Kris and Mike - An update and whats next
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2024
- We are moving to Ecuador. Join us on our Expat life in Ecuador. We love nature photography and this channel will focus not just on our new lives in Ecuador but also on us capturing this amazingly diverse country. Are you thinking of maybe moving abroad? Are you ready to move out of your comfort zone? Well maybe its time to "Live the Life you Love"
Your humility and sincerity are without peer! Great job again
Thanks so much for your kind words my friend
Beautiful mural
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What a great idea for the vet to collect donations! Poor Willow...doesn't want her mommy and daddy to leave
Thanks for watching
I am totally doing that next year for my birthday.
Love it!🙏
Celsius I got a clue on with the rhyme, 30 is hot, 20 is nice, 10 is cool, 0 is ice. This time of the year I envy the days on end with the temperature staying in the 70s Fahrenheit. I am happily a bird nerd and your Mindo video got me looking for more Mindo bird videos. I could spend a lot of time looking at birds. I do spend a lot of time looking at birds but, Ecuador is birds turned up to 11. Thanks for the videos. Take care.
Thanks Gerry. Ya Ecuador is the place for birds. We have Pygmy owls nesting right beside us. So cool.
@@KrisandMike I have found that you can attract a lot of birds and wildlife by allowing a brush pile on your property, half the size of a car will work. Actually I didn't find it. A lot of my ancestors were farmers and the farmers I knew left habitat for the wildlife. Anyway, we have just gotten past the Mockingbird mating season. Do you know what male Mockingbirds do during mating season. They sing all night long, loud. They love the brush pile so there's a bunch of them. On the plus side there are all the baby rabbits and they are darling. Ecuador is still tugging at me. I need to get busy getting there.
Easy way to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit
Add 15 and double it...
20 degrees Celsius add 15 = 35 x 2 = 70
Great video guys and looking forward to see the next videos your mentioned. We're Canadian also, planning on moving to Ecuador by May next year. We have a homesteading CZcams Chanel (Misty Mount Homestead) but decided to stop making videos, editing is time consuming and frustrating (we're not techies enough 😂), started to learn Spanish 3 months ago with Rosetta Stone app (doing well so far) committing to 1 - 1 1/2 hour a day. Gonna wait and see the big news from Josh and Jess, they seem very cool 😎 people. Thanks for sharing your experiences and knowledge with us ! Cheers 🥂
That's so exciting. You are on the right track. Good luck on your journey.
Dentist in Canada is absolutely ridiculous cost. Cheaper to fly to Mexico and stay for 2 weeks and get your work done their and it’s still cheaper. Even with 2 good insurance plans the dentist will charge you money….just a filling is about $400…crowns are $1500-$1800…
I’m very shocked more Canadians don’t just see a dentist when they go for a vacation. Mexico is about 25% of Canadian prices. Malaysia is about 15% and Thailand is about 17% of the cost in Canada…
So true. I think the issue is so many Canadians just have no idea that there is a whole world out there with excellent cheaper healthcare
Thanks for the shout out friends!I was wondering why our subscriber count just exploded from 307 to 318 lol! Sure great seeing you guys the other day!
Lol thanks for watching 🤣
Hello Kris and Mike,
Thanks for sharing another informative video.
Happy Belated Birthday and Anniversary to you both.
You mentioned being Geminis.
What's the official date?
We're appreciative of your efforts to publish this with Spanish subtitles.
We're like # 184 of this video.
Thanks very much. May 29th is our special day. Thanks for your support.
@@KrisandMike Very Cool! Thanks for sharing!
We loved having you for dinner! It was totally our pleasure! We always enjoy your videos and appreciate all the information you share. Olón is a very special place and we feel blessed to live here.
It was a great time. Thanks 👍
Hey guys. Great and very informative video, as usual. Do you happen to know where in Santa Elena the new jail is being built? I'm unsure if it's Santa Elena the province or the county. Thanks
I don't have the exact location. But it is the province. Not close to any major tourism or residential tho.
Ok, love watching you guys and I have a great impression of Ecuador, but tell me about the snakes. Your garden looks very lush and green...any snake encounters? If so, what kind and how do you handle that?
One small snake encounter. Lol. It was a vine snake. Kris thought it was a vine so was pulling it off our fence. No issues. The thing to note is snakes don't like us either. We hardly ever see them. Maybe three times in a year and a half. Thanks for watching.
Happy to hear that you are both finding wonderful friendships and hobbies to fulfill your life in Ecuador. I look forward to the same.
As much as I hate the cold in Calgary, we do have the most sunshine in Canada. I’m not sure how well I’ll do if it’s grey and gloomy a lot although I’ll be Canada bound for the summers. I’ll be sure to get my dental work done beforehand. Even with my AHS benefits my dental is still crazy expensive. $180 just for a yearly cleaning after the benefits paid their portion!!
I hope poor Willow settles and you’re still able to travel. Love the beautiful painting!
Thanks for watching and being one of our regulars. Weather wise you can pick pretty much what you want depending where you live.
@@KrisandMike deciding where to settle is the hard part. I’ve loved every place I’ve been to in Ecuador!! lol
As to birthdays, ecuadorians decorate the wall, put a table in front with the cake. Everyone stands between the decorated wall and the table for the photo. It's so cute, they all do it. My teeth cleaning in Riobamba is $30. Young lady dentist cleans my teeth, not a hygenist. Takes her almost an hour. The most thorough cleaning I've ever had. They even make you wear these booties over your shoes. You guys are my favorite ecuadorian youtubers. I enjoy the news show and especially the graphs and data😂 too.
