Live Well in Mexico
What Luboff has set out here is all the basic information one needs on a host of topics relevant to moving to Mexico. You'll find details on acquiring residency documents, whether or not to buy or rent...
View ArticleLiving the retired life in Ensenada
Wanting to be reasonably close to San Diego for my family in California and Kaiser HMO, I am probably moving to the Ensenada area later this year and hope to connect with people via e-mail who will be...
View ArticleMidlife Mavericks - Women Reinventing their Lives in Mexico
Here's an interesting collection of stories of nineteen women who came on their own to Mexico in recent years to settle in the Lake Chapala area. The book consists of eighteen interviews plus the story...
View ArticleMexico Magico: Everything You Wanted to Know by German Estrada Navarro
This is a well-organized and clearly presented compilation of data about this country that any newcomers - and some old-timers, too - could use.
View ArticleWhy are there so few ex-pats living in Morelia?
It’s a surprise to visit a likeable, livable city like Morelia for the first time and find there’s almost no gringo community there. In fact, one resident put the number at 100 to 150 total. And only a...
View ArticleJosefina, a woman of Mexico
Living in New York and Los Angeles, while good for one’s metabolism, is not that great for one’s patience. Who has time to stop and smell the roses? Who stops? Who smells? What roses? When I moved...
View ArticleRetire in Mexico: Live Better for Less by Dru Pearson
Author Dru Pearson has done an excellent job of researching and compiling almost everything anyone needs to know about adopting this country as a place to spend one's leisure years, either part-time or...
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Where the Sky is Born: Living in the Land of the Maya
This is the story about Jeanine Lee Kitchel and her husband, Paul, who made their first trip to the Yucatan Peninsula in 1985 and fell in love instantly with the place. They had visited various parts...
View ArticleWhy Mexico, you ask?
May is our primary month for visiting friends and renewing acquaintances in the good old United States of America. It's catch-up time for birthdays and anniversaries, the correct time to analyze Tennes...
View ArticleMexico Magic by Dru Pearson
.Dru Pearson begins her account of her first four seasons in Ajijic starting in the summer of 2000 when she loaded or, rather, overloaded her VW van with as many belongings as it would hold, and she...
View ArticleHead for Mexico: The Renegade Guide by Don Adams
Don Adams and his collaborators have produced a guide that's aimed directly at those people up north who are contemplating coming here, either permanently or for lengthy annual visits. The resulting...
View ArticleThe Insider's Guide: Mexico's Lake Chapala and Ajijic
I'm filled with admiration and respect for The Insider's Guide. Its 368 pages are so complete and comprehensive and so well thought out and so well organized. Teresa Kendrick and her colleagues have...
View ArticleRetiring And Living Around Tijuana
RETIRING AND LIVING AROUND TIJUANA Mexico Connect Forum Discussion Threads Posted by Mack on Abril 24, 2000 I'm looking for information on living in Tijuana or nearby ...
View ArticleSome Thoughts On Living In Mexico
When we meet people in the States and tell them that we are retired and living in Mexico, many begin immediately to salivate, then their eyes go soft as they conjure up images of their own perfect reti...
View ArticleMoving Here Permanently?
Transporting your worldly possessions into Mexico is both an art and a science, even more so if you intend to do so on your own… truck and all. Then the task also becomes a challenge and an adventure...
View ArticleThe Yin And Yang Of Retiring At Lake Chapala
What to do with those pesky cultural contradictions? For some people, taking the plunge and retiring in Mexico turns out to be a bit more than they can handle. New Yorkers, ...
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Stretching Social Security checks in Mexico
Larry Herman and his best friend Lynda escaped subsidized senior housing, packed suitcases and moved to Mexico — even though neither one had ever been south of the border. They stayed in Bucerias for...
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The Best How-To Book on Moving to Mexico
The Best How-To Book on Moving to Mexico is written by three people who have made the move. Carol Schmidt and Norma Hair moved to San Miguel de Allende in May of 2002. The third editor, Rollins...
View ArticleWild Bill discovers Mexico's Costa Esmeralda — the Emerald Coast of Veracruz
Wild Bill is a seventy-six year-old expatriate enjoying his motor home and life in relative seclusion at Quinta Alicia Trailer Park on the palm covered coast of Costa Esmeralda, Mexico. Retired from bo...
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