JAMAICA VLOG. How you can move to JAMAICA. Is it easy to move to Jamaica? 

I love it. It should not be easy for foreigners to move to Jamaica. I am a Jamaican living in Canada for over 50 years. However I had to get a visa to move to Canada.

My dream is to live in Jamaica after retirement, on the beach, dancing to Bob Marley and drinking my favorite cocktail. Is that a realistic dream or a dumb idea? Is the cost of living and housing comparable to the US? Also, I don't believe it's dangerous as many news outlets portray it to be. Am I correct?

We didn’t know a lot of it

@Larose Murphy exactly! Most Jamaican people, my family included, came to USA for money. That's all. MONEY. We know how beautiful Jamaica is once you leave there and compare it to USA or whatever. Cant wait to get to my yaad

Jamaicans leave for monetry reasons, they know they have a beautiful country.

It’s still great to hear such beautiful big up from a non-Jamaican. You don’t really appreciate your country until you live abroad.

Plantlaxtecka , I guess you are not 🇯🇲

That’s it !!

Yet you live in u.k and probably still there so I guess u.k is better than yard.

@@tastesweet9027 I was going to say the same thing lol. I live in the UK, it's not as good as Jamaica, just pays better.

I doubt it is your home unless you have arawak dna .

True

True dat

I think the Jamaica Tourist Board should work for.Irie

Thank you so much! 🤗

Oh, wow, thank you so much! I appreciate your kind words a lot 🤗🥰

@Beverley Hohn Chang Neither would you with so many grammatical errors.

@@JAMAICAWITHIRIE IT IS TRUE !!! IF GIVEN THE CHANCE YOU WOULD DO VERY WELL IN A JAMAICAN CLASSROOM TO TEACH AND MOTIVATE THE JAMAICANS

Thank you so much for all the support! 🤗

@@JAMAICAWITHIRIE You're most welcome indeed👍

Its not appreciate by every one!! Soon Jamaicans wont be able to buy property in their homeland 🤔

@@hotstepper8420 Interesting, what makes you think so? I mean how would this be related to Jamaicans not being able to buy property in their homeland? It's actually the other way around. More competition drives salaries up, while prices go down. For example, did you notice, that the USA have high salaries, but very low cost of living (compared to Jamaica), ever wondered why?

Thanks Irina this clog is an eye opener

Thank you so much for the support! It's much appreciated! 🤗

Hello Irene You have been a great eye opener for me thank you very much. I Lived in JA went to school for 4yrs loved fell inlove with JA. At 16yrs i was sent back to the UK but miss JA and started going back to every year... I have all my papers to own something there Im with the NHT. Also Have the family house my mum left for us. But then the pandemic came and has stopped me returning to JA. And during this all i was hearing about JA is killing/Robbing. So now i am sitting here with a different mind set. Please say a few encuragging words to me to help me get bavk into my original mind set. GOD BLESS YOU. You are doing a great job with ur vlogs and your information.🙏🏽❤

This really is eye opening... hmm.

@@janetmorgan3111 I was thinking of retiring back home here and on my trial visit in Dec 2019 to Mar 2020 got stuck by Covid19. Now going on 2yrs.!! Can't wait to go back and pack up and thank God for my good friend for looking after everything incl my car. I even had health issues here that were wonderfully looked after. So yes...keep your dream alive. Plan and pray. Irina has great tips.

Teal talk

It actually is Ms

kettly17 Well, it depends on your perspectives and values , motivation and I could go on but the concept is “the grass is always green on the other side”. So we will always be looking and searching for greener grass. There is a story of a man who bought a house because he was made to understand that diamonds could be found on the land. He spent years searching for the diamonds but came up with nothing. He eventually sold everything and moved to where more diamonds could be found and he felt he had a better chance of finding the diamonds. The new owner came and found diamonds. When he heard about this, he could not believe that the diamonds he spent years searching for were there all along. He ended up killing himself. That is just a brief synopsis of the story.

