Why We Chose CUENCA ECUADOR over EVERY OTHER TOP EXPAT Destination... 

Its curious when other people are talking about your own city especially expats your realize how beautiful it is.. and as locals we don't pay attention how lucky we are for living in this magical place called Cuenca.. So thank you so much for your videos you're definitely in love whit the city.. I really appreciated.

Cuenca is definitely a fantastic choice for all of us! The very first time I walked along side the Tomebamba river, I felt connected not only with the city, but also with my purest feelings. Thanks for charing these amazing experiences!

You guys give off such a good vibe. I always enjoy watching your videos.

I visited Ecuador a few years ago and loved it there. I had lived in Spain as a child so I remembered a little Spanish, but after about 3 weeks I had no problem in communicating with the people in their own language. I spent a few days in Guayaquil and found it a lovely city. I was warned it is best to be off the streets by 9 pm as there was an issue with petty crime. I spent the bulk of my time in Cuenca, which I loved, and also Vilcabamba. Cuenca reminded me of the Spain I used to live in which no longer exists. I found the people there to be very friendly and there is also a huge ex-pat community there. One thing to understand for Americans, Ecuador is not the US. They do things differently down there. I once saw a man mowing a soccer field with a weed wacker and wondered why he didn’t use a lawnmower. The reason is lawnmowers are expensive and labor is cheap. If you expect Ecuador to be like the US, you will be disappointed, but if you embrace the culture, you will love it there.

Yo soy Cuencana y extraño tanto mi ciudad , la gastronomía y sobre todas las maravillosas cosas de Cuenca extraño a mi Familia. ♥️♥️♥️

Love this video, going in April to retire.

I've been watching you guys now for several months and I think this is your finest video from a technical perspective. Beautifully filmed, nicely edited, and great music. Not only is it full of useful information, but you really do a great job in conveying the beauty of the city. I am really amazed by the wonderful service you guys offer "wannabe" expats!

Such a great feeling watching other people who appreciate my home from a positive perspective. Thanks for choosing this city even though I’m from Galápagos island Cuenca it’s a very clean and peaceful city.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! for promoting our country .I am ecuadorian and my favorite City is Cuenca .I have a property in Guayaquil but Cuenca is definately my retiring place .❤🇪🇨🇪🇨🇪🇨🇪🇨

Cuenca’s water actually IS mountain spring water.

Hi I was in Cuenca last week and loved it I felt like was in some city in Europe people are very educated delicious food very safe people walking with their iPhones everywhere I was impressed

Awesome video guys!! This will definitely be reviewed, shared and banked in my top 5 Amelia & JP collection!! Thanks!

Once again this information is so helpful. Well done Amelia and JP!

Thanks for the wonderful stroll through Cuenca, Amelia and JP. This video really does justice to your amazing city. Jim and I sure look forward to our return!

Looking at the Rio Tomebomba in the background makes me so "homesick" for Cuenca (I spent last summer there)! I love that city.

Me gusta ver que los extranjeros aprecien la cultura andina

thank you guys, you've made my day over severeal times, I'am glad that you guys like Cuenca.

One if your best videos so far. I really liked that you were able to capture the feel of the city.

I considered Cuenca after some research as to how geologically stable Ecuador was. Cuenca is on area of old rock that is much more stable than anywhere else in the country.

Great video, we love how you explain all the reasons why you chose to live in Ecuador over any other country. It's amazing how its a non GMO country, and that you can get most of your produce locally sourced! ❤️

I’m a new subscriber to your channel. I want to thank you for your content. I’m seriously considering relocating to Ecuador in late 2020/early 2021. You have already answered so many questions I’ve had.🙌🏾🙌🏾 Muchas gracias‼️

Loved watching this video. My husband and I spent a month in Cuenca this year and absolutely loved it. I agree with everything that Amelia and JP said. It is a great place to visit and I can see that it would be a wonderful place to live. We hope to make it our base within the next couple of years. Look forward to your videos!

Beautiful video, JP! Really well done. The music somehow made it very nostalgic, as though we'd lived here for years and it's only been just over a month for us! Every day is a new adventure or a welcome familiarity and we just love it! We both agree with everything you said about choosing Cuenca over the other places you mentioned. We will get around to seeing other places though, just as you guys are. Can't wait to see you guys at the next meet-up!

Ecuador recibe a todos los ciudadanos del mundo, con los brazos abiertos... B I E N V E N I D O S...

Loved your videos !! And I’m very humbled you have found happiness in one of the most beautiful cities of my mother country, THANK YOU !!

What a beautiful city, always looks very clean 👏👏👏 Thank you for all the information you provided.

So beautiful. I love the river...and all the rest!

This is a great video of Cuenca. I've been there once and I want to return. You guys seem genuine and good people.

This is a very nice video and Cuenca looks lovely. Good job.

The city of Cuenca should pay you for such amazing marketing. :)

This is a fantastic video! Great music selection!

