AlanMexicali

21 minutes ago, gringohombre said:

If you substitute the word Liberals for the word Conservatives in the title would you consider it troll bait??? Me thinks not!!!

Probably would end up the same, so yes. Political and Us against Them as always. In the case if it was Liberals the Us would outnumber the Them here, even though that was not in the OP's question. 😊

24 minutes ago, Zeb said:

I was not asking for criticism of people with whom you don't agree.  If this is not something that interests you, then PLEASE do not respond to my post. Do not participate. Start your own topic.

Only answer if you have information I have requested.

It is an open forum. Live with it, please. You start a thread with a troll bait question what do you expect, seriuosly?

If the Notario/a didn't do a SAT form for capital gain on your house sale required by the Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público /SHCP he/she is in violation of the said law requiring all Notario/as to submit the completed and accurate official SAT form and withhold and submit the money, if any is required, before closing the sale and drawing up the title (escritura) and you signing and the buyer signing it and transfering the money into your bank account. It has nothing to do with you. If your Norario/a didn't maybe in your case it was not required or you are misunderstanding something. Notario/as are libel to pay all taxes and fees not collected from the seller or buyer if they make an error. I suspect you should not go into any SAT office. Call your Notario/a to clearify the tax owing situation and they will have to deal with SAT. If they refuse you might have to hire a legal attorney, not another Notario/a. This is the way I understand it.

Now after thinking about it I am not sure Notario/as are responsible for capital gains taxes for sellers only for other taxes and fees. The seller might be the responsible party after the sale goes through like NOB capital gains tax.

1 hour ago, bobby brown said:

No conspiracy theories--just the facts--All that comes from the left is garbage--"everything"--

1 hour ago, bobby brown said:

Yes the brainwashing is very powerful--Only a special few can see through the lies of socialism--which is nothing but a cult-!

You are using psychological projection to describe yourself and your cult of far right propagandists and your beloved conspiracy theories with zero truths that are only lies and describe a dellusional/morbid fantasy world that does not exist in reality only in your mind.

You claim you are special and one of few might be because you are not of this World called reality but of a "fantasy world" where no one knows what it consists of except yourself ( a very special world for a very special person ).

Your daughter avoided it because she is normal and well adjusted probably. Smart woman.

4 hours ago, bobby brown said:

Protect our kids--we can retire later--I took my kid out of the US from the 7th grade and moved her to the American School in PV-It cost me a $1,000.00 "dollars"--a "month"--god knows what it cost today-Maybe double ?--did it work ??--NO--she turned into a screaming liberal-- Oh well--maybe she will grow out of it--I tried my best; so I"m content---HA--I'm certain she will thank me on my death bed---that means a loy to me---HA--P.S. listen to PINK FLOYD--THEY SAW THE FUTURE-- !!!

She is so lucky considering your influence trying to indoctrinate her into believing conspiracy theories and other nonsense. Smart woman.

14 hours ago, mudgirl said:

Pineapples don't grow on trees.

But most nuts do.

55 minutes ago, Northtek said:

 

Well gringohombre if the subject matter is boring you, nothing is keeping you here. You are free to wonder other conversations and spread your wisdom there. 

AlanMexicalli, These "incoherant thoughts" are part of the feed back process. The idea is to try and explain the premise and hopefully get constructive comments to see if it resonates with people. 

Also, nothing personal, but I have been to way too many production meetings and not once was a video engineer involved. We had plenty of them on staff but were never included in the creative process. truth be told I had never asked what it was that you guys did, I just assumed it was color correction. Mostly because the unions had requirements that there were so many people, that half of them I still have no idea what they did.

Have to save this gem.

2 minutes ago, happyjillin said:

I have no negative feelings about more people moving here. Have even had some come to my place and never fail to express the wonders of living here to anyone far and wide. My problem is with the border promotion northtek who's ramblings have shown me that his claims of expertise are not what one would expect from a real expert in the field. OH and he seems to be flying by the seat of his pants with no actual plan and realistic strategy.

