Comments by "William Davis" (@williamdavis9562) on "Nomad Capitalist" channel.

@nomadcapitalist Fantastic comment 😂😂😂😂😂
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@akeelyaqub2538 Never been to Saudi Arabia. But what you just said is insane because this actually happened to me in Turkey about 3 years ago. I was a guest at someone's house for dinner and mentioned how different and lovely one of their ornaments was. The guy tried to make me take it lol. He was so adamant I thought he was going to beat me up if I didn't take it. 🤣 I thought it was a Turkish thing, apparently from what you're saying it isn't.
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@Canada3381 It's generally smart to respect the culture and habits in any place you go. Cultures which haven't gone completely insane tend to be more protective of their culture, heritage and belief systems. As far as Islam being a foreign influence on Indonesia, I don't think that is for us to say. Think about it, if you were to use that logic. Then we'd have to call literally every Abrahamic religion a foreign influence which is bad anywhere outside the middle east. Which is a fairly insane thing to go around saying no? People are free to follow their logic reason and hearts in any path they choose. Nor is it rational for a guest in a different culture to sit there and browbeat them on how you think they should live. Our way apparently isn't working and leading to nowhere good, which is why so many people are leaving their homelands. So who the hell are we to go somewhere and tell people they're doing is wrong. Think about it. But if you inherently believe a way of life of a given society is "bad." Why move there? Also if you believe that way of life to be bad, ask yourself why it is you might prefer to live in that society in the first place? Again I spend a lot of time in a Muslim country and have been doing so for 20 years. After a certain time you start to realize that insanely ridiculous hubris we westerners have thinking we know better. We really don't. In these past 20 years I've probably learned more about life from the Turks than I could possibly teach them.
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I am honestly floored by the amount of racially motivated comments in the comments section. For god's sake this is a video about investing. Reading the comments section you'd think my wife and I would have been hunted down in the streets while going to Turkey every summer lol Insanity.
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This video is 100% spot on. I have been living part of the year in a Muslim country since the early 2000s (for work reasons) Never had a problem there. Being in Turkey for so many months out of the year for so long I've gotten to a point I prefer it there than to my home in Philadelphia. I can't let my wife go for a walk at 12 pm here in America without being worried she'll be attacked. In Turkey if she wakes up in the middle of the night she goes for a walk without thinking twice at 2am. Considering how things have gotten so insane here in America over the past decade, I have to say there are places you can live overseas where you'll have a much better quality of life. If you're wealthy (which I'm not) but if you are, you should certainly have a plan A, B and C incase things get bad where you are. Since I'm not very wealthy I only have a plan B, can't afford homes in 10 different nations. I also forgot to mention the healthcare. The healthcare here in most cases is A LOT better than back home. If we have a health issue and we're in America, we go back to Turkey to get it looked at. We don't have to wait weeks and months for appointments and tests either. Everything gets done same day.
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@Canada3381 If someone willingly moves to the west, I would also ask them to respect the local culture as well. In fact I do so quite often here in Philadelphia. But many of them don't, I guess they think just like you do. Thinking their way is the best and not having the self awareness that it was that sort of thinking which destroyed the place they wanted to leave. Also your friend from Turkey, can also critique Islam in Turkey. I've spent a lot of time there, Turkey isn't Canada, people are actually allowed to have opinions. He probably won't get fired, bullied, have his bank account frozen for having an opinion the elites don't like. Perhaps you can learn a thing or two from these cultures you seem to believe are inherently inferior. All jokes aside, you seem like a nice person but my advice to you would be to stay in Canada.
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@akeelyaqub2538 it is a nice cultural quirk. I like it
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@SerifAkyazi2001 In business is an entirely different matter. They give you free stuff because they probably robbed the hell out of you on the meal lol You do pay for the bread and appetizers, you're just not aware of it, the rest of the stuff is priced accordingly. A Turkish friend of mine in Fethiye has a restaurant, he'll tell you all about it.
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My wife and I haven't gone completely Nomad yet but we're in Turkey 3 months out of the year, sometimes more. To be fair it feels a lot safer than the United States. I'm sure there are areas of Turkey which aren't safe but I don't imagine those being the areas any expats will be moving to. As far as political stability that seems to be a problem in Turkey. However it will only affect you if you're working and earning money the local currency. Security never seems to be an issue.
