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A viewer sent over the link to this video and thought that it needed a #response to see how the gringo issues affecting #costarica might apply in Nicaragua. Does over #tourism and #expat #realestate buying create problems in the economy when it makes the country unaffordable for the locals? How do we reconcile this with national immigration policies?
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[@Brent-ox8lk]

It's awesome that you enjoy diving into the complexity of difficult issues like this. Makes for more meaningful and interesting content than taking a one-sided, overly simplified stance. God knows there's already enough of that on social media to go around.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

Thank you so much :) I always feel like I'm rocking the boat trying to take an even perspective on this stuff. The squeaky wheels get so much attention. Of course they have a point, but not the only point. There's the "panic that sells houses and relocation packages" then the real view. Of course, your comment was found in quarantine, again!!

[@1stLukecifer]

Adding a “VAX” tax to the VAT, would definitely reduce the # of idiots entering the nation. Induce some panic sales to reduce prices: BRILLIANT!!

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

OMG, jaja, the VAX TAX.

[@jillianfreyman6325]

Love it!​@@ScottAlanMillerVlog

[@1stLukecifer]

@@ScottAlanMillerVlog “I’m gonna build an immunity, the world’s greatest Immunity, & the Gringos are gonna pay for it” Sounds completely fair to me.

[@1stLukecifer]

I’m booked here all week…

[@joshkarow1018]

Idiots!? You mean people that value medical freedom or more specifically don't want to be forced to take the most dangerous vaccine ever created? Every action has an equal reaction...eleventh hours mandates like this have an equal chance of running out "good" expats as they do "bad."

[@tony-yj3qy]

The same thing is happening here in Canada

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

All the Americans? I can see that. We're everywhere.

[@timothyirwin8974]

@@ScottAlanMillerVlog People are moving out of Toronto to cheaper areas such as the east coast, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. This has substantially increased the demand on housing in those provinces. Both house ownership and apartment rentals costs have almost doubled out there in the past three years. The locals who have been living on less money for decades can no longer afford to keep up. Also we have imported a million new residents mostly from the Asian subcontinent last year and the pace of housing has not kept up nor was it planned for. This also pushes up housing prices everywhere especially Toronto and the GTA where more than half of those immigrants have moved to and creates many other problems including more pressure on the already struggling health care system. A one million influx of new people in Canada is the equivalent of ten million in the USA. So we can relate to what some in Nicaragua and Costa Rica are nervous about. Our house prices are typically 50 percent more, dollar for dollar, than a similar place just across the border in the USA but our average take home pay is considerably less. One of the reasons we are considering making moves is because there is there is no cheap housing unless you want to move to Sault Ste. Marie. It has worse snow then Buffalo, NY. Sorry, Americans are just not that interested in moving here much anymore. Real estate here is at a standstill this summer. It is unaffordable for most especially the younger generations and the older generations are standing pat for now. Canada is not in a good position right now. Similar to the USA in 2008.

[@smetzgerful]

@@ScottAlanMillerVlogNo Dude…… when is the last time you been in Toronto or Vancouver? It’s like you are in Pakistan. Ethnic cleansing can be accomplished 2 ways: 1) war 2) immigration.

[@blainlarsen5196]

My fiance's family is in the Palacagüina area. She currently has land in CR, but I agree that the economy is getting too expensive. I would like to locate to Nicaragua later, Pat, she and I have more concerns about the government. I noticed you didn't mention much about that in the video. What are your thoughts?