 

pedro kertesz 

I see the exact same thing you do. Thanks for confirming my speculation about what is actually transpiring here.

He doesn't even know what video engineers do. A dead giveaway.

On 3/28/2022 at 3:33 PM, Fred Habacht said:

There is a calle in Chapala, actually a narrow alley, it is called "Pompous Fonetica". The small musical instrument shop at #29 would be a perfect stop for Northtek.....they sell Mexican "Toot your own horn too much."  The owner Carlos Santana will also tell you what a border promotion is.......Don't miss this.

You are seeing the same thing here. What is now noticable is many experienced Epats have described " Expat Experience" [ the title of this thread ] from a seasoned perspective and he walks right over these many posters' comments as if he finds them trivial and contuniously talks about finding/creating some pie in the sky "Expat Experience" that doesn't exist, never existed except maybe in his fantasy of what people/viewers want to believe Expats experience when moving to and living in Mexico.  A cartoon might be more suitable in this case. The everyday reality of living here has been repeatedly reported by many posters and is being sidestepped as being .... [ who knows what, ]

2 minutes ago, gringohombre said:

This is the most BOOOOOOORING thread I have read here (not actually read, scanning is enough), and that says a lot!!!

Quite the billboard to bambozzle us. IMO

26 minutes ago, Northtek said:

Well one you might be a video engineer, which is great, but making a video technically correct, doesn't make it interesting, secondly I am going by many factors including how many times the video is watched, if it doesn't have a good amount of views, it has a problem. 

Video is an art and a science. 

lastly I didn't just focus on videos of Expats, I look at related material too, as that is how you determine demand for the content. If there is no potential then there is no point. 

There probably a ton of people out there making videos, so no I would not have seen them all, I just dont have that much patience or time. 

So I have faced a lot of skepticism but every show I worked on was successful, even when every one said it wouldn't. So to call it "total bunk" as a video engineer lacks validity as I was both the director or producer of the shows I worked on so it would have given me a better perspective on what works and doesn't. 

23 minutes ago, Northtek said:

ok it seems that you are open to criticize others, well lets reverse these role, what is it that you have done that is beyond approach? Which shows did you produce that gives you so much credibility? 

Reading all your many, many posts and seeing your massive amount of incoherent thoughts comming through I have to ask: Are you putting us on?

11 minutes ago, Northtek said:

But maybe I should explain why I will do something different, as near the end of my days with the networks, I was mostly just teaching others on Filming and editing. The writing was on the wall as the networks felt I was too old, to expensive, and not politically correct enough to want to spread the message they wanted. Which I was actually fine with me as I really didn't see the need to inject topics like gender identity into shows that had nothing to do with that and making shows for the sake of exploiting topics like that wasn't something I was interested in anyway. 

But any way the story I told them was this. Years ago I was asked to sit in on a meeting for a new show that was being proposed, It was a sports fishing show that had made several pilots and no network would pick the show up. The premise was good but the networks didn't think it had what it needed to draw an audience. 

It had the same problem a lot of show maker hopefuls were making. That was they were making a show that appealed to them. So they hired people that were sport fishing enthusiasts. This might make sense on paper, but not in reality, as they focused to much on thing that made sense to them, but not to the average viewer. The show was also very boring if you were not a diehard fan. Unfortunately, this is still the biggest problem with the majority of Youtubers. They think what appeals to them appeals to everyone and end up with a very small and very niche audience.

This is where I differ, as I realize the majority of the people dont really care what I like or think personally. They are more concerned about thing they can relate to and maybe see themselves doing or would like to thing they can do. So I have learn shows need to step outside of themselves and see what will appeal to the largest audience and attract people that may not be enthusiasts but are some what interested.

Long story short, I agreed to help produce the pilot for the fishing show and it was picked up by 3 networks right away and ended up getting full reign of the show for 4 years. It was later bought out by another network and I was replaced as they though someone younger would make it better. It was cancelled after 2 episodes.

There was more to this story but I wont get into many details, as the main take away is that I learned a lot about  what a show needs to be successful and hope that experience will come through now.