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@Liz Wandering Husky Mama, My wife and I go to Turkey every year and have never heard of such a thing happening. You sure the info you got wasn't about another country?
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@Canada3381 Indonesia isn't Canada, you can't be punished for having the wrong view. You might get a stare of disapproval. That is about it. Again it isn't Canada, you won't be fired, have a mob show up at your house and have your life ruined because of a thought crime or have the government freeze your bank accounts. Few nations actually do those things, you live in one of those nations that do.
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@cheery-hex yes it is absolutely a good thing. Having cultural norms of behavior is important to have a functioning and cohesive society. We've seen what this selfish anything goes type attitude has done to our societies back home. The idea that making others uncomfortable is undesirable is a good thing.
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@JessicaT10118 You really notice this feeling if you spend extra time outside of here. I never noticed how I was always subconsciously surveying my surroundings as I go around Philly. I realized what was going on when I stayed in Turkey for a few years and came back home. Night and day as far as the "fight or flight response" by simply walking around the city.
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@hammerfall6666 Regardless of punishments you'll always get an X percentage of that type of crime. But generally as society degrades you get more and more and more of it. I literally put my watch in my pocket when I walk around Philly. It wasn't always like this.
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@eugeniebreida I obviously used Philly as an example because I live in Philly. But no, Philly isn't the most dangerous city within the US. Besides when you look at the crime rates, most of the large cities are nearly on par with each other on violent crime. As if Philly is that much worse than Chicago or Newark for example. We have a dangerous city problem. As far as apples to apples, I've basically been to every single large Turkish city. In it's totality none of them are even 10% as dangerous as Chicago or Philly. Istanbul is really the only city that has really sketchy areas but again still safer than many of our large cities. The other large cities in Turkey like Konya, Izmir, Bursa, Ankara, Antalya. You can pretty much say violent crime is nearly non existent when compared to the large American cities. I doubt Turkey is some sort of outlier either, most relatively advanced nations around the globe have fairly safe cities. SO it isn't that Turkey is great when it comes to crime. It is that here in America we have a massively serious crime problem. The fact we've gotten to a point we've learned to live with it or ignore it is a problem don't you think? Personally I think we deserve safe cities like so many other nations have.
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@ramonbs6075 You'd have to be overly emotional to make a comment like on a video about investment strategies. I was shocked to see how many of you idiots were in this comments section.
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@Gaz Jonze, You'd be surprised. I forked out 300k on a property to get it.
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@metajventure It really boils down to how much power a government has and how authoritarian is. Our media throws around catch phrases like "dictator" far too easily without getting into any nuance. One it's hard to call the man a dictator when his party recently lost the midterm elections pretty badly. Two the government in general regardless of who is in control there has a lot less overreaching powers than here in the United States. Confiscating property at will would be A LOT easier here in the United States than in a country where the government doesn't wield as much power over their populace. There aren't many regulatory bodies they can use to justify such confiscations as they can in the overly regulated highly powerful central governments of the west. Look at legitimate eminent domain cases for example where the government needs your property to build a road or what not. In America and the west in general it's a fairly easy process where they simply pay you what it's worth and they're done with you. In Turkey I've seen cases where the government goes through hell if some farmer doesn't want to sell his land. Property rights are pretty enshrined in the local culture there and it's not something they're willing to compromise on regardless of which way the political winds are blowing.
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@Paco Co, because it makes it much easier to live there, visit there and invest there.
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@alexanderexarchos9210 I live on the coast of Turkey very close to Greek islands so I have a vested interest to do my research of this "spat" you Greeks seem to have with the Turks so close to where my summer home in Turkey is. I'd hardly call their policy regarding the Med sea as "rogue." So if you guys can please stop arming those small islands, people living on the other side would feel a tad bit safer. Thanks....
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@alexanderexarchos9210 I'm not the one going into videos about investment strategies going on emotional political rants am I? But since you insist, fine lets talk about it. So again, those missiles you have pointing at my summer home which threaten my family is not only disturbing but also against treaties your nation has signed, part of me hopes those islands are invaded and the treaties upheld so people on the coast aren't threatened. Remember, when you post nonsense on a public forum, someone just might come out and slap you with a dose of reality. If you had any humility you would be regretting the nonsense you posted earlier. Ask your government to stop breaking treaties it signed, it will make all of us feel safer. Thanks.....
