What Shocked Us Most Returning to America 🇺🇸
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ม.ค. 2025
- After ten years living abroad and four years in Nicaragua continuously, we are in the United States for two weeks and here are the things that we took note of that we found "surprising" being back in our home country for a while.
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I totally agree on the extremely high cost to see a doctor (or even nurse practitioner, where I would probably go for a prescription) in the US. However I am convinced antibiotics should only be available after prescription for several reasons including resistance development and people otherwise using them also for undefined, possibly viral infections.
I agree only once the doctor system is fixed. As long as doctors aren't free and readily available, I can't agree. It's a paywall to survival. Your safety is held hostage. The theory is good, but I believe it is sold to Americans as a scam to keep us agreeing to being extorted and held hostage by the industrial medical establishment. It sounds good, but it's a message designed to trick us into ignoring the problem and accepting corruption without overly questioning it. It's a process that I support as well, but ONLY after other processes are fixed.
Scot: I have an american passport, and live here in the states now. I moved around and lived for years in central and South america. I also meet people here that have never been outside the world of their high school and their extended family. I relate to a lot of your observations, but also recognize that for people who have never been outside their little world that they probably don't get what you are talking about. Thank you very much for your perspective and the breath of fresh air it brings to me, and reminds me of the places that I really enjoyed and miss.
Solid arguments SAM! The views KEEP ripping 🎉🎉🎉
I order things from Instacart, uber eats and Walmart+ delivery guiltily a lot LOL and they all work great! I live in FL. Don’t know why they’re not up north.
Uber Eats is "there", it has the most restaurants listed on the site. But none available for delivery the entire time that we were there :(
That’s a bummer and inconvenience. I mentioned to my teenage son what you said and he told me his best friend lives in TX and that uber eats is horrible there. His friend told him they cancel orders frequently and they’ve even eaten from his order 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮.
It was NY where I tried it. BUt I'm not surprised in TX.
The food in Nicaraguan is a lot cleaner.
Yep, it’s all F’d up here….. I’ve been done for quite some time now. Thank you for your videos !!!! I’m very inspired and motivated to go to Nica!!!! For good !!!! Thank you Scott !!!
Just want to saying something about the real fear of children being taken away from their parents. It could be real. I got this from Dr. Brandy Lee (psychiatrist in America and researcher) and she talked about the child trafficing relating to the family court in United states. From my understanding is that children are constantly being recruited throught the family court system. They are taken from their own parents and put into the custidy of the government, and these children are being fed into child trafficing, being abused, being killed as well. The judges in the family court are the ones who did that in close door. As family court hearing was not opened to the public, from what I understand.
I would not doubt this, but know nothing of it first hand. But those systems are definitely set up for that and I do know someone, first hand, who had that done to them in Canada. It's a real thing and there is so much money in it that the courts are highly incentivized to participate.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog It's possible, Scott.
same i went to live in the philippines for a year.. when i came back to canada ive been months of having tummy pain after eating ... so much that i was barely eating. i went back to the philippines for a trip years later for 6 months and same thing when i got back.. i had trouble eating cause every time i was eating even 2 bites i was in so much pain. (while when i was in the philippines i never got sick with food or water.. first day i just dig in food and drink water.. never been sick) . Salmonela... in the PH you go buy your fish in the morning in wet market (dirty market) it stay on the counter for hours after getting back home.. same with chicken and its all good. never got sick
Hey here we order things and perhaps a bit of delay but ever we get the food (in Nicaragua)
The food must be so much healthier without all the chemicals in other countries. Hopefully RFK makes a difference in the food here now that Trumps appointed him in charge of that task ❤
Hopefully, but that's biting the hand that feeds him and very unlikely that he's going to be allowed to undermine the funding source for his party. He's an extremely bought and paid for corporate servant who doesn't get to make his own decisions. He can say anything he wants in his rants, but we'll see if he's allowed to do anything that cuts into corporate profits once the rubber hits the road.
Scott, I'll bet you'll be happy to get back home!! I hear you about the food! I had to really change my nutrition 2 years ago. Pun intended, it's crappy having intestinal distress while traveling. A man really needs home base to take care of the distressing business !! Scott, take this as my opinion, but I think something is very wrong with the food here in the USA. I fast a long time when I travel. Having very little in my intestines has spared embarrassment at times!
