Ces 7 choses sur le Paraguay vont te choquer…

Ces 7 choses sur le Paraguay vont te choquer…

Hello everyone and welcome to this video today we are going to see the 7 things that will shock you when you arrive in Paraguay. The first thing that is the specialty of South America is electric showers. if you don’t know the wonderful thing that

Electric showers are they are simply showers with exposed wires because they don’t use the hot water tank system. it is water which is heated directly over time. so I’m not exactly sure how it works technically but roughly speaking you

Have your shower and you see small visible threads which is very reassuring. here you can really find them in anything that is a little old house or a low -end hotel. obviously if you are in much newer Airbnbs or if you buy a

Recent apartment you will no longer have an electric shower we of course have hot water tanks here but that is something that may perhaps surprise you if you are traveling to South America. electric showers the first time it’s weird we say to ourselves I don’t want to do

A Claude François (french singer who died in his bath) and we want to shower but on the other hand we hesitate a little bit frankly it’s the first time that I I saw that, I really wasn’t very comfortable. The second thing

That will shock you will be the toilets. so I don’t know why but here the pipes apparently are very tight and therefore we cannot put the paper in the toilets so that ‘s bad luck in fact you will see next to all the toilets in Paraguay there is a

Small trash can and there you go, you wipe yourself with paper and put yourself in the trash can. so at the beginning it’s strange at the beginning it’s not natural it’s a bit like when you go to Africa and you discover how it works there for those who

Have already been to Africa it’s surprising . but hey that’s how it works here and even for people who have money in fact in the end it’s a pipe problem so you won’t necessarily be able to solve it because it will block at one point or another. so

That’s something you’ll have to get used to, that’s how it is. so also there is a little bonus in Paraguay is that we have the little showers, I find it really not bad in terms of hygiene it’s great I don’t understand why we don’t have that in France: there are some

In Japan there are some here I don’t necessarily know in other countries but that in any case is very practical and even for cleaning your bathroom frankly it’s great. The third point that will shock you in Paraguay will be obesity and junk food. I wasn’t expecting that at all

When I came here but it’s true that there is a real scourge in terms of obesity in Paraguay so in the poorest neighborhoods all the restaurants that you will find will be poor quality restaurants, either hamburgers or the equivalent of kebabs and so on, grills.

But these are things that are also extremely fatty: I love empanadas, I find them really good but they are very fatty and make you gain weight. In supermarkets you will see soft drinks absolutely everywhere, mountains like that, it really shocked me at

First, I really wasn’t expecting that at all. you can even find 3 liter bottles of coke so to tell you this is the empire of soft drinks, people drink a lot of soft drinks. The 4th point that will shock you will be poverty and

Children who work in the streets. so even if Paraguay is very beautiful even if there are rich neighborhoods, even if as an expatriate we will live a little differently than the locals, well you still have to be aware of the reality: the Paraguay is a poor country, there is

Not necessarily state aid like in France, so people go out of their way to work and we have families who are very poor and well, the children also go to work. and when I say children it’s not children of 10-12 years old it can be children even sometimes from 5

Years who go to work. They’re going to go to the red light, they’re going to sell fruit and vegetables, there are some who do windshields, there are also lots of little jobs like that. and at the beginning well it feels strange it feels strange because in France we don’t necessarily know it. I

Think it’s very rare to see that in France, it can happen but it’s very rare, so it’s something you have to be aware of, it touched me a little when I saw a little kid who wanted to sell me something, he must have been 6 years old, it’s weird at first, it’s not,

It’s not comfortable. you feel a little bad for these people. the 5th thing that will shock you is the state of the roads in Paraguay so roughly speaking the roads here are completely broken not only is the driving a little sporty but

On top of that the second danger is that it you have to dodge the holes in the road so that’s due to several things, well already the roads are not necessarily very well maintained by the government

Because it requires a huge budget, there are very few tolls in Paraguay, there are has a few but it costs almost nothing so we have a big hole in the budget and Paraguay is still a country which has resources in economic terms we do a lot of exports,

Electricity production, but we have the problem of corruption. so there is a lot of money disappearing so the roads are not necessarily very well maintained. you will have a lot of broken roads with holes that is a real problem. the second reason also is that

Paraguay is a country in a subtropical zone which means that in summer when it rains it’s not pretending. It’s raining really hard and so as the roads are not necessarily in very good condition, I’m not an expert on the road eh, but I imagine that the water is seeping underneath

That it’s making cracks in the concrete and some Well, it simply damages the roads. the 6th point that will shock you if you come here will be nature. here it’s really incredible we have nature absolutely everywhere I’m going to give you some little plans of Asuncion. you see in the

Middle of the city we really have trees everywhere everywhere so that’s something at the beginning we don’t expect it we don’t know how a capital which is still big, Asuncion is still a big city, maybe also green for me it’s something unique that I love

In Asuncion which really makes it a city a little bit different from all the capitals that you can see and well yes it’s shocking it’s shocking because we are used to having concrete cities with parks but in fact here there are trees absolutely everywhere.

