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Planning on moving to another country where you will have your permanent home is serious business. You need to google the whole idea, do a lot of online research.
Mexico is a huge country, with lots of different climates and living styles. You can beach it, where the climate is hot and humid most of the year, you can live in a small town or large village, which will have a much different feel than living in a resort area or in a large metropolitan area.
But first and foremost, get a feel from talking with expats who live in Mexico what it is like living in a country that is not your own. Some people love it, and can flow with the changes. Others find it overwhelmingly stressful. And remember that all of this living is done in a foreign language.
Living in Mexico is wonderful neighbors, and electricity that goes off mysteriously from time to time. It is lots of fun food, and common ailments like parasites and typhoid. It is high speed internet access in many areas, and intermittent disappearance of said internet for no reason -- and sometimes for days at a time. It is online banking, and the need for three forms of ID to retrieve money from your account in person. It is all the latest cars, and clogged highways and folks parking three deep in No Parking zones -- right under the sign! It is trash collection three times a week, and litter everywhere, the worst place being on the empty lot under the sign that says "Do Not Throw Trash Here".
It is telephone voicemail, but voicemail for another person, and you can never get that fixed. It is hospitals and doctors and nurses, and a shortage of the needed drugs and out of date equipment. It is a family doctor who comes to your house, and it is curanderos, shamans and healers. It is electricians and plumbers, but electricians and plumbers who show up at your house with no tools.
The key to living in Mexico is flexibility. In spite of the multiplex cinema showing all the latest American films subtitled in Spanish, it is NOT the USA.
If you are flexible and easy going, you will love it. But do your homework. Start with google.
Marti in Mexico
Yes, the book I read said if you wanted to protect your electrical devices, you needed to purchase a really good surge protector because the electricity gets really weird at times for no reasons.
Did not mention that trash laying around the neighborhood, but did tell about the multiple occasions where the fireworks may be shot off all day and night for different holidays. And, that the local bands can only practice first thing at daybreak so you may get woken up by band music.
My life is nothing if not changes, so I figured I'd fit right in, now all I have to do is get there eventually.
