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A lot of Westerners, particularly Americans, are looking for greener pastures and more opportunities in other countries. They're searching for how to leave the US in record numbers. We see more and more YouTube channels popping up of Americans and also Canadians in Western Europeans who have left traditionally Western countries. And we're seeing more and more news articles, including one, just two days ago on CBS. About how Americans are retiring abroad more and more. In this video, we're gonna be explaining to you 11 things we don't worry about anymore since moving to Mexico as American expats because we too joined the bandwagon and left the United States, and even in the growth of this YouTube channel and how it's grown so quickly, we know that a lot of you are very interested in finding some other options. Welcome to Entrepreneur Expat. I'm Justin, and this is Amanda. And on this channel we talk about everything to do with moving overseas, becoming an expat, and living the lifestyle of your dreams while making money from absolutely anywhere. If that's something that's interesting to you, definitely check out the Make Money From Anywhere. Guide below this video where we're gonna show you exactly how you can live a lifestyle where we do living in other countries and traveling while still maintaining your source of income. And if you like content like this, definitely subscribe to this channel and like this video hit the notification bell. It helps us out a lot with reaching more people just like you. And you'll be sure to not miss. A single video because we're coming up with a lot of really great content every single week. So one of the things that's interesting going on in the world right now, which is what we keep bringing up, is the fact that other countries have developed to the point where you can find a very similar quality of life in the, uh, United States as you would in, for example, Mexico or Southeast Asia. Or Portugal or other, or South America. And a lot of Americans just don't know this because a lot of Americans are born and bred into thinking that they are the number one country in the world and they're not really number one at anything when you look at the rankings. Um, even making money, I would say like making money and innovation. The United States was a very good 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 where maybe 20, 30 years ago, a lot of Americans would not have ever considered moving to was Mexico. And now Americans are like the number one immigration group to Mexico, including us. Now they're gonna have to build a border fence the other way, right? So there's a lot of, uh, my mom calls it like global musical chairs. Going on in the world right now with 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, have developed very rapidly. Uh, you can find similar, if not the same quality of life here. We can make some arguments that it's better based on the 11 things that we don't have to worry about anymore. Other things have been, you know, people work on the internet now. Uh, we've been in online business 15 years each before we even started. This YouTube channel, and now we just apply all the skills we learned from the previous businesses to this one. But people work online and they can literally go anywhere in the world. They don't have to stay stuck anymore. So we're seeing that that musical chairs, we're seeing a lot of development. We're seeing co uh, company, I keep saying companies, we keep seeing countries. Like we recently did a video on Vietnam that are now competing to get more of that foreign investment and making it very attractive. They are kind of like companies though. I mean, I would say that you should treat your, your country like, like a business that you do business with and if you don't like it, go somewhere else. So it's not a bad analogy actually, Amanda. Well, like I said, right. Um, and there's also competition, so I guess that is a good business analogy where now you have more, uh, uh, countries competing in order to get more of that foreign investment. And that has also. Uh, contributed to this global musical chairs, as my mother calls it. So let's get into these 11 things that we don't worry about since we left the United States for Mexico. Number one, high cost of living. That keeps getting even more and more stupid as the years go by. So after the initial costs of us moving here, getting all of our paperwork done, our visas, everything else. And all of the other costs associated with short-term travel. We've been able to get our personal living expenses for the both of us down to about 2000 US dollars per month. And we live really well. We have a lady that helps us clean and cook twice a week. Uh, we have a nice three-story house with space on the roof for my solar panels and space downstairs for my servers and all my other projects. It's a really big house we've got. Five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a terrace, two patios. If we were to try to do the same thing in any major city in the US it would probably cost us up into the five figures every single month. Um, for less space, definitely, uh, less luco as we say. Not even luxury, but just convenience. Um, we can walk to everything here. We'll get into that in another point here. But we live very well on$2,000 a month. Not each, like total between the two of us. Um, and that's pretty darn good. And we've been able to save over a year's worth of living expenses very quickly and even start to get into a position to buy land or property if we want to. And really part of geo arbitrage is