This is the most useful list "for investigation" that I have ever seen! El Salvador and Argentina were not really good options when I began my adventures, and yet today they are among the more interesting possibilities. Latin America is full of surprises! I lived in Nicaragua and had a lifetime of wonderful experiences there. Then I came to Colombia, and I fell in love with the country and the people. I think I will be investigating Argentina more in the near future. The explanations given in this video are clear and amazing. Very good information for someone considering a relocation.
SI usas el index MERCER para expats, como tambien el indice HDI de desarrollo humano, todo lo que explicas resume e indica como mejor opcion ARGENTINA. Mercer siempre considera Buenos Aires la capital mas apropiada para expats, ejecutivos de empresa, etc. Sobre HDI, un indice de Naciones UNidas, sobre desarrollo humano, Argentina ha estado por decadas primero en America Latina, esta ultima decada creo esta segunda. Y este indice resume calidad de vida en acceso a salud, a la educacion, expectativa de vida, desarrollo humano, infraestructura, etc,. EL cono sur ( Argentina, CHile Uruguay ) ha sido desde siempre paises con indices de calidad de vida que sobresalen en america latina. Aun con la economia con problemas Argentina, preserva estos items basicos sobre calidad de vida. Buen video !!!!!
Estos índices son peligrosos de usar. No tienen en cuenta la calidad de vida, sino que tienden a centrarse en indicadores falsos como el PIB y el consumismo. Se basan en objetivos capitalistas occidentales (ganancias) y no en valores humanos como la calidad de vida, la felicidad o la seguridad. Puede que tengan en cuenta esas cosas, pero su base son cosas totalmente inútiles que no significan nada para un expatriado o un ciudadano. ¿Por qué le importaría a un expatriado el IDH? ¿Por qué le importaría a un ciudadano? El IDH está diseñado para hacer que los países europeos luzcan bien a pesar de los problemas sociales, mientras que hace que los lugares que se centran en la calidad de vida por encima de la manufactura luzcan mal. Argentina es una excelente opción por muchas razones. Pero yo diría que esos índices son en realidad contraintuitivos y, en el mejor de los casos, carecen de sentido, pero corren el riesgo de ser activamente lo inverso de lo que importa. Por ejemplo, muchos países europeos tienen una clasificación muy buena en el IDH, pero en cuanto a la calidad de vida o las cosas importantes para un expatriado, tienen una clasificación muy baja.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog el indice MERCER fue creado para asegurar un bienestar o recursos ideales para ejecutivos de empresa que se radican en el exterior. SI ese indice es excelente para Argentina por algo es. y si ademas se cruza con IDH , muestra una calidad de vida estructural, como el acceso a la educacion, a la salud, expectativa de vida, seguridad, que en otros paises de Latam, no es buena. SI todos etos indices se manejan con parametros que ven economistas, al que solo ellos tienen acceso, el cono sur esta muy bien, comparado con otros paises de latam. En cuanto a seguridad, tenemos el indice mas bajo en criminalidad, junto a Chile y creo Uruguay. A pesar que nos quejamos de todo en Argentina, en otros paises la pasan mucho peor en crimenes, sin ir mas lejos Mexico, que se ven milicias por las calles, con ametralladoras, como hay aqui librerias en los barrios
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog de Argentina ha salido los start ups mas relevantes y de mayor valor en la actualidad, aqui hay un semillero con recursos humanos como no los tienen otros paises ( no por nada tuvimos 5 premios nobeles,3 de ciencias ) , y solo somos 45 millones de habitantes, si hubieramos tenido mas 2 siglos de mano de obra de cero costo como tuvo USA con la esclavitud o Brasil, seriamos potencia mundial. Negar que aqui no hay calidad de vida, con el mosaico que tomas de tus pocas horas en el pais residiendo, es escaso. REPITO, hoy la coyuntura nos pone en una situacion dificilisima donde se estan acomodando infinidad de parametros, y desvarios de toda la vida, tendremos una decada muy complejo, como lo tuvo Irlanda o Portugal, antes de acomodarse economicamente, la gente sentira los ajustes, como hoy sentimos esto como nunca !!!!!