I saw some real poverty on the way to Apoyo Laguna in Nicaragua, but you're right, the poverty in the US has become horrendous. I just drove by a huge RV encampment right off of Interstate 5 in our state capital, Salem, Oregon. It looks very squalid... muddy and dirty. We're in trouble up here, in many regions at least. And the bad part is, up here, if you're put out on the streets, you'll freeze. Scott, I can't wait to get down to Nicaragua to really live!! Thanks for your intelligent insights!! I'm moving to Nica to start a new life at age 68.
Any time I go to Nicaragua, then when come back home on Canada, the food make me sick for around a month. In Nicaragua the food is mire organic
I use to think the USA had an obesity problem however returning to Nicaragua most people over 25 yrs were overweight 😂😂😂 and I don't blame them as the food is so damn good 😋 and mostly organics.
I lived in Oregon for 30 years then AZ and now in Nicaragua and the horrendous quality of life that has changed for the worst is incredible in Oregon, My daughter bought a 900 q ft house in Portland for $400,000 and there was 2 RV encampments with in a block with blue tarps and multiple rv's without tires on them
It's pretty simple for me. If a restaurant requires an app, I don't eat there. If I get a gift card to one of these places, it gets re-gifted. I don't do food delivery either. I don't need that extra cost. I've been known to walk 4 miles to a restaurant to eat (even when abroad). That 8 mile round trip goes a long way to work off that meal.
Matt Damon and I are big fans of the flushable wipe.
"Flushable" wipes are not flushable. Plumbers could tell you stories of what they find. Nothing more than toilet paper should go down the toilet. It is called _toilet_ paper for a reason. Glued together with water-soluble glue, so that it dissolves in water. Put your wipes and whatever else in the trash can. I have never heard of a clogged trash can.
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Great facts 👏 unfortunately comosence sometimes doesn't exist much these days😂
@@yosefmacgruber1920 Maybe so in some cases. I've been using them for 15 years and never had a clog or plumbing issue - and it's more hygienic. Most areas I visit in Central America have less robust sanitation. Waste cans are provided whether you're using wipes or paper.
@Xrusader the problem is that using wipes as a normal person will never give you the information that you think that you have. YOu can have used wipes your entire life and never know more than someone that has never used them, which I explained in the recent video on flushing. THe clogs or plumbing issues are NOT inside your house, they are municipal and they are well known. Now if you have your own personal septic system and use them for several decades, you might have some insight, but only if you are the one dealing with the clean out of your own septic can you possibly have insight and even then, it's quite limited. ANd of course, that means that my information is equally as uninformed. ALl I know is that it is considered common knowledge here that all flushing is a problem, but it's all tribal knowledge and might be in accurate and/or out of date. We have no way to know for sure. Over time, it has become cultural so there's no way to know if it was every true or has changed. BUt the same thing goes for wipes. Every municipality says that they aren't flushable, but millions of people think that because they've flushed them that they are because they aren't thinking about the plumbing miles away, they think "not flushable" refers to their own observable portions of the plumbing. And can we ever know for sure?
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Seems obvious that wipes go in the trash, toilet paper down the toilet. The toilet is not a trash can. Only stuff that dissolves easily and flows down drains properly, goes down the toilet. That is why your nasty grease goes in a jar, never down the drain.
BTW, I seem to often use the bags that the toilet paper is wrapped in, and bread sacks, for trash can liners. That way my trash can liners are free.
Por curiosidad de que parte de WNY? Nica viviendo en el area de eirie county, mas alla de la comida el clima es el gran cambio cuando se viene del sur o centro.
Crecí en el condado de Wyoming, justo al lado del condado de Erie. Pero este video es de Geneseo, en el condado de Livingston, que está un poco más al este de Wyoming.
I had stopped eating at fast food places while in USA due to the stomach issues, both my daughters had irritable bowel issues due to the food in the USA till they started eating organic and got rid of all the regular processed GMO stuff that is used in the usa....coffee is a big thing here in Nicaragua and it is good but in McDonalds their coffee has about a 1000 different ingredients and chemicals as does most of their food..so yea while selection of foods is less in Nicaragua for the most part I find it is way healthier....something to think about
There’s a reason why you can’t just go out and “get antibiotics” at the local store.
It’s discouraged as it makes bacterias resistant in treating illnesses/ infections.The statement is devoid of fact and logic.
Maybe you should be teaching your daughter this…just a thought.
