3 Things Wrong with Nicaragua 🇳🇮
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2024
- Nicaragua might be great, but it isn't perfect. After more than a year of living in this amazing country we have identified the three biggest things that we feel could use some improving.
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I’m hoping to move to Nicaragua this year, waiting on my passport 😌, I’m 36 and retire so I’m spending all my time exploring Nicaragua and I can’t wait, I am a backpacker and I hear Nicaragua is a backpacker dream
That’s awesome. Nicaragua is safe and cheap with lots of interesting locations. Definitely good for backpackers!
I was born in Leon in 1972, I left in 1982. I lived in El Barrio Coyolar . and Posada Del SoL.
I live in Miami, FL.Kendall neighborhood. My name is Mariano Sanabria. I Really Enjoy your Videos
Oh wow, Posada del Sol is super close. Welcome to the channel!
THANK YOU! I REALLY NEEDED TO HEAR THIS.
I hate people tossing all the trash out the window. It is a part of lack of education and manners. I truly hate it. Everyone has a bag or backpack, they can carry their trash home but they don’t even think of it. No longer a river, it is a trash can. Why do you want hot water, it is hot as hell.
the out the window stuff is the worst. so hard to fix that.
That is the case in South Korea.
I’ve spent a lot of time in Ecuador and you can’t flush the paper there either and I don’t recall that being difficult to deal with. Even in the old Quito airport you couldn’t flush. In my travels to Ecuador I eventually trained myself to travel with ear plugs. I don’t know about Nicaragua but in Ecuador (especially in apartment buildings) people don’t seem to consider how the noise they make and when they make it, affects the quality of life of the neighbors.
In Ecuador they get too much lead and mercury. Not only from volcanos but mining companies dump it in the water. So they are about as deaf as fence posts.
That’s crazy I have lived here in Nicaragua for 23 years always flush toilet paper never had a problem where do you put Your toilet paper. Trash is a problem how do suggest to fix it. Talk to the city of Leon LOL. Who needs hot water it’s hot as hell if you want to have hot water there are instant hot water heaters that will not shock you modern stuff. Anyone who can’t live with these things don’t need to live here stay home with your hot water and AC.
Some places the water is COLD. Like it hurts, cold. Not here in the city, but like on the beach it can be rough. The water in the city is so warm I would classify last night's shower as an actual hot water (but without a heater.)
In theory you can flush and if you are careful you could get away with it forever. I'm sure lots of people do.
Where do you live and are your pipes better
Thank you for the information, I’ll be sure to bring my own toilet paper when visiting different parts of this exciting new country we are going to
I always do :)
I agree with you a 100%
In Puerto Rico many of us have suicide showers! I still do!
They are super practical, other than the electricution aspect.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog hahahaha, I am still here, cold water till 1999! Hahaha
But, I get it! Will miss my long hot showers….so what! 😉😆💃🧳✈
BTW, fling might be easier with United thru Houston, but I hate United…still working on flight details.
They won’t let me book a one way ticket!?
Growing up iguess seeing a toilet flud becouse of toilet paper just made me not flush it. I just knew paper would eventually clog. Its almost a rag at points.
I really dont flush toilet paper.
Omg.... I remember that when I was little the coke being poured into a small bag. And the littering was horrible and that was 30 yrs ago.
Yup, nothing has changed. I kinda love the little soda bags, though. If only there were trashcans for them afterwards. But the bags themselves are so cool.
thanks !!!
You're welcome!
My top 2 would be: 1. different culture, different values(some nicaraguans even say no values), different idea of what is logical, 2. the heat 3. customer service often isnt that good, they have the attitude like you should be happy that i am working for you
The heat is definitely a big deal. But there are much cooler parts of the country. Matagalpa, Esteli, and Jinotega are so much cooler.
Great content man! Question... can you expand on the no flush rule? What does one do with the tp then?... and do you need to bring your own when out in public? You're a natural in front of the camera man... keep up the clips!
I should make a video JUST about this! For real. But the quick answer...
1. There are always waste baskets for dirty TP next to the toilets (if there isn't one, you can flush.). This is the grossest thing ever and even people who grow up in places like this hate it. This is the same in Spain, Italy, Greece, Mexico, etc. Not unique to here at all. But still awful.