Una gran cantidad de personas que buscan otros países para vivir son : 1.- jubilados 2.- Trabajadores a distancia No les interesa mucho la parte del IDH que engloba educación, porque ya la tienen, ni el pib percapita, ya que o son retirados o trabajan para compañias extranjeras, en cuanto a la esperanza de vida llevan la que les dio su pais de origen etc Es verdad que requieren salud, seguridad y una buena infraestructura. Argentina hace 100 años va de crisis en crisis tal es así que viven con el dólar y no con el peso como moneda de reserva , la inflación causa inseguridad y estrés. Las cifras argentinas dadas por organismos de gobierno siempre van con un signo de interrogación. Son icónicas frases dichas por personajes como Cristina que dijo "tenemos menos pobreza que Alemania" o Alberto "crecemos más que China" o lo que dijo Milei "fuimos el país más rico del mundo" Argentina es un buen país si trabajas en dolares y la gente del interior es buena gente hasta ahí! Pero tiene muchos problemas, es mejor que cada quien lo visite y saque sus conclusiones.
Colombia has a very amazing choice of climates. Do you like that "eternal-autumn" climate? Do you like that cool eternal-spring climate? Do you like that warmish eternal-spring climate? Or do you prefer that tropical beach climate? And going from climate to climate is often a quick drive (30 minutes or one hour).
@@boink800 I really like people from Colombia, they are really warm, but man... the country itself is a mess, extreme traffic, trash everywhere, very low level of infrastructure, security issues, etc.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog I’m still undecided. There are pros and cons to both, but perhaps an urban setting to begin with, if only to give me more opportunities to practice my Spanish.
I think that in Brazil I would go to the north. I visited Rio, Sao Paulo, and Braailia as a kid. People are very friendly, and my students invite me to visit all the time. 😊 But studying Spanish in school helped sway me towards Spanish speaking areas.
@@boink800 Argentines are the super champions of everything, the best people and obvious the most humble people in the world. I would love to go to Argentina and meet their amazing and humble people. Greetings from an Argentine.
@@boink800 Also Bitcoin. Bukele invested 114 million for Bitcoin implementation. It's now valued at 350 million. He is a very smart man. EL Salvador used to be the most dangerous place to live. Now it's one of the safest in Latin America. It is one of the fastest developing countries as well. Future looks very bright 🌞
But so does Nicaragua in the El Salvador sense. In both it's one of two official. Just in El Salvador, their alternative is not at all popular and in Nicaragua their alternative is extremely popular.
Actually there is a lot of talk of financial collapse because of that. And the Bitcoin implementation and the Bitcoin holdings are unrelated. People conflate them to try to make it look successful, but the implementation is widely seen as a failure due to total lack of adoption. The investment is considered a failure because you have to ignore inflation to make it sound reasonable. Once you consider inflation and lack of investment, it's been a pretty big loss. He's done a lot of great things, but if you look at their Bitcoin, it's the example the world over of failure both of the "investment" where they held cash instead of investing; and the implementation which proved to have zero value and the country went fully back to the dollar as a result. Yes, BTC remains legal, but unused.
You get tons of misinformation about El Salvador because they tried to get in the news with BTC and you get these people that see it as a religious crusade instead of as money and they will say anything to try to make it look good. But actually look at the value of their holdings and compare against market rates (S&P 500 index) and it looks pretty foolish and loses significantly every day now. The idea wasn't a bad one, it was an interesting gamble and the thought that it would solve remittance hassles wasn't valueless. But BTC in El Salvador has proven to be more of a hassle than other currencies elsewhere. El Salvador is a great example of where the BTC crowd will dishonestly promote it for their own benefit, but economists all agree it's been a failure and a warning to others about using a baseless currency as a miracle cure - just printing money out of nothing, without an economy behind it, carries extreme risk - it's all the problems of a fiat currency taken to the extreme. Everything that people claim that they hate about fiats, but without even the government oversight or economy behind it. Purely printing money, in private. So it creates inflation like crazy and risk because every BTC is "more currency" just printed. At once point El Salvador was a pioneer in trying BTC. But that was a while ago. Others have tried it and reverted already. Now El Salvador is the last holdout of it, rather than the pioneer. It's a vestige now, a sign of being left behind, rather than forging ahead. And it shows as El Salvador's economic growth is lagging the region. It's at almost exactly half that of Nicaragua, for example. BTC can't be blamed for the economic problems. In reality, the BTC usage in El Salvador is so low, it just doesn't matter. It carries no real benefits, but does no real harm. It's just... a silly marketing thing now to sucker BTC zealots to spend money there. But even that isn't enough to move the economic needle at all. But it at least keeps Salvador in the news, even if just for being foolish.
