They’ve gone off living off-grid.
Web stars Kaylee Dubeau and Jordan Saglio have turn out to be famous for living a “dream life” in distant Panama.
However the Massachusetts couple — who boast 390,00 subscribers on their “The Nomadic Movement” YouTube channel — have admitted that the Central American country is anything but picture perfect.
In a candid clip, titled “We Have Regrets Moving to Panama,” the pair list their biggest gripes, saying they struggle with allergies and homesickness, and may’t stand the trash that seems to pile up “all over the place.”
The pair also claim that, as foreigners, they’re also upcharged for the whole lot.
“It’s a better price [for us] and that is with the whole lot from buying a automotive to purchasing property to taking a taxi to even buying fruit or food on the side of the road,” Jordan stated within the clip, which has clocked up X views.
The couple — who’ve a young daughter named Sadie and purchased a 2.5-acre plot of land for $75,000 outside the mountain town of Boquete back in 2019 — say they now need to have a Panama local help them negotiate the acquisition of vital items.
“I believe you may imagine how sometimes the largest purchases in your life, like a chunk of land or a automotive or stuff like that, it just adds one other layer of complexity having another person involved to kinda like negotiate and assistance on your behalf,” Jordan declared.
The YouTube star also said his allergies were far worse in Panama than they were when he was living within the US.
“For about 5 or 6 months out of the yr I even have a nasty allergy that’s some form of pollen or some form of dust,” Jordan claimed. “It’s so bad that my face is so puffy and even the strongest allergy medication doesn’t even do anything.”
He added that pesticide and fungicide usage is “very, very high” within the country and the couple is forced to eat a variety of imported food.
Meanwhile, Kaylee has her own complaints with the country.
“Unfortunately just about all over the place you look here there’s just trash,” she declared within the video. “And whether it’s like buried in with the dirt or it’s just blatantly piled up on the side of the road, it’s one in every of those things that they simply don’t have the systems in place here to get rid of it appropriately or recycle it appropriately.”
She moreover said she’s missing her family back in the USA.
“Something else that I regret that I definitely didn’t think that I might feel as deeply as I do and I believe more so now due to Sadie, is how much I used to be going to miss our family,” she said.
And while the couple’s off-grid lifestyle might look ideal to burnt-out viewers who’re fighting the rat race, the pair’s life hasn’t exactly been glamorous.
They went years without living with a flushing toilet on their 2.5 acre farmstead and were forced to have cold showers for 7 months as they didn’t have a water heater.
