Guanajuato Retirement

[colleen]

This has gone way beyond price of rent so I don't feel so 'off topic' by saying that anyone can find ways to live within almost any budget. And they can find ways to spend their $ when that's what they want to do. Beyond checking out different cities, now the discussion is about different countries. Before getting serious about rent and food prices (30% more for food than in the US, really?) I think the most important thing is to start to understand how the culture works and how different it is here or anywhere else, from what you are used to in the US. It's easy to see how the US is different in the East, West, South and Midwest. There are places where I could and would never live tho they might be very pretty and the people seem so nice when you are a tourist. The same is true here.

We used to watch House Hunters International. Dont' know what happened to it. In every episode the people looking for a home were doing it because the "locals are so kind, caring, warm and wonderful". It would have been a fun show to follow up in 2 yrs and see how that attitude might have changed. I used to have an English language bookstore here. So many people came in all excited about this new experience and the family they were living with or the landlady. I didn't say anything negative. Sometimes it worked out fine. But it seemed that the most enthusiastic people were so disappointed and moved back to the US when they found out what was really happening. I'm not going into any details. Every culture is different and some we can fit into and some we can't.