Random picture of Latin American road picked by AI as I was editing at midnight. Flower covered roads are common in Latin America. Especially up north.
When you say that Mexico is the "largest" spanish speaking country, you must clear up that you're referring to "largest population" because the "largest spanish speaking country" is Argentina, which is almost a million square kilometers bigger, which gives it a wider range of landscapes and experiences, even contrasts between regional cultures and lifestyles. Just to be more precise. Cheers
@@boink800 I think i've explained well the point: México:: 1.973.000 square kilometers. Argentina: 2.780.000 square kilometers. Which one is larger? Answer: Argentina If you talk about people, you must say: The largest population", "The most populares country"; even it could be mentioned as "the largest nation" but not "the largest country". Is it that hard to understamd? If you're mexican, you are embarrassing your people...
No, by that measure the US is the largest, it's many times the size of Argentina AND has more Spanish speakers. But when talking about the size of speakers, it's always by population.
@sinergiamdp And the US is larger still. So that doesn't make sense. If you want to mean country size, you have to say "largest by land area". Or "largest by area" as the big ones like US and Canada change dramatically based on land area versus total area (Canada has more water area.) But when talking about speakers, everyone knows it is population UNLESS otherwise specified. A country can be defined as: The people of a nation or state; populace. "The whole country will profit from the new economic reforms." A country is a collection of people. So size is logically by default considered in terms of people, rather than the surface area of the land generally accepted to be owned by those people.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog Why don't you talk about this video, not about geography? WHAT WAS SAID IN THE VIDEO IS WHAT MATTERS IN THIS DISCUSSION!!! What the f*ck has the US to do with spaniah speaking countries? Stop confirming yourself as an...
It's different things. Very few expats are immigrants. I'm an immigrant, but the audience is almost entirely expats and not immigrants. You can't just use the wrong word, it would be confusing. th-cam.com/video/1hOMFL8owQc/w-d-xo.html
All immigrants are expats, very few expats are immigrants. Water and H2O are the same thing. Expat is like liquid, water is a specific liquid. Saying water when you don't meant water but mean all liquids would be both confusing and quite wrong. The problem is not expats correctly calling themselves expats, it's Americans incorrectly using the term immigrant both derogatory and incorrectly. But just because many Americans use the terms wrong, doesn't mean that we should.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog So, what I get is an expatriate is someone who leaves their home country for some time but still consider your residency your home country, wheres an inmigrant just plainly establishes their place of residency in their new country. But, if you establish your residency outside, are you still called an expat? 'Cause from my point of view, there's nothing inherently wrong or derogatory about being an inmigrant.
