but ultimately the reason why i would not move to mexico is hi everyone and welcome to mazatlan
in sinaloa mexico today is friday afternoon right now and you'll actually be seeing this on saturday
because i haven't had time to film a proper big travel video yet that i would normally upload on a
saturday because shockingly i have a job and today we're having bida apple my place is a mess this is
like totally real me there's no fake youtube personality and my place is a tip there's a
saucepan full of cold pasta from two days ago behind me that's life so today i thought
i would sit down and do a lot of weighted video that i've been meaning to do literally
forever well like a month about two things really about the big question why i would never move to
mexico i'll cover that later but also i want to go into a bit of what's going to happen in the future
after i leave mexico and i talked about this in another video recently about what's going to come
in terms of moving back to europe gaining polish citizenship living in europe basically permanently
again but the biggest thing is about not traveling full-time anymore which i've been doing for five
years and i'm exhausted which is gonna be a theme so um yeah let's get going the thing i wanted to
say first i'll do a bit of a recap so i know there are many new subscribers from the torreon video
i've been traveling full-time for five years asia
latin america europe whatever and during that time as well i've been working online and for
the first sort of couple of years yeah it was great that kind of lifestyle of constantly moving
worked for me completely it was absolutely the right thing at that time but let's fast forward
or go back to november 2019 when i was in tlaxcala love tlaxcala by the way if you haven't been to
tlaxcala mexico i would 100 percent recommend it it has the best al pastor i've ever had
in mexico sorry to anywhere else in mexico but it's true yeah i was in tlaxcala and i did a
video there this one when i was talking about the fact that i was gonna become a semi-nomad
basically that means that i would still be doing everything that i'm doing now but i wouldn't
be having to constantly book a new place like every month i would actually be based somewhere
and i could use that place to do little trips like to another country or another city or whatever and
still do filming and i said i was going to move to serbia to belgrade where i've been
i think three times now four times i think and six weeks later january new year's day 2020 yes 2020
that came around and i moved to serbia i moved to belgrade and i was there for about two and a half
months and it worked i went to austria i went to bosnia and herzegovina i then went to sweden
and long-term viewers will know what happened when i went to sweden i i got stuck there
because of corona i couldn't enter any country in europe except belarus so i was in belarus
for three months during that time things kind of changed because among the youtube world there was
this whole rhetoric narrative about we can't travel we shouldn't be traveling we should be
personally responsible and go back to our home country well that wasn't an option for me i didn't
have a home in the uk i wasn't going to go to my mum's place and give her corona because i had it
before i think about february 2020 probably there wasn't any testing there so i don't know
anyway i made the decision then to start traveling again well with the aim of showing that
it was possible to travel so i went back to serbia i went to macedonia to mexico to latvia estonia
poland and now back to mexico again so i think i've shown that you can travel during a pandemic
but despite all of that my end goal my end game if you like hasn't changed and a lot of people
would say you know you seem so much happier in mexico than when you do europe videos probably
because when i do europe videos it's the middle of winter and it's minus 20 degrees
um and yeah i am very happy in mexico and actually this time around i've had some issues before in
the past and with previous trips here but this time i love it durango was like my ultimate home i
would move to durango in a heartbeat there's that there's the mexico thing and you could say that
you know a lot of my videos recently since i've had my break have done really well despite all of
that does that change my mind that i would want to continue living this lifestyle of full-time travel
no it doesn't nothing is going to change my mind even if i had millions of millions of views i was
living in a mansion in polanco or something i don't care about any of that because ultimately
it's about my own happiness as a human being yes shockingly i'm a human and i'm not a cyborg
which some people seem to think yeah so my end goal hasn't changed about moving
back to europe and settling down a bit a lot of people say you know oh you have to settle down
someday people been saying that for years i did settle down in my 20s i turned into a drug addict
was diagnosed with a mental illness was arrested you name it and generally had complete burnout
from work but i feel like i've come full circle to the point where i want that again and that's
the thing with life you know we don't just settle down once we don't have to follow these rules of
just settling down once and that's it we can change things you know in five years time i
might get bored of it again and do this again who knows we don't know what's going to happen
so moving back to europe yeah i'm currently in the process of obtaining polish citizenship
it's still happening i had an update this week realistically because of the amount of travel
i've got coming up in mexico over the next two months yep i'm gonna be in mexico until
mid to end of the of august realistically i'm not going to be in one place long enough to have an
address for that documentation to be sent to be to me in mexico city so realistically i'm going
to have to find an interim home in europe which is going to be belgrade yes belgrade will be back in
my life it's like my for those of you that don't know it's like my european mexico if you know what