So that’s shocking but in the good sense of the word we’ll say. and finally we will end with the 7th point which will shock you, surprise you is that when you want to get your license in Paraguay you are not necessarily obliged to take the driving test. if you take it

In ascension there you will have to take the exam, but you just have to go to a small suburban town or even a small town further away you can pay directly to have your license so you will not have a driving test. so for some it will be an inconvenience but in the

End I have never seen an accident until now. Well there are definitely some but I haven’t seen any. I didn’t feel insecure about the cars even if they went a little bit in all directions, I found that it was

Pretty well aligned overall. so if you want to have your license in Paraguay you will pay around €50 you will have to do a little medical examination and you will have your license, you will be able to move

Freely. be careful here you must always put your lights on otherwise you will get stopped and they will fine you because you don’t have your headlights on in broad daylight. so it’s a little surprising that you can buy your license whether it’s a

Car license, a motorcycle license, I even know a guy who has a bus license, you can do construction equipment permit, you can do everything, you can buy everything. so it’s a little surprising here in Paraguay everything has a price, really everything can be bought,

Corruption is not necessarily a good thing. Moreover, if you come to expatriate, I advise you to be very careful with your papers. there are a lot of people who will offer to do all your steps in one day. I tell you, these people

Go through internal networks, roughly speaking, it’s corruption. The problem with going through these corruption networks is that the day it happens they will bring up all the papers that were made by these people and they will potentially cancel them. So I

Advise you to be very careful when you come to take your steps, if you do them yourself, really do them according to the rules of the art, don’t start taking shortcuts that are a little bit weird. if you go through services there are a lot of services here in Paraguay which offer

This be careful, if they tell you we will give you the residence + the Cédula in one day: this is not possible, it does not exist . you must first complete the residency, wait to recover your residence after 3 months and then recover your Cedula. So if you’re interested, don’t hesitate

To contact me, I’ll give you a little bit of all the details of how it works and if you want me to accompany you, well that would be a pleasure, I really make it a point of honor to do the things are legal because the Paraguayan government, even if it is corrupt,

Is really hunting down corruption and there are regular officials who fall and with each blow that an official falls the law is strengthened and they check everything what was done by the person so please whatever your choice, do your paperwork seriously it is something super important so as not to put yourself in

Problems in the long term it will perhaps be slightly more restrictive , slightly longer but at least you will have nothing to complain about and you will have absolutely zero problems in the long term. you will be at peace you will be able to live your life there without worrying

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Aujourd’hui, nous allons plonger dans les aspects les plus surprenants et choquants de l’expatriation au Paraguay. Si vous pensez à déménager ou vivre au Paraguay, ces 7 faits vous donneront un aperçu unique de ce qui vous attend.

Nous commencerons par découvrir les douches électriques typiques de l’Amérique du Sud, un concept qui peut paraître étrange pour les nouveaux arrivants. Ensuite, je vous parlerai des particularités des systèmes de canalisations au Paraguay et comment cela affecte l’utilisation des WC – une différence culturelle inattendue !

L’obésité et la malbouffe sont également des défis majeurs dans les quartiers pauvres du Paraguay, reflétant les habitudes alimentaires locales. Nous aborderons également la pauvreté et la triste réalité des enfants travailleurs dans les rues, une situation qui pourrait être un choc pour beaucoup.

De plus, l’état des routes au Paraguay, les merveilles de la nature et de l’environnement paraguayens, ainsi que les surprenantes formalités pour obtenir un permis de conduire seront évoqués. Enfin, je vous donnerai mon point de vue sur la corruption et comment cela influence la vie quotidienne et les démarches administratives au Paraguay.

Si vous envisagez l’expatriation au Paraguay ou si vous êtes simplement curieux de connaître les différences culturelles et les désavantages de vivre dans ce pays fascinant, cette vidéo est pour vous.

0:00 1ère surprise
1:06 2ème surprise
2:12 3ème surprise
3:00 4ème surprise
4:05 5ème surprise
5:14 6ème surprise
5:58 7ème surprise
7:15 Conclusion