Immigrant SHOULDN'T be negative at all. Ever. It's a great concept. And just a concept. But it is widely used in the US in a negative way (and elsewhere too, this isn't uniquely American in any sense.) With expat, though, you don't still consider your residency your home country. Some do, but that's kinda awkward. Some have no choice legally. Many are residency-less. That's the most common. I've been without residency for a long time. I only recently made the transition from generic expat (jaja, joke on the other channel from my buddy Eric) to being specifically an immigrant form of expat. I became an expat when I gave up being resident in my home country (USA) long ago, but only became an immigrant when applying for and being accepted as a permanent resident in my new country (Nicaragua.) And even that is informal. Truly I became an expat when I "intended" to give up residency in my home country and became an unofficial immigrant in Nicaragua when I made the decision to try to stay. BUt I understand why people want the officially sanctioned view versus the philosophical. But the concept remains. Part of the thing is context. To the US, I'm an expat and an emigrant, but not an immigrant. To Nicaragua I am an expat and an immigrant, but not an emigrant. In all cases, from anyone's viewpoint, I'm an expat. No matter your context, I'm always an expat. I'm only an immigrant from Nicaragua's perspective. From Brazil's perspective, I'm simply an American and neither an immigrant nor an emigrant. Which brings up residency - residency is internal to a country and never applies to an outside one. The US only has a context of being or not being a US residency. Same with Nicaragua. For years I've been a resident of neither. But many people are residents of both. Residency is tough because you can be a legal resident of a country you've never visited (Mexico) or you might leave a country never to return and they consider you a resident no matter what (Canada) or you might live in a state for years and never be allowed to call yourself a resident (New Jersey.) It's a wild loosey goosey concept. Residency doesn't need to exist. Nor does it need to be exclusive. You remain an expat as long as you have left and aren't trying to return to your home country. That context never changes. UNless I move back to the US, I'm an expat for life. No changes in residency, citizenship or anything else will ever make me not an expat. But if I leave Nicaragua, my status as an immigrant would end.
What countries are you considering? What factors are most important to you?
This is the most useful list "for investigation" that I have ever seen! El Salvador and Argentina were not really good options when I began my adventures, and yet today they are among the more interesting possibilities. Latin America is full of surprises! I lived in Nicaragua and had a lifetime of wonderful experiences there. Then I came to Colombia, and I fell in love with the country and the people. I think I will be investigating Argentina more in the near future. The explanations given in this video are clear and amazing. Very good information for someone considering a relocation.
Thank you so much!
SI usas el index MERCER para expats, como tambien el indice HDI de desarrollo humano, todo lo que explicas resume e indica como mejor opcion ARGENTINA. Mercer siempre considera Buenos Aires la capital mas apropiada para expats, ejecutivos de empresa, etc. Sobre HDI, un indice de Naciones UNidas, sobre desarrollo humano, Argentina ha estado por decadas primero en America Latina, esta ultima decada creo esta segunda. Y este indice resume calidad de vida en acceso a salud, a la educacion, expectativa de vida, desarrollo humano, infraestructura, etc,. EL cono sur ( Argentina, CHile Uruguay ) ha sido desde siempre paises con indices de calidad de vida que sobresalen en america latina. Aun con la economia con problemas Argentina, preserva estos items basicos sobre calidad de vida. Buen video !!!!!
Estos índices son peligrosos de usar. No tienen en cuenta la calidad de vida, sino que tienden a centrarse en indicadores falsos como el PIB y el consumismo. Se basan en objetivos capitalistas occidentales (ganancias) y no en valores humanos como la calidad de vida, la felicidad o la seguridad. Puede que tengan en cuenta esas cosas, pero su base son cosas totalmente inútiles que no significan nada para un expatriado o un ciudadano. ¿Por qué le importaría a un expatriado el IDH? ¿Por qué le importaría a un ciudadano? El IDH está diseñado para hacer que los países europeos luzcan bien a pesar de los problemas sociales, mientras que hace que los lugares que se centran en la calidad de vida por encima de la manufactura luzcan mal.
Argentina es una excelente opción por muchas razones. Pero yo diría que esos índices son en realidad contraintuitivos y, en el mejor de los casos, carecen de sentido, pero corren el riesgo de ser activamente lo inverso de lo que importa.
