SNM066: 5 Reasons to Move to Playa Del Carmen

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When I was 29 years old, I was living in London working on my masters, and a bunch of my friends decided to go on spring break in Mexico. There was this crazy trip idea. I'd never really been on spring break during my college years. I only went to college for three years because I skipped a year and it just wasn't the college frat spring break kind of guy.

I'd never done any of that stuff, and they were like, Let's go to Cancun and it'll be crazy And I went with them. We went on spring break 11 years after everyone else goes and it was this crazy wild adventure. We had all these fun times. Just do whatever we want. And we spent one day in the small city near Cancun called Plan del Carmen, and I simply fell in love with it. Cancun is like Disneyland for drunk college students.

It really has this artificial feel, like you're inside of a theme park, and that's great when you're 18. But as someone who's traveled the world a lot, I wanted something more and we took a van one day to play. Look, Carmen, it was amazing. It's the small town, the small city that's on the side of a lake. Or maybe it's on the side of the ocean. I don't really check to see how big the water was.

We did go out on a boat one day there, but it's absolutely beautiful. Has much more of a European influence than a drunk American college student influence. It's one of those places that I just fell in love with in the course of a single day. There's a lot going on, and it's one of the places on my list of potentials to move to when I was looking for a place to rest my head.

Plato Carmen has always been on the list of places I thought I might eventually live there forever Now. Life has a way of taking us on unexpected directions, and I live on a tropical island in Asia but played The Carmen is still close to my heart and their five very good reasons. You should consider moving to Plato, Carmen and making it your first for a into international travel. The first reason is really the high quality and prevalence of expat blog's and forms.

There are some really good communities where you can find out exactly the experiences like it's not hard to research playable Carmen. Some locations are very difficult to find information on. There are no expat blog's about the island. I live on their very little information and that's something that I really like. It was very hard to find this location, which means it's not gonna get crowded any time too soon. I like that. But play it'll Carmen.

You can see what expats are doing there, and it's a great place to start because it's close and it's very easy to dabble. Flying your whole family around the world is tough, but when you can get somewhere a short flight or even by driving, it's not as difficult a challenge. Doing a month of Plato. Carmen is a great starter step to sing if you really want to live a role if you really want to travel.

So begin by reading Expat blog's and their forms their communities to see what people have to say about living there. What's so wonderful? A plateau Carmen is. It's remote, but it doesn't have the island effect. Where I lived are no restaurants. I mean, there are a few hotels that have restaurants, but I would not call the Meriel restaurant. The quality of the food is not good enough to consider it like a really like a real restaurant.

No, no restaurant in silent is good as the Cheesecake Factory. To give you an example, they're all okay. They could make a few okay things, but there's nothing here that I would leave my house to go to, and there are certainly no enclosed restaurants, every restaurants outside. So you better expect there's gonna be a mosquito party every single time. This island doesn't have that level of infrastructure yet. There's no grocery store here. There is no mall here.

There's no movie theater, a lot of the infrastructure, things that we come to demand because we're so use them in America, you simply can't get here. Not for me. All of those things are fine. I don't need those things. There is a market, but it doesn't have things like a fresh produce section. It doesn't have any of the things you'd expect to find in a grocery store in America. So it's not a full grocery store, not by any sense of your imagination.

It's only slightly larger than the market in a gas station. But when you're in Plant of Carmen, what's great is that you have easy access to all of those piece of infrastructure because you're not on an island. You're very near major cities. There are malls, shopping options, tons of amazing restaurants. It has a lot of infrastructure buildup. It just doesn't have that pseudo theme park feel. It's a really nice combination. The first time you travel, you don't want to leave behind all the comforts of home.

You don't want to go somewhere and discover there are no good mattresses. There's no toilet paper. There's the things that you could run into in different locations. And I run into very nice as a first step along the path, and it's still a wonderful place. I mean, it's really wonderful. I loved it there, but it's also not as tough as coming where I am.

One of the struggle that we've had where I live is we have a queen size bed, and the queen size bed in this country is shorter than I'm five foot nine, and my feet don't fit on the bed. I have to sleep Bagnoli. So if you're any taller than me, imagine that nightmare we just saw online for sale. A California King mattress off brand. They only had one, and we ordered it immediately. We've been here a year and 1/2.

It's the first time we've seen a large mattress for sale. It's that hard, and it's so hard that we're really excited that we bought it right away, and it's already taken off the website cause the order, the only one this company had. It's so easy wherever you live to go to the storm by full size matches the king size matches in a second, but for us, it's a really big challenge. And if you're taller than me, this is not a great place to start.

My neighbor is much taller than me, and he's sleeping on the same size mattress. And yes, Cicely, Full Dagnall. I don't even know how he does it. These are some of the challenges that you face when you go to the country that you don't expect to and you don't know how to deal with. So Plato Carmen's really nice for not having to be too remote, but still getting a lot of that affect your in a tropical environment. The weather's amazing. It's really a slice of paradise.

The cost of living is 90% lower than it is in America. I use this really cool website called X Pakistan, and you can see where you live now and where you're thinking of moving to and it will give you a cost of living estimates. People who use that website log in all the time and they write down the price of different things. How much is a gallon of milk? How much is a gallon of gasoline? How much is your Internet?

