 Hi, I'm George cow and in this short video. I want to share with you a tool that I've put together It's a free tool that could be Life-changing for you or for someone, you know, so please feel free to share this forward. It's going to be life-changing for me I know because I am as you can see from this tool. I'm now researching More affordable places to live right now. My wife and I live in the San Francisco Bay area Which is one of the most expensive places one of the most expensive cities and one of the most expensive countries in the world And if we were willing to relocate to a much cheaper place This would allow us both more freedom to study To serve generously like the way I serve generously is online as you probably know I create these free videos that give tips on how to create an online business doing what you love in an ethical way Authentic marketing joyful productivity how to how to do how to Be in flow and joy and calm this while you work on with purpose and healthy money is also what I love talking about so if you know my wife right now is very very accommodating and of me doing this crazy exploration, but where I'm just in the beginning stages I'm hoping that maybe you could help out too or know someone who could help in fact If you know anybody who lives in Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Thailand, Malaysia or Panama Please let me know or if especially someone who is supportive and friendly and maybe willing to help Help or participate in this discussion about what it's like to live in their country Please let me know especially particularly someone you know who has moved there from somewhere else, but I'm also looking for locals who know English Thank you so much. So let me show you this tool now And you might be able to use this or send it on to people who might be super grateful that you shared this with them So I'm gonna be doing this research ongoing Lee So this is just at the beginning stages But and in fact you're gonna see the spreadsheet change up be updated over the next few weeks as I as I intensify My research, but already I think it's quite useful So basically I've listed out some countries that where I began this research was was doing some internet research on Where do expats particularly American expats? expatriates are basically people who move from their country to another country expats is the short term so I researched where do American expats live basically especially cheaper places and The first places I went to were Were these these websites and basically when you click on anything on this tool that the link to this tool is in the notes of This video, so be sure to look for that and open it. It's free and available without any signing in so when you click on a link that has or when you click on a Cell that has a link the link will show up above the cell. So you just click on the link there and I will show you These are this is where I got the initial data is You know these these are these are websites for expats And they do surveys of expats to say well where where do you love to live? And then you know here are the top destinations So I I took a look at that and also international living magazine is a popular magazine for International travel and living so I also looked at their their their list is is right there as well Okay, and so I started with that and kind of narrowed down to where I have this out of feeling that okay These are kind of where we would be maybe considering and then what I did was I did some research with a couple of Cost of living websites. You can find it with this particular link Click on this and this is called Numbio cost of living So for example if I wanted to see Costa Rica, I would go here. I would select I Would find Costa Rica and then once I get there I then need to change the currency here to US dollar so I can kind of understand it Sorry, it's kind of off the screen here, but anyway, I selected USD and so Meal on an expensive restaurant, you know, and then I also look particularly for Apartment in city center. We live in San Francisco. So we're kind of used to urban living a bit So we want to transition more gradually and therefore we were looking for the city center there The other place to look for cost of living is called expat Sian and so for example compare cost of in between Costa Rica and San Francisco click compare it says I need to choose a city So I'm not you San Jose. That's the capital of Costa Rica. So it's gonna be more urban and then Here I can see the housing for example You know, and these are not like these are not exact. Okay, these are definitely not exact This is just a figure that Well, actually you can scroll down and see how many people put this information in this is based on a thousand different people Has had who lived there have put the information in so it's not exact But it's kind of a nice. I mean for example, we pay a lot less than 4,000 I mean, we were lucky to have found a place in Francisco that you know, we're paying about 1500 1500 a month in rent or in mortgage rather. So we're extremely lucky But it gives you it gives an exact it gives a sample of oh wow, okay So living in Costa Rica is probably gonna be about a third to a half maybe cheaper than than San Francisco Okay, and the other place that the other thing I liked looking at was The average monthly to book disposal salary after tax because so this gives me an example that okay This is eight hundred and eighty dollars for Costa Ricans, right? Well, that's what if we go to? What if we go to just look at San Francisco just as an example what this cost of living? Okay, goes back to cost of living San Francisco California okay, so as an example the cost of the average monthly disposable is $4,000 so Costa Ricans average salary is 880 versus 4,000 So if we could shrink our you know, even if we shrunk our cost or our living expenses by half We would still be living even better than locals in Costa Rica and if you know anything about the studies of happiness happiness Unfortunately for human beings is very much Somehow we compare how we're living with our neighbors and with the people in our region And so if we're living better at at the level or better in terms of quality of life from the people around us It's it's hard not to be happy because we see what's around us and