Congrats, I got a couple friends and been encouraging me to go to CUENCA, I was There some time ago and It's a Great City, wish you The BEST and enjoy it Ecuador.

Ahora extraño más que antes mi Cuenca!! 😢

THanks Amelia and JP for another enlightening video.. See you in 2 months !

Excellent channel, I am learning English and your videos help me a lot.🤗 Thanks for choosing Cuenca, I hope to meet you one day.

Oh my beloved Cuenca! You mada me miss it a lot! I was born there and I wish I could go now! Thank you for sharing ☺

Another really good video. Clear and very much selling what you know and clearly love about your country of choice - Ecuador. Being an immigrant in a country can be a challenge and you seem to have overcome that challenge and have adopted Cuenca as your home. Its good to see you both so happy (despite the rain :).

Im Cuencano and im really enjoying your videos! excellent guys very good job!

Thank you so much for your video. It is a lovely to find out about such a charming and special town in Ecuador. I had Spanish lessons with a lady from Venezuela. I live in England and she lived there.

Ya, nice video on Cuenca. I've heard of Cuenca from a retiree of the airlines a few years back. The lady's hubby was a retired pilot. She couldn't wait to go back "home" to Cuenca. Been meaning to check it out. I want to visit the Galapagos sometime. Good luck to you two. Keep em coming.

You always have such beautiful music & such wonderful smiles

Amelia and JP what an Amazing video . i am a CUENCANO and Walking along Tomemba River side was always my most loved activity thank you ! For showing all what Cuenca has to offer to visitants many of them have decided to stay many of my friends already went to Cuenca and they loved it !

Nice work on this video, folks. It's laid back, but very informative at the same time. In addition to the great information for would-be ex-pats, I also enjoyed the background music on this one. It's tranquillo, and at the same time beguiling. Good choice. Thank you. Be well and take care.

Awesome video!!

¡Qué ciudad hermoso! And so clean! Looks like you chose well.

Hello. NIce to see you and happy because of two things: The first one , You choose our city to live and the second one , I practice my English with you. Thank you so much.

Nice video Amelia and JP good job

Another great video! Good news about the water, and the low crime!

Thank you, as always, for your very useful information. I'll try to get my wife to join me in a trip there. Your comments are important considerations.

Que Viva Cuenca Carajo jeje Saludos desde Esmeraldas, sigan adelante, Un grato abrazo por el amor a Cuenca.

Your videos getting better, and better👍🏻

Hi GUYS, so beautiful video....good job THANK YOU....I LOVE ECUADOR

Loved the video guys. I visited Cuenca as a child and it left a very nice impression on me.. especially the Tomebamba river.. Un saludo desde Australia.

Thank you guys so much for all of the amazing videos, you guys do an amazing job. I own a house in paccha. I have leave in the United States for about 29 years and I had enough. I’m planning to move to Cuenca. Even though I’m from Guatemala, but I love cuenta.

Hi, watched this video now. Great information 👍. Awesome sceneries of Cuenca. 👌 ..I was busy with Diwali ✨ festival preparation here in India!

I’ve seen similar videos for many places. Your videos are the clearest and most convincing. Our semi-retirement location is northern Thailand - small town, but that is because of family bonds. I’d certainly like to visit Ecuador and Cuenca sometime.

Great info and vid.

#1 thank you so much for loving my beautiful country, special Cuenca! Gracias por amar mi hermoso País, especialmente Cuenca! #2 I like that you guys give so much great information in a very short time. Me gusta mucho que Ustedes dos dan muy buena información en tan corto tiempo. Viva Ecuador!! Viva Cuenca! I love this video!

Good for you guys enjoy

I think I'm the first to see this video. SALUDOS !!

Hey nice video. It fits you guy's like a glove. With your healthy life style, walking every where eating great fruits and vegtables and plenty to do. The food looks amazing there. Good choice.

Thank,s I am learning English with this Chanel

Good video. I look to be in Ecuador in January to start the process of the temporary resident visa.

When my high school spanish would fall short, my husband had a translator app on his phone that worked great when we visited Cuenca & Guayaquil.

Awesome video thanks so much I love it hope to meet soon I am traveling to Cuenca in February this year 2020 to see my nieta Amelia that live there 🌹🎈

That was a really great video. I really enjoyed it. I love how Ecuador doesn't have GMO. That's fantastic. 😊

Just moved here mid last year and lived though the national transport strike and the Covid-19 lockdown. It may have been the worst time to settle here from the US, but to our surprise, we felt more safer here than most places or countries we could have been to. We share many of the same reasons that made us decide to retire here. No looking back, so far so good! and looking forward to better days ahead exploring the country and the rest of South America. Great video! Amelia & JP. Gracias!

I worked at the cancer center in Cuenca a few years ago and loved it. One of my favorite cities in Latin America

Love the videos. Right now im tapped out but will contribute soon

Loved the video, you guys should make one in El Cajas National Park. Enjoy our beautiful city!