to be able to access the same assets at a lower price point. It's really one of those ultimate wealth building hacks. So not only is the cost of living down, but we've, we've got access to higher quality investments. At a lower cost as well. Yeah, and I would venture to say in terms of, you know, the cost, one of the things, you know, being business people, what is money? Money is an exchange of value. People get upset when they feel like what they're paying. They're not actually getting value for taxes. And that's a big part of what's happening in the United States right now. So, for example, food costs are through the roof in the United States, and uh, it's poor quality food here in Mexico. It's still a much lower cost of living, um, even for Mexicans. Now, the area where things get tricky is with housing because it's just supply and demand. It is what it is. But generally speaking, if you look 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 what you're paying, you're getting actual value for it, then you're not getting people complaining. And what we're seeing in the US and Canada, and even parts of Western Europe is that people are paying insane amounts of money and they feel like they're not getting very much for it. That's when you start running into problems. Exactly. And here we are very happy to pay what we pay, even though. For, for certain things. I mean, we're, we're definitely paying for more services maybe than we were before. Like we're getting massages regularly. Um, we have help around the house. We didn't have that in, in the us and we're paying for things that we might not have otherwise been paying for because it's so affordable and because of the utility that we get. Again, money isn't exchange of value, so when you get more utility, uh, for what you're paying, you're, you're happy to be paying that and contributing more and more to. The local economy. So number two, we've heard this a lot, uh, from fellow expats that have moved to Mexico or other countries outside of the, the US especially, which is hustle culture. We do not miss the hustle culture because we just don't need to hustle every day when our expenses are so low and. Here culturally, Mexico is just a lot more laid back. Um, we're, we're, we're able to work smart instead of hard because we're not constantly under this like pressure chamber of just competing and trying to keep up with your neighbors or your friends or whoever else. Nobody really gives a shit here how nice your car is or your house or everything. Um, people care how you are as a person much more than that versus the things that you have and all, all of the. The physical assets that you've accumulated around you. Mexicans tend to value family, personal relationships, and social time. And it's just such a more community oriented culture. Yeah. And special message to the ladies.'cause I know this is something that also trends onto the internet, which is the whole soft 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. So next is the cost of healthcare. You can get excellent quality healthcare at a fraction of the price, and you don't have to fight with insurance all the time. So a lot of people don't know this or a lot of people will ask us the question like, Hey, we wanna go to Mexico, but we're scared of the healthcare. We'll get that from a lot of Americans. And I'm like, yeah, can you still find what you need? Can you see doctors? We'll get questions like that all the time. And what a lot of people don't realize is that healthcare in Mexico is actually very high quality. Mexico makes up. 40% of the world's medical and dental tourism. So that should tell you something about the quality that you can find here in Mexico. Plus doctors makes house, doctors make house calls or eye doctors actually trying to get over here right now. And you can communicate with them on WhatsApp. And I would say like every time something happens,'cause things happen, we just don't go into a panic. So for example. You had an accident on the roof the other day. He's fine. Right? Totally fine. He did not fall off the roof or anything. I, I was trying to get into the hot tub from my chair. Uh, long story, I shouldn't have done that. I, it was, it was a little risky and I ended up tumbling and somehow tumbling off of a chair slash 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 my ankle. Uh, I fell on my hand, so like I, I beat up my, my arm a little bit too. All, all in about a. You know, two, three or four foot falls. So I'm still trying to figure out how, how he did that. And we don't have it on the cameras so we don't know. But anyway, it was kind of scary, um, at first'cause we didn't realize like what the extent of the situation was. Fortunately ended up not being a huge deal and we didn't have to go to a doctor or anything like that. But had we have had to go. To a doctor, it would not have bankrupted us. So there is a certain peace of mind, uh, that comes with that. Yeah. Here, if you, let's say you scrape yourself up, and I didn't need stitches, fortunately it was, it was pretty superficial, just a lot of gauze and neosporin. But if I would've had to, let's say, get stitches somewhere, we wouldn't have even had to go to like an urgent care or an emergency room. You can actually go to the pharmacy. It's about a. 10 minute walk from here and they have a doctor right there next to the pharmacy and stitches cost a little under$10 US if you need to get stitched up. And this is a real doctor, like this isn't some weird, um, back, back alley. Yeah. Like sketchy kind of like, it's not the, it's not like the vet doctor from Better Call Saul. Like