Great video Scott lots of thorough info . loved it!

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Scott, I have watched many of your videos. My wife is from Nicaragua and now living in Florida, We plan to move back to Nicaragua in 2025, We will be looking in the areas from Masachapa to Leon.

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

3 ай бұрын

Awesome! And welcome to the channel!

Looks real safe! Because You have 15 ft high walls with barbed wire on top!

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

4 күн бұрын

Boy I have to explain this a lot. This isn't America. We don't have closed or locked doors. Without walls, people will just walk in and walk off with your television. I have SO many videos explaining this for people who haven't lived in less locked down countries. When you live outside, and you want a laptop in the garden, you can't just leave it open to the street or someone's going to walk off with it. In North America, you fear home intruders, with weapons. In Nicaragua we fear kids walking off with stuff you leave on the table outside. So in other areas, people lock their doors and stay hidden away in their houses. We live outside, but need walls so that people don't casually steal our stuff. Two weeks ago, someone got access to our laundry area because we left it open and they stole our SOAP!

Hi Scott! Just dropping in to say hello haven't had much time lately to watch but have been meaning to say I haven't gone anywhere (both literally and figuratively)! My son will be down there in just under a month! Wooohoooo! Hope that you're doing well!

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

3 ай бұрын

Hello! And that's great!

Nicaragua can be entered at the port of San Juan del sur . Foreign fishermen use it. . The northern part of the country I assume,has a port of enters near Leon.

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

7 күн бұрын

It has one at Potosi that recently reopened for the ferry from La Union. It's in Chinandega. No port of entry in Leon.

Try implementing chapters for videos of this length

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

3 ай бұрын

I need staff for some of these tasks. It's SO much time every day trying to get these published. Adding chapters is hard. I have it set for KZread to add them automatically and sometimes it does, but not very often.

@historialeft

3 ай бұрын

@@ScottAlanMillerVlogI hear you, would be easy and insanely cheap to find a part time editor here in Nicaragua.

Hi Scott!! We are heading to Nica this fall!! Question: can you tell us about entry into Nica with, and traveling around Nica with Starlink? Thank you so much 😁

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

3 ай бұрын

Starlink is not enabled in NIcaragua, nor is it legal as Starlink has not licensed the gear here. Bringing it here constitutes an import, which would be outrageously expensive since you'd have to license the operating spectrum. Assume hundreds of thousands of dollars. But Nicaragua has far better internet coverage that North America, there's no need for Starlink here. Starlink pulled out of Nicaragua when the country went to nationwide fiber and no one had any interest in satellite anymore. We had it on order for years and they silently cancelled their plans to come here and didn't offer refunds (but I think we were able to request them - but they definitely tried to keep the money.)

Hi Scott, I have been watching some of your videos, and in several you say that Nicaragua is safe. But I noticed that your yard is surrounded by an 18 foot high cinderblock wall with barbed wire coils along the top.

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

Ай бұрын

Yes, and my doors are wide open. If I didn't have walls, horses would wander in and my dogs would wander out. Imagine being in the US but not having to even close your doors, let alone lock them! You can't, because you can't. But here, we can. But don't mistake safety for wanting to own things. Just because we are safe doesn't mean someone won't swipe a cell phone left on a table if no one is looking. Our house is wide open. I mean WIDE open... every door, totally open, around the clock. If we didn't have a wall people would steal things. You'd just walk through the house and take whatever isn't nailed down. North Americans live an "inside" life where you close the house and stay inside. Nicaraguans live an "outside" life where everything happens outside, including my phone, laptop, cameras, etc. all out doors much of the day, just sitting in the garden. So what to a North American feels like something that must indicate danger (is that why we had walled yards in Texas?) to a Nicaraguan represents our incredible degree of safety and a desire for privacy since unlike the US, the sidewalk is chalk full of people! kzread.info/dash/bejne/e32Cs7itmcnbj7g.html

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

Ай бұрын

Watch my interview with Elton from yesterday, he mentions that it's the tropics and Americans often get confused as to why we use reliable cinder blocks instead of wood. But wood is costly and rots away fast. Cinderblock is built to last. So wood isn't used for normal construction. Plus Central Americans expect hundreds of years from their walls or houses. That wall is 50+ years old, as is the house. It was built when things WEREN'T safe when the US was here and people would be grabbed. But the US was kicked out in 79 and the war with the US has now been over for decades. Now it's safe, and big walls originally meant to keep marauding foreign forces from stopping in now provide a safe way to keep your dogs inside and your life private and the sound of traffic out.

@RedOctober2011

Ай бұрын

@@ScottAlanMillerVlog Interesting. Thanks.

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

Ай бұрын

you bet. i'm also the exception. i live in the country in a compound with giant homes. i have offices here so need a lot of space that isn't available in normal communities. most people don't have high walls. but many do for sure. but petty crime IS a major concern. violent crime is not.

@davidwelch5186

7 күн бұрын

@@ScottAlanMillerVlog more good reason to live in a rural setting. I have never locked my doors at nite in upstate NY. You must like bugs if you keep your door open all nite

Thanks very informative Scott but i have to ask do i need special plugs or adapters to use a laptop ,camera or phone while in Nicaragua , what are the line voltages?

