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Retiring in Mexico
Every year hundreds of Americans and Canadians make the move to Mexico and extend their retirement savings. More than 60% of these North Americans retiring in Mexico chose the Baja peninsula for their retirement home.
Have you ever thought about retiring in Mexico? How about retiring in one of its many lovely retirement havens? this report, tells us that there are five major areas where American and Canadian retirees tend to congregate. While there may be a few expatriates scattered in a dozen villages throughout Mexico, most Americans and Canadians settle in one of five locations: San Miguel de Allende, Mazatlan, Oaxaca, Guadalajara, or Lake Chapala. we give sound and thoughtful advice on retirement in Mexico. Everything from how to pick your location to Mexican paperwork is covered. If you've ever considered retirement in Mexico please read this report first. It has the information that would otherwise take you months of frustration to acquire.
But why Mexico, you might ask? The reason so many Americans and Canadians choose Mexico is because they can drive to Mexico in a car. A bigger reason is that Mexico is a bargain compared to the USA and Canada. But there are also a large number of Europeans in Mexico. Mexico is rich with history, steeped in culture, having perhaps a more pronounced culture than any other nation in Latin America. Mexico has great food, great architecture and many areas with an excellent climate. Mexico is also modern, with better highways than many parts of Latin America and an infrastructure that allows foreigners to connect via telephone and internet to the rest of the world. This level of infrastructure isn't available in Nicaragua, nor in Guatemala, and this is a very important determining factor for the retiree who doesn't want to be inconvenienced by inconveniences.
Mexico is also a healthier place to live because of the food. Fresh fruit and vegetables are always in season and taste so much better in Mexico that you eat more of them. In fact, unlike North American produce that is picked green and allowed to ripen in transit, Mexican produce is picked at its peak and sold in the market the very next day. And little or no preservatives are used in processed food which means you're ingesting fewer chemicals.
You will find that life is so much more enjoyable because you finally have time to pursue your hobbies and develop your talents. People who move to Mexico finally have time to prepare the recipes they've been saving from gourmet magazines, put the box of photographs into albums, or garden to their hearts´ content in this land where flowers grow all year long. Others develop new interests and discover latent talents when they take a ceramics or watercolor class. There are also innumerable opportunities for volunteer work. Where the author lives in Ajijic, the expatriates maintain a school teaching English and computer skills, manage the only library in town for Mexicans, run a housing facility for the elderly, and assist children who were born with handicaps.
For people who love to socialize, there's probably no better place in the world to make friends. People who don't work have more time to party! But, even more than that, expatriates, because of their adventurous natures, seem more gregarious than their American/Canadian counterparts. Then, too, expatriates find themselves thrown into a world where they must cooperate and share information in order to survive.
There is less stress here, too. If you can adjust to the manana attitude and remember that manana doesn't necessarily mean tomorrow, it just means not today, you will realize that everything will eventually get done that needs doing and with far less frustration. Rather than worrying, go to the plaza, sit on a bench, and watch village life pass before your eyes. You will see a family out for a stroll, a little boy riding on his father's shoulders while Mom buys her daughter a balloon, you will notice the teenage girls going one direction in the plaza while the boys pass the other way, all of them casting furtive glances at the ones they like, and you will see old friends who will sit down with you for a chat because they're in the plaza doing the same thing you're doing - enjoying life!
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