this is an actual, you know, certified human doctor. Uh, some, in some cases, even bilingual and may, maybe it's, you know, one of their, their first, uh. Few jobs in their career, like after that, maybe they, they go on to a specialty after the re Exactly. Become a surgeon, but whatever. But they're gonna do, but this is an actual doctor. They can write prescriptions and you can get the medicine right there at the pharmacy if you need it. We happen to order a couple creams and things the last few months off of Rappi or other medicine that we needed, whether it's Tylenol or something that would. In the US maybe require a prescription. Here it's a lot more easy to access that. Um, if, if you need it, whatever types of medicines you need, you still want to see a doctor for sure. If you're gonna get anything that, that has, let's say, addictive potential or anything like that. Um, but you can see a doctor, they can write you a prescription what for whatever you need. And you're in and outta there in 15 minutes, 20 minutes. Um. With the prescription in hand and you're not paying more than 10 to$15, even if you do go see a specialist here, the out of pocket cost, even if you don't have any kind of insurance, is usually less than$60 us. Which is great. That's like the full cash pay price, not the copay. And the doctor will spend 30, 40 minutes with you or more, uh, depending on what you need or what, what sort of questions you have. It's not like they're churning through patients in 15 minutes like they would in the US and Canada. And the other thing that's really cool is that if you do need insurance, like we have for major medical issues, uh, fortunately we haven't had to use it, but for any kind of major medical emergencies, trauma, um. Accidents. Uh, you know, God forbid, like some, something happens, you need ongoing treatment. We only pay about a hundred dollars per month each for that insurance, and that allows us to go to the best private hospital, uh, that allows us to go to the best private hospitals. With a low deductible, it's, it's typically a thousand dollars or$2,000 for a deductible, uh, which is actually quite low compared to, to the us. That's just really for major medical things. But most cases, even when I went to the er, uh, few, you know, few years back with a stomach bug, like a really nasty stomach bug from some bad street tacos that we ate in a town outside of Guadalajara, um, sometimes you gotta be careful with that street food if you're not used to it yet. Um, but I was there for the entire day. I had tests run, they gave me medicine. I was in the hospital for, for pretty much a, a whole day, almost, almost 12 hours. And the full bill ended up being under$400 for the specialist, for the treatment, for all the lab work exams, hospital, bed, like everything. Um, so you're not even gonna get close to a deductible for like a major medical policy. 99% of the time, it's just there for peace of mind. Yeah. And one thing that's really interesting about Mexico, because you brought up the pharmacies, you can actually get a lot of controlled substances over the counter, uh, in Mexico, but we don't see people like abusing them. Remember that we were in Miami and you were trying to get, um. Uh, Sudafed or something, or what was it? Yeah, I mean, that's not even a controlled substance per se. They, they keep it, it sort of is. They keep that behind the counter in the US you have to show your license, all that stuff. Yeah. You have to show your ID like you're, you're a child asking for permission from them to buy the thing. And then we were like, how curious,'cause this stuff is all over the counter in Mexico. And then the guy behind the counter was like, yeah, well here people will buy it and use it to make meth. And we were like, yeah, okay. Well, yeah, despite the fact that, um. Most medicines that you need are, are more accessible here. You don't see anywhere near the same rates of like addiction or abuse as you would in the us And that'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 is, the medical system in the US is designed to in, in a lot of other countries in the, in the western world as well. It's designed to extract. As much money as it can from people and get them addicted to medicine that they're constantly paying into the system, uh, to get versus I would venture to say, and we're still doing more research and understanding more about how, how the different systems works work, but anecdotally and from our experience in Mexico, I think it's much more focused on just getting you the treatment that you need very quickly and not milking you for everything you have to the point where. Thousands and thousands and thousands of people every year, well, filing bankruptcy for medical issues. I think I, I have an explanation to that because, because there is such a booming medical tourism industry here. We were having this chat with a lot of our friends who work in holistic healing here in Mexico. So here you can find very high quality private healthcare. You can still find a lot of people, uh, with private practices, uh, because you have like 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. Among all of them in order to get business. Because medical tourism is such a huge thing, uh, in Mexico. So it would like behoove you to be a good doctor and get things done and actually heal the patients.'cause then that brings in more business. And on that same note, you don't have as much of a centrally controlled system where you've got big pharma and the medical industrial complex essentially in, in cahoots with, with the insurance companies. With the doctors