Our New Life in America | Katya's Green Card | My new job | Moving to Montana | Maybe Boise

What's up guys? Welcome back to Allotic Ventures. Today I'm back in Minsk. It's been 16 months since I've been in Minsk and I just thought I'd give an update on Kati and I. So Kati and I left Minsk June of 2023. So it's been about 16 months and the reason why we left because I got bored. i got bored um no job nothing uh i just got bored so i was like katya do you wanna you wanna move to the us get your green card start working there and improve your english she said yes let's do it so that's what we did uh she got her visa first uh for the second time so that she can actually go back to to the to the united states and work on her on her green card so anyways we applied it took about took a little almost a year before she got her green card we had a few hiccups uh probably because we didn't get a lawyer and i was i was the lawyer i relied on chat gpt which was which is wonderful it's an amazing tool so probably better than a lawyer in some aspects so anyway she got her she got her green card in the meantime while while she was applying for her green card and waiting for it I started applying for jobs and I got one offer lost out in a couple where we could have moved to Texas and Arizona and Missouri but we ended up on an offer from Helena Montana so I went back into telecom so it's one of the major telecom companies in in the United States and we ended up moving to Helena Montana which is where we live right now we moved there in December of last year so we haven't been there quite one year so we've been getting acclimated to Montana we love it there but I am getting promoted we're going into another role more of a strategic role for government education in the western states so my parents actually live in Idaho so we we opted to move we're gonna be moving back to Idaho we were we're in Idaho with my parents the first six or seven months being back in the US my parents are getting up there so I did I asked my my company if I could actually relocate back to Boise they said okay so looks like Katia and I will be relocating to Boise in about mid-December but in the meantime exciting news for Katia she was able to get a job actually someone just offered her a job and we and she was like you know I'm only gonna be here a few more months a few more months and they go that's fine so Katia is getting work experience in Montana which is really really good for her it's good for her English and they don't pay her they pay her pretty good actually not bad so that's kind of where we're at and in the meantime our improvements on our property are almost almost done the bathroom was completed so I decided to come back come back to Minsk Katya still in the US you know come back to the US to Minsk and kind of finish up the apartment because we're gonna we're gonna go ahead and rent it out you know we did the we did brand new floors upstairs and downstairs brand new walls ceiling new kitchen new bathroom new lighting so it's looking a lot different we're not we're not done yet but it's looking a lot it was kind of artsy there was an artist that owned it before before us which was kind of famous this famous apartment that they rented out airbnb but we completely gutted it and it looks completely different looks like a loft now so uh and then also i have to get a power of attorney because katya is going to be coming back in january to register in her name the apartment turns out if if an expat is registered we get the highest rate for utilities so so uh if a local is registered, then it's about a third of the cost for our gas and our electricity. So that's what we're gonna do. So in January that will happen and then she'll come back. So yeah, I'm excited to be back here in Minsk. It's beautiful. Yesterday was kind of cold, but today is sunny and it's about it's about 20 degrees or about 65 fahrenheit so uh yeah so while i'm here i'm going to do a few videos this is the first one i'll do two more i've been doing some video shorts probably did about six uh during the week but what i'll do is i'll give you guys a little tour tour of our apartment so you can see the changes i'll i'll throw some pictures of what it used to look like uh you know when we purchased it um also i'll do a video around around our neighborhood uh with a right off Karl Marx or Engels a um and then i might i might do one with uh some restaurants and bars and all that but uh yeah so a little little update there i hope i hope you guys appreciate it i know we haven't uh we haven't really been posting a lot uh and to be honest uh it's i don't feel very comfortable going around with my camera in Montana. There's a bunch of cowboys there so I mean I don't think they would mind. We've done it but it's not like you know doing a video in Boise or Boston or a lot of people don't care. There's not a lot of tourists or there's been locals that live there all their life so I feel a little uncomfortable videotaping but I'm back in Minsk and excited. We're probably going to rent it out. That's what we're getting ready to do is rent it out. And our plan is to work five years, five to seven years in the United States and then rent out this apartment during those five years and then come back and live here and then just travel so that that's our plan right now it could change could change so uh anyways i hope you appreciate the update if you have any questions just you know go ahead and uh you know type it type them in i'll get back to you until next time ciao