WHY IS EVERYONE MOVING HERE..
when most people think of mexico they think of margaritas on the beach all-inclusive resorts and endless amounts of tacos and burritos but over the last two years mexico has fast become the world's number one expat and digital nomad hotspot throughout the pandemic mexico remained one of the easiest countries to travel to as they've had some of the loosest border restrictions in the world the land border between the u.s has been reopened to non-essential travel since november 8 2021. coupled with the mass exodus of the tech capital of the world california mexico has seen massive rise in foreign nationals migrating to the country to pursue a more affordable lifestyle with less restrictions so we're here to find out is it really worth moving to mexico as we mentioned mexico is becoming one of the top places for digital nomads and expats to move in 2022. there's a few reasons for that the first one being you actually don't need a visa to enter mexico if you're from a certain country that doesn't go for every country you can enter mexico without a visa and you can stay up to six months which takes out a lot of the hassle of getting a 30-day visa and then having to do border runs or going to an immigration office and renewing your visa every month which is pretty much what we've been doing while traveling through south east asia yeah we can stay in mexico for six months without a visa and on top of that if you do want to stay longer the process is actually pretty easy to get a long-term resident visa which gives you up to four years you can stay here it's pretty simple really you just have to prove that you have the income to be able to support yourself while you're living here and you can run a business here you can be a digital nomad here it's not technically called a digital nomad visa but that's basically what it is so while visas are a huge reason why people are coming here the obvious reason is cost of living and if you are someone who either doesn't need to work or runs a business online or you know as a content creator like us then you have the freedom to move around why wouldn't you live somewhere that's more affordable and you get more bang for your buck so mexico is a really good option if you're looking for somewhere affordable and you can work anywhere so we've only been here a week and we actually joined a couple of groups before we got here and were able to find a studio apartment pretty close to the centre of playa del carmen it's like a few blocks back from sort of where all the action happens and it's really affordable it's 18 000 mexican pesos per month it's nothing fancy but it has a kitchen it has a little lounge room a nice comfortable bed and bathroom so it has everything we need the wi-fi is really fast it's like a perfect place to work from home and just have our own space because we've been on the road for about nine months now moving from place to place and we really craved just having somewhere to settle down for a little while and have our own space where we can work and live and just look after ourselves and have a home base i cannot believe this is like our front yard this is awesome i guess the only downfall would be the seaweed but i think that's only at a certain time of year i don't think it's year-round but it is um a bonus that they actually clean it up and in a lot of the areas they clean it up and it seems like they sort of push it to one designated area but it's not that bad one of the things that i really like but has been a little bit challenging but in a good way for us is that no one speaks english here so since we've been traveling around southeast asia everyone was pretty they just start speaking english to us if it was possible straight away so we didn't really have to push ourselves to learn another language just like the basics but here everyone speaks spanish and we have mentioned in a few previous videos that we are learning spanish so this is like i feel like i've learned more in the last week just out of needing to so yeah i like that they're they're firm with their culture and their stance on speaking their language i think that's really good and we're going to learn another language a lot quicker this way there's a lot of resorts here and it is quite westernised like there's places like the hard rock cafe wing factory in the middle of town and there's a lot of big resorts just out of town if you just ride your bike or walk a few blocks out of central playa del carmen it is very authentic it's very mexican we hear like mexican spanish music playing at all hours of the day and night everyone's speaking spanish it feels pretty authentic despite being in a place like playa del carmen which is fairly westernised it just depends on which area you go to i think so there's a couple of ways you can get around player.com and as i said it's
really easy to get around the whole city is set out in a grid uh you can walk everything's pretty much walking distance although it can be pretty far you can get a taxi which it can be cheap more often than not you're going to get overcharged you really need to negotiate a price before you get in and even then sometimes they're going to charge you a lot they don't use a meter here for some reason so we opted to get bikes and we found bikes really cheap for 2 000 pesos each we got a bike each and the guy that we bought them off actually buys them back off you when you leave so if you're only staying for a month you buy a bike you give it back after a month and you get half your money back so that's pretty good everything's within like a five minute five minute ride in playa del carmen i think i can confidently say that mexico has the best street art i've ever seen in my life so many amazing murals so many great artists and just even like the restaurants and stuff have great artwork and ambiance they get it stop for a drink i think i'll get a lemonade one thing i noticed