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@@warstrategy since there are no U.S. bases to work on there, I doubt it. I’ve seen enough to have no interest in visiting as a tourist. The country has some beautiful landscapes, and the people can be very generous and friendly when they want to be, but it’s not worth the risk. I’m not into disaster tourism, and Afghanistan is a disaster of human suffering and needless misery.

In theory, yes, but in practice it’s very difficult. As an Indonesian most jobs there would require you first obtain a green card to be able to legally work in the U.S. For a job working as a scientists it would depend on what science/research group you were working for. If an Indonesian company or university sent a scientific team there you could work for them. The U.S. operated research stations like McMurdo rent out access to teams from all over the work.

@@FallofftheMap amazing i have hope now i really want to just live in snow without sunlight just for 6 months it Will be awesome.... But i am not a scientist i am still a 3rd year accounting student I don't want money or anything i just want to experience living there and i am willing to work hard as a cooking assistant in which i read that cooking assistant don't need any requirments anyone can help

@@MSWcryptoworker I’ve negotiated the security deposit lower but not significantly. Often, the best option if your landlord seems like they plan on stealing your deposit is to simply not pay the last month’s rent and tell them to apply the deposit to the rent.

@@TruthLove333 animals. Humans easily get around it.

@@perfernottosay9892 i appreciate the advice. So far what I’ve done seems to be effective. The fava beans held the hill long enough for grass and deep rooted weeds to take over and stabilize it once the soil had enough nitrogen for them to grow.

@@a.alexandrajimenez8437 thanks. It’s good to know when I’m speaking real Spanish vs Ecuadorian slang or a weird mix of Kichwa/Spanish.

I recovered like an ice skater with a blown out leotard exposing a bare ass. I smiled through it and carried on.

@@FallofftheMap Hahahahahahaha excellent euphemism lol! Gotta be a problem solver to make things work for sure haha.

Thanks

@@joshy5lo I had the best experiences with Fluor Government Group, but I’m in the minority, most of my coworkers hated them and preferred places like KBR. FYI, I’m currently working on getting a job with Amentum in Iraq after working for a company Amentum bought out.

@@andresleder7678 I think that is an oversimplification and also outdated. For example, all my neighbors in the Amazon say this year will be very dry from August to October in Napo province. My neighbors in Pichincha are all expecting it to be very dry until late August. The climate is changing rapidly and the old patterns no longer hold true.

@@FallofftheMap I'm talking more from experience than from my ecology degree studies. I've lived and worked in all 3 regions of the country over the last 40 years and haven't seen drastic changes. But I've seen glaciers dissapear (Illinizas) and recede since my youth. Another thing to keep in mind is that a dry season doesn't mean it won't rain ocassionally and a rainy season doesn't mean there won't be dry spells. Your neighbors in Pichincha are correct because August 'till end of September early October is the NORMAL DRY SEASON in the interandean region, harvest and fallow time (planting season for corn and most native crops without irrigation is October to early December). As for your Napo neighbors it could be a cycle that has been discovered yet or just an oddball. The patterns are more or less the same, yes with some variations due to natural climate changes, cycles, earth tilt, etc. It is happening and will continue as it has over millions of years.

@@andresleder7678 my experience in the past 11 years tells me the El Niño and La Niña cycles will become the new normal, and the months in between will be short and rare. The intense rain and drought cycles will become more extreme.

I’ve visited Pedernales a few times. Definitely not my favorite part of the coast, but the calm bay on the Pacific is nice. So, you were there for the 2016 earthquake? I was building an apartment complex in Canoa at the time. One week before the earthquake we moved to Quito because I needed to go to work outside Ecuador to make enough money to finish my project and my wife didn’t want to live far from her parents while I was out of the country. It was lucky we moved because the apartment we had been renting was totally destroyed in the earthquake.

True for much of the world. We live in interesting times.