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@alexanderexarchos9210 My hopes for the safety of people are not passive aggressive. You might also want to look up the definition of the word delusional. Delusional is your complete and utter disregard for the reasoning behind the situation you're complaining about. As far as my investment, I'm up over 60% in 3 years. I appreciate your concern. The investment would be doing much better if it weren't for lunatics like you backing a policy which puts my family in danger. The only part of my investment I regret is buying property so close to wide eyed lunatics such as yourself. Which again is why I hope said islands are disarmed, so people can live without such fears.
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@guilhermesalesferreiradaco2934 Be careful chasing those high interest rates. Turkey has an interest rate near 19%, I live there part time yet I choose not to take advantage of it. You don't get 19% APR on your dollars. You get 19% APR on your lira. If the lira depreciates more than 19% a year, you're actually losing money. You'd be much better off putting that money into real estate there.
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@somo1757 You get the benefits of living in a large city plus the benefits of amazing weather and close to the tourist resorts and beach. I personally passed on Izmir when I invested in Turkey but that is because I am not a big fan of large cosmopolitan cities. For people who like city living, Izmir is fantastic and I'd take it any day of the week over Istanbul.
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@@dor8175 Humans have been migrating around the globe for opportunities since the dawn of time. That is what humans do, they go places they think they'll live better.
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@gagoomt4076 Mostly crime.
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@SerifAkyazi2001 So then you agree with me, this idea that you get free bread simply isn't true. As far as Turks being cut throat, you're damned right. These people rob their own brothers, what do you think they'll do to a stranger? lol In the years I've spent there I was always blown away with how common "miras kavgasi" really is. Ac goz millet. Fazlasiyla.
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@lescommercantesdindochine1954 Are you seriously making the argument that a society with less poor people is Nazi Germany. And a society with a lot of people poor people in the streets is the opposite of Nazi Germany and thus something to strive for? Are you insane? Nazi Germany also used to be very clean. So to be the opposite of that we should throw garbage everywhere? Is that your contention?
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@benfirgdhs This comment legit made me laugh.
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@JohnDorian-j7x Yea obviously someone must be a bot for pointing out that millions of homeless people flooding the street is a sign of a problem. What rational person wouldn't think that is a wonderful thing. No? Hell we should also believe AMerica was a hellhole in the 1950s when it was cleaner and had a lot less homeless people right? Because obviously a huge percentage of your population living in the streets and filth being everywhere is a direct sign of societal advancement right? I feel ya bro.
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@William for the 200k range you won't do much better than that in Istanbul. What you seem to be looking for will run you upwards of 1 million USD.
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@DarrenUren7 yea man, my cousin lives in San Fran. We hate visiting there
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@Ramon BS, what is it with you guys coming in and destroying every comments section in videos like this with your overly emotional political rants?
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@Mark Myjak, I'm not sure they'll be able to solve their currency issues anytime soon. If you consume more than you produce you'll have this issue. The only way I see the lira stabilizing is if Turkey can find huge reserves of natural gas or oil, which will put less pressure on the lira because they wont' need as many dollars to purchase as much energy from overseas. Short of that, I don't see a good future for the lira.
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@The Mee, as long as you're aware of the cultural differences you'll be more comfortable. Indian behavior and Turkish behavior is like oil and water. What is considered "normal" in India will be heavily frowned upon in Turkey.
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@Klaus Marcel Kapalle, that's an interesting point of view. The man has been in power for 20 years and they've seen exponential growth in that time. I'm no fan of the guy but for investment purposes the opposite of what you're saying is true. If you guys have a political or ideological gripe, there are plenty of videos on youtube for that type of conversation. Just don't spread misinformation for people looking to invest, people's dollars don't care about mine or your political views.
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@Surbon514, the fact it isn't an EU member makes it all the more attractive.
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@kspradeep8397 You do realize they're not talking about a country like Pakistan or India right?
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@Jane Park, that risk always exists in any nation. As far as that risk, you're more likely to have your property confiscated in the United States than in Turkey.
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