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

3 ай бұрын

Good one for the next list. Nicaragua is on NA power the same as the US, Canada and Mexico. It's standard power so anything you use in the USA will work the same in Nicaragua.

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

3 ай бұрын

Im taking notes for the 2025 show.

Hay Scott, there are some limited employment opportunities for tourists/residents. For instance i worked as an english teacher at UNAN Matagalpa. I had to pay taxes as well.

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

3 ай бұрын

How long ago was that? I met someone recently who also worked as an English teacher at a uni too and they had to pretend that they were a tourist and couldn't pay taxes without getting caught. They had to hide it all as it wasn't legal.

Scott, what is the name of your hotel? Is it open? Is it in Poneloya? We are in Nicaragua again August and September for about 3 weeks. Looking for beach house. Thanks Mark and Maritza.

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

Ай бұрын

I don't have a fully open hotel at this point - it's a little complicated. The Simple Beach Lodge was moved to being operated as a hostel by a business partner. So while on a technical level, I have a hotel, on a practical level I do not. It's a party hostel. It's THE party hostel. But not very likely a place where my normal audience would want to go for a beach vacation. It's Las Peñitas. Email me, there is an AirBnB style property that might make sense for you. info@relocatenicaragua.com

You left out the Chica's -

Sorry Scott I was asked one time when entering by customs for proof of a return ticket. Last trip Avianca did not allow me to board because I purchased a one way ticket. I had to use there app and purchase a return ticket, almost missing my flight.

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

3 ай бұрын

Yes, that's a scam by Avianca. It is NOT required, but Avianca is known for pulling scams to get oversold planes to be able to go without paying you the required fees. You can sue them if you miss your flight, but the US provides very few consumer protections so it is hard. But that is in no way Nicaragua requiring anything. Lots of people have this not just with Nicaragua. Airlines have figured out that it is an essentially impossible to fight scam and so it is commonly used to sell tickets or to kick people off of flights and not pay them their legally mandated compensation.

@brendanmartin5669

3 ай бұрын

You are required to have proof of onward travel when you enter as a tourist although they very rarely ask for it. Once when we entered they asked for it and we didn't have it. They gave us a bit of grief. We could explain our itinerary and after a bunch of talking they let us in (It cost 50 dollars). We have also had multiple friends experience the same, but Nicaragua always at the end let them enter. Like I said they rarely ask for it. If you wish to verify this you can go to Nicaraguas website or the U.S. state department website.

Where do you get paperwork for extensions to stay?

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

15 күн бұрын

Migracion. Every regional capital will have an office. But if you are moving around, Migracion in Managua will be required.

@LinzLife325

14 күн бұрын

@@ScottAlanMillerVlog thank you so much for always getting back to everyone that has questions! It really says a lot about how much you care! 😊😊

Hi there! I sent you an email on your website to be able to speak to you. I haven’t heard anything back. Pls let me know if there is an alternate way to reach you direct

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

3 ай бұрын

On my website? There's no website for me. The emails that I have have all been responded to. I don't see any missed ones. The only email for me is the one on this KZread account. It's the one in the episode descriptions and it is listed on the contact form of the KZread account. Did you use that one? If so, email me again as the email system shows every email read and responded to.

I tried to communicate with nicaraguan ministry of interior usibg the website (information portal) also sent a few emails but no response Also called them by phone woman answered me when i asked here if she speaks english bcoz i dont speak spanish,she just close the line In ur experience is english forbidden in official governmental places or simple they dont speak english ?

@ScottAlanMillerVlog

7 күн бұрын

No one speaks English here, but of course it isn't forbidden, it's an official language. But there is extremely little English training available because anyone that can speak English can make really good money in the private sector. So you are never going to find a government official able to speak English, it's not realistic. The central government works in Spanish, expecting English or any other non-native language isn't realistic. Even being in the country, we have to do everything in Spanish. In general, Nicaragua is not reachable remotely. There are very few systems designed for communications with the outside world. The government doesn't even have a functional email system so expecting anything more complex than that isn't likely going to come to fruition. Are you sure that MINT is who you want to be talking to?

@TEKKKNO

7 күн бұрын

@ScottAlanMillerVlog 🤯 this is crazy ,but i see many nicaraguan governmental websites use only spanish language without English language

@TEKKKNO

7 күн бұрын

@ScottAlanMillerVlog I should talk to Directorate General of Migration and Immigration ,but i found the informations on mint portal website , (Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería) they responsible for visas and foreign things And they are part of interior ministry but i found it weird and rude i sent 2 emails without any response and when i call them and just when i stsrt speaks english they close the phone I sent and email in spanish language and will see what's gonna happen

@TEKKKNO

6 күн бұрын

Do u have fb page or group so i can get.more informations looks like u r expert in central american countries Those countries have every thing beaches green lands volcanoes quite life style ancient ruins, why they treat them countries like this weird

@TEKKKNO

5 күн бұрын

I just want to know one thing that's why i tried to call them ,my country require visa before arrive and they write a note on mint website says (When there is no Nicaraguan representation abroad and due to the interest of the State, the entry of foreigners included in Category "C" is required, the General Directorate of Migration and Immigration will notify the Airline in writing authorizing their entry without a Consular Visa, so that the transport companies allow them to board in the country of origin or residence. Once they arrive in the country, they will be authorized to enter with a Border Visa, having to comply with the established requirements.) That's it 🤷