Por ejemplo, muchos países europeos tienen una clasificación muy buena en el IDH, pero en cuanto a la calidad de vida o las cosas importantes para un expatriado, tienen una clasificación muy baja.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog el indice MERCER fue creado para asegurar un bienestar o recursos ideales para ejecutivos de empresa que se radican en el exterior. SI ese indice es excelente para Argentina por algo es. y si ademas se cruza con IDH , muestra una calidad de vida estructural, como el acceso a la educacion, a la salud, expectativa de vida, seguridad, que en otros paises de Latam, no es buena. SI todos etos indices se manejan con parametros que ven economistas, al que solo ellos tienen acceso, el cono sur esta muy bien, comparado con otros paises de latam. En cuanto a seguridad, tenemos el indice mas bajo en criminalidad, junto a Chile y creo Uruguay. A pesar que nos quejamos de todo en Argentina, en otros paises la pasan mucho peor en crimenes, sin ir mas lejos Mexico, que se ven milicias por las calles, con ametralladoras, como hay aqui librerias en los barrios
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog de Argentina ha salido los start ups mas relevantes y de mayor valor en la actualidad, aqui hay un semillero con recursos humanos como no los tienen otros paises ( no por nada tuvimos 5 premios nobeles,3 de ciencias ) , y solo somos 45 millones de habitantes, si hubieramos tenido mas 2 siglos de mano de obra de cero costo como tuvo USA con la esclavitud o Brasil, seriamos potencia mundial. Negar que aqui no hay calidad de vida, con el mosaico que tomas de tus pocas horas en el pais residiendo, es escaso. REPITO, hoy la coyuntura nos pone en una situacion dificilisima donde se estan acomodando infinidad de parametros, y desvarios de toda la vida, tendremos una decada muy complejo, como lo tuvo Irlanda o Portugal, antes de acomodarse economicamente, la gente sentira los ajustes, como hoy sentimos esto como nunca !!!!!
Una gran cantidad de personas que buscan otros países para vivir son :
1.- jubilados
2.- Trabajadores a distancia
No les interesa mucho la parte del IDH que engloba educación, porque ya la tienen, ni el pib percapita, ya que o son retirados o trabajan para compañias extranjeras, en cuanto a la esperanza de vida llevan la que les dio su pais de origen etc
Es verdad que requieren salud, seguridad y una buena infraestructura.
Argentina hace 100 años va de crisis en crisis tal es así que viven con el dólar y no con el peso como moneda de reserva , la inflación causa inseguridad y estrés.
Las cifras argentinas dadas por organismos de gobierno siempre van con un signo de interrogación.
Son icónicas frases dichas por personajes como Cristina que dijo "tenemos menos pobreza que Alemania" o Alberto "crecemos más que China" o lo que dijo Milei "fuimos el país más rico del mundo"
Argentina es un buen país si trabajas en dolares y la gente del interior es buena gente hasta ahí!
Pero tiene muchos problemas, es mejor que cada quien lo visite y saque sus conclusiones.
Mexico and Nicaragua are awesome 👌
Colombia has a very amazing choice of climates. Do you like that "eternal-autumn" climate? Do you like that cool eternal-spring climate? Do you like that warmish eternal-spring climate? Or do you prefer that tropical beach climate? And going from climate to climate is often a quick drive (30 minutes or one hour).
@@boink800 I really like people from Colombia, they are really warm, but man... the country itself is a mess, extreme traffic, trash everywhere, very low level of infrastructure, security issues, etc.
@@ivan51748 I had zero security issues in Colombia. It was very safe for me
@@ivan51748 I had zero problems while I was in Colombia. It's very safe
@@ivan51748 i was in colombia my father is colombian/venezuelan and its not dangerous at all depends where u go and so on
Good video.
I’m seriously considering a move to Argentina in the next 12-18 months.
Very nice! The big city or somewhere rural? Maybe close to the wine?
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog I’m still undecided. There are pros and cons to both, but perhaps an urban setting to begin with, if only to give me more opportunities to practice my Spanish.
I think that in Brazil I would go to the north. I visited Rio, Sao Paulo, and Braailia as a kid. People are very friendly, and my students invite me to visit all the time. 😊 But studying Spanish in school helped sway me towards Spanish speaking areas.
Great video!
Amazing Argentina, they are the best country and they are very very humble people. Greetings from Buenos Aires.
@@ivan51748 Are they the most humble people in the world?
@@boink800 Argentines are the super champions of everything, the best people and obvious the most humble people in the world. I would love to go to Argentina and meet their amazing and humble people. Greetings from an Argentine.
@@ivan51748 Very humble people. Come on.
