Nicaragua 🇳🇮 Single Mom Dating | Security | House

[@henrysteppel2031]

Great infornation Scott!

[@jillianfreyman6325]

Good logic. Surprised people worry so much.

[@christinehcanada]

Great information Scott, thank you putting it together 👍🏼

[@nihil6128]

All of these are great answers to questions I didn't even know to ask! Love this channel

[@schoolnyc]

Scott your my favorite You Tube star! To sum up the cost of buying a house in Nica, the answer is whatever your stupid enough to pay. I do not know why anyone would buy a house. Not a good investment. Smarter to seek a hard to find rental.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

In general, yeah. But if you really know that you will settle down, it's at a market low. So the deals are really there.

[@WalterMoorer-t5q]

Scott one more thing can you give a video on how to order stuff online here and what channels do you have to go through to actually receive the items you ordered.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

I plan to do that. Although finding a great place is an ongoing challenge. NicaBox is reliable, but higher cost. Optima is terrible, low cost but they lie to you and right now, we're about to file a police report with them for stealing our stuff in Miami (yup, theft in the US - they dare not do it in Nicaragua I assume.) When we ship stuff with the name of someone obviously from the US on it, it makes it, as soon as we put a Latino name on the package, their Miami office conveniently "loses it" after Amazon showed them having it. I assume that they think that we have no legal teeth in the US, and are in for a surprise.

[@schoolnyc]

I noticed there is a shortage of decent rentals in Nica. You have to look long and hard for a place with A/C, hot water, and is in a safe area not surrounded by shacks and 100's of stay dogs, who enjoy falling asleep in the middle of the street. Yes electric is high in SJDS. To run one AC in bedroom 24/7 costs almost $200 a month. The beaches in SJDS have no sand - you walk and sun bath on compacted mud.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

Mostly that's because SJDS has a deep bay, not sand on the open ocean. So unlike the rest of the country that is either rocks or sand you get sediment deposited by the river as the basis for the beach. There aren't big churning waves and surf to bring in or generate deep water sand; so the river sludge creates the beach.

[@chrisdekeyser549]

Hey Scott, enjoy watching your videos been following you now for about 3 years. I'm also from Texas and been looking forward to retiring in Leon Nicaragua exactly one year from now. I did want to say that I tried joining the Leon Nicaragua Facebook group and have not been accepted as of yet, not sure why but could use all the help and support possible when the time nears to moving there ... Thanks

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

I didn't even know that there was a Leon Facebook group. I don't use Facebook and I know loads of people do but the results are... often poor, let's say, here in Nicaragua. The groups are **almost** all run by businesses that prey on expats and foreigners and use the lack of oversight by Facebook to manage the groups in such a way to as to silently remove good information or cautionary tales so that they can craft a view of Nicaragua suitable for them to sell their services. I know that there are some rare groups run by people who just want to provide a forum, but they are the exception. But I'm not on FB, so my info is third hand. But I know that just mentioning me in many of those groups is enough to get your post moderated, lol. Same on Reddit. What part of Texas are you from? Have you spent much time in Leon yet?

[@janetsweeney1574]

I can send a message to Caroline that runs that page, but it hasn't been very active for a few years. I recommend Expats Living Happily in Nicaragua, a friend of mine (I know through years of FB converstaions) runs this one, and it's not related to a business here, although there are some advertisements. And a guy that is always trying to raise money for a "mission", but I think he's harmless overall, and trying to help really. And it's not like spam or anything. One advertiser (at times) to watch out for is a 'ranch' outside of Matagalpa though. Also not a big problem, just be aware it's a profit thing. She seems like a nice lady. The others are just people living here making a life, as far as I can tell.

[@erikmar2979]

Property crime is common in Nica cities. That's why every office and house that can afford it installs bars over ground story windows, offices hire CPFs (security guards) at night, and walls between properties have broken glass or barbed wire on top. Interpersonal violent crimes are rare by Central American (and probably also US) standards. I think that's because of a combination of factors: 1) the government controls narcotrafficking, 2) guns are no longer everywhere, and 3) barrios are by and large stable, and everyone knows everyone else in their barrio; familiarity results in public safety, just as you see in small town in the US, where people leave their bikes unlocked outside stores, etc.

[@xorurai123]

your allowed to say the government runs the narcotrafficking ?

[@enough1494]

Gracias! Won’t really date, but good female info!

[@erikmar2979]

As for marriage, I think it's more class based than visa based. The middle and upper classes tend to get married, whereas the working class majority tend not to bother. The other factor is residual (or actual) catholic morality norms. My understanding of the terms esposo or esposa is that they have more to do with formality - you refer to people you don't know well (even if you suspect that they're not married) as esposos so as not to imply that they're unmarried and therefore living in sin. "Marido" just means husband. I haven't heard "marida" for wife. People will often use "marido" even if they're not actually married, again, as a sort of formality pretense, so that they're not openly admitting that they're living in sin. Novios are not necessarily engaged - those would be "comprometidos". Novios are simply dating.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

What we find is a lot of people who are "novios" and not even "comprometidos" and they universally (in Leon) refer to themselves as "esposos." Not other people calling them that, that's how they introduce themselves.