2. It's common to bring your own in public. Places like restaurants, bars, etc. will provide. But some public facilities do not. I know in the park in Chinandega you pay like ten cents and they give you a little bit before you go in. So you do bring it with you, but you very rarely need it. I've wanted TP in public (and had it) like once in the past year. So when you need it, you are really thankful that you brought it. But it's not a normal thing to need.
Thanks!
Lo de la basura es un tema muy importante, deberían multar a quienes tiran basura en las calles, realmente me molesta mucho que pase esto en Nicaragua, es asqueroso ver las calles, playas, andenes, etc sucias.
Las alcantarillas sin tapas peligroso caerse, además a veces no las hacen al nivel del piso y eso también es problema las personas se tropiezan.
Otra cosa que no me gusta de mi país es la música a todo volumen en tiendas, super mercados, centros comerciales, restaurante, en las casas.
Lo del agua caliente acá es tan caluroso que no se necesita aunque por ejemplo acá en Managua los meses de noviembre a enero y parte de febrero si siento que hace algo de frío y desearía un poco mas tibia el agua.
En managua hay una zona llamada carretera sur yendo hacia el crucero, ahi los residenciales tienen agua caliente porque hace un poco de frio ya que queda en alto.
litter is ugly. but neglected dogs are heartbreaking.
It's so true. Everyone needs to be here adopting, spaying/neutering, and getting some street dogs off the streets and healthy. They make such great pets.
"Butter side down" is something that can not be unheard
lol
Here is the ffix. Go to a RV store in the US and buy a mascerator. then when you return home buy a small tank. 10 gal should do it. Attach the mascerator and once a week open the tank and run the mascerator. It will grind up your sewage so it can be treated at the sewage station. Mascerator pump runs in 12 Volts. One thing. Condoms and feminine hygiene products will clog and ruin it. Wouldn't hurt if you locate a source for toilet paper specifically made for septic tanks either.
Jajaja, what sewage station?
Hi, again, Scott. Thank you for your response. I am actually scheduled to arrive in Managua on the week of November 9 (I may actually arrive on the 10th or the 11th). This trip is actually to evaluate whether Nicaragua can meet my needs for when I retire in December. If Nicaragua is the best fit for me, then I intend to move there in January 2023 and plan on staying for around four years (and then move on somewhere else in this big wide world).
I intend to visit (and stay for a night or two... or maybe even longer):
🙂Masaya and its surrounding attractions (including the Masaya Volcano, of course)
🙂From Masaya, I go to Granada (I won't miss the isletas, that's for sure)
🙂From Granada, I proceed to Mombacho/Catarina
🙂I, then, proceed to Sam Jorge to go to the Ometepe Island
🙂I will finally end this trip in San Juan del Sur and from here, go back to Managua.
I return here to Los Angeles around November 30 or a day later.
I originally considered moving around to visit this places using public transportation... the buses (I only have carry-on luggage anyway). It was recommended to me that it would be best to rent a car to accomplish the above. My problem with a rented car is that to one will be tempted to use it all the time (unlimited mileage) to maximize its cost-benefit. I am concerned that there may be days when I will not need to use it because a walking tour would be the best way to know a certain place. I just am not sure.
Thus, I look forward to your recommendation as to whether or not I should go with a car rental option as the best way to accomplish the goals of this trip.
Thank you.
I just recorded an episode addressing your question. It'll be up later this week ;)
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog I have notifications set on; but, in case, what are you calling the episode.
How is your trip going?
Where can i live in the beach around there? I looked online and couldn't find anything on the beach that's close to managua
I answer this on today's show, as well, but the quick answer is that Managua isn't near the sea so that's a tough nut to crack.
The littering has been going on for a long time. I moved out of Nicaragua 37 years ago, and they are still doing it, one will say it's now a new generation who has been educated NOT to litter but, nothing has changed. That bothered me too when I visited two years ago.
Wow, that's a long time ago. You must miss it. The US was like that (okay, not THAT bad) forty years ago and their campaign to end it really worked. I'm hopefully that eventually that will take hold here, too. That one thing would totally transform the country.
Bueno, soy nicaragüense y como nicaragüense estoy de acuerdo contigo, la basura es muy sacada de onda, y deecho no tocaste varios temas como el de los pueblos y demás, gran video pero con el tiempo te acostumraras a vivir con ello.