i mean it's just got that thing that i love and yeah that will be my interim home where i can
resolve all the stuff about polish citizenship why do i want to do this it's about exhaustion
i'm absolutely shattered knackered exhausted from doing this and equally you know things about not
having a home and not having friends not having stability there's only so long you can do it and
there are very sort of it might seem like really stupid trivial things but things like
the fact that in europe i can go to a supermarket and get the same sort of ingredients
that i would in the uk like the washing machine to the same type of washing machines you can
actually get a washing machine for a start stupid little things like that it's all about familiarity
and it's connected to what i'm going to say about mexico in a bit um you know i want to have a life
where i can actually have belongings and not just live out of one bag which is somewhere over there
and i can get things that i can put on the wall pictures or ornaments or whatever because i've
actually got space for that clothing you know i would love to get a pair of nice smart black shoes
some nice trousers some nice shirts that i can use to go out with friends to a restaurant in the
evening i haven't done that in years i always look like a [ __ ] you know a a tram yeah even though
obviously i have clean clothes i regularly refresh my wardrobe it's just not the same
as having a wardrobe full of clothes that you can you know there's variety things like that it's a
lot of the reasons for me making this decision are stupid things but actually they become
more prominent over five years you know it's fine to do that for a couple of weeks when
you go on holiday somewhere but imagine five years of not having those almost like basic
things that we would expect from life and that's kind of where i am i also want to get a cat
you know i love cats beautiful angels it's my dream to be settled down somewhere relaxed not
stressed about moving on and filming and teaching and whatever lying there in bed with the cat
and go for a nap in the middle of the day with my cat why europe and why not mexico the biggest
question i'm always asked especially lately is well why don't you do it in mexico why don't you
settle down in mexico and there are many many many reasons there's one major reason
but the little things are very much logistical so and also about my willingness or
energy to do certain things things like residency i could quite easily probably do get residency
right in mexico but i can't be bothered i could quite easily become fluent in spanish
i can't be bothered and that's me right it's no one else's problem or mexico's problem i could
stay in mexico for six months on the 180-day visa thing go to the us after six months and come back
again but two things with that i feel like i'll be taking advantage of the system by doing that
and also there's that uncertainty you know i might not be able to get back into mexico us immigration
things like that there wouldn't be that stability that i want whereas when i have a polish passport
i'm an eu citizen i can quite freely live in an eu country again without that worry of constantly
having to move but ultimately the reason why i would not move to mexico is all around the fact
that i am not from this continent this might sound really weird but when i look at you know other
travel youtubers in mexico many of them are from the us and as a result of that they're familiar
more familiar with certain things about mexico even down to you know the fact that you can go
to costco or walmart or certain products that are available or even down to the history you know i
know more now than i did say five three years ago when i first got to mexico even though i know all
that now i still feel very much detached i'm not one of these american people in mexico
i'm never gonna be this moving to mexico expat person i don't want to be that being from the uk
i do feel quite often as the minority in terms of those youtube foreign travel immigrant expat
gringo people in mexico whereas in europe there's something more that is just there it's that
familiarity feeling of home i can be in somewhere like latvia estonia or poland and it's just got
that extra thing where i don't feel detached or separated or isolated from others as much as i
feel at home in mexico i would always feel at home in mexico it's a friendly place everyone
has always been welcoming and hospitable it's i've never had any kind of negative experience
in mexico i'm not saying that i would never come back to mexico ever again but i couldn't live here
there's just something about it that wouldn't make me want to live here whereas i'm extremely
comfortable in europe i miss you know eight month long depressing winters with snow even though i'll
complain and moan about it and be miserable and suicidal with the cloud and the rain and the snow
it's what i'm used to i grew up with that you know waiting for the one week of summer that you get
in the uk so that's that and that's kind of what i'm going to be doing in two months i cannot wait
as much as i'm really looking forward to what i've got planned for the next
couple of months in mexico it's gonna be epic by the way probably season six of
the town of david is gonna be the ultimate looking at what i've got planned coming up
there are going to be some epics yeah uh including a week in today on five videos
i've got planned the return to tony on hmm with some lonches adobada anyway thanks for watching
um yeah i'll see you in a couple of days after this video for the first massa land video just
keep in mind that i'm not gonna put everything in that video because like i said i'm not a cyborg i
suffer from heat exhaustion and sun stroke so um i can't film for like 12 hours in boiling hot sun so
there will be two videos from mazatlan more than likely so things will be spread over two videos
brilliant so thanks for watching i'm gonna go and edit this video in starbucks now and send my drone
off the original drone which i've got a buyer for yes see you soon and i'll catch you later