Queretaro Apartment Tour - How much does rent cost in Queretaro, Mexico 🇲🇽 in 2021-

Moving for a week. Today I want to walk you through our Airbnb and temporary home in Queretaro. Still working on that pronunciation. I'll show you the building, the amenities. It was the first place that wasn't a studio, so we actually had a door. And then at the end I'll answer some questions like how much did it cost? So let's go. You might be wondering why an Airbnb tour is starting in front of a Dairy Queen. All the answers will reveal themselves to you. So behind me, the buildings back is where we're going. So I wanted to give you a preview of where it all started. We'll head over to give you a tour and we'll show you the way there. Let's go. All right. Just exited the mall about to enter the complex. So if you watched first Mexico city Airbnb, you're in for a treat. This is one of the playgrounds here. Yes, folks, that is right. There are two different playgrounds here. That means multiple yellow slides we've got. And in addition to two playgrounds and multiple slides, we've got one other thing. We have a pool. There's a lot of people there, but I'll, I'll come back here shortly. All right, we're going to enter the building. We are Torre 6B AKA Tower 6B some crazy vocab going on there. I'm not a good back lip, but I probably am. All right, welcome to the kitchen. Hopefully you can tell, maybe you can, maybe you can't. This is like a proper size kitchen. Unlike in Mexico city where like you had to like sneak in to get by. We've got a lot of room, a full size fridge, which probably looks empty even though we just went grocery shopping. I have some fun stuff in the freezer. I'll show in a bit. And then the star of the show here, not only is this not electric and it is gas, six burners. So for the last two months we've been cooking on basically tiny two burner electric stoves. Things probably cooked three times as quick here. I've burned some tortillas and stuff and great having this. Onto the storage. This is where the fun stuff lives. Pasta, chips, got other chips, tortillas. We've been rocking the little baby Hawaiian rolls for Sando's. The best hot sauce, Mexico, Lindo, Habanero, Rojo. We've got the backup here, Lawl Tune. Then we've got the Prickly Pear, Tuna Blanco and the Paradise Mango. All right, we'll show you into the laundry room. It's not just a closet like the last two places. It's a small room, super fun door. It's going to probably sound like it's breaking. There you go. And this might again be super backlit. The interesting thing here is this is always open. So this is like open air. Pretty sure the air comes into like the cooling, but this never closes. So when it's super windy, it gets kind of crazy. Proper separate washer and dryer, but yeah, a proper room. This is the dining room. And by that, I mean we have a table for once. So yeah, our first place, I think we just have like the bar still set up in a coffee table. Second place, we had that little table. We finally have like a proper table with four seats. This is where we work. This is where we eat some meals. I'll show you the TV later, but it swivels. So this is where we eat and work and here we're in the living room. So actually pretty comfortable couch. Obviously there's this seat. Never really sit there. Sorry guy. This TV is good. It like properly like comes out and swivels. So hanging out and watching TV for breakfast, lunch, dinner. There's awesome. We started the tour at the Dairy Queen. Don't know if you can see that, but through there like that weird dome structure with all the like glass and seating, that's the actual mall and that top floor. You can maybe break up a little DQ symbol. That's our view in addition to the triple yellow slide or double yellow slide playground. And the top thing about this place is this door. So the first two places we stayed in studios have that bed just lingering out there bleeding into the living room. So we finally have this door. Yunji can watch all the Outlander she wants and I can be in another room to not have to hear it. So this door is very special. First one bedroom of the trip. And yeah, this is the room, um, Florida ceiling ish window here. A lot of light comes in actually probably too much. Um, when these shades are down, there's like a gap and for whatever reason this place blasts these fluorescent lights. So the first few nights I woke up in the middle of the night thinking it was the next day and it's like four a.m. pretty comfortable bed got storage as usual. So we've got this little luggage in there, can hang things, um, plenty of spare storage and then, you know, extra bedding, extra towels, dirty clothes, pretty lit stuff. Yeah. This is the, this is the room. It's nice to have a bedroom. So people can like watch TV while