u/noctenaut

The terror I had within me about having to come back for 6 months was bad, but it’s been 1 week and actually the city seems (to me at least) like a lot of development is happening, it seems somewhat cleaner, I don’t see the same scum lurking around everywhere I once did.

I could be wrong but it seems, at least to me, that some changes here have happened for the better.

What did I miss whilst I was away!?

Hey all,

Having a bit of a freak out - I had the Colombian Digital Nomad visa twice pretty in 2024 & 2025 - both times pretty much from early January to late December, so corresponding with the year. My income being £10,200 annually both times, from a British company I work remotely for.

**EDIT - £10,200 being around 45 million pesos. And it seems now that amount is below the minimum threshold to even file, let alone pay. So I might be ok after all.

I’ve recently seen some things here and there detailing Digital Nomad visa holders needing to register with DIAN and pay taxes as the visas allow stays in the country over 183 days (after which one becomes a tax resident) - both times I applied for and held the visas, there was absolutely nothing detailed by any part, immigration / government official or correspondence regarding this, and I even asked migración Colombia casually about this and they said don’t worry about it.

My last nomad visa ended in late December last year, 2025 and I have since returned to the county as a tourist for 6 months, and left a few days ago to go back to the UK for 6 months to gather documentation as I am marrying my Colombian partner in January.

To this day, I haven’t seen or received anything regarding the issue, the only contact I’ve had with Colombian taxes is that I was told I needed to pay 136.000 on my way out, although was a little unclear as to what it was for, the receipt they gave me simply says ‘differential tax collection) and I’m freaking out a bit now as like I said, I am due to return to marry my partner.

I’d be grateful if anyone had any insight on this - thank you. 🙏🏼

I increasingly feel like these chattering classes are completely out of touch what people think about this topic. As Rory said today ‘people are amazed at how great AI is every 3 months’, (or something to that effect) - it just seems completely at odds from the attitudes I see towards it.

Yes, there elements of it people enjoy - but in some areas? I don’t see it. Nobody is asking for an in-chat AI bot to improve your messages, nobody is asking for AI automated phone lines when contacting utilities, nobody is asking for AI to be the sole arbiter of behaviour online, like Meta has done.

That last point in fact is one which I see now exploding - in October my Instagram account of 14 years was, thanks for terrible AI moderation, deactivated for ‘CSE’ (I’m sure you know what that means). Tens, and now I dare say hundreds of thousands are affected, simply search on google ‘meta ban wave / meta CSE ban wave - all down to faulty AI nobody wants. No real humans to intervene all the way from flagging posts to denying appeals.

The more crap like this happens, and affects more people, the more people are going to become hostile to AI and we’ll have Rory scratching his chin in wonder to how this happened.

Hello all,

I’m currently living in Colombia as a Brit (so I’m already hot and sweaty) but I recently had an operation which has resulted in me taking Tramadol for a few months and I genuinely cannot express how much it’s affecting my life being soaking wet all the time. I empathise with you all here.

Nearly all medicines here are freely available OTC, however, only two of the medications that I’ve seen spoken about on here are available here:

Cyproheptadine & Oxybutinyn

I’ve looked extensively into the side effects and mechanism of each one, but still, I would be grateful to hear others’ input and any experiences people have had with either.

Thank you!

I’m not writing this to be argumentative or anything of the like - but rather I would be grateful to hear other people’s opinion on the matter. As I said, I’m ashamed of my own ignorance in that I’ve only just really learned about what happened with Dr David Kelly.

Despite being acutely aware of the mountain of hatred often levied against Alastair, I’ve never really immersed myself in the reasoning.

So, I ask, do other people find this issue difficult? Are the claims against him false? I just struggle to see past it. I’m half Iraqi and yet I’ve always given Alastair the benefit of the doubt, but this to me seems to undermine that.

What’s the deal? Is there credibility in what people accuse him of when it comes to Dr. David Kelly?

Left on October 10th 2021, it genuinely astounds me how fast it’s gone.

Living and travelling Latin America these past years, I’ve gotten used to happy people, even if they have little, colour, a sense of hope and positivity.

If I’m honest, I’m really dreading it and it’s giving me anxiety - the negativity, the sense of doom which seems to cloud the country, it affects me a lot as I have Aspergers so I suppose in a way, I could do with some words of encouragement here in coming back because it’s genuinely making me feel uneasy.

Hope all is well with you all x

I did it and received absolutely nothing.
Hurts especially since I'm the only one still alive out of a friendship group of 3 guys and so many memories were on there. It's my own fault for not backing up, but yeah...

Don’t get me wrong, I have no issue with it since I’m gay - but the usual clientele of strip clubs somehow doesn’t quite correspond with types of activity that takes place in them. It seems a little homoerotic even with, as I said, the object being a woman.