Ah about Coke. Offten men will shout out at women they have a body like a Coke (which is a compliment) Then they add "In a bag!) which naturally isn't a compliment.
Like the "Cola Song" by Inna.
Definitely some great takeaways. I moved to Nicaragua a little over a month ago now. And I love my widowmaker. lol
That’s awesome. Welcome! Where did you move to?
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog im in san juan till easter tryin to learn Spanish, then ill move somewhere more north.
@@ThunderWarrior77 San Juan is fun, but exhausting (and expensive.) Stop by when you come up north!
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog furshur. I would love that. 💥
@@ThunderWarrior77 a chance to make a guest appearance on the show, too!
i have lived in sjds 6 years.. there is still plenty of liter. i live at marsella playa now . its not bad here, but the drive here is ugly
Hey Scott, quick question please…in say a 2 bedroom apartment or a medium size house, what would an air con bill be for the month if you ran the a/c 24/7 ? We have seen people mention it is expensive but they don’t give an approximate dollar amount.
Thank you, Sir !
We used suicide showers in Costa Rica always. Scared the heck out of me at first, but I got used to to it.
Death is scary, but you get used to it ;)
AC bills will vary WILDLY based on the house. Some houses are sealed, some are not. If you have a decent two bedroom and run around the clock I think you'd be normally under $400/mo and possibly way under that. We run six or seven units here, in an unsealed house, with two of them going around the clock and I think we are close to $600/mo. But that's five people in seven rooms. So much, much larger.
My power bill here is lower than it was in Dallas.
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Hoping in Matagalpa we would not run it 24/7 but we do like it very cool, especially when sleeping
@@bananapatch9118 up there you basically never need it. Many people don't even bother installing any.
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Lidia is planning on driving up there , maybe Dec 10th, with her mom, sister, and brother-in-law. There is almost nothing on Airbnb. Is there a hotel or place to stay that you like in Matagalpa ?
She hasn’t been to Matagalpa since she was very young. We pretty much have decided that in 3 months we will be living in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico….or in Matagalpa. So her two days there will be the deciding factor. Me, I’m home working still and taking care of our dogs.
Thx very much, Scott !
NICARAGUA is beautiful place 🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮
It really is!!
Not that it much affects foreigners but 3 of my Nicaraguan friends were killed in Leon during the 2018 demonstrations. My bank BAC near the Basillica was heavily damaged by Molotav Cocktails.. Fatima and Colonia Universidad, homes were looted and vandalized. Big thing with foreigners. You are safe because so much tourism is dependent on you. Also they fear confrontation assuming you won't understand their demands in Spanish. Scott is on track with those three problems. What he does not state is how you can solve them for yourself and maybe the entire community. Knowledge and the use of technology can correct things. Tha mascerator for RV's to deal with the toilet paper problem should cost no more than $30. ar better than a can off shitty toilet paper sitting around.
I have seen $4000 video cams taken to Radio Shack where the thief tried to sell it ffor $20. Don't ever flash expensive items.
Least I forget, some Diatomaceous Earth as well as moth balls will take care off any crawling insect problem including scorpions. And the Diatomacous Earth is com[letely safe around children and pets. Looks like piowder but to insects it might as well be a Spartan Phalnyx with long spears,. For the flying insects get electric mosquito zappers.
About the same time you were writing this I was in a discussion about how safe expats are here. For the reasons you mention.... it's hard to threaten us because we get confused, we're likely to fight back, and the government(s) don't take kindly to revenue sources being threatened. If one tourist was to be killed a thousand or maybe ten thousand tourists don't visit the region. The impact is devastating.
Scott, you are agreat sourse of information, I could listen to you all day, you are selling me on Nicuargaur, great job
Thanks!
Is Nicaragua your favorite retirement destination so far? Have you been to Guatemala, Peru, or Ecuador to compare it to these countries and other countries in Latin America?.
I think that it comes down to a large variety of factors and what matters to you individually. Each of those countries (I've not been to them, I am expected to be in Guatemala and Peru yet this year, however) has a lot to offer and each is rather different. A friend how lived in Peru for years is on the show regularly, and friends who have been living in Guatemala are on their way to the hotel right now and will be here tonight. So we get regular updates on comparative lifestyles in each. Nicaragua's biggest advantage compared to all of those is safety. It's way safer. And on the cheaper side. But it's also the smallest, by far, in terms of population and has the fewest activities. Peru has a single city bigger than the population of Nicaragua (by a lot.)