other people like read or try to sleep. And as you know, always love to show the bathroom. I feel like this bathroom is actually like a good compromise between the first two. The Mexico city one felt like a cruise ship. The Pueblo one was like massive. This one is, and yeah, I'll show this one's pretty good size. Big shower. Last thing, balcony. This opens all that opens. Yeah. Maybe come on out. There we go. We're going to hit the pool shortly. Stay tuned. Got my beer, got my bag. Let's hit the pool. This is the pool. This is me in the pool. I poured myself a drink to make myself more charismatic and palpable through the screen. You might be wondering what it costs to stay here. So for 28 days or 28 nights, four weeks. And the reason we're doing four weeks instead of a month, I'm sure someone's like, why do you stay places for weeks? You get the monthly discount for Airbnb. You've got to stay 28 nights or four weeks. You don't have to stay a full 30 days. And because we stay four weeks, we can travel every Saturday. So it doesn't interfere with like work schedulers or anything. So that's why we do that for 28 nights. I think this place is just a hair over a thousand us. I think it's like 1029 for four weeks. So probably a little under 1100 per month. I mean, that's all in with Airbnb, you know, not worrying about water, electricity, anything. What's it like having to move every four weeks? Moving every four weeks is not tight as someone that hates moving. I'm probably in the majority there. The upside though is you get to go somewhere new every four weeks. So the physical part of like packing is not that bad. If we do not have that much stuff, anyone that's watched any of our Airbnb tours, when I opened the closet door and there's like no clothes in there, we don't have that much stuff. It is exhausting though on travel days. So it was supposed to be something like three, three and a half, four hours from Puebla here. But you pack up, you call your Airbnb, you get to the bus station, you get on the bus. Then all of a sudden you finally get to the bus station of where you're going. You're probably at least 15 minutes late. You spend five to 10 minutes, trying to figure out where the heck you can even call for an Uber. Then your Uber comes. Then you finally get to the building you're trying to get to. You cross your fingers. You can actually check in. Okay. Then you finally get in and all you want to do is probably like chug water and go out to eat. So that travel day is not glamorous or tight. And I think that's why I haven't filmed anything. But being able to go somewhere new every four weeks is fantastic. I think about three weeks is the perfect amount of time somewhere. And that's where I start getting excited about the next place. So changing spots is really fun. The physical moving and the logistics suck. How did you find out about Caratara? I like to read blogs or like watch videos on like cheapest places to live or like the next digital nomad spots. I'm almost positive. Caratara came up as one of like the cheaper spots and one of the newer spots to be digital nomad. Give some context, like the reigning places in the world. Think like Chiang Mai or Canggu in Bali. Like those are digital nomad hotspots and people typically look for a few things. The visa eligibility, inexpensive cost of living. So those are both really cheap and then just kind of like infrastructure and Wi-Fi. I definitely think infrastructure, Wi-Fi, getting around everything is good here. How do costs compare to Mexico City and Puebla? Based on my answer on why we're here, totally expected this to be like the cheapest place in Mexico. You know, cheap beers, cheap everything, cheap Airbnb. This Airbnb is about all like 40 to 50% more than Puebla. Much cheaper than Mexico City, even though when we go back to Mexico City our Airbnb is actually cheaper than here. So I don't know if I just keep finding the only like high end or expensive places, but I don't think a single thing we've done here is inexpensive relative to San Francisco, LA, back home, whatever. It is inexpensive, but compared to Mexico City and compared specifically to Puebla, it's much more expensive here. Whether we're talking about, you know, buying a beer, going out for dinner. We went out to brunch today. And it seems like all the spots here, brunch is like 160 or 170. So to give you context, it's like $8, $8 and 50 cents. Whereas in Puebla, I think everywhere is like a hundred pesos or five bucks. Even in Mexico City, things are like five or $6. So like brunch is more expensive. Beers are more expensive. We found a good cocktail spot that wasn't too expensive, but a lot of stuff here seems expensive. I don't know why. Thanks so much for taking your time to see what it's like living in a condo in Queretaro.