and uh yeah just talk a little bit about my research and some of my plans i've been doing a lot of research coordinating with my employer and i found out that they are going to prove me uh to
work overseas for up to 30 working days so about six weeks if if you think of five day work weeks now of course some days are holidays some days uh the company's you know generous as far as relax
and take a break and so uh it's not just like the well-known holidays that i'll get off so if i if i structured those that time off correctly i might be able to even structure it into like a
an eight-week trip you know considering a few holidays and then also uh maybe taking like a week off uh all that being said i wanted to just go ahead and get into the topic of today's video and that's
discussing the ecuador digital nomad visas so for those who don't know ecuador has been formulating a kind of uh response to different countries around the world they're doing these nomad bases hey we got our first viewer i'm just
talking some about this ecuador or digital nomad visa so um they want oh cool a second viewer to this must be a good time for folks it's good to see everybody so um yeah so with the digital nomad
visa from ecuador um you do oh thank you i appreciate it tony yeah i like the new haircut too i found a great lady in san francisco chinatown uh or i'm more like the tender knob anyway in san
francisco and uh she is really reasonable does a great job and uh she's super efficient super popular among the people that work in the hotels in downtown san francisco and also i i see people in there wearing uh
like medical professional clothing um she charges i think 14 bucks and then i try to tip her pretty generously uh but it's it's mind-blowing you know some of the deals you can find in san francisco for what's notoriously
an expensive city i found that if you're willing to um you know really put the time in and explore that you can find some interesting uh deals and value that it's possible just because of the high population density
like she's cutting hair i'm sure all day long i think she's there five days a week um eight hours eight eight ten hours a day but you know i think with hair cutting uh she's pretty busy it's not
like down time that could come from some you know i t or office jobs um i do apologize oh thank you yeah i need to trim it a bit more i need to like uh take care of this
but uh yeah it's it's i think it's the best way like now that i'm you know more focused on my corporate career i'm not as into the e-commerce sales where i was kind of a solo entrepreneur now i'm
doing business with a lot of different people and i really need to be careful i have a professional presentation that uh my employer is really awesome they're really generous they take care of us um in a lot of
different ways they provide amazing benefits it's it's just all around a great situation for me and i want to show my gratitude for them by trying to be as professional as i can be and um i i admit
you know when i'm in my programming days you know spending weeks on end behind a computer uh for most of the day it can be easy to neglect appearance i mean some of these programs are are very very
frustrating and challenging and time consuming to try to understand or level up and it can be easy to let my appearance slide um but now that i'm in more business orientation roles x confidence that i'm going to be
uh i will make all but uh because it's trying to look uh good for business purposes but i think that that helps a lot too with remote work where maybe you know some people um they feel like oh
i'm working remotely i'm not going into office i can be more laid back in appearance and uh i think that was probably my reaction when i wasn't in customer facing roles uh but now that i'm talking to customers
on video chat i think it's just that extra little bit that helps and i try to be friendly and personal as well personable as well i know sometimes these conversations can get kind of like dry and and so
uh trying to engage them and being fine and friendly is um yeah it's definitely helpful and thank you for uh thank you for your kind words tony um but yeah so with i apologize i'm getting a bit distracted
but with the ecuador digital nomad visa um so i am gonna have to approach in a little bit different way so uh for a lot of people it's used as a path to permanent residency so you're going to
pay around 450 460 in total with the expectation that you spend i think you you're not even you may not even be supposed to leave so for two years it's a path to permit uh my employer has a
limitation on how long i can work outside the time than than what i would be allowed to do so what would likely happen i want to clarify this too with first i'd like to attack on you know we
go hey mr darcy it's good to see you um i'm just talking a bit about also i can be professional good too for people that are your friends or you want to have a work visa like my my
employer requested that if i do this they say we want you to have work authorization we don't want you to be working even for us uh even in a professional sense you know it's it's a publicly traded company
um we we don't want you to be breaking their rules and so this is a way for ecuador to allow for people like me that we want to be above board we want to do things according to the
rule book by the book uh honestly and and transparently that they can in my mind they can get a fair amount of money for the value they're providing and what is the value that they're providing well i think
that a lot attracted to ecuador for the nature uh it it's on the equator that's where the name ecuador uh comes from and it's got a leeches uh i should say there's beaches in the west the mountains in
the east and then apparently the cuisine is also incredible like they have people coming there from all over the world to start restaurants to serve the tourism industry to uh to kind of be in a dynamic and exciting
