You can live well here on just social security. If you actually have a 401k and save your money, you can live extremely well. All you read about and hear on the news is the bad that happens in the northern states as the cartels have shooting contests over power and turf. Once you get well into the interior, things are a lot different.
It is a beautiful country and relatively crime free other than petty theft. The people here are extremely poor and theft does take place, you just have to use common sense. Playa Del Carmen or any other location along the coast is expensive, as it is all tourists, but English is common. Still, you can rent a nice place for around $400.00 a month and food is cheap. We sat down yesterday and ate shrimp tacos and had two beers. The cost was 170 pesos or $12.45.
Electricity is "structured" as it should be. In other words, if you go over the average use, you pay a higher amount. I am married to a Mexican so I am now acclimated and never use the AC. We will soon be moving to Cordoba in the mountains where it is very cool in the mornings and evenings and will never need AC. The water here is beautiful.
The wildlife is different.
It is a beautiful country and relatively crime free other than petty theft. The people here are extremely poor and theft does take place, you just have to use common sense. Playa Del Carmen or any other location along the coast is expensive, as it is all tourists, but English is common. Still, you can rent a nice place for around $400.00 a month and food is cheap. We sat down yesterday and ate shrimp tacos and had two beers. The cost was 170 pesos or $12.45.
Electricity is "structured" as it should be. In other words, if you go over the average use, you pay a higher amount. I am married to a Mexican so I am now acclimated and never use the AC. We will soon be moving to Cordoba in the mountains where it is very cool in the mornings and evenings and will never need AC. The water here is beautiful.
The wildlife is different.
