Love your international travel approach and quality content. I'm a ten (10) year, retired travel nomad. Traveling to Bogota and other cities in a few weeks. I'm now a subscriber. Max

I´ve been improving my English with you guys. I really like your content.

Thanks for the honesty

Gracias!

I value your impressions and thoughts about this topic. My husband and I are reversed- he’s Venezolano/Colombiano, left for the US at 20yrs old, I’m the American. The safety thing bums me out too. We have been able to keep up our night walking tho in Cartagena because the walled city has so many tourists at night and it’s so hot during the day. So we walk all over the old city at nighttime. But I wouldn’t do that anywhere else in Colombia. Here’s another question: do you feel that the trade offs are worth the lack of safety in Colombia? I always miss Colombia & I am so sad when I leave but feel relief as soon as we are stateside too. Unless someone has been to Colombia and has enjoyed themselves there they ask “why would you even go there if you feel so unsafe”. I know you 2 understand this conflict. For my husband this lack of security is 2nd nature to him. He just adjusts his behavior and he seems fine. For me it adds a little more stress than that. But at the same time the pace of life and the focus on relationships and not works puts me at ease. Such a weird balance🤪.

Wow two years from “working from home” I need a job at the company you guys work for !!

You seem like a lovely couple, but I'm sorry Whitney, you look much more like mi esposa barranquillera than a rolita! 😉

I have worked in customer service for 10 years in different accounts and companies, for the US, other countries in South America, etc. In mixed teams of people from many countries including Americans. People who work for US customer service here in Colombia are exploited because of the US mentality of "the customer is always right", so people from the US call in (not all, but many) with an attitude asking often for absurd things, like crappy old flip phones to be replaced by the newest most expensive smartphones, for their electricity bill to be waived, for their phone service to be free, their appliances to be fixed or replaced for new ones for free and out of warranty, etc. I mean, I know this is totally gross and a nasty example but being perfectly blunt, this people would return used underwear and feel like they are entitled to have someone else wear it or the company to get a loss on the sale, if they get a dollar from it. You name a ridiculous and wild demand, I've probably heard it. If someone nice called in, 99% of the time they were Canadian (sorry Johnny, do not hate me, I love your channel). And you as a rep, were supposed to keep it very very professional and friendly even if people insulted you. Funny thing was, Americans themselves were more cocky and prone to talk back to the customers. But it was tolerated from them, not from us colombians, indians or filipinos doing the same job for a third party and making a lot less money than them. The bad side of customer service here is that people are bored, underpaid, mistreated by stupid egomaniac inept management, hate the job and do the bare minimum, but that is more common in local, Spanish speaking customer service, where they transfer you from one line to another and will not do anything, which is actually really rage inducing for locals as well, but I guess it looks even worse from someone coming from a customer-pleasing, but also more practical and "first contact resolution" oriented culture. As for restaurant service, as you guys know, in Colombia the tip is included in the bill and people usually do not refuse to pay it even if the service is crappy, because nobody at least in Bogota wants to cause a scene at a restaurant. So, they get the tips regardless of their performance and everyone should benefit from them, even the people in the kitchen, they are supposed to be paid to everyone in the restaurant evenly. And to be perfectly honest, it is common for restaurants not to report tips in full and put them in their earnings (that is not only unethical but it makes the servers less motivated and reliant on their base salary as opposed to counting on a nice bonus) or for young chefs to do unpaid internships at places like Humo Negro just for the flex of saying that you worked in a fancy pants high cuisine place. Colombian restaurant staff is not as motivated to go above and beyond as American staff, because in the US it is legal to pay them less than the minimum wage for an hour if the tips add up, so their salary consists mainly on tips. They are nicer and more efficient in most cases because your satisfaction and your buck is their livelihood. You literally pay their salary.

you been working out bro ? those arms are growing

Listen buddy, yes you can go and have time for yourself. You just need to make some colombian friends to go with. If your controlling exotic latin girl allows you to. 😂😂😂

Independent woman ? 😂😂😂. Just 6 months in the united states she commited a gringo to get her papers and support her. That doesn't sound very independent woman.