place with a lot of population density where uh you know maybe if they're from a rural area or something they can't serve those people so uh that being said there's also supposed to be pretty good internet in ecuador
i haven't been yet but i have been to colombia and the digital nomad visa um so the main thing i just what i need to confirm is i need to make sure there's not like a penalty for i
get i assume there's not a penalty for leaving early but um 450 dollars that is pretty expensive but i want to follow the rules and i mean just for two months i don't think it's expensive if you use
it for two years and you use it to convert to permanent residency potentially long term you want to get even more serious in permanent residency but having that sort of pass will give me a lot of confidence and
spending the duration there working and you know if i'm in a cafe or something and i i'll be able to feel open about talking about working there and also i can make content and share with you all about
what that looks like and and kind of how the internet works and cafes of my choice uh particularly areas that i think are really cool i'm i'm really reading a lot about cuenca i think that from from the
channel a channel i'm a big fan of jp and amelia they say that cuenca is like the most beginner-friendly uh part of ecuador so for me not having um you know been to ecuador yet beginner-friendly sounds actually kind
of refreshing for a change some of the places i've i've been to i wouldn't describe as beginner friendly like colombia i don't necessarily think it's good for a first time traveler um but all that being said uh the
pricing seems reasonable i'm seeing a lot of different good uh accommodation options in cuenca for like four or five six hundred uh a month yeah tony you're probably thinking of jp and amelia they're from denver i actually lived
in denver for several years and i really like their channel i definitely recommend it for anybody that wants to learn about ecuador uh they're awesome i just love really like their energy they're such positive people even though you
can tell like if you go back and kind of dig through their videos they've been through a lot i think jp's had some pretty serious health issues um and amelia's you know struggle kind of with the student alone
side of things and so they really break down and talk about like how moving to ecuador has allowed them to have really good medical care and then also be able to make headway financially because it's a lot cheaper
than you know where they're from denver is an expensive city for those who haven't been denver is definitely not a cheap place to live and i could see why um i i what i love about south america especially
the mountainous parts of south america that i've been to is it reminding me what i love about denver but without the uh super high prices and it doesn't get nearly as cold so those two things are really really
i think that ecuador is going to remind me somewhat of peru from um parts of peru this would be really cool i've still got to research more about like how that's going to look as far as me flying
in um 720. i think it's in my infos you can definitely check that out on my about page of my youtube channel but yeah just uh a bit more about the camera uh i saved some money by unfortunately
an icon for service and i'm hoping that they'll be able to help me by removing it get that working again um because i think next time like i i go to south america i want to bring my camera
i didn't have my nice camera on my last trip and i really regret not being able to take more photographs but this time i think it'll be different i'll have a nice camera set up also bring my husband
my pocket too um yeah it's it's going to be really interesting i i've got to do more research on great to see you thank you denise i really appreciate that that's really kind of you to say i'm feeling
great i'm really enjoying my new job i've i've been working this new job for about three and a half months now it's going really well i like the people that i work with i definitely like the company and
it's yeah it's been a great experience so far and and i actually found out uh denise that they're they're saying i can work abroad there is a time limitation so it's 30 working days and i need to have
a work visa so i'm looking at ecuador because uh it seems like there i can pay around 450 u.s for up to two years of working remotely there now i do want to maintain my job and not bring
bridges or potentially lose it so i'm going to limit it to that 30 working days but that would give me a couple months to know i'm doing it above board and falling and there's gonna be questions or concerns
with me um going you know doing my work and the cool thing about it is um although i will be working there monday through friday 40 standard 48 hour or 40 hour week when i get off work you
know when i'm in cuenca i can go explore um i can try different restaurants cafes hopefully interact or meet with other expats that are living there in cuenca also on the weekends i can do some cool weekend trips
i need to research what the weekend trips are around cuenca i'm not super familiar but it seems like a super popular place for expats and i'm also hearing that it's a dollar eyes so i'm not gonna have to
convert my money uh while i'm there which it just makes it simpler like cambodia was like that as well and that was something i loved about cambodia was that they do accept your dollars so you don't have to
to convert now cambodia is different than ecuador and that cambodia does have the real whereas i don't think ecuador has a uh ecuadorian currency but anyway um it's it's really interesting to me uh two to understand the seasonal
differences so right now even though it's summer here in north america it's actually winter in south america so i'm also trying to eye dates where hopefully it won't be quite as rainy and cold um right now it's actually
probably pretty chilly and rainy and not the best weather uh for visiting ecuador but i'm i'm targeting you know more like um october uh november december kind of area flights do get more do become more expensive into november