and the doctors basically. Funded and educated by the pharmaceutical companies, and you've got much more of both the western medicine and the traditional, uh, kind of Eastern or even traditional Mexican medicine. You can't even Mexican medicine find Mayan medicine. Mm-hmm. In, in Mexico, I remember the first time I was in Mexico, I was down in Chiapas and they actually had a hospital down there that practiced Mayan medicine. So that's, that's an interesting note. Okay, next one. Random violence. We don't have to worry about that. Uh, in Mexico. One question that we get a lot is Mexico safe? Um, well, it just kind of depends. Um, so do you wanna talk about the, the safety, because that is a question that, that we get a lot. Absolutely. So the thing that we, we don't miss in the US is having to be constantly on edge. That god forbid somebody's got. Uh, a gun or an automatic weapon even, or, or you're, you're in a, a crowded mall or subway station or going to school like last week, just going to your college classes and boom, here comes a gunman. And it's not just guns, it's also like in, in New York, I, I, we got a lot of shit for this last time, but I don't care. There's a lot of places in New York that are extremely dangerous because people are either mentally unwell or are part of gangs or whatever they're doing. Or Los Angeles, we saw it in LA Yeah. Um, there, there, there's homeless people. Some of them are armed. Um, a lot of them are mentally unwell. There's also just a lot of people, uh, who for whatever reason are going around randomly stabbing people. Like you don't see that really happening in Mexico. Is there more petty crime in certain tourist areas? Sure. Uh, do you probably want to not have your cell phone out in areas where people could like, easily go and swoop it on a, on a motorcycle? Sure. Um, there, there are things like that that happen and yes, in, in Mexico and in other countries in Latin America, you do want to be more vigilant of, of certain things like that, like pickpocketing and petty crime. But I would argue that in. In the us, in the UK and Australia and a lot of parts of Western Europe, it's even more prevalent than it's here. Oh. Uh, Paris and Barcelona are like infamous. Yeah. For pickpocket. And you don't see the, the state Department issuing, issuing level four travel advisors about going to Paris. But for the average person, it might be a lot more dangerous than, let's say, going to Guadalajara and going to the touristy areas, areas here. So it's certainly different kinds of, of crime. But you don't see anywhere nearly as much random violence in Mexico as you do in the US here. Yes. I. There are issues, uh, potentially between rivaling, uh, you know, organizations if you will, uh, in Mexico, and you hear about those on the news. But number one, they're typically isolated to small areas of towns. Um, for example, like there are certain types of violence like that right now. Encina Loa. Uh, in Chiapas because not as much as before. It used to be that so many people were going through Chiapas and other parts of the south of Mexico, that there would be a lot of human trafficking. So you'd have to worry about gangs that were created as a result of that, that were trying to take advantage of people, not so much anymore, but in the big cities, uh, Mexico City, Guadalajara, you really just do not see a lot of that random violence. And when you do have like those. Those gangs, for example, do they exist? Yes, but they exist in the US too. And more importantly here in Mexico, yes, there are some targeted shootings, but that doesn't affect the vast majority of people. There isn't a lot of crime. Again, outside of those, those hot 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 for sure. And most of the areas where expats 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 entire stay for years or decades living in Mexico. Yeah. We've had people in the comments who've been expats for decades in Mexico and they're like, I've never seen anything. Um, go down. And a lot of people don't know this, like a lot of the cities in Mexico now have comparable crime rates to a lot of the cities in the United States, uh, or some cities in Mexico. And Mexico is getting safer, but the US is getting more and more dangerous. Exactly right. And so is Canada and so is Western Europe again,'cause it's more like random, um, type of violence rather than very targeted. Which is what we're seeing here. You know, cities like Gaman are actually now ranking as safer than a lot of US cities. And you can find many that in Mexico, which is literally the safest city in all the Americas. And there's, you know, some theories as to why, but we're not gonna go into those right now. So number six of the list of things that we do not have to worry about anymore, being outside of the us. Is isolation. Mexicans, as we mentioned earlier, are very community oriented, very family oriented. It's just super easy to be social in this country. Uh, we go to meditation classes regularly. We're actually facilitating, uh, one of the classes right now where we're basically assisting with, with that program. We're making friends everywhere. Uh, we go and, you know, get our, our, our haircut or do do our, you know, nails or something and we're going out. Um, you know, we make friends with, with owners of, of stores and other places that we go. Yeah. Or even, for example, we just went out the other night to the English speaking business networking here in Guang, Ohio. Oh, that's right. We gotta follow up with some of those people. Yeah. And it was a great event. It was Mexicans, it was Canadians. It was