@@StephaneCalabrese Hey. Congratulations. It's incredible how incapable you are of detecting obvious sarcasm.
ha, que ingenioso!!. cuantos mejicanos participaron en el brainstorming??
El Salvador is my pick.
El Salvador is really up and coming. And like Ecuador, they use the US dollar as their currency.
@@boink800 Also Bitcoin. Bukele invested 114 million for Bitcoin implementation. It's now valued at 350 million. He is a very smart man. EL Salvador used to be the most dangerous place to live. Now it's one of the safest in Latin America. It is one of the fastest developing countries as well. Future looks very bright 🌞
But so does Nicaragua in the El Salvador sense. In both it's one of two official. Just in El Salvador, their alternative is not at all popular and in Nicaragua their alternative is extremely popular.
Actually there is a lot of talk of financial collapse because of that. And the Bitcoin implementation and the Bitcoin holdings are unrelated. People conflate them to try to make it look successful, but the implementation is widely seen as a failure due to total lack of adoption. The investment is considered a failure because you have to ignore inflation to make it sound reasonable. Once you consider inflation and lack of investment, it's been a pretty big loss. He's done a lot of great things, but if you look at their Bitcoin, it's the example the world over of failure both of the "investment" where they held cash instead of investing; and the implementation which proved to have zero value and the country went fully back to the dollar as a result. Yes, BTC remains legal, but unused.
You get tons of misinformation about El Salvador because they tried to get in the news with BTC and you get these people that see it as a religious crusade instead of as money and they will say anything to try to make it look good. But actually look at the value of their holdings and compare against market rates (S&P 500 index) and it looks pretty foolish and loses significantly every day now. The idea wasn't a bad one, it was an interesting gamble and the thought that it would solve remittance hassles wasn't valueless. But BTC in El Salvador has proven to be more of a hassle than other currencies elsewhere. El Salvador is a great example of where the BTC crowd will dishonestly promote it for their own benefit, but economists all agree it's been a failure and a warning to others about using a baseless currency as a miracle cure - just printing money out of nothing, without an economy behind it, carries extreme risk - it's all the problems of a fiat currency taken to the extreme. Everything that people claim that they hate about fiats, but without even the government oversight or economy behind it. Purely printing money, in private. So it creates inflation like crazy and risk because every BTC is "more currency" just printed.
At once point El Salvador was a pioneer in trying BTC. But that was a while ago. Others have tried it and reverted already. Now El Salvador is the last holdout of it, rather than the pioneer. It's a vestige now, a sign of being left behind, rather than forging ahead. And it shows as El Salvador's economic growth is lagging the region. It's at almost exactly half that of Nicaragua, for example.
BTC can't be blamed for the economic problems. In reality, the BTC usage in El Salvador is so low, it just doesn't matter. It carries no real benefits, but does no real harm. It's just... a silly marketing thing now to sucker BTC zealots to spend money there. But even that isn't enough to move the economic needle at all. But it at least keeps Salvador in the news, even if just for being foolish.
Brazil is best
That alphabet garbage in the road negates that country automatically and the fact that this site used it as a thumbnail negates it as well.
the what now?
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog look at the thumbnail and the rainbow colors on the intersection.
Random picture of Latin American road picked by AI as I was editing at midnight. Flower covered roads are common in Latin America. Especially up north.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog understood.
I don't like those anglo ideologies tras-h in my country too, nor the tumb to represent latin countries!!
I'm with you!! Um abraço hermano!!❤
When you say that Mexico is the "largest" spanish speaking country, you must clear up that you're referring to "largest population" because the "largest spanish speaking country" is Argentina, which is almost a million square kilometers bigger, which gives it a wider range of landscapes and experiences, even contrasts between regional cultures and lifestyles.
Just to be more precise.
Cheers
Mexico has a population of 130 million people while Argentina has a population of 45 million.
@@boink800 I think i've explained well the point:
México:: 1.973.000 square kilometers.
Argentina: 2.780.000 square kilometers.
Which one is larger?
Answer: Argentina
If you talk about people, you must say: The largest population", "The most populares country"; even it could be mentioned as "the largest nation" but not "the largest country".