and december and south america because that is the summer there so you have a lot of people not just from north america that want to experience that area in the summer but you also have people within those countries
like people from peru you know they want to go to ecuador people from ecuador want to go to brazil uh so there's a lot of intercontinental travel i think down there in the summer especially um where people from
those areas also put demand on airline tickets and this kind tony said um let's see here they use us dollars there yeah that's correct tony they use us have you have you been tony have you been to ecuador
i'd love to hear about it if um you or maybe you know one of your friends or family members has been there and checked it out i've never been i wanted to last year out when i was in
colombia in peru but it flights were just a bit out of my budget it was going to cost at least an extra probably five three to five hundred dollars for me to have added that whatever that trip and
um i thought why don't i just save it for another trip because um i don't want to i don't want to dilute my experiences in colombia and peru um trying to add in another country when i'd like to
do at least a month in each of the latin american countries so like uh some of the ones beyond ecuador that i'd like to see i'd like to do chile for a month brazil um argentina or argentina is
really high up there too but some of these countries don't have digital nomad visas yet um so that's kind of why they're not on my immediate list uh but they're definitely in the background and i'm consistently just kind
of checking articles like about what countries have passed some of these programs i think it's uh it's interesting to see that a lot of these countries um do you know are open to this and they do want to
get the business that people like me can provide staying in a you know hotels are able to employ a lot of locals going to restaurants and employ a lot of locals even indirectly like you might see a expat
restaurant owner uh and some people might say oh you know they're exploiting the you know local affordability and this and that but the reality is even if they're serving like indian food um they're probably like doing a lot
of business with local grocery suppliers so like one of my buddies in peru uh chef amid he uh imports some of the spices from india but a lot of the ingredients he actually uh either purchases locally or he
even funds like the production of locally so he's trying to do his own line of yogurt uh specialty yogurt in peru and he actually works with peruvian farmers on that so it is something where at face value you
know we see this guy coming from india and we think oh some people might think oh he's just a business person but the reality is he's able to help the local people make money in ways that they may
have not considered by producing products from places that they're not familiar with so some of these farmers perhaps they've never been to india um but it uh you know the the synergy there is just really awesome to see
denise says i know some fellow expat vloggers in ecuador uh looks like a really interesting country a lot of natural beauty yeah that's how i feel too denise it seems like um i feel like ecuador um colombia and
peru hibb of their their sort of uh population and their notoriety i think uh it felt like um i don't know how to explain it just like there's a certain amount of tradition or kind of ancient feeling like
especially in some of these latin american capitals where they've um they've still maintained some of the the classic architecture of the classic buildings and so you feel like you're in a different time like that's one of my favorite
things about traveling going to places like ecuador is that i think that with the history the museums uh the interesting local culture these kinds of things can give you that sensation of time traveling that you may not have
if you're in your home country or you're in an area that uh is maybe newer like the us i love a lot of things about the us i'm so grateful for the opportunity i have here but it's fair
to say most buildings that you see are relatively new or are new by world standards so i think the building that i live in right now this building is around years um but that's considered ancient here but actually
that's you know you go to places like cusco you'll see buildings are five six seven hundred years old i think in some cases or at least um perhaps we're built on the foundations of buildings uh with that kind
of age something else that sticks out to me about ecuador is uh the the real variety right so like definitely uh give a thumbs up if you can that's that definitely helps with the algorithm and getting my videos
out there does anybody have any trouble plans coming up not just ecuador but uh anywhere else that anybody's thinking about going to or spain i i apologize denise uh my internet connection is kind of iffy right now i
need to um to fix that it'll definitely be fixed for uh the next one um i do appreciate your patience i'm sorry about that but um yeah feel free to share any questions or comments or um any thoughts
oh wow scotland and england so um what parts of scotland and england are you interested in denise i've always wanted to go to the uk several of my subscribers subscribers especially like um you know some of the people
that i follow every man has a story they're from the uk i think that's just so interesting i've had a lot of positive experiences uh interacting with people from the uk it's um i've always admired what seems like
a certain like uh oh wow they're so so they're from scotland um so do they um did they move from scotland to other parts of the uk or or to us i don't know much about your background but
i'm just kind of curious like highlands and isle of skye wow i need to really read up on scotland that sounds really really beautiful and really incredible i think you're probably gonna have a blast on your trip and