Americans. There were people from Asia there. There were people from all over the world at this English speaking business, networking here in Guadalajara. And a lot of these people. Spoke multiple languages and had done business all over the world. And I had said to you afterward, I'm like, you know, a lot of the business events we've been to in the United States,'cause we both have been entrepreneurs for over 15 years, they're so transactional and they're so like, I don't know, what's the word? Like, so it's, it's more in the US it's a lot more about just getting the deal done, getting in there, buying what you need, getting out. And people are, especially the workers at those stores, they, they're, I mean, actually trained, I would say, to, to almost be more like machines on average than, than to act like people and be social and be, be friendly. There's no like human connection, right? In a lot of like business networking states outside of maybe a small, I mean, yeah, I, I'm talking about even just like a store that you go to, you buy something so that I'll, I'll say that the two, the two aspects, so like you go to a store, you buy something, I mean, now it's all being replaced with self self checkout anyway. They don't even want people working there, but usually. I would argue in part because people are so underpaid and they're so stressed financially, especially in, in those jobs that they, they don't, they don't even have the, the time to think about being social, being friendly, and, and they're just being rushed through one customer after the next, after the next. That's a huge distinction here where you might go into a store or go to the market or whatever and, and actually have conversations about life and make friends and, and so many other things. So it's a different vibe. And then to Amanda's point, when you go to a networking, uh, event in the us. Oh, what do you, what do you do? Like they, they're constantly trying to size you up and figure out if, if you're a good fit for them so that they can sell you something. Uh, it's very transactional versus here, a lot of times it's also very forced. Yeah. In the United States, like for example, we've gotten a few emails that are very interesting where I'm like, Hey, you know, we've moved in a different direction. We're now doing a relocation thing. And they're like, that's great for our audience. Let's do something like, no, actually it's horrible for your audience. It has nothing to do with your audience. But there's that, that. Constant push. Mm-hmm. Kind of a thing, you know?'cause it's, it's all very competitive. Yeah. Versus here, you know, one, one of the friends we met. At this event, you know, she shared her, she, she makes these like, uh, homemade fruit snacks and she shared them with, with the group and we're gonna go buy some on, on Amazon.'cause that's her, that's her business. And we talked about just, just all sorts of random things like how they ended up there and life and, and travel and like, it was an, an actually enjoyable experience. It didn't feel like I was at a Chamber of Commerce event with, you know, stuffy suits everywhere. And. And here's my business card. Here's my business card. Trying to pitch me their, their next thing. It's, it's just a different vibe. Yeah. The next one is high taxes. So a lot of American entrepreneurs don't realize that they could actually slash their tax bill, uh, by moving to another country, by you. We're not attorneys or lawyers or 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. These things are constantly changing, so this is just a state of affairs right now. So we slash our tax bill thanks to the foreign earned income exclusion, um, which a lot of American entrepreneurs can use in order to slash their tax bill while they live overseas up to a certain amount. And then depending on what country you go to, they have tax treaties. Uh, so there's no double taxation. Mexico is one of the countries that has a tax treaty, so there's no double taxation of US citizens and for all the Mexicans complaining in the comments about the taxes, it also works the other way around. So when there's Mexicans living in the United States. States and doing business over there. They are also not being double taxed by two different countries because of this tax treaty. So the other thing that we really don't miss is this idea of political polarization here in Mexico. Oh God. Yeah. Every time I log onto Facebook is just horrendous right now. I've had to unfollow a lot of people on both sides actually. Yeah, because, um, politics in the US and I in in other countries as well, but we know the US because we're from there. US politics are basically a cult. You're either, you know, all the way in this, on this side of the line or on this other side of the line, and you're trained to basically hate anybody who believes something slightly different than what you do. And the irony is the things that are actually, I. The most important, hey, like freedom of speech and, uh, being able to have a relationship with whoever you, you want, as long as it's, it doesn't cause harm to someone else. The ability to make money, the ability to make money and not be overly taxed on it. I mean, those are common things that I think most people on healthcare sides. Yeah, like people should be healthy and have access to healthcare. Uh, a lot of, I would say the majority of people on both sides believe in like basic. Human rights and things like that. But unfortunately, we're taught to see anybody who doesn't share our, uh, political affiliation as the enemy. And they're, they're absolutely not. Yeah, the political