here is every time we order a juice or a smoothie or lemonade it comes in these massive margarita bars it's good really refreshing really refreshing lime this is like your dream meat on my wheelhouse chicken wings on a stick they look so good it looks spicy yeah there's so much good food here in mexico you got like expensive restaurants on fifth ave and then street food everywhere if you just walk back a little bit from the main area you can find really good tacos so something i'm really excited about spending an extended amount of time here is actually the yoga scene that's here which is so exciting finally be able to get into a routine again i looked up for unlimited i think it's one class a day seven days a week for 70 australian dollars a month which seems super reasonable that's the cheapest i've seen since we've been traveling so that's awesome i just went to the pharmacy to get some sunscreen and some bandages i have like a cut that got to be infected when we got here from a scooter accident in the philippines the whole interaction was in spanish and at the end she tried to sell me cialis which every time i've been to a pharmacy here it's been either steroids or viagra cialis i think mexico is like a like a medical vacation spot where people come from other countries and just get like all the medication that they can't get at home because every pharmacy has like just advertised right out front like viagra cialis testosterone human growth hormones it says steroids and it's like free delivery and they give you their card when you leave it's pretty funny so normally we find the best way to explore a new place is by scooter or by taxi but today we're going to be taking a very different mode of transportation thanks to today's video sponsor get your guide get your guide is the best place to unlock the most unforgettable experiences for travellers they offer over 60 000 curated 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happen one day and he's i think she said she wants to skydive but she's too scared to do it so the only way you're gonna do it is if i just poke it i think so i've sort of been expecting that to happen at some stage but i really hope it's it's also mandy's first time in a helicopter so this will be a good test to see if she's scared of heights foreshadowing i am scared of heights so see how this goes is it just us is there anyone else no just us as well we're gonna prove a helicopter this is kirsky vip for you okay great it's her first time on a helicopter okay yeah you're going to enjoy it we are very hot really it's really really very fun yeah cool all right let's get on pretty awesome private helicopter ride i wasn't expecting this and uh there's an esky here i don't know what's in there maybe there's beers in there lots of space back they love so much wow it looks like a limo yeah very nice you comfy in there it's so good oh i'm so excited what's in the esky cooler what's this one for cervezas yes sir oh wow well i actually have an esky full of beer here wow i'm very cold very cold i see it should be yes always wow this is amazing i'm gonna have a beer while we're flying yeah i'm having one too oh you can't find your tell me how to you hide show me that was awesome really good to see what player del carmen looks like i'm surprised how flat it is and how green it is and we got to see all the like five star resorts on the beach um really different perspective it was pretty cool that was amazing really smooth landing by the boys as well i don't think i've had a plane land that smoothly ever so when lloyd said that we were going on the helicopter tour i thought he meant we were doing like the ones with the no doors on it that were like skydiving ones and i thought we were gonna be like leaning to the side and um yeah that was very beautiful with the drinks and at this time of day it was beautiful my favorite time of day seeing the sun setting over the water incredible oh so we just stumbled across a local restaurant here there's like a market it's like a big market here with plenty of local restaurants um really cheap tacos we've got five tacos for 75 pesos you know we'll see how they are i think they'll be pretty good i'm starving we haven't really eaten much since we got here we've been cooking at home every day because we didn't have a kitchen for like nine months i'm really surprised at how restaurants are many here cheap restaurants we're just one block back from fifa we go one block back and there's like cheap local places to eat it's pretty cool i'm gonna go green green and spice you think he's spicy i hope so much doubling down oh that's definitely spicy your anus is hotter than green i don't know yeah usually red's hotter than green i feel like stupid hey oh man he just spotted this dessert it's called marcus it's like a crate with fruit and chocolate inside almost made at home without dessert but we're gonna give it a go it's not too rich all right we might have to eat around it's about to rain all right so as you can see we're pretty settled into life here in mexico after a bit over a week so i think we got a pretty strong opinion of whether or not it's worth living here i think it is when you factor in everything with visas cost of living um how easy it is to travel around from here you know there's shops everywhere as you saw like there's really good food here as well it's definitely worth living here if you have the opportunity now maybe that's not forever long term but if you're somebody who works online or can just go away for a few months yeah definitely worth living here yeah we're really happy we feel like it takes all the boxes so far um just gonna see how it plays out for the next couple months i almost wish we came here earlier just because we've really enjoyed it so far and it has everything we need so if you're thinking about coming here definitely it is worth you
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