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[dobiesrule]

Ten years ago I visited San Miguel de Allende. It was in August but San Miguel is in the mountains so it was not hot. However, I would never live there or return. In a word, it is dirty. I went into a market and raw, unwrapped meat and poultry were laying in the open and flies were swarming and landing on the meat. GAG! Also, if you are a dog lover as I am, the sight of so many starving, bony dogs roaming the streets, dodging the cars, etc is just heart breaking. I know SM has many ex-pats, but it is not for me.

[Tinkrbl44]

I bet there's some information on the AARP website.

[Desertdi]

My Spanish is passable.......but I intend to keep my money in the U.S.

[Big Sister]

I met a couple a few weeks ago who will retire in 1-2 years and they have bought a condo on the beach in Rosarito Beach. The price was right, the people are friendly and they are beach/water people. They would not be able to afford to live on the beach here in Southern California.

Myself, I would not move to Mexico.

[Marienkaefer2]

Mexico is a huge country with a lot of variation. To judge it based on one place you have been, as many posters here have, is narrow minded. That would be like someone visiting Chicago and learning of all the crime and homicides there, and thinking the whole US is like that. The areas where a lot of retirement communities are situated are very different, as one poster here has already pointed out. As for living outside the US, many people enjoy the lifestyle and culture of another country. Lots of people move to Costs Rica, Belize, and other Caribbean/Latin American countries. I have a friend who's been living in Belize and running a b and b for over 20 years and she loves it there. Regarding Mexico, there are many US expats there. It's not for everyone, buy you can't base your image of a country on a visit to Tijuana or what Faux News tells you.

[evelyner]

Mexico is not safe, unless you go all the way south to Cabo. One couple I know actually came back. I do know of people who moved to Costa Rica.

[Madisson]

I have a cousin who moved to Rivieria Maya after he and his wife retired. I've only seen him twice since they moved there maybe about 10 years ago. They seem to love it. They said they experienced a bit of culture shock when they first moved there, but they have adjusted and made friends there. They did not mention anything about utilities. I remember them saying that the cost of living was way below that of the United States.

[santorini]

On 12/11/2014 Marienkaefer2 said: It's not for everyone, buy you can't base your image of a country on a visit to Tijuana or what Faux News tells you.

What a rude comment placed in the middle of a thread on living in Mexico. Strange and misplaced. I love Fox News.

[Mama Mia]

Puerto Penasco Sonora is where my friends retired in the late eighties. They are on the beach, have a motel, a lovely house, and love living in Mexico. We would never go down there ourselves, too scared, but where they live they are fine. I also have friends who bought 125 acres in Belize and that is more challenging there. In Summer, they go back to Colorado.

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[bluejeansluvr]

I can't imagine why anyone would want to do this. I wouldn't even go to visit now. It's not as safe as it was there years ago.

Especially when you need medical or dental care. They have very different regulations there than we do here of course. No autoclaving of dental instruments I'm guessing! No thank you, I'll have my root canals here where it's safer. Who knows what you could catch down there.

And the surf and sand and sun is all great until you have a medical emergency and have to have surgery or some other issue and then it's just luck of the draw as to what kind of treatment you'll get. We have our issues here in this country but I'll take my chances here any day over Mexico.

There's a reason thousands of Mexican people risk life and limb to come here to this country. Think about it.