessible from one province to another(within the same country).😊

[@johnsg8]

Video quality looks good. I would change your WB to warmer, up the exposure a bit, and possibly decrease the green highlights. Just dial it in and make your LUT. Also it almost looks like bubble bokeh.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

Sirui Sniper f/1.2 lenses :)

[@johnsg8]

This sounds much better than the Sony IMO

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

I agree, I think that the Fuji blows the Sony away on sound.

[@indigitalformat]

A good reminder of how good it can be to give back! Helped with displaced animals there.. Could you help sponsor a nonprofit?

[@henrysteppel2031]

The video and sound quality are great 👍

[@jimmyjohn5162]

Scott, what do you charge for a consult and how do we go about scheduling. I have info on a possible move to Nicaragua for my wife and I.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

Ten coffees for an hour :) But give me a few days. Email me because I'm dealing with some emergency stuff here and will not likely be online much. [e-mail]

[@jimmyjohn5162]

I noticed folks do visa runs if they want to stay long term. Does Nicaragua tax people staying in country over 6 months?

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

no it does not. there are no taxes for normal expats.

[@attentioncestpaslegal7847]

After 6 months, one starts becoming a tax resident in Nicaragua. Nicaragua has a territorial tax system, so that foreign pensions or dividends will not be taxed for example. The Nicaraguan system favours rentiers and retirees.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

@attentioncestpaslegal7847 tax resident means nothing as you can't be taxed. it doesn't favor retirees. it just doesn't tax you period.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

@attentioncestpaslegal7847 you are using tax resident in a meaningless way. i've been here three years and am not taxed nor tax resident. your information is completely incorrect.

[@attentioncestpaslegal7847]

@@ScottAlanMillerVlog I am afraid you indeed are a tax resident in Nicaragua. I follow your videos (which are full of useful infos btw) and it seems that you spend more than 180 days in the country. --- For tax purposes, a resident is defined as a person who meets either of the following conditions: → Nationals or foreigners who stay within the country for more than 180 days in a calendar year, whether continuously or not. → When the main centre of economic interest is located within the country, unless the taxpayer proves its residence or tax domicile in another country through a corresponding certificate issued by the competent tax authorities. This will not apply when the country is considered by the tax authorities as a tax haven. ---

[@familiaortez.araica3637]

Hey Scott elt me know the best way to communicate with you, because i need to eent a family house at recidencial carretera masaya .

[@patriciaflaherty]

Wait... we're not going to address the men urinating in public? That was a big red flag for me 🤢.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

I thought of it last night that I hadn't covered that. But I'm going to do a video just on that. It's actually a really good thing and I think it requires some context about how unhealthy and toxic American culture is that common needs are villainized. The entire world, including Europe, doesn't worry about urination and doesn't criminalize "not being able to make it to the bathroom." You don't see it on city streets all over the place, from time to time you see it, mostly when going down the highway or when there is stuck truck traffic, like at borders, where people can't leave for many hours or days at a time. But I was with a girl on the highway in New Jersey one time and our car broke down. There was no possibility of getting to a bathroom. No taxis, no uber, no emergency crews, nothing. She had to pee off the side of the highway. She was from South America and thought nothing of it. It was absolutely necessary. But in the US, had she been caught, police could have arrested her. That's insane. People, not just men, being able to do what is necessary and not making society have a toxic relationship with bodily functions is actually a selling point of "the rest of the world." But it takes getting used to, we are so ingrained with the American "everything must be secrete and hidden" mentality that we forget to evaluate it and examine how unhealthy that is as a society.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

What you TYPICALLY see, is going down the highway, and there is someone standing off beside a tree somewhere. Same as you see in Texas or how it was growing up in New York. It's rare, but not unheard of, to like have it happening right on the city street or something. But it IS more common than the same thing in the US, but I see it in both places. One thing that is changing, fast, is that in 2015 there were no bathrooms ANYWHERE for people to use. In the last YEAR, there are starting to be out here in Leon. For example, going from Leon to Managua in 2021 had zero publicly accessible bathrooms until you were in each's city limits. That's a good distance with no options, but loads of open fields. See my recent episode where someone asked about bathrooms between Managua and San Juan del Sur which isn't as good still. But now, as of two weeks ago, La Paz Centro has its first available bathroom, Nagarote put in two last year. Managua added one in Las Brasilles outside the city limits. And a restaurant with bathrooms available opened up two years ago on the other route. So what was essentially zero two years ago, is well covered now with one every 20-30 minutes 24/7. You have to have bathrooms available and accessible first, before you can even think of discouraging other options.

[@patriciaflaherty]

@@ScottAlanMillerVlog but he wasn't referring to being stuck on a highway or someplace where there are no restrooms. He was referring to the bustling streets of downtown Matagalpa, surrounded by businesses and restaurants. I've seen complaints of this sort of behavior in other Latin American countries. It's unsanitary and unnecessary. I haven't seen any complaints about women urinating on the streets...if the ladies can hold it, so can the men 😁.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

@patriciaflaherty women definitely do too. less frequently but they do. i actually talk about that in tomorrows video. my wife keeps "equipment" with her to make that easier in case as well. Keep in mind that businesses and restaurants rarely offer bathrooms here. so being downtown can often not help too much.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

@patriciaflaherty i don't know why they see it so much in Matagalpa. In Leon, Granada, even Managua i can go months without seeing it. it's definitely happening. but i'm out and about a lot and it's not common at all in the city here

[@HansJurgenKappel]

I watched the Scott Moore video and it just so happened that you did a response to his video. I appreciate you being impartial but yet promoting your positive experiences and how you have adapted to life in Nicaragua. I am sure you will work through the trial and error of your new equipment but overall video and sound looked and sounded good. Always enjoy seeing the dogs in the yard having so much fun.