You should stick to being a cameraman and editor and leave the creative stuff to others? You are too confused it seems.

42 minutes ago, Northtek said:

I would like to say this isn't the case but people watch what they either can relate to directly or see themselves doing. Which is why I think what I will be doing will be different than what is already on you tube, as There ae some that have very good production value and are informative, But are pretty much like the videos I see about computers. As I am not sure who they make the videos for? As the computers they show are way over priced and they all seem to go one about the RGB lights. I like computers, but I could care a less what lights are blinking and I doubt very much I would buy a computer in the $10k range. I just want one that works.

Same with the videos about living in Mexico, as CNBC has one that is really well produced but it focuses on people that few can relate to, such as a high level lawyer that says she retired at 39. Others that have good production value focus on the cost of living, which is good, but its a small sampling and really doesn't explore what its like living here.

The ones that try and do, have very low production value, filmed with an iPhone or something, and are mostly talking heads that become pretty much say the same and get boring pretty fast. Its like they are making a video for the sake of making a video. No real storytelling or relatable material. 

Now I wont go too deep on what I am planning as I firmly believe in the adage "under promise and over deliver" but I plan on bring both together and making it fun. That is story telling and production value.

Total bunk. My career as a video engineer taught me what video is technically and the interest level that sells. Your critique of Youtube videos centered on Expats' living in Mexico I view often is so bias it makes me wonder if you know anything or have watched more than a few Youtube videos on the Mexico  - foreigner experience. Your continued talking about it also makes me wonder the same thing. Are you putting us on?

7 minutes ago, timjwilson said:

You misinterpreted my meaning. You may describe an individual as they are but their quality of character does not usually reflect their ethnicity. (as described better in my other post)

No I understood you. I disagree that is all. Ethnic groups have some distinctive similarities amongst themselves which is what this thread has evolved into discussing now. 

1 hour ago, timjwilson said:

The time when 'gringo' becomes important is if I'm riding with my Mexican buddy and he pulls over to get a price on something, my white countenance sitting in the car jacks the price up.  

It has never happened to me in over 40 years in Mexico. Of course you might think it does but you could be mistaken. Common stereotypical urban legend I've heard a hundred times.

Once 16 years ago I paid for a rustic dining room set to be delivered that day and 1 hour later I saw one I wanted more somewhere else and returned to the store across the road for my cash and the salesman told me he was keeping $500.00 pesos out of almost $6,000 pesos. The young woman behind the counter, who took my cash, told him to shut up and gave me my money back. 

1 hour ago, timjwilson said:

Exactly. I get so tired of foreigners describing the 'Mexican' people. ('they' are so; this and that) They are all different just like all over the world.

It is very boring describing someone simply as different. What the hell is the difference? That is where describing Mexicans is interesting coming from experiences and perspectives from foreigners. Ethnic groups are "homogenious" in some ways because of many generations of living in the same or similar culture and soaking it up. 

3 hours ago, happyjillin said:

Yer joking right! You know more about Canadians than me,A Canadian, who has even been a politician in CANADA and pay taxes  there even now and nowhere else. TRIPLE SNORK!!!

WOWIE ZOWIE !

13 minutes ago, happyjillin said:

My mind is larger[open] than a promoter of stereotypes like you. You know nada about Canadians it seems.

 

pedro kertesz

Apparently you don't know as much as you think you do. I know much more about Canadians than you do obviously.

On 3/25/2022 at 7:20 PM, gringohombre said:

Just do it already!!!

54 minutes ago, AlanMexicali said:

A typical Canadian trait to "hem and haw."

10 minutes ago, happyjillin said:

You are full of it likening all of us to one border promo on this board. Fortunately all USA-ers aren't typically you-hee haw.

I am Canadian! I migrated to San Diiego over 40 years ago. I know what typical Canadians are like. I know what typical Californians are like. Your small mindedness is apparent in this case.

On 3/25/2022 at 7:20 PM, gringohombre said:

Just do it already!!!

A typical Canadian trait to "hem and haw."