Is it that hard to understamd?
If you're mexican, you are embarrassing your people...
No, by that measure the US is the largest, it's many times the size of Argentina AND has more Spanish speakers. But when talking about the size of speakers, it's always by population.
@sinergiamdp And the US is larger still. So that doesn't make sense. If you want to mean country size, you have to say "largest by land area". Or "largest by area" as the big ones like US and Canada change dramatically based on land area versus total area (Canada has more water area.) But when talking about speakers, everyone knows it is population UNLESS otherwise specified. A country can be defined as: The people of a nation or state; populace. "The whole country will profit from the new economic reforms."
A country is a collection of people. So size is logically by default considered in terms of people, rather than the surface area of the land generally accepted to be owned by those people.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog Why don't you talk about this video, not about geography?
WHAT WAS SAID IN THE VIDEO IS WHAT MATTERS IN THIS DISCUSSION!!!
What the f*ck has the US to do with spaniah speaking countries?
Stop confirming yourself as an...
Why call yourself an expat? What makes it any different from an inmigrant? It's like calling water H2O
It's different things. Very few expats are immigrants. I'm an immigrant, but the audience is almost entirely expats and not immigrants. You can't just use the wrong word, it would be confusing.
th-cam.com/video/1hOMFL8owQc/w-d-xo.html
All immigrants are expats, very few expats are immigrants. Water and H2O are the same thing. Expat is like liquid, water is a specific liquid. Saying water when you don't meant water but mean all liquids would be both confusing and quite wrong.
The problem is not expats correctly calling themselves expats, it's Americans incorrectly using the term immigrant both derogatory and incorrectly. But just because many Americans use the terms wrong, doesn't mean that we should.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog So, what I get is an expatriate is someone who leaves their home country for some time but still consider your residency your home country, wheres an inmigrant just plainly establishes their place of residency in their new country.
But, if you establish your residency outside, are you still called an expat? 'Cause from my point of view, there's nothing inherently wrong or derogatory about being an inmigrant.
Immigrant SHOULDN'T be negative at all. Ever. It's a great concept. And just a concept. But it is widely used in the US in a negative way (and elsewhere too, this isn't uniquely American in any sense.)
With expat, though, you don't still consider your residency your home country. Some do, but that's kinda awkward. Some have no choice legally. Many are residency-less. That's the most common. I've been without residency for a long time. I only recently made the transition from generic expat (jaja, joke on the other channel from my buddy Eric) to being specifically an immigrant form of expat. I became an expat when I gave up being resident in my home country (USA) long ago, but only became an immigrant when applying for and being accepted as a permanent resident in my new country (Nicaragua.) And even that is informal. Truly I became an expat when I "intended" to give up residency in my home country and became an unofficial immigrant in Nicaragua when I made the decision to try to stay. BUt I understand why people want the officially sanctioned view versus the philosophical. But the concept remains.
Part of the thing is context. To the US, I'm an expat and an emigrant, but not an immigrant. To Nicaragua I am an expat and an immigrant, but not an emigrant. In all cases, from anyone's viewpoint, I'm an expat. No matter your context, I'm always an expat. I'm only an immigrant from Nicaragua's perspective. From Brazil's perspective, I'm simply an American and neither an immigrant nor an emigrant. Which brings up residency - residency is internal to a country and never applies to an outside one. The US only has a context of being or not being a US residency. Same with Nicaragua. For years I've been a resident of neither. But many people are residents of both. Residency is tough because you can be a legal resident of a country you've never visited (Mexico) or you might leave a country never to return and they consider you a resident no matter what (Canada) or you might live in a state for years and never be allowed to call yourself a resident (New Jersey.) It's a wild loosey goosey concept.
Residency doesn't need to exist. Nor does it need to be exclusive.
You remain an expat as long as you have left and aren't trying to return to your home country. That context never changes. UNless I move back to the US, I'm an expat for life. No changes in residency, citizenship or anything else will ever make me not an expat. But if I leave Nicaragua, my status as an immigrant would end.
If you can, hop on this evening's live stream. Would be a great topic to discuss in real time.