Sin duda Cuenca es la ciudad más hermosa y culta del Ecuador. Thanks guys.

Hi, guys! I am presently in Manta for a month . . . thinking of leaving Cuenca for Manta. This video is one of my favorite - you guys knocked it out of the park. Not sure if I could trade Cuenca for Manta full time . . . but two to three months in Manta will be perfect. Love you two!

Hello, I hope they treat you well, I lived in Cuenca for about 12 years, there is a very beautiful city

Hi, I'm from Puerto Rico, my husband is from Ecuador and also. We are thinking of moving from here in the United States to Ecuador, but it scares me but listening to them gives me encouragement I love seeing you both 😊

We have many fabulous museums! There are 52 churches in Cuenca (one for every Sunday, if that's your interest) and the interiors are gorgeous! TWO CATHEDRALS (one is now a museum...) There's a huge archeological park with Canari and Inca ruins and live llamas running around. It also includes a fabulous aviary and a garden featuring native plants and trees. We have a fun mountain-top zoo! The airport is a $2.50 taxi ride from the city center. The regional bus system is good and a very cheap way to go all over Ecuador. The expat community is very active--we have a community theater, an international chorale (on hold because of COVID), all kinds of groups (card-playing, craft groups, writing groups), an English-language on-line newspaper. Medical care is excellent and inexpensive. My husband had a serious heart attack several years ago--got a stent, three days in ICU, two more days in a private room. It cost under $10,000, which was less than we would have paid in the United States as our co-pay with our fancy US medical insurance! I could go on and on about how wonderful it is here and how much I love it. This is our tenth year living in Cuenca, and I'm happy every day that we came!

I love the food labels here that show if something is high (or low) in salt, fat or sugar, AND the warnings if there are GMOs. The produce is much prettier, usually, than what I had in Taiwan or in the U.S. I bought a head of broccoli the other day that was so perfect, I almost didn't want to cook it! I fell in love with Cuenca before I visited, mostly due to your wonderful videos, eternal gratitude for that.

Lindos videos. ...muy hermosa mi ciudad. ..saludos desde New York. ..

Hi Amelia and JP...great reasons to choose Cuenca, for sure!

Amelia with respect you are so beautiful and JP you are cool and great keep it up like this guys I love cuenca the weather is awesome and the People are friendly

Cuenca is my favorite City in my little country. I live in Guayaquil, but I love to visit it, at least twice a year.

Great video! I wish you would use a rolling cart when shopping at the mercado--it would save your back. It's what we do here in Uruguay.

Guauu...creo que estos señores aman a Cuenca...casi diría como yo amo a mi New York del alma ..gracias

lovely guys be happy and enjoying

Looking forward to seeing your upcoming videos on other expat towns away from Cuenca. Maybe do a vid on Giron and Lentag? Cuenca looks very nice but too large a city for me.

You guy have definitely sold me I’m gonna start looking into moving now I’ve been looking for a nice place to move to where I can live off my retirement thank you beautiful souls

Great video 😀

You have many Jerveses My grandfather is half Cuencano and half Manabita. Elias Cedeno .....poet of the people of Ecuador and writer of el "Pasillo Manabi". Definitely will go and see where my great-grandmother was born, Cuenca. I was born in the USA but I lived a few years in Quito.

Free museums and concerts are very popular, too!

Hey friend, thanks for increasing my vocabulary with this new entry: Frankenfood. You see, I also don’t love Monsanto.

Equador is located between Coloimbia and Peru. Great location and a way to temporarily stay in those countries.

If u could give me some tips thinking to fly up there this summer with my daughter and traveling around see if maybe we could set up there Many thanks for all the infos Cheers

I really like this video but my comment is about courage, the courage it must have taken to make a move like that. You seem happy there and I commend you both for the courage to get off your behind and go find the happiness you deserve. All is good.

😍wow these retro cars are intriguing_izuzu rodeo_geo tracker_geo metro_i'll be driving these for sure💫💯❤‍🔥

Bellos! Beautiful!! 🤩🤩🤩🥰🥰🥰

Wonderfull Hugs!! 🇪🇨🙌🏼

I love this, I'll be there soon 💜

My wife is from Guayaquil, so I visit Ecuador often. I have visited Cuenca once, and it was awhile ago. Back in February, we visited Quito for the first time since we were married. I was reminded by your video that that we should have went to Cuenca instead. I had forgotten how beautiful that city is. Also, pro-tip, try using "funda" for plastic bag next time. Although "bolsa" works, "funda" or "fundita" (for a small one) sounds more "ecuadorian" :-). Cheers from North Carolina!

Thank you for your guidance with Dr. Grace and Maite Duran.

Awesome video!!! Did you guys hear it snowed on the outskirts of the city? There's photos all over Facebook.

Love your video, thank you