Yeah, if I hire a caretaker for any of my properties it’s likely to be a foreigner so if there is any dispute we are at least on an even playing field in the legal system. I do occasionally pay my neighbors to help on my mountain property but I’m lucky to have a very honest and responsible family living next to me. I’ve slowly built a good relationship with them over the last 3 years. I’m pragmatic about it. The wife is great and always fair with me. The husband can occasionally get a little lazy and charge for more work than he actually did, but they also do a lot of small favors for me and help to make sure my property stays safe.

@@francocevallos2307 good advice. I’m not at my house all the time, because I have more than one place in Ecuador but I am never away very long. Fortunately, I’ve got good neighbors.

Become ungovernable

I have plenty of videos like that, but this isn’t one. I mix it up. Sometimes it’s a video of me showing stuff and sometimes it’s just a video of me talking to the camera. Whenever I make a talk to the camera video there’s always a couple folks that share your same criticism, and I appreciate the feedback, but at the same time most of my more popular videos, videos that get the most popular feedback are in this format, just me talking to the camera.

@@leslie1536 yes, so far Cuenca continues to be one of the safer places in Ecuador. The “it’s never happened to me so it must be safe” argument is pretty ridiculous. I mean, I spent 5 years working in Afghanistan and didn’t get shot, kidnapped, or beheaded… so Afghanistan must be safe, right? Cuenca is relatively safe, with violent crime rates similar to the US as a whole and property crime rates that are slightly higher. Cuenca is only one little part of Ecuador.

@@filbertneon3813 good neighbors make good neighbors. Poets are often more interested in sounding profound than actually being profound. The truth doesn’t contort itself to fit a clever turn of phrase.

@@FallofftheMap what is truth? Your truth?

@@abiyah3176 you’re welcome

There isn’t any work in Afghanistan anymore since the US ended the war. Look up the major defense contractors like KBR, Amentum, DynCorp, Fluor, create a candidate profile, upload your resume, and spend some time learning to navigate their careers sections so you can find and apply to the existing overseas jobs in places like Kuwait, Somalia, Iraq, Poland, etc…

@@melvinmuniz67 I can, but typically the real estate website are inflated prices. The best option for looking online is FB marketplace. Just set your search area to some part of Ecuador and search for something like “casa campo” or “finca.”

@@TheQu5571 I don’t know. I only know what I got paid as an electrician. I suspect the pay is absurdly low since there is a lot of competition for those type of jobs. We had people with PHDs that would work there as dishwashers just for the opportunity to make connections with the right people to try to get on a research team.

@@FallofftheMap ah ok, thanks

@@sicuro5050 in my experience, “chemtrails” are an absurd distraction from things that actually matters. I won’t try to convince you of anything. That is not what I am here for.

@@FallofftheMapi just wanted to know if there are trails on the Sky where you live . Who cares what do you believe ? I prefer follow the scientific method so i recolectó with magnet the dust that is falling from the sky … i have proof , i dont need you

@@FallofftheMap I was just asking if you see them where do you live , I’m not interested in your view about the topic , maybe I worded badly my question .

@@jcolumbiap no more tents at McMurdo, but out in the field camps it’s still tents. I was part of the team to go set up the WAIS Divide field camp in 2016. We had a terrible storm that destroyed a few of our sleeping tents that year. I ended up sleeping in the medical tent after my tent was ripped to shreds by the wind. On my UA-cam homepage the main photo is a view of the field camp with the tents before the wind destroyed them.

@@gabrielgodoi4565 you’re making a lot of assumptions. I don’t mind being considered an immigrant at all, but I don’t think the description is entirely accurate. Yes, from a legal standpoint I’m technically an immigrant, but that description isn’t the best nor is it the point of the conversation. Expats are a type of immigrant, sure, just as migrant workers are, but we have the ability to use a more accurate description. I have lived in Ecuador for 11 years, it’s my “home base,” but during that time I’ve also traveled to other parts of the world for work, sometimes for more than a year at a time. That’s quite different than a typical “immigrant” that moves to a new country and then builds their live in that new country. An expat is something distinctly different. Just as a migrant worker who travels to another country to work on farms during the harvest is better described as a migrant rather than an immigrant. A person that moves to a new country but doesn’t have the same sense of permanence there and still travels other places for work is better described as an expat than an immigrant.