Thanks Tom. Great to hear from you again. $30 , don't you love it.
Just had my birthday 😅be in Ecuador July Aug snt Elena looking check out olon see ya🦋💃😍❤️
That's excellent 👍
It was good to see you both doing well and safe.
Thanks very much. All very good here.
Hey its great to see you both. Was just saying yesterday while watching some You Tube that we hadn't heard from you both for a while, happy you are both well and Happy Belated Birthdays.
Nice to hear vets and Dentists, both are almost unaffordable here, I like you Chris haven't been in over 25 years.
Looking forward to seeing you again soon, be safe and be well, Love from Vancouver Island.
Thanks very much. All is great here.
Thanks for the update ! Looove ur house. Will sub to Josh & Jess. Planning September arrival 🎉
Thanks 👍. That's wonderful.
Would love to see more of your garden! What grows well there, and is there 2 planting seasons like in Portugal?
Thanks. We are still learning so much. Multiple times to grow here but a lot depends on elevation and time of year.
Happy Everything! As I watch this half asleep because our neighbors partied until 0430 this morning! Viva Ecuador!
Of course 😂
Happy birthday and anniversary! Great and informative video.
Thanks very much 🙏
Thanks so much for the detail on the dentist and cost. Where is the closest city for dentist to the Olon area and medical clinics (non-emergency)?
Right in Olon. Choice of Dentists and Doctors. 10 minutes away is a small clinic/hospital in Manglaralto. Decent hospitals are 1 hour and the best specialist s are 3 hours.
@@KrisandMike thank you so very much for taking time to answer my questions!
Our parents finally told us kids today! 😂 I’m so excited for them! So happy they have amazing friends like you two! Hope to meet ya’ll when we come to visit! 🫶🏼
Can't wait to meet you too. Just know that when they showed us they were so so happy and beaming with happiness.
@@KrisandMike I’m so happy to hear that! They were beaming with joy and excitement when they told us, never seen them so happy.
Looks like the June gloom in California, love it! Did the cream help your fur baby? Happy Birthday to both of you🎂
Yes a little by little. Her personality is the same so that's good 👍.
Great video. Thank you.
Thanks 👍
My daughter has two Frenchies the bill for a visit when they have a problem $500
Yes like us back in Canada.
That mural is beautiful, but it's very surprising that an artist seems to be making more money than a dentist or a veterinarian. I realize the medical clinics see multiple appointments every day, but they also have support staff to pay, rent and utilities for their office, medical equipment, etc. I'm in the USA and my most recent trip to the veterinarian was to have a urinalysis and blood work rechecked for my dog, who has a chronic medical condition. For the recheck appointment we only see a technician, not an actual doctor. I was surprised to see a new fee of $99 for the veterinary technician to collect the samples 😳😳. The total cost of my recheck...with no contact with an actual veterinarian...was $700 😭😭😭.
Interesting point. The artist worked for 3 days and clients tended to be people here with money or communities. Also they don't get work back to back. It's not full time for them.
Good to hear from you both....always value your information
Thanks very much 👍
Beautiful mural 👏
Yes we love it. 🙏
Kris and Mike, I was wondering, how did you decide on the location on the coast? Is there a big difference in the weather or terrain west or east of Manta? Please excuse the ignorance.
We are not big city people and we really enjoy lush vegetation so that knocked out the Manta area as well as Salinas area. Now as you go north of Manta it does become more lush and if you get off the coast and move to the east of Manta, it is also more lush there as well. Now of course if you have more lushness that means you're getting less sun and more rain. So it really depends on exactly what you want and that'll help decide where you're going to live. If you are thinking of the Manta area though, I would pay close attention to what's happening right now on the crime front and you may want to delay a little bit until we see which way it's going to go up there. The rest of the countrie is doing pretty well and going in the right direction
My husband and I are both Gemini, too. 😊 They say that's not a good match, but I say otherwise. ❤
It's like 4 people in the relationship 😂
@@KrisandMike Te-he🤭🍻
I hate dentists. Once this year.. hadn't been in 12 years before that. I think if it ain't broke you don't need to fix it!! I spent 2k on a root canal. I was desperate. I will travel out of country for the next trip to the dentist. I can go and have a vacation as well with 2k.
Thanks for watching. Yes lots of great countries for dentists. The savings will pay for your trip and more.
I am seeing on the news about the War on Drugs and the state of emergency in 7 provinces, i would not feel safe to move down there!!! I was thinking of retiring there but don't feel comfortable to purchase property with the unstable economy, and political issues!!
Thanks for your comment and watching. A lot of people feel like you. Things are getting better but that does not make the news. Most of the country is very safe like US cities. Check out our video about two weeks ago on crime. Thanks again and take care.
How are the power outages now? Still rolling blackouts like in other areas of Ecuador?
All the scheduled ones are over and no more are planned. Now we just have unplanned outages. Lol. Not too bad tho. Every few weeks so nowhere near what we had before.
@@KrisandMike Thanks for the info. My wife and I are coming down for a few weeks in December to Olon and Cuenca to check the places out for possible future retirement. Really enjoy for videos.
how about how a Candian can start the process for moving as do we need to get the proof from Gov as to how much we get? and what other papers we need, wondering if we must get these ourselves? Thanx
This info will be in our interview with our lawyer friend on visas. Coming soon. Thanks for watching.
@@KrisandMike Thanx will be looking for this one for sure, always waiting ur vids, great info
Q: Was the dental work price you quoted in Canadian or US dollars? Thanks for all the great info you guys share. Much appreciated.
Everything we quote here is US$