Weather is also a big factor. Do you want warm? Then Nicaragua is the leader. Do you want eternal springtime or a desert, then Nicaragua won't be on your radar.
I'll make an episode and break some thoughts down as far as Nicaragua as a retirement destination in the next few days. I don't think there is any one right place for everyone. But Nicaragua is certainly a retirement short list country!
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog Thanks! I want to visit Arequipa, Peru.🇵🇪 I have heard it’s not run down with tourists, and expats yet. Amazing food, perfect climate! I also think Ecuador looks amazing, all the different climates and landscapes. Guatemala also fascinates me. If you travel to Guatemala, do comparison video if you would, between Nicaragua and Guatemala. Thanks for you video content. 😊👍🏻
@@christopherhouse7937 you are so welcome! And definitely I will film a lot when I get up there. One of my goals is to test out the bus from Nicaragua to Guatemala to see how it is. Right now I have to wait on some paperwork with Nicaragua and coordinate all travel around that. Depending on that paperwork, I am supposed to be doing a road trip from Mexico (US border!!) to Nicaragua with one of the guys arriving from Guatemala tonight. If we do that, you know we will be filming ALL of it. It will be epic. I also film the drive in my other channel DriveWarp.
In Mexico city you can buy a solar radiator system to heat your water, works great and it is cheap, 100% solar.
You can buy them anywhere. They are certainly in stores here. You can make one yourself, too, they are pretty easy as you can make them out of PVC. You actually don't even need something designed for it here with the amount of light that we get, a black water tank works just fine (if you place it in open sunlight). Having a source of hot water was never the issue. We have suicide showers, too. There has to be plumbing to hook a water heater into. Houses here are not plumbed for hot and cold water. So if you add a tank (which we've done before), you either send it straight to a single location or have to re-plumb your entire structure.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog I lived in Managua in the 70s and we had that electrical wiring hooked to our shower. 😆 crazy now that I think about it.
@@Mrpistolero777 that’s still super common! We see it in a lot of hotels and the wires are here in my current house but now disconnected. We see it in Costa Rica too. I used one last week there.
So where do you deposit the toilet paper
Waste baskets next to the toilets.
The suicide showers work just fine. The installation is the problem. They have no concept of wire codes, polarity or grounding. Reverse plaity will give you 67.5 volts to grouind. Both dangerous and will run up your bill. And you need a good earth ground. So buy a multimeter or polarity checker and make sure alkl your outlets are correct. Want to be really really correct, install a ground fault interrupter on the shower as well as all near sink outlets. The braker will trip before you even get shocked. And you really really want this on swimming pools ans spas.
We were discussing this, too!! jaja. Good timing. Yeah, the wiring so often is SO bad. Just open wall ports where the shower is spraying on them half of the time! It's crazy.
Oh the puns... "It is crappy". You get to keep your DAD Joke card.
My "Dad Joke Card" is very, very safe.
Lovely what's the visa requirement an hoe long can u dtay
Video coming on that soon. But if you are coming from US, Canada, UK, Mexico and many other countries you get 90 days automatic when you arrive and then you can potentially extend for another 30 days three times for a total of 180 days.
Mantengamos limpio Nicaragua por favor
Exactly
I see that Managua is a bit different than Guatemala.. Which city you feel has more to offer?
Just recorded an entire episode covering this question for you. I'm editing it now, it should be posted for you on the 23rd of July. Be sure to subscribe and watch that. It's like 30 minutes of me diving into the differences.
Great.. I'll be in the look!
@@FlavioZona5 it'll post on July 23rd.
Oh i forgot about the army ants
Haven't seen any army or fire ants like in the US. I know some nasty jungle ants exist in the country but haven't seen them in populated Nicaragua ever.
Doesn't sound like anything has changed since I lived there 46 years ago.
Other than the best Internet in the region, best roads in the region. It's a pretty dramatically improved country just since I lived here in 2015. I bet from the 1970s, you'd not even recognize it.
You forgot to show us the dirty river and shame them into cleaning it.
Someone in Managua started talking to me yesterday about attempting an information campaign to clean up the city of Leon. I am hoping that they have some good ideas.