That might be fine for antibiotics, and it might be true, if they were available inexpensively without having to pay an arm and a leg and were able to rapidly get approval whenever necessary. REality is this is what is taught as an excuse (because the problem is real) to justify holding necessary medicine hostage to force you into an expensive, slow, dangerous and otherwise unnecessary medical system that is often unavailable or carries a risk of refusing service or making mistakes. It's rhetoric that American doctors shove down the public's throats to try to justify extortion. My daughter already knows this and still thinks it's crazy to withhold this and MANY OTHER necessary medicines that don't have this same problem. If only antibiotics were treated this way, the argument might be true, but because they are not and even air compressors and other non-medical devices are lumped into the prescription only system obviously it's not true as to why they aren't available.
@ there’s no denying that the US healthcare system is broken, and strictly for profit, this doesn’t justify applying antibiotics to remedy minor issues. My cousin has her own private practice clinic in Nicaragua, a very well known clinic and we’ve discussed ad nauseam how it’s counter productive to prescribe antibiotics for all issues.
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Big pharma has to get paid mate 🤑
@CDio1 for sure, but you see an issue there. If your cousin has their own clinic, presumably she is a doctor. And the doctor is prescribing the anti-biotics. So in that example, which is also what I've found in the US, the easy availability of anti-biotics isn't the problem, but doctors recommending them. You are absolutely right that we should be much more careful with anti-biotics, but everytime I talk to a doctor (in any country, not picking on one) they always start with anti-biotics anyway. Not needing a prescription, when it's going to be the prescription anyway, doesn't greatly impact things.
My guess is, it was probably highly processed foods and seeds oils.
If you haven't Ben in America listening to the trends, one of them is that
People are moving towards ketogenic diets.
The 2 main ones are keto and carnivore.
They demand the 2 Eat clean without the seed oils and starchy vegetables the difference between the two is that the keto diet allows nuns starchy vegetables and the carnivores ite only tolerates none dtarchy, vegetables and small amounts
I would like to see KFC biscuits in NIcaragua. KFC for that matter😁 You know Nicaraguans love our chicken KFC will crush it here.
It's a bit odd that they are everywhere but here, that's for sure.
Well after listening to this . I beleive that age has gotten to you. You have become a home body. Leon is your home. Your comfort zone. Never underestimate the signs from your body. ( Toilet time) The results indicate . Wait till back in NICA and movements will return to your personal norm.
But I can go to Mexico. Belize, Guatemala, Argentina, Bolivia, Costa RIca, Panama, all without a problem. The US has a different food supply that we really notice.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog make your food forget restaurants or fast food
What is your thoughts on Kennedy being appointed to fix the FDA. Foods that are banded mostly globally but not states
Im guatemalan i live in houston, im an american citizen too. It makes me sad how you express yourself about the US. The US is also my nation and love it.
How I express it shouldn't be what makes you sad. That the US makes me need to express it is the thing that should cause sadness, not me pointing it out. I grew up in America and there are great things about it, but it's a country that abandoned its people and it isn't the facade you see on TV. It's meant to look a certain way, everything is a show, a front. But under the hood, it is struggling poverty and corruption. If what I point out makes you feel sad, work to change things. But it is a huge place that was founded on many of these values and as an expat I can tell you, our power as expats is that we can choose the right place to be because all of us are essentially powerless to change the place we come from. Your expat power was to choose the US over Guatemala because you couldn't change Guatemala to be the right place for you. My power in being an expat was being able to leave the US because there is no way for me to influence any change there.
@ScottAlanMillerVlog I know you love Nicaragua, but I remember in the 80"s when Vinicio Cerezo, Guate's president back then, signed an executive order, saying that every nica who touched guatemalan soil, will have all the rights to be treated as a guatemalan, soon enough we had waves of nicaraguans coming into Guate city, we had pinoleros all over the place, there is a place in Guate city called little Nicaragua in zone1, and dont take wrong, they are great people I like them a lot, but taking the decision to leave their country for the opression they were living, tells me a lot about the type of government the Ortegas are imposing over their people. Last year, we guatemalans sent over 20,000 thousand million dollars over to Guate, which constitutes 20% of the guatemalan PIB. Those moneis go directly to our people, that make our people build better infrastructure for our communities, and the US is provinding those means to make our living better. Think of that when visiting Guate, a lot of those little restaurants you visit when enjoying Guate city. The US doesnt just hand us the money, we work hard to make it, but we guatemalans love hard work, and the country that let us do it to make the US and Guatemala great.
