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digital Nomads who've been traveling the world for the past 12 months searching for a home
base while discovering exciting new places to live for the next few days we'll be exploring
Mexico City to find out why it has recently become the number one destination in the world
for digital nomads foreign
okay we just arrived in Mexico City we're here for three days and the main purpose I
think of us being here for the next few days is figure out why so many expats are coming
here so many digital Nomads people from the US specifically seemed to me moving here in
big numbers and I've been getting mixed reports about them driving the price up and locals
not really liking Americans moving here no expats in general and I really just wanted
to figure out why they're moving here um it's not something I ever thought about doing but
I haven't spent much time here it is the biggest city in North America so I want to figure
out if it's affordable what the benefits are what some of the downfalls are and really
get a feel for it ourselves over the next few days foreign [Music] so we just found
a gym right next to where we're staying it's an Anytime Fitness which seemed to be all
over the world [Music] um it cost us what was it [Music] 180 pesos for a drop in which
is pretty good and it was a pretty good gym I think you can get pretty cheap weekly prices
I have seen a lot of gyms around here so you shouldn't have any problems finding a local
gym wherever you're staying now we're gonna go get some breakfast
so nice there's beautiful fountains and a really nice park just across the street feels
like there's lots of other expats doing work from the cafes as well which is always super
motivating when there's other people working around it's just a really peaceful Vibe it's
really nice [Music]
one thing I have noticed is that it's been very easy to get around Ubers are super accessible
here and pretty affordable traffic however is something definitely to take note of [Music]
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we just finished doing some shopping uh we're in a big mall here in the quail temec I think
how you say it area uh really easy to go shopping right there's every major chain very modern
Mall very modern city it feels like at the moment there's like Starbucks and like lots
of American brands here yeah I think the shopping here is generally pretty easy like it was
very easy for us so that's definitely something if you're someone looking to move here or
if you've just moved here I can see why you definitely wouldn't have any troubles doing
any shopping okay so if you are planning on moving here you're probably gonna need to
get a haircut or go to a beauty salon at some stage I was lucky enough to find a place called
bad Bonita she did my eyebrows and eyelashes better than anyone has ever done it and it
was super affordable I highly recommend it Lloyd also ducked into the barber yesterday
which was also really affordable and they did a great job all these types of things
seem super accessible and more affordable than most other cities I think I think haircuts
are all right it was really easy and even though they didn't speak English it was really
easy to tell them what I wanted and it costed me 250 pesos which is like 12.15 um check
out some more local cafes and restaurants specifically around the Roma area Roma Norte
I know that that seems to be a really popular place for expats and people moving here because
it is quite a nice neighborhood and lots of options for food and drinks and cafes and
things like that [Music]
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sort of American style bar that we walked past just because the atmosphere looks really
cool and everything's in English honestly doesn't feel like we're in Mexico anymore
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all right I'm having a big craving for pasta
carbonara sounds really good [Music] and I mean I wanted to get a glass of wine but they
have two different types of aperol Spritz here that sound amazing and I love an aperol
so I don't know I love the vibe of it here all the lighting everywhere just feels like
really nice sitting on the streets it seems like what everyone's doing it's definitely
not just Mexican food at all like there's Italian American an Argentinian Spanish everything
you can think of really I think I might have to get a glass of red wine and some pasta
I think when it's homemade it's not too bad eh but I'm just going to figure out which
mine it's pretty cool we got all the wines just on like an iPad that they sit in front
of your table and this bread that comes out I feel so fancy but this is like really affordable
yeah if we do this back home we'd be dropping easily 200 bucks easily um we'll probably
walk out of here fifty dollars I'd say
[Music] thank you all right we both went with minestrone soup because security had a snack
and they give you all this bread but not any of each bowler pasta as well it smells incredible
they also give us this little I don't even know what that is it's got like fruit in it
like it's sweet of some sort it might be dessert right it's delicious very happy
I've been running wild ever since I left Virginia trying to try five feet it might remind me
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in the mountains
at the world is every state changing Lord Give Me Wings
foreign [Music] stands that's always in the movies in New York someone always sees himself
on the cover of a magazine accidentally [Music] foreign [Applause]
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we just went to three places here in Roma we went to like an American Burger Bar which
had like sports and stuff on and then we went to this Italian restaurant sort of fancy but
still cheap and we just finished off on another little bar that is like a pizza place as well
and the whole time we could just hear people speaking English around us I sort of forgot
we're in Mexico honestly this area of Roma which I believe is the most popular for expats
to live in um just seems like the easiest place to come out and eat a drink if you're
a foreigner probably don't even really need to learn how to speak Spanish one thing I've
noticed here is if you ride bicycles the bike lanes are everywhere and they're very accessible
and they seem to be very clearly blocked off there's never cars in them which I think is
super handy for getting around [Music]
and so how much is this for today the bracelet is for 160 pesos by person okay and with a
newborn bracelet when you come back here you can take this and this oh you take any oh
yeah with one bracelet yeah at least for 24 hours this is the bus yes [Music]
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this is actually a really good deal we get to see so much at the city [Music]
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a good way to see a lot more of the city which it was uh however we sat in traffic for probably
98 of it um I fell asleep as you probably saw so we decided to jump off a little bit
early and now we're in an area we're not really sure where we are we're gonna have to just
get an Uber back to Roma Norte um to try and find something for lunch don't know if I would
recommend the double decker bus for sightseeing unless you want to sit in traffic it's just
um yeah traffic is way too hectic here okay so obviously everything we've gone over makes
it seem pretty appealing to live in Mexico City as a digital Nomad but the one thing
we haven't really touched on yet is the cost of housing so just doing a little bit of research
the average price to buy a house in Roman Auto which is the area where we were spending
most of our time and we think is the nicest area in Mexico City is just under 6.7 million
pesos which is about U.S 350 000 while the average cost of an apartment is about 5 million
pesos which is about 250 000 US Dollars obviously that's not super cheap but when you compare
it to major cities in the US and Australia and the UK that's very cheap and don't forget
that this is the most sought after neighborhood in Mexico City it's for all the restaurants
and bars are it's where really most of the expats really want to move it's the safest
area in the city but rather than just taking their word for it I'm actually having a look
on Facebook Marketplace okay for instance here's a looks like a two-bedroom property
right in the middle of Roman Norte which is Mexican pesos seventeen thousand dollars sorry
17 000 Mexican pesos that works out to be like roughly eight hundred dollars a month
these are really nice here's another one for 13 000 pesos that's like six hundred and fifty
dollars a month three bedroom yeah and this is in a good area this isn't like in a bad
area of Mexico City this is around the Roman Norte area so yeah as you can see um the cost
of housing in Mexico City is probably one of the biggest selling points for people wanting
to move especially if you're a digital Nomad and you can work online but keep in mind that
you do need to get the right Visa don't just go there on a tourist visa thinking that you
can live there forever and work and not pay taxes and not contribute to the Mexican people
and also try to go to the local Mexican restaurants as well and Mexican businesses and support
them you don't really want to be taking advantage of the locals so let us know what you think
down in the comments would you live in Mexico City are you from Mexico City do you recommend
people live there do you recommend they stay away let us know in the comments um and as
always we will see you guys in the next video bye [Music] foreign [Music]