I'm from Jamaica and I have been living in America since 13. I've had my fill. I'm ready to move back home because the northern Illinois weather is literally ripping my joints during the winter. I have Lupus. I have always been homesick for my island home. I visit pretty often however returning to America has always been very difficult and emotional. I like America, I'm grateful for The experience. I don't know what it is why I'm not able to let go of my island home. It hurts to hear other Jamaicans in Jamaica speak badly about Jamaica. It's never anything positive and as crazy as this may sound....The Most High God created living things. Jamaica is a living thing like other country as far as I'm concerned and if all we can do is tear down our country. Speak badly about it, thinking it's the worst place on earth and it's a fact that by far it isn't. If we do nothing to build our country and stand up for our country, be patriotic about our country, not even paying attention to Jamaica, instead we have our eyes on other countries and more loyal to those countries then what do you think Lady Jamaica will do? If we don't bless our country, our country will never bless us. I'm not retired, however, I'm ready to go home without fearing the return to another country as my day of departure draws near and crying off and on from the night before returning until I land in Chicago. It eats my heart out every time. It's like leaving a helpless old woman and fearing that something might happen.....which causes me to never see my Jamaica again. It's not the best country in the world but it is my home. Migration doesn't give children much of a choice....you go wherever your parents are going. I already had an idea of what America is like because prior to moving here , I would spend summer with my dad in Toronto. So I pretty much knew what I was in for. I love Jamaica...my Israel home....Eternal Yahweh Bless our land Jamaica 🇯🇲

@@Syble I feel the same. I think about Jamaica everyday. Will return soon by the help of God.

Thank you so much for sharing this feedback! This support is much appreciated and I'm glad the videos are useful!

@ B Gents Ja 😄💯🇯🇲🏝💥👍💚❤

Ruby, you are smart for saying this, unlike some that sees it as a threat. We as Jamaicans cannot do it by ourselves or else we would have done it a longtime ago, we wouldn't need tourist and would be out of third world status.

They more like taking over jamaica. No smoke without fire.

Jamaica is not a Third world country... Go live in some of those so call super power than you will see how good Jamaica is... Use the Pandemic as a small example and this is just a small example... Take it from me living in England 25 years now .

@@amijamcangirl8818 Facts

Good luck Hun.

Good luck! 😊

Good luck

Not the government, the people, they are the government that means the people have to work hard and contribute collectively to make Jamaica better. The government can only provide the framework . Educating your kids, learn new skills, Read, Read & Read and stop the senseless violence. I would would sell my house today & move back to Jamaica and volunteer to impart my business/professional skills to future generations. Thank you.

Jamaica is so beautiful!

Glad you also have a wonderful experience staying in Jamaica! 🤗❤️🇯🇲

I wish little winter was in Ja so hot lol

@@wickedgames8768 It does get comfortably cool in the winter time. In some of the higher elevations it gets chilly after sunset, even in the middle of summer. I was in Moneague. St. Ann, in mid July, sitting in my rental car waiting for some people I gave a ride up there. After the sun went down it got so chilly I had to roll up the windows to stay warm. Jamaica gets cooler than Florida sometimes too. I'm a Jamaican living in Florida and visited Jamaica one March. It was very hot in Florida and I though it would be the same in Jamaica. I packed only shorts and tank tops and off to Jamaica I went. It was so chilly one day I was in Ocho Rios, I started shivering and had no shirt. I don't know what was going on, maybe some kind of freak weather thing. Luckily for me it didn't last no more than a day or two. Another year I was there in April, I had clothes that time though. But this one evening I went to a restaurant and ordered a jerk pork meal. The waitress went outside to get the meat from a guy with a jerk pan on the out there. I walked out behind her to ask the guy what kind of ingredients he was using because a kind of sweet smelling aroma was coming from the pan. He showed me some leaves he was putting on the meat. I think it was pimento. The waitress took the meat into the kitchen to have the chef put the rest of the food on the plate. I stayed by the jerk man chit chatting. Shortly after I saw the waitress coming with my meal. I excused myself from the jerk man and proceeded to make my way back to the dining room. She gestured to an outdoor bench and table and said I could eat there if I wanted. I accepted an started to eat. By that time the jerk man wrapped things up and left. It was pretty cool and after a while I had to fly back inside because my bald head was freezing. It was not uncomfortably cold to my body, but it was something else on my head. This was in Rio Nuevo, St. Mary.