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

I talk about it a LOT, people just don't like what I say. What I say is that as an expat, you simply don't care about governments. If governments mattered to expats, absolutely no one would ever move to the US or Canada, their governments are the worst around right now. But no one moving there cares about that... for good reason, as an expat the government does not matter one bit. That's purely American propaganda trying to scare Americans from moving abroad through a two prong attack: convince people that foreign governments are "unstable" and then convince them that "instability" matters. Sounds scary and people who do no research fall for it. What you care about is how the government treats foreigners, property ownership, etc. And those things, Nicaragua is far better than the US or Canada (or even Costa Rica) so IF you were to consider the government, that would actually draw you to Nicaragua rather than make you wary. That should not be a priority in your decisions, that's just silly. But if you can't help but worry about it, then why aren't you in Nicaragua already where you would be safer and your property would be safer than in nearly any other country in the region? kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZKZaYuso79ketU kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJqwZXxtnqysnbs kzbin.info/www/bejne/ep66dqSXZtGbp80

[@lougarou8431]

It’s a catch 22, the people around will benefit because that land owner can spend more money and so will the new gringo but the majority of the society doesn’t profit from this sale.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

Right, exactly. but in the case of a NORMAL sale, not to a gringo, no one benefits at all. The idea that people farther afield benefit isn't universal. We think of it when someone buys land as an expat, but don't have the same expectations of normal buyers.

[@Jan-fx2ny]

Yes Im from NB and left I cannot find housing in Ontario or NB

[@1stLukecifer]

So if “Comrade Miller”, shows up with a script & the message changes, that will be our cue that the Nica housing market had recovered.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

Exactly, lol.

[@1stLukecifer]

Hey one side of the house calls it propaganda, the other side calls it news: I call it words falling out of a mouth.

[@angelab4652]

Golden rule always!

[@1stLukecifer]

Want to see enclave issues with the US? The Villages, FL. A engineered society of retirees within the Retirement State. The rich, ancient entitled, self-absorbed, affluent society is notorious for one thing: The highest STD rate in the state of FL! Ask an 80 year old man living there about that and contraception/safer sex and the response is, “ Why would I wear a rubber, she’s 70 years old. It’s not like I can knock her up?” Stay classy FL.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

I'm aware of that issue there. So crazy.

[@1stLukecifer]

@@ScottAlanMillerVlog , there’s a Netflix video of this elderly enclave and the wachos there. The whole “different colored shower loufa attached to there luggage racks to identify which kink they are into. Dedicated golf cart lanes where they have DUI checkpoints by cops on golf carts. I had a rich old hag grab me by the balls saying ,” you’re mine tonight”. NOPE! I wasn’t looking for a gum-job.

[@solomonsislandphotography4824]

Gallo pinto and Río San Juan 💯 Nicaragua! Heck, CR claims that they invented tres leches and the guayavera.

[@Guillermo-ym5yn]

I can't eat that stuff... And all the foreigners around me said the same!

[@Brent-ox8lk]

Around 9:00 you get into the interesting topic more concretely of "How to be a good Gringo". Great, solid info that I'd bet could be expanded upon into a whole episode, if not more. Integrating successfully into the local community in a way that contributes minimally in negative way (gentrification, erosion of the local cultural norms, environmental damage, etc.). That's the whole ball game for me really, and I know it goes way beyond the popular notion of "I'll learn some Spanish and I'll be good to go". Thanks, and thanks again I suppose for pulling my comment out of the trash. I really don't know what's up with that. lol

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

I'm planning on doing an episode on this. But today's (tonight's) long two hour one that hopefully makes it tonight goes into being a good expat quite a bit. I've also decided that I want cool shits that say "be a good expat"

[@SandraPacker-v6e]

Hello…this is off subject but I had questions regarding the ability to get prescriptions in Nicaragua. I take a daily thyroid medication and was wondering.

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

Unless it's some crazy narcotic, typically you just go down to FarmaValu and buy whatever you need. Normal medications are not controlled in Nicaragua and are typically super cheap. Like crazy cheap. A friend had to get a load of different medications for some muscle issues yesterday and panicked when everything together came to $28, lol. So often meds are more like $3, it was so much she couldn't believe it. As an American I'm like "$28 is high?"

[@ScottAlanMillerVlog]

But she had just been to the public hospital and the doctor's appointment where he recommended those meds was only $10 so....

[@SandraPacker-v6e]

Thank you! That’s great information. I imagine getting contact lenses is equally as easy?

[@pmscalisi]

@@SandraPacker-v6ejust buy glasses. Stop the first world privileges