polarization, I mean, I've, I've started coming back to Facebook and posting things and, you know, our content on Facebook is getting a lot of attention. Actually, this video was a post that we did on Facebook that got a lot of attention, and I'm like, oh, there's a video. Um. One of the reasons I think we're getting so much attention with the entrepreneur expat content on Facebook is because it's breaking through all the noise. Because all I see when I log onto Facebook is the same few people selling the same five things to the same group of people. Or I see everybody bitching about politics regardless of which side they're on. Um, and now I'm seeing it with the 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 the Canadians get a little snippy. On Facebook, um, as well. So, you know, it's, it's just not, it's a dumpster fire. It's an absolute dumpster fire over the polarization. And then you have people like us, uh, and anybody who's interested in global citizenship or living in other countries, you don't tend to fit into the two boxes at all. Zero, right? You also realize there's no such thing as a perfect country, so you. You know, make a mix of different things depending on what works for you Exactly. Uh, but you don't tend to fit in that box. And we see it in the comments all the time. We try and be as nuanced as possible. We try and show all the sides. Uh, we try and show the global citizen perspective of things and we'll see it in the comments where people are just having a, a, like a conniption in the comments on one side or the other just because they didn't agree with two things. That we said, and I'm like, that's not normal behavior. No. It's, it's really not, it's not normal behavior, but that's what's going on in the United States where people are adding each other's throats and what they don't realize in parts of Canada and what they don't realize is, uh, all of that stuff is happening to keep everybody separated. Yeah. It's, it's, it's part of the plan. They work for the same team. Yeah. At the end of the day. Not, you know, there's nuance, right? So, so don't come after us in the comments and say, no, this is good. Sure, it is completely different. But if you, if you wind everything back to its core roots, they're all promoting the same globalist agenda almost a hundred percent of the time. There's exceptions, there's slight exceptions here and there, whether it, it is a specific politician. Um, or one of their policies that, okay, maybe it's going against the status quo a little bit, but at the end of the day, four years, E every four years in the US you think that you have this massive regime change and that things are gonna be super different, but they never are. Yeah, they never are. And then when you start traveling a lot and living in other countries and uh, engaging with people who live in different countries, you just realize like everybody's the same. Like, why are we all arguing over this dumb shit at end day? Yeah. And Mexicans don't fight about politics constantly. Not quite like this. Maybe there's a little bit of heat around elections and you know, somebody will say, Hey, I believe this thing and this person should win and whatever. But families aren't breaking up because of it. Right? Yes. Like, that's not a thing here. That's a, that's a thing in most of the world. That's, that's actually a thing in the United States where family members have stopped talking to each other, uh, over politics. I'm like, that's that's civil war vibes, y'all. That is, that is, that's the direction things seem to be headed. That's okay. So next one, which is related is when you, at least in Mexico, but we know in a lot of other countries that expats are interested in, they tell us the same, uh, people aren't. As anxious as Americans are, Americans are to the point where they're so anxious they can barely function. And again, we see it in the comments, we see it on Facebook, we feel it when we go back. How many expats go back Unless you go to Miami? So what everybody has said, and I agree, but how many expats go back and they're like, as soon as I get off the plane, my blood pressure rises. Absolutely. Or my anxiety goes through the roof. No one really smiles at each other in the US anymore. I made the mistake when I, when I, uh, was in the middle of, uh, you know, coming back to the US after being in Columbia for, for several years of saying hi to the people, my fellow elevator mates in Hollywood, California. And people just looked at me like, what the hell is wrong with this guy? And I was like, but you, all the time, you're in, you're in Medellin, you're in Guadalajara. Uh, definitely anywhere in Latin America. Uh, and I would imagine a lot of other parts of the world as well where you say hello to people around you because you're humans. Uh, also inhabiting this thing that we call earth, right? Sharing this human existence with, with your fellow planet mates. Uh, and it's just very normal to be like, oh, hey, what's up? I hope you're having a good day. And people don't think that that's odd. Um, you people acknowledge each other's existence here. And let's not even get started on the crisis of homelessness and mental health in a lot of the US cities where like you just don't see that here because people have their family as a support system. Whereas in the US, whether you want to call it a conspiracy or not. There's this huge degradation of the family unit and the family system and people aren't as connected. You know, back to the politics and like how politics splits families apart, there's so many other things as well. Money and, and both parents, uh, having