You can see what people are paying a real prices. Now they say their numbers right now, our big estimate because they only have about 1000 entries for the city. Some places, like Los Angeles, have hundreds of thousands of people numbers. They have all these numbers, all these statistics, but from my experience, there is well, it's pretty. It's pretty inexpensive, the cost of living for a nice apartment and everything, according to a few of the expat blog's around $1800 a month.

And that's living nice compared to the cost of living. Most places. You can't really live nicely anywhere in America for $2000 a month. Where can you rent? That's really nice for under $500 a month. It's tough because as you go into neighborhoods where that's the price range, you start to have an increase commensurate increase in crime or other problems. I have lived in neighborhoods that were cheaper than that, and it's tough. I've had my apartment robbed quite a few times throughout my life.

The cool thing about Plato, Carmen is that's very, very safe, so you don't have to worry about those things. You're living for less money, but your safety hasn't decreased. We hear all the time about going to Mexico how dangerous it is. Even when I went, which was nearly 10 years ago, my family was worried that I was gonna get beheaded because there, as there still is, there was a drug war going on in Mexico. But that has not hit play little carbon.

It's not on the border. It's not in one of those locations. It's a big problem. And most of that stuff is cartels fighting each other, not cartels attacking tourists. It's very safe. And Plato, Carmen, you could walk around at night. It's very well lit. There's not many problems, and that's really something that makes it wonderful. That's different than many places. Even where I live right now, it's not safe enough that I would let my girlfriend walk around at night by herself.

We've lived in several places around the country, and she's been chased a night. Fortunately, both times she escaped. But we know that it's not that level of safe for her. Even here, where there's very low level of crime, there just isn't enough lighting. And the police system here isn't sophisticated up. So there's all these things we look at in measurements, but play the Carmen debit much stronger infrastructure. It's a lot safer. The cost of Internet for a good, high spirited connection is about $25 a month.

I, where I live now pay $50 a month for each of my two connections, so I have to high speed connections. Why pay when most people American pay for a single connection? It's very important when you're choosing a location that you understand their Internet infrastructure. You do not want to move somewhere, pay rent a month of three months in advance and discover that the Internet is terrible, that you can't work.

This happened to me when I moved to India, spent three months in Goa, which is like this party beach supposed to paradise. I will never recommend that location or anywhere in India. The infrastructure, that technology, the food, everything there was really really bad was very, very unsafe, basically feels a safe as being inside of the yard at a maximum security prison. That was the experience I had in Goa, and I would never recommend anyone go there.

I know there are plenty of hippies who like to go there, and there's some people to go there and enjoy it. But from my experience, the owner was terrible. You couldn't even watch a video on YouTube, and it was that bad. It remind me of the Internet that I had in 1993 back before even a well was operating. So looking at the Internet is very, very important, and they're different websites and let you check in at speeds in different locations.

But for $25 a month, you can get 10 megabytes, 10 megabits speed, which pretty good. That's pretty much in the range of what I experience for by Internet here. So it's actually half the price of where I live. What's really great is that from planet Carmen. If it stinks, if you hate it, you can drive home. You're near the Cancun airport, which means there are multiple flights every single day where I live.

I'm so remote that there are three flights a week from where I live to the nearest city. Now it's the high season right now, which is when there are a lot of tourists here. That means there's two flights a day back and forth to this one city. That, for us, is a luxury as faras travel. So when you're looking at places, you want to see how easy it is to get there.

How is is to leave if you need thio in the low season here every other day but no flights on weekends. Only three flights week, but they're the high season, two flights a day. So I'm very aware of all the different travel options and the different fairies and boats, and the more you understand the traveling for sure complication the better blade. Oh, Carmen. Here, not on an island so you could drive home. You're near major airports.

You could get anyone, and you're not just you don't just fly. Tow one airport. You can fly to different locations in America, differ locations around the world where I live. I can see fine from what? My airport toe. One other airport. It's very limited. When you're looking at a place to live and the decision to take more control of your destiny, it can be a little overwhelming at first.

If I told you to immediately sell everything you own, jump on a plane to the island where I live, Well, that's high risk. What if you hate it? What if you hate living in the tropics? What if you hate being warm all the time? I can't remember the last time I wasn't hot. I sweat every day here. Right now. It's sunrise and about sweating yet, but I'll be sweating within 20 minutes.

As soon as the sun just cuts through these few clouds that are blocking the heat, it will get blazing here. You might hate that you might discover that you hate humidity. I grew up in Los Angeles, where it's very hot, but it's a dry heat. When I first experienced humidity, it blew my mind. I didn't even know something like that existed. Finding your first travel destination is very good financially getting to Plato. Carmine. You could drive there where you could fly there very cheaply.

The cost of living is so low that the amount of money you save covers that cost of traveling there where I lived before the cost of living in America so much higher. So even if you are taking a pay cut, you can still often have a better life. You might be making $6000 a month living in America, and then you're only making $2000 a month when you move to Plato, Carmen. But your life is actually better because the money goes further.

These are the things to think about as you create your decision making calculus, and they're going to be more more podcast episodes, right? Talk about some really great travel destinations and some of these other things, because this podcast is about more than just making money online and writing books. It's also a lot about travel and achieving your dreams and making all those things you've always wanted to do actually become a reality.

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