former rent and utilities - groceries and health insurance this is how much it
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every Thursday hi I'm Alex and I moved to get it through in 2017 on my blog
backpacking brunette I write all about my life here and thousands of people
have read my blog post about the cost of living in Canada it's helped them
prepare for their own moves to Mexico for reference
Kenneth Otto is located pretty much dead center in the middle of the country by
bus it's about three hours north of Mexico City around 1 million people
caulk it at their own home and this city is growing in fact it's one of the
fastest growing cities in Latin America when I first came to get at the dough I
stayed in an Airbnb in the center is odigo and found this apartment about two
weeks after arriving I'm going to give you a little tour while filling you in
on my living expenses and at the end of the video I'll reveal how much it costs
to rent this place alright so here is the living room this
is what you pretty much first see when you walk into the house so back behind
the living room we have our dining room
so pretty big kitchen lots of cabinets and drawers and oven
this door over here takes you to our laundry room which is kind of a mess and
this is to our exterior video what a lime tree chair for summing this tree in
the middle of the courtyard grows like crazy
it is really nice to have this little interior courtyard and these windows
here and these were going to here are ours but this house it's really old and
actually used to be one big house and now it is two apartments divided by this
the interior courtyard area so this house over here is actually my
neighbor's house and they are really awesome she actually helped us find the
apartment before we move on to another part of the house I wanted to touch on
drinking water so as you may know most people in Mexico don't drink the tap
water we buy filtered water from a little store or just a few hundred
meters away from the house and what we do is we buy
got a phonics now this job it's something like five gallons this job
that costs forty three pesos which is about two dollars USD
and we go through about three of those per week alrighty let's talk utilities
first of all this house does not have air conditioning or heating and in my
opinion neither is necessary since Kenneth Otto has such an amazing climate
it's really only super hot in April and May and we get by with just fans then in
December that's when it's probably the coldest
and we just bottle up okay so utilities first up is water again I live in this
house with my boyfriend and for two people on average per month we are
paying two hundred pesos for water which comes out to be around $9 USD
next is gas so gas we use it to heat our hot water and also for our oven stovetop
and that's around three hundred and thirty pesos per month which is about
fourteen fifteen dollars USD finally electricity electricity is very very
cheap in Mexico and we pay around 100 pesos per month which is just four
dollars USD well we are in the dining room with the
fridge in the background I thought I would talk about groceries so this is to
feed two people per week to feed two people per week we are paying between
980 and twelve hundred and seventy pesos per week and that comes out between 43
and 56 dollars USD when we first moved here we were buying most of our
groceries from Saudi Anna which is a supermarket or Walmart but as I kind of
adjusted to life here we began buying more and more vegetables fruits chicken
from medical electrons one of the primary markets in Kedah thought of city
centre and recently Derek Ovid 19 we've been using a veggie delivery service
again local produce locally owned and that is called fresh go max since
generally I both work from home and we both work online it was very important
that we get a good internet provider and when we first moved here at least a
company called mega cobbler and they were terrible avoid mega table at all
comments now we have a contact in the company called tell max and we are very
happy with their surface for a fiber optic connection and
a download speed of a hundred and fifty megabytes per second we pay five hundred
and fifty pesos per month which is approximately twenty four dollars USD
that's my internet provider now how about my cell phone service if you come
to Mexico with an unlocked cell phone then it is very easy to get a
pay-as-you-go plan every thirty days I pay two hundred pesos which is around
nine ten dollars USD for three big bites of data with that plan I also get
unlimited phone calls within Mexico into the United States a huge bonus is that
social networks like Twitter or Facebook Instagram even what's up don't count
against my data usage so I honestly never need more than three gigabytes per
month like I said my monthly cell phone bill is only about nine dollars USD how
does your cell phone bill compare let me know in the comments alright so here is
our entryway the open door over there is our house
and this house here is our neighbor's house so we did share this engineer way
space they've got their bikes in here that's our door off of the street so we
shared this little entryway so going into our house we have a little coat
closet here a first-floor bathroom is Taylor's office and our workout area we
both like to workout at home me especially and I use the weights down
here and here's like a little more storage this house has no shortage of
storage and let's head upstairs
okay so first up we have a little guest bedroom it's got view out onto our patio
closets lots of closets and storage oh
here is the landing and that's kind of like my little get ready area down there
because as you can see our bathroom is pretty small but it gets the job
then movie over here and master bedroom this is very sleep
again nice built-in closets and some windows have similarly nice laid before
we head back downstairs as promised I'm going to touch on health care so what do
I pay for health insurance and is it possible to get health insurance as an
expat in New Mexico yes it is it is very possible and actually when I originally
contracted with hey any pay GNP which is the largest private health care ensure
in Mexico when I first signed a contract with them I was just on my tourist visa
here so it is not a problem to get health insurance as an expat in Mexico
for my health insurance I pay thirteen thousand two hundred and
eighty two pesos per year in USD that's around five hundred and eighty eight
dollars you can find more information about the payment process my copay and
my deductible on my blog posts about the cost of living in Kedah that OH
which I will link in the description now that you've seen this place how much do
you think it costs for our two-bedroom two-bath house in the centrist that ago
of get at the New Mexico we pay ten thousand eight hundred pesos per month
which comes out to be about four hundred and eighty dollars USD I should note
that when we first moved in this apartment was not furnished but between
Amazon Mexico Walmart the market and secondhand stores it was very affordable
to furnish if you're interested in finding a place like this to call your
own in Mexico then you need the move to Mexico QuickStart guide
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in handy I'm Alex from backpacking brunette calm thanks for watching
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