Love how you speak as you find. You are enlightening a lot of people not only of the beauty but the hospitality of the people of Jamaica. Like also how you are educating the masses that Jamaicans are not racists as per say, unlike the racist attitude Jamaicans encountered when they immigrate to other country.

It is my pleasure and thank you so much for all the support you've provided to this channel! I remember your name from many comments here and kind discussions engaging other viewers. Thank you so so much, Ruby ❤️

Thank you 🤗Blessings!

Wow ...just saw your interview with TVJ....outstanding job Irina. 🙏🏽👊🏽🇨🇦🇯🇲

Thank you so much 😊

Thank you so much! Glad the video is useful!

Irena, how can I practice real estate in Jamaica? Do you have a video with entrepreneurial ideas in Jamaica for a foreigner? I want to move there but need to still make money. Lol

My pleasure and welcome to the channel, so happy to see you here! 🤗

Thank you! You're one of our very first viewers! Thank you so much for all the support you've given this channel! 🤗

Thank you so much and welcome! 🤗Glad you like the videos! Don't forget to check out the playlists! :))

@@JAMAICAWITHIRIE i will most definitely check it out

Hi Reece, thank you for your support! 🤗 I'd love to make a video about Jamaican Education System and schools in general, HOWEVER, I'd like to interview people there, and for that - I need a permission. In general, making content about schools is not as easy, because if I want to film children at school - I need to get the permission from their parents too, and I'm certainly not going to use "spy cameras" or some nonsence like that, it's not ethical to say the least. That's why for now it's mostly my face on this platform, lol! However, I hope I'll be able to set interviews soon! 😊Once again, thank you so much for the support!

Hi Reece, I went to Ardenne High School, graduated in 1990. You will be going to one of the best schools in Jamaica. Wish you all the best in your new school 🙏🏾🙏🏾

Congrats Charmaine, please hold your head high and work hard to excel. God bless you.

And congrats on entering Ardenne High School! It looks like a very good place!

@@cleverB634 thank you and they made a new name for us #stardennitestandout

It would be great to meet you in Jamaica! 😊Thank you for the support! 🤗

Awwww, thank you so much, I'm still working on trying to learn the Jamaican accent and I fail so bad at it 😂 One day I should make a video with my attempts and embarrass myself 😊, but it will be a lot of fun to watch! Thank you so much for all the support!

JAMAICA WITH IRIE you are most welcome Irina, you’re one us now sis. Please make that video because I really want to exercise my cheek bones.

Oh, thank you! People with sense of humour - yes please!!! 🤗🤗🤗

You are so welcome )))

Awww, thank you! Glad to see you here!))) 🤗🤗🤗

Thank you so much! The winter is coming - time to plan a trip to Jamaica! 🤗 I hope the covid thing calms down though... 🤔

@@JAMAICAWITHIRIE lol, yep, Jamaica is going to be calling when that winter hits him.

@@JAMAICAWITHIRIE You're welcome Irie 😄 I would love to come to Jamaica for Christmas 🎄 but we start seeing here in Ontario especially Toronto the COVID thing numbers going up which is not a good sign. Not sure if I want to travel outside Ontario for the remaining of 2020 due to risk. But definitely I'll be on the island in 2021 once COVID things calm down. You all pls stay safe follow all protocol and we'll get through this thing together 🙏 One love ❤️🇯🇲 can't wait to be back pon de island🇯🇲 🏝️ soon❤️🙏