It obviously tells you nothing. If any nice country gave me "rights as a citizen if I touch their soil" you had better believe I'm traveling there just to get another passport. That's amazing. THe US did that to Cubans to brain drain the country. ANd in the 1980s, that was when the US was trying to destroy NIcaragua militarily, so all it tells you is that the US was killing people and they needed to get away. The oppression was from the US, obviously, as you know. Anyone who knows the region at all knows what the US was doing here, and in Salvador. So you have a good example of why anyone being killed by American military and weapons wants to get to safety, and why everyone wants a free second passport, and that Nicaraguans aren't dumb.
So what you say is "obvious" is that the US hates Nicaraguans and that all Nicaraguans both in Nicaragua and in the US live in constant fear of what the US will do to them (citizen or not) and have to say things to appease the US because there is never really confidence that you can speak honestly when you live in America. Especially if you weren't born there, the right to deport always exists no matter what, and it is really exercise, as it was this past month with Americans being sent to Mexico. It's obvious that you are afraid of speaking the truth because you live under the thumb of the US government. Otherwise you'd not pretend that Nicaraguans leaving as the US wages war in their country isn't obviously Nicaraguans seeking safety.
The USA is absolutely horrific. Poison not food. In Florida absolutely everything is overpriced bland tasteless shite. Every single place I ever go outside of Florida and the US has better food. America is screwed.
Just got back from Mexico and as always the food was incredible!
You have to order off an app because the restaurant can’t afford staff - inflation out of control here
Then why doesn't the restaurant provide a kiosk to order from?
I already do not eat out. Not affordable, only for the rich in the has-been corrupt USA. Yet another reason for me to leave.
What's odd is that the app creates more work for them, not less. It's super inefficient.
ALl of the ones with apps did in my experience. But none of it works, lol
I went to a burger place in Penn Station that only had kiosks, no counter. App was useless. A McDonalds in downtown Louisville had 1 register with no one working it and a few kiosks - when I entered an employee walked by and asked ‘did you order off the app?’
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog
I once worked at a pizza place, when we converted over from manual written tags to computer. It was a wonderful upgrade, because it was all in-house, none of this fancy computer networks talking to other networks, and I finally could read the addresses. Plus, I could go back in to an order after delivering it, and add special delivery instructions for any hard-to-find houses, next time that customer ordered using the same phone number, those delivery instructions automatically printed out. But we still had the same staff, there was no "app", and some insider still answering phones and taking carry-out orders, and placing orders in the computer, and the computer terminals by where the pizzas are made, would show all the queued up but not yet made pizzas. The pizza maker would simply acknowledge each order as made, a handy keyboard with a proper cover to protect it, and it would disappear from the screen and move to the delivery check-out station.
Back then we only took cash and check, well except maybe for accounts with schools or something for big orders. Every so often, somebody would try to pay with a big bill that I could not make change for. Like a $50 or $100. We generally do not carry anything bigger than a $10, as it supposedly is not safe, and it is nearly useless for making change, we drop those into our box every time upon returning to the store. I would simply tell them, I would take it, but it will be an hour or two before I can return with your change. And literally that is how long it took, until I had a pizza run in that direction, on the tail end of that run, as I don't want to be letting pizzas get cold.
Or they would ask if they can write the tip into the check. I would tell them, please do, as we have to pay for the pizzas and anything left over we take home in cash anyway. I suspected customers would be more generous if they wrote the tip into the check.
Well things that you are having a problem with in New York are things I have not run in to in the west coast or mid west.
I was in the midwest too on this trip.
dramatic, wide brush and generally inaccurate at a minimum hahahahhaha terrible illustration for those not in the know hahahahha
The produce quality is getting worse. I miss paying cash and getting handwritten receipts.
American children go outside to build a snowman. Do the parents go outside to watch or help them? Often not. It is cold outside. The children know where to find their parents if they have a problem. Is it not like that anymore? Are my childhood memories outdated? Does anybody build snowmen anymore?
Not many people do. My kids did when they were little, they are the only ones that I know. I did when I was little, but I was a very different era. I grew up before the threats against children alone outside started. The fake news of child abductions were after my time. So I was at the rail end of a world where kids could roam freely. Now people worry that their neighbors spy on them and call CPS to take your kids away if the neighbors don't think you have close enough control. Many of the behaviours we thought were normal not that long ago are unusual now. Obviously some people still build snow men and play in the snow. But almost always with hovering adults, and only a fraction as often as when I was a kid.