Trash....people put trash bags outside of their houses. They put those in front of their house in the evening because the truck comes in the morning. So what happens? Street dogs come by and bite the bags and go through them to see if there is anything edible in there, leaving the trash all on the sidewalks.
Ugh, I know. It's awful. Here in Leon it is common to hook the bags on the railing to make it hard for the dogs to get. Out on the beach people have little wooden boxes to put the trash into instead. But the dogs are something many other countries don't deal with. The streets are FULL of dogs so any trash outside is for the dogs, immediately.
I suppose this includes people not cleaning up after their pets in public places?
So that's true but doesn't work out the way that you think. That would not make sense here, and would actually be bad, for several reasons. First, it would require a huge increase in plastics which would be really bad. Animal poo is good for the environment, you don't actually not want it. You just don't want to see it or step in it (or smell it.) But it is hot here, so animal poo dries and turns to dust in hours here, which is not what people expect.
But the bigger issue is that animals are everywhere. Dogs, cats, horses, cows. They all poo in the road or in the church yard (yes, even the horses) all the time. It's everywhere. Cleaning up after your pets would go unnoticed, it wouldn't fix anything because the world is covered in loose or wild animals already. I grew up in the rural US and same thing there, you never clean up after the pets because it's a small percentage of the overall natural pooping system. Only in cities in the US do you really do that (or village sidewalks or whatever.)
So it sounds far worse than it really is. In reality, we don't want people picking it up. It's regularly either swept up with other refuse or it is taken care of naturally. Is there more poo in the streets than in the US? Sure, most definitely. Does it cause a real problem or inconvenience? Surprisingly, no, not at all. In fact, I'd say that while I walk outside easily 10x more than I did living in Texas, I'd say I get something on my shoes less than half as often for whatever reason (because I'm more alert and watching for it, maybe?). Like I do 10K steps outside daily and have gotten something on my shoes twice in a year and a half? In the States, that would happen every few months at least.
Hey how you doing brother it's better if you going directly to that alcaldía if you talk with the man you going to do a lot for you because you come for another country if going to complain they don't do much if you going to complain they do a lot
I'm hoping with enough attention on this and my other channels about Nicaragua that we can draw attention to some of these things and enact some change. Interest in dealing with the trash is starting to happen (not because of me), so many I can add to that momentum.
Minor problems with easy solutions: get a hot water tank. Get a bidet;; and move to a nicer neighbourhood!. Nobody likes living in a hostel forever, even in a so called developed country.
Hot water tanks are very expensive here (if you can find them, never seen one) and the houses aren't plumbed for them. So that's a huge undertaking that you can only do if you own a house and water to spend a lot of money. They aren't efficient for how things work here which is why Latin America and Europe rarely do them. They do hot water only where needed, not plumbed to the whole house. If you are building a new house and want to do that, of course it is possible, but construction wisdom here says it isn't the way to go if you want hot water.
Bidet you can ship in, of course. We are definitely getting bidets for our house that we are building. Will make all the difference. But only improves life at home, not when you travel.
All the neighborhoods are like that. You can't escape the trash. Some are better, like Fatima, but to get that you give up being close to everywhere so it isn't really considered better, just cleaner. Boaco is famously a city with almost no trash, but it is a tiny town with no amenities. The trash that I show in a lot of these videos are actually in really good neighborhoods. A lot comes from dogs spreading it around the streets and is very hard to help.
No hostel living here. I own a full hotel (not a hostel) and have a city house in a nice area and am building a house as well. The issues are things you face just living in the country, not from being in cheap areas or using cheap accommodations. You will face these things in the most exclusive Managua districts as well. Only building your own home AND not leaving it really makes the difference. But once you want to get out and explore and leverage living in Nicaragua, you will be stuck with these things no matter what.