to, having to work and the kid being raised basically by the government and whatever else. Uh, there's so many things going on in the US that cause this. Yeah. And that's also a culture thing that's not just a, a, a government thing. That's also a culture thing where the United States is all about the rugged individualism. Um, you know, and individualism has its good side and its bad side, but a lot of people have said, Hey, in the United States it's gone kind of overboard. And then in other countries you have more of that, uh, collective, uh, kind of mentality where it's more about the community, which also has its pros and its cons. Right. So neither are perfect, but I think it's figuring out how to find that blend. And it seems like a lot of Americans are finding a way to balance out that, you know, hyper individualism in the United States. That's leading to a lot of problems. So the next thing that we definitely do not miss about the US living in Mexico is needing a car. Where we're at in this neighborhood here in Guadalajara, we can walk to everything we need, the hair places, the food places, restaurants, coffee shops, pharmacy, doctors, banks, pharmacy, absolutely everything. We do not need a car. Sometimes I'll get on my, my little scooter, um, my little electric scooter and, and you know, to, to explore around more. We have a car, we probably won'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 here. So people can get around an Uber, people can get around a taxi. There's decent public transportation in these days. There's decent public transportation and you're not paying a hundred dollars to go five miles from the airport to wherever you live in an Uber, uh, because of how inflated gas and the taxes and everything else are. So that means that things tend to be built in a way where you don't have, uh. Necessarily like suburbs, the way you do in the US where you just have to drive everywhere. There's more of a city center kind of vibe, and there's neighborhoods that have better urban planning. So you can walk within 10 blocks to almost everything you would need in most neighborhoods, at least the ones that are expat friendly here in Guadalajara and other cities in Mexico. And finally, we don't have to worry about crap in the food supply. So every single time I do an interview for Expat Story series, and I think every single time you've done an interview too. Inevitably food quality in the United States will come up as a topic of conversation on the interview because expats who live all over the world have noticed that food quality in the United States is absolutely terrible and you don't really realize it until you go to other countries. So a lot of the things that the US 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 like massive in comparison to a lot of other countries as well. You always need like your supersize fries and soda and all that kind of stuff. Um. And let's be real. The food system is built to keep you sick, uh, in the United States. So quality of food is definitely not something we have to worry about. Um, I will say the first couple years I was in our first year, year and a half, because there was so much going on, we were doing more short-term travel exploring the country than we officially moved, and immigration and wedding and all kinds of stuff. That, you know, we gained a little 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 in that time period. So we weren't paying attention to what we were eating. But once we decided to start taking it seriously and be like, we're gonna go to the gym three or four times a week, we're gonna eat more healthy. It's like the, the weight just started to fall off. Um, you know, and we started getting toned very quickly. Whereas in the United States, you know, people struggle with that a lot more. Yeah, and it's just because of all the, all the preservatives, that's a big thing. There's, there's preservatives in the food, there's toxic chemicals in the food. Uh, there's glyphosate, there's so many other things. I mean, we're not, we're not doctors or nutritionists, so I, I don't feel confident speaking about the, the individual elements until we do more research into this. But from personal experience and from everything we've heard. Uh, when we go to the US we tend to gain a lot more weight. We tend to feel, and when we get sick, we get sick. We tend to feel sluggish, um, here, like less digestive issues, uh, more energy, easier to, to to exercise. Easier to lose weight. I don't gain weight even if I do eat like a larger portion of a restaurant or something. I know that the stuff in the food is a lot more natural. I can walk to the butcher shop about five blocks away and get meat from Jalisco, like from a farm a couple hours away. Not everything is imported from other countries. It's just healthier. It's healthier, because the, the laws for sure are more catered towards providing healthier food versus in the us but more importantly, people just are used to eating healthier natural food from. Closer from your, your neighborhood or from, uh, the surrounding area that you're in, and not having it shipped across so many different state lines or even country lines to get to you where it has to be preserved and injected with a bunch of chemicals. Now, if this list was appealing to you, as it has been to a lot of people on Facebook where we posted it and you're ready to live your life abroad, then ask us about. Moving to Mexico or any other country, we now have consults available to help you guys for building networks in multiple different countries. 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