[@shroommcfanta2020]

Esposas = handcuffs = tied together

[@magalig9026]

Thank you for what you do, Scott. I am Nicaraguan and can tell you the word “marida” doesn’t exist. The correct term is Mujer. Marido y mujer. Somebody has been pulling your leg. 😅

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

Even DuoLingo teaches marida!

[@1stLukecifer]

Beyond the whole misconception that the US has “the greatest healthcare on the planet”; #2 is folks shocked that as a Militarty veteran, I wouldn’t fear for my life outside the States. “It’s not like my credit cards, $20’s, or Cordoba are singing the Star Spangled Banneror in trying to invade when I’m buying a Nacatamale in a cafe.”

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

“It’s not like my credit cards, $20’s, or Cordoba are singing the Star Spangled Banneror in trying to invade when I’m buying a Nacatamale in a cafe.” OMG that's a great quote.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

So many veterans here. It's a popular place to retire [early] as a veteran. Or to get the healthcare you need when the VA has let you down.

[@schoolnyc]

@@ScottAlanMillerVlog I have received excellent free health care and as a gringo they saw me first in a public hospital. I found a cardiologist who speaks perfect English and I am in his office for an hour for $40.

[@schoolnyc]

You are correct about the abundance of teen mom's and single parent mom's. The fact is a higher class family -I know many - will permit there children to date and/or bring home a potential partner with a child.

[@CandyLV72]

Do you have suggestions for cruising online to learn about living in particular areas.

[@jamesmcgowan5933]

Im Canadian and seems to be that the states is safe but the blue vs white collar. Republican vs democrate. Libertarian vs facist. That what about Nicaragua appeal is About. Dont want to deal with. A government thats not dictating every little part of your Life. Thats what freedom is about

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

The US is definitely safe, until it isn't. Historically, the US has had major wars almost continuously, but it's been less than 180 years since the US Civil War which didn't just define modern warfare, but redefined what it meant to have a country killing its own people. With a death toll of as high as one million, that means that 2-3% of the ENTIRE country's population was killed in a purely internal conflict! Not many countries, in world history, can claim something like that, especially not on such a scale. Once you include American historical conflicts, the way that we tend to do with other countries, you realize that the danger is actually way, way higher than violent crime statistics indicate. The degree of violence and destruction Americans are willing to commit against themselves is extremely high. Other countries experiencing civil conflict rarely see something so dramatic. It's not the worst, but it is the worst on its scale by far.

[@tomdesantis938]

I want to find a nice house with three bedrooms in downtown Managua near the park in a safe area my girlfriend lives near the old cathedral what am I looking at for a house there. How do I know if the price is crazy and is it cheaper to build

[@tomdesantis938]

I rent a place in San andres in a gated community 200 a month. If a girl is over 20 she has a child or strict parents or she is ugly lol . Mothers don’t go out at night allot the saints play in the day the devils come out at night .

[@WalterMoorer-t5q]

The 1st house I lived in here was a 2brm house $22.000 dollars they said i could put 10.000 down with a $102.00 a month payment. I still laugh at that monthly payment 😅 but its like selling 40oz malt liquor and or selling Champaign. Your dealings and in my case living around totally different clientele. Believe me the neighborhood was awful horses taking dumps on my lawn. The neighbors refusing to cut their grass or pick up trash that eventually blows into your yard. numerous dogs running up and down the street. I decided I'll pay more for better conditions. And yes I meet many people who claim to be married. But truly are just shacking up together. Very odd for a place to claims to have so many God fearing people.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

Living here a long time, one thing I've found is that the "highly religious" crowd is actually quite small. A fraction of what it is back home in the US. It's not the religious country that the US likes to paint it as. It's actually extremely secular. The marriage thing isn't that weird. If you think about the US or basically any country, you have this concept of civil marriage, where the government marries you. Anyone who does that isn't "married" in the eyes of the church. That's a LOT of people. What's the difference between a local judge claiming you are married or just saying you are married? Religiously... nothing, not one single thing. Nicaragua is universally less formal than the US, as an example. The US likes to act like the government is a church. And it kind of is. So the "church of the government" marries you. It's the ultimate in sacrilege to a church. Yet millions of people do it without thinking. Because they don't actually believe in the church at all. Same in Nicaragua, they just don't need to replace their "church" with a false government religion to feel married. In Nicaraguan culture, marriage isn't under the church. It's between two people.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

To someone that doesn't believe in someone's personal religion, anyone married by any "other" church is just people shacking up. And to anyone religious, anymore married by the government is just people "shacking up." Getting away from the US helps to get a lot of perspective on how incredibly sacrilegious every day life in the US is, but people are so into "belonging" to some group to isolate themselves that they completely miss the entire "religious" aspects of their religion.

[@MaryMary-dm1so]

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