My three things would be different after living here for almost 18 YEARS, not a year or so!!! Trash on some of the highways, yes, but getting much better since kids getting environmental education in the schools. Toilet paper and hot water, give me a break ...no, no, no. Gringo pricing, not always a bad deal; it always gets you prompt, same day service! Slow drivers not pulling to the right, or using cutouts, a bigger issue. Taxis stopping in intersections, yech. Rude, pushy gringos dealing with slower Nicaragua selling/service mores and systems ...biggest problem.
jajaja. I love it. The biggest problem with Nicaragua.... gringos.
de acuerdo
It just illustrates how different we all are then because, I gotta tell you, the unflushable toilet paper is a BIG issue for me to get over. It's jsut so unhygienic! I don't llive in Nica ... but looking for better places than cold Canada and out-of-control Panama. I already have residency in Panama, which tops the list, and one of the reasons I like Panama is the tp issue -- you can flush wherever you live even if your place is right on the beach (another plus: no hurricanes). This is why I can't understand why other LATAM countries haven't figured this out yet. But the reason I'm looking at other countries is because Panama's govt has imposed price controls on "72 basic essentials" and price controls always leads to more turmoil, not less. So I want a Plan B and for Plan B I'm considering three countries: Costa Rica, Uruguay and Nicaragua. And as Uruguay looks like the only country of these three where it's OK to flush the toilet paper, it seems like Uruguay is the likely back-up plan for me. (I'm heading to Panama in December 2022.)
@@realismatitsfinest5745 Panama is not a flush country. I've lived there. Flushing vs. not-flushing is NOT a hygiene issue at all. It's a convenience and comfort issue, for sure. I HATE not being able to flush, but no country I would seriously consider moving to except Chile (I only want my primary residence to be LATAM or Mediterranean Europe) is generally a flush country. Panama is not flush - it's the same as Nicaragua. I'll do another video to explain. But it's not hygiene, but it is nasty and everyone world wide hates not flushing, even those that grew up with it, but it's perfectly hygienic, just inconvenient and makes a lot of people uncomfortable (me included.) It's a really hard thing to adapt to, but it is what it is and most of the world lives with it.
If hygiene matters, only a bidet fixes that. Which we have here in Nicaragua. Saw a house with one this past weekend in fact.
@@realismatitsfinest5745 Uruguay is a non-flush country too. LATAM has mountains, beaches and colonial cities. Those are the big factors. The US and Northern Europe, the only flush zones world wide, mostly don't live on beaches and have more recently built cities and don't live on mountains. Literally all of the factors flip.
sounds like the shower problem could be solved easely with solar if u owned ?
Well, sort of. It CAN be solved. The issue is that no building has the plumbing for it. So you have to replumb everything too as there are no hot water pipes to begin with. It's more complicated than it seems. You can buy a hot water tank, and you can do passive solar on the roof. All of that is very doable. If you are building your own house from scratch it is no issue at all. But existing buldings leave you with some problems.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog i would do an outside shower with passive solar .
@@neal-stewart834 possible, if you have an outdoor space for it.
Solar oh yea buy the panels, inverter, battery’s better stay where you are what he is talking about will be the least of your problems I would suggest you are prepared for a huge cultural adjustment. And another thing learn to speak Spanish and don’t ask any questions.
Just take a cold shower it’s invigorating. I’m guessing none of you have been in the military
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Only 3? Lol
Its kind of funny that he says is very safe to live in nicaragua and looking behind his back looking chiva(cautious) jajajaja.,
Are the Chivas (futbol equipo famoso) "The Cautious", is that their name?
In Indonesia, also a hot country use a water bottle and it sits just beside the place you relieve yourself. This is my suggestion to get around, not to flush toilet paper instead. Oh, is there a recreational drug industry there? I'm from Canada and this industry is just making more stupid people. Thanks for the info re: the other side of the advertised story. Thanks again.
Wow, that feels like more work. Here wastebaskets are used for toilet paper so it doesn’t cause a flush problem. And the toilets just sit until water is available. It’s not that bad.
Maybe buy a hand held bidet, aka bum gun ?
…..just a thought.
Connected to the water supply? We've talked about getting those. We used them in Italy a bit. They work better than you'd think. I won't build my own place without a bidet of some sort.
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Yep, pretty much standard in SE Asia.
Amigo tienes que entender que en mi país no hay gobierno un país en calamidad pero verás un cambio cuando tengamos gobierno un país que será un paraíso para ustedes los extranjeros y nosotros los nacionales.
People shouldn't be throwing their rubbish on the ground whether your government is crap or not. It's about respecting where you live and of course nature
@@MrFooChops 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ Underground man...without brain no mentality...You are a foolish man...because You think about what you don't understand..!!