definitely hope you take a lot of photographs and and hopefully you can share on a stream i hear oh okay so they moved from scotland to canada wow that that's a that's definitely a change i imagine it's um
scotland doesn't probably get as much snow like like you get in canada i've been to windsor i liked windsor a lot i like to go back and see places like vancouver and toronto last time i was in seattle
i wanted to go to vancouver um but i didn't have my passport on me i flew up and forgot my passport so next time i go to seattle i'm planning on taking a bus or riding with a friend
uh up to to vancouver and seeing that toronto just seems like such a cool city like everything i read about i hear about it i hear a lot of comparisons to new york city or to chicago but i
think there's just like there's even more to like about it because something i love about canada is the urban development it just uh even like windsor i i walked around i was really surprised it was like a comparable
city in the us you wouldn't be able to walk around but they seem to like have some more perhaps european style development from what i've read about toronto it's extremely lockable the public transportation is supposed to be really
good and these kinds of things um i love about living here in in the san francisco area um even though it is the us and perhaps not the most car friendly as a country like this particular region it
does have that in common i think with places like toronto uh vancouver montreal one of my good friends actually that lives in mexico she's from montreal city planners ensure there's a lot of green space preserved that makes a
lot of sense that's why it's so beautiful in canada why it like i i got the sensation of like having more personal space which is um ironic because people think of canada as being a lot more urban much
more higher concentration the population lives in the major cities but i didn't feel like crowded like i feel in some u.s cities um so now i imagine toronto's probably you know it's since it's a lot bigger than uh
windsor that it would feel uh a bit more crowded but i imagine that's two depends on the neighborhood like if you're in uh perhaps an older neighborhood or a more suburban neighborhood that's going to be more laid back
and quiet peaceful i definitely uh hear a lot of a lot of american people it seems like a lot more american people that want to move to canada and vice versa don't want to get too much into politics
but i think that at least in my circle friends there's this perception that canada is more peaceful and um more developed and uh perhaps a bit more compassionate you know when it comes to things like single-payer uh mr
darcy actually one of my other subscribers he lives in canada and uh he's he's told me a lot about the kind of some of the interesting differences and uh i think he's been to the us as well but
uh he he really likes to go to mexico yeah i think canada is safer i definitely did not feel endangered in canada at all even though i came um from detroit which is right next to windsor uh i
felt much safer in windsor than detroit um yeah i just it seemed like i'm more peaceful people seemed like more at ease um maybe that was just me but people were very personable and like telling me about their
families and their personal lives and their friends and a really um kind of an endearing sort of way like i i feel like americans at least in the big cities are a lot more reserved or perhaps cautious they
have doubt i didn't get that as much in my time in canada i think the people there are like oh you gotta go do this and you gotta go do that check out this shop check out that shop
and that was really really cool i would definitely go back to canada it was it was a wonderful experience and i think that um you know if i weren't a us citizen i would love to to even live
in canada the only reason i say that is i thought about moving to other western countries but something that holds me back is that i am a u.s citizen so um i think it would be challenging for me
to want to go through the process of immigration and and getting a visa and permanent residence and all that uh when i do have that here in the u.s i'm very fortunate in that regard but i can imagine
why people that aren't from a western country would wouldn't want to live there and work there go to college i think one of my good friends here in california actually hossein he did his masters in alberta he did
his masters in alberta and he's originally from iran but he lives in uh here in the states now and loves it and enjoys it it seems like more and more every year thank you so much denise that's so
thoughtful i really appreciate that i i love to make it to toronto one day it's it seems like a gorgeous city and um it's it's really interesting i've read a lot about waterloo because in my field computer science
uh and tech there's a university of um i think it's the university of terrier waterloo maybe waterloo university uh like the cup the people the guys that founded the company i worked at before my current employer they all
went to waterloo and so they they created this company called pagerduty that's this uh information technology kind of digital operations software and yeah there's just a whole lot of really good software development coming out of canada also uh
shopify is based out of montreal um there's i feel like canada hits hits above its its numbers as far as like the interesting things that uh come out of canada um not just technology but cuisine um nature there's
it's absolutely incredible um but thank you so much everybody for uh joining i think i'm gonna wrap up because i have some things um that i'd like to get to uh but uh yeah definitely share in the comments
what your thoughts are if you have travel plans if you have questions for me uh also give me a thumbs up if you haven't yet i really appreciate it and i hope everybody has a wonderful weekend and i'll
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