we see our own life in comparison So that's why it's important important to compote compare the salary and so I've done that I've put these numbers in here So you can for example by the way you can you can sort by these things even though this is not your spreadsheet You can still sort it by clicking on the top clicking on the the top of each column and clicking on this and clicking sort by So for example, you want to see where's the lowest average salary click sort sheet a to z and Oops Okay, there you go. Okay, it's sorting my a to z. Oh, this is you can x that out This is says temporary filter because you're not sorting for everybody who's looking at this just for you and so anyway Interesting thing to look at if you wanted to sort by by by something that has a link in it Here's a trick you can't you can't click on the top because the link shows up So you simply click somewhere else that doesn't have a link and then you click back to the place that has a link And then you click the sort thing so you want to sort by rent you sort by a to z Okay, and then there you go. Okay, so What else I want to show you. Oh So if you're curious where I found some of these numbers like where did I find corruption and political stability score? Simply click on here and then click again click the link and there's an actual website that gives Studies of corruption index and you know every year and that kind of thing. So That's where I got these numbers and Sometimes higher is better. Sometimes on some scores hires most scores. I think higher is better So corruption higher is is better. So what I did was I highlighted I on each of these I highlighted scores That were above average in that column. So, you know, for example, Malaysia here is above average in terms of Corruption that I should say it's it's less corrupt than some of these other countries Uruguay, it's very surprisingly And also I included some countries just as a comparison. I'm not we're not thinking moving to Hong Kong UK or China Partly for pro its cost prohibitive and For China it's like pollution, but you know, I guess we might consider it But United States I put in here as a comparison 74 and corruption Which is relatively less corrupt than other countries, but look at Uruguay. Wow. It's very similar to US So I highlighted numbers in each column that were better in my you know And for what for what I'm looking for than than others. So we're looking for warmer places. So that's why I didn't highlight this one so Philippines obviously warmer and Let's see what else do I want to show you So based on my highlights, this is how I came up with the scores the score is to see notes So you can hover over you can move your mouse over this to see the note You can just for every highlight in that row I put I added one number if the happiness index was highlighted I added one internet speed was highlighted added one expat score had as 0.5 0.5 So for example in Mexico, right? You can see the formula here. Mexico had seven highlights in the row Not including this this row not not including this column, but seven highlights for example one one highlight two three four five six Seven yes, so seven highlights in the row plus it had It was rated top one of the top happiest countries in According to a Gallup worldwide study So I added one to it and then I added one for internet speed is one of the better internet speeds in in my list of countries here Etc. So that's how I rated these if you want to see the best countries by my scoring you do sort this by Z to a and You'll see that okay, and then the next thing I want to show you is the cities I'm just starting to work on the city's spreadsheet, but I put in a couple cities that I just did some research and looked like they were good places for expats and I'm looking at some of the things are important for my wife and me So for my wife, it's important that there are yoga studios Or kind of more that yoga consciousness in that region. So what I did was I basically went to Google Maps Maps.google.com and then I searched so for example, I wanted to see well San Jose Costa Rica So let's do San Jose Costa Rica Okay, and press enter and this will show this will show us where San Jose Costa Rica is and then what I did was I clicked on I Clicked on I Actually wanted so this is I don't know if you can see this down here, but the scale is two miles So maybe across the screen is one two three four five six You know something like across the screen is something like 15 miles total total distance So I want to search after I pulled up that city. I then search yoga and then press enter. Oops not. Yo, uh, let me try that again Yoga I press enter and then this is giving me now the number of yoga centers or at least Google map listings with yoga associated with yoga in the area and then I could click on Next on this down here to see that. Wow. There are at least 20 results. Wow 30 results. Okay, just in in that kind of 15 mile radius. So that's Yeah, that's pretty awesome So actually I need to update the number. It's 30 not 15. I actually have a link map linked there So I also we're looking at college campus is my wife likes taking classes at community colleges So I'm gonna be doing some research on based on local colleges things like that internet speeds important city crime, of course And I have to look at Rent for you know three three bedroom because this the cost of living website. I gave you you can actually type in an actual city San Jose Costa Rica and Then find the if you scroll down you can find the cost of living. Oh, this is okay. Very important. This is not US dollars so I gotta find US dollars in here and Rent three bedroom in city center is about 900 bucks. So wow, that's a little higher than we were looking at but Anyway, now we know so I gotta do do my research and put put in these numbers I'm gonna look at sunny storm sunny days and storms How stable the electricity is etc. So anyway, I hope this is helpful Again, if you if you happen to know anybody who live in who's supportive and friendly and who lives in any of these countries Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Thailand, Malaysia, but Panama, please let me know and I'd love to connect with them and Maybe add to this research so it's helpful for everyone. So anyway until the next video wish you well