Right, one would hope that a grass roots movement could make the difference for something like this. Communities could pull together.
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No se trata de gobiernos solamente, es mala educación personal, porque en época de Anastasio Somoza existía la chureca y nunca hizo nada para resolverlo, el problema de la basura no lo solucionó Violeta Barrios, ni Arnoldo Alemán, menos Enrique Bolaños Geyer, quien soluciono la chureca? Ahí es el actual puerto turístico Salvador Allende, se ha mejorado despacio a traves de educación cultura continua ni paraiso ni mejoría es educación y cultura individual.
people need to carry a cup.. strap it on your pants.
Im going to send you a picture if you don't notice just jet how much trash you going to see on street and roads
Given that I film the show in Nicaragua and have done episodes specifically showing the trash and I just film all over the country as I walk around, the trash you see on the show is totally indicative of real life. It's a lot and you can see it. But it also varies a lot from place to place. Leon is much worse than Granada for example. Los Robles or Bolonia in Managua have none while other areas are essentially just houses on top of trash piles. Chinandega has almost none, the highways look like the USA / EEUU did in the 1970s. Having grown up in the US before the litter laws were in place, it looks just like how I remember it in my childhood... which is really bad, but we know it can be fixed, too.
This video, at the 8:00 mark, shows the bridge trash on the main bridge in Leon and is then followed by our video of and commentary on the city dumpster fire (literally) where there is a beautiful river side park location, covered in trash and on fire.
czcams.com/video/lfsyGDHsU54/video.html
Did you watch the video, the video was about how much trash is here and is filmed here. You don't have to convince me that there is a litter problem. I'm out here making videos about it!
You going to move there because you love cheap life
I started living here seven years ago and have been here full time now for a while. The "cheap life" is certainly a benefit, but there are cheaper places, too. And while Nicaragua is the cheapest country around, it is not dramatically cheaper than many neighboring countries. It makes the "affordable" list because of the cost of living, but so do most of the countries to the north. All fall in a similar category of affordable. When taken as a whole, the total cost of living isn't that much different than Spain, actually, because while housing is more expensive in Spain, food is less.
My video on the pros of Nicaragua mentions this.
"... (you can't flush toilet paper) in certainly almost all of Latin America" ... no, not so. Panama is flush. Uruguay is flush. Argentina is flush. So that's 3 countries right there. The other problem, not mentioned here, but the topic of several of your recent videos is hurricanes. Surprisingly, Panama doesn't those so there are two plusses for Panama vs 2 negatives for Nicaragua. The second point is: "You will grow up and accept that." Why? You presumably have the freedom to move to another country that does flush toilet paper (even it's that big of an issue for you; which it is for me -- it's just too unhygienic for me to even contemplate). You don't HAVE to accept it though. You just move to another country where you CAN do that. You're not living in China or Cuba here. Lastly, can't you just build your own septic system when you build your own home in Nica so that it can handle toilet paper. In Panama, unless you're living in one of the 5 biggest cities, most homes have their own septic system (i.e., reinforced hole in the ground) and it works just fine with flushed toilet paper. So that would solve the problem in Nica, wouldn't it?
Panama hasn't gotten hurricanes, that's true. But they same was true of Texas until Galveston was washed out to sea. But it does get the same giant storms on its populated coast that Nicaragua does. That hurricanes hit the unpopulated jungle is only a factor that Nicaragua controls lots of land. Where people live in Nicaragua gets tropical storms and lots of rain, same as Panama. That is definitely not a "pro" for Panama as you have to take it very much out of context. If Panama owned islands out in the Caribbean, and they would have to say that they got hurricanes but it wouldn't change the reality on the ground where people live. It's just technicalities of territory ownership, not climate realities in the cities.
And all of those are no-flush countries. And there are seventeen countries in LATAM, so three wouldn't come close to making something "not most", but according to the most official sources, it's 16 out of 17 are non-flush. Chile is the only broadly flush country in all of LATAM. Most bordering countries, like Belize, are non-flush, too. It's the terrain and age of the cities.
Panama is a great country, and one of my top picks. It is what caused me to move to Central America in the first place. Lots and lots of reasons to choose it. But flushing toilet paper and storms aren't on the list. All of CEntral America is in about the same boat with those. Belize and Honduras are the only countries where hurricanes can hit the areas where people live.