New members of the Mexico forum, introduce yourselves here - 2018

Heading to Merida, Yucatan, in April to explore possible semi-retirement there. Plan to retire in 2020. I'm a healthcare provider, currently living in Alaska.  Have lived all over the US, as well as in France and in Japan.  Will probably continue to work part-time in Merida, as a volunteer for a nonprofit healthcare group.  I'll be meeting with them when I'm down there in April to talk about this.  My major concern right now is how I'm going to get moved down there with my 2 dogs and 5 cats.  I might purchase a large van.  Am researching entry requirements and expenses for the importation of my pets. I admit there's way too many of them, but that's another story... Thanks, in advance, for your support and advice.

pgjertson wrote:

Heading to Merida, Yucatan, in April to explore possible semi-retirement there. Plan to retire in 2020. I'm a healthcare provider, currently living in Alaska.  Have lived all over the US, as well as in France and in Japan.  Will probably continue to work part-time in Merida, as a volunteer for a nonprofit healthcare group.  I'll be meeting with them when I'm down there in April to talk about this.  My major concern right now is how I'm going to get moved down there with my 2 dogs and 5 cats.  I might purchase a large van.  Am researching entry requirements and expenses for the importation of my pets. I admit there's way too many of them, but that's another story... Thanks, in advance, for your support and advice.

Hello, pg,

I would recommend keeping it as simple as possible. The pets are a given, but other stuff is not. Most of us unload as much as possible. Many items are actually cheaper in Mexico. Then there are the environmental issues.  It is damper and hotter in Merida than most other places in the U.S. things that are metal oxidize rapidly, and most wood found in the U.S. is destroyed by termites. Even the native woods can have a hard time. As for the pets, just make sure all of their vet certificates are current. Reduction of things should make things simpler and reduce the size of what you are driving. I would suggest the Arizona Sonora border, especially given all of the U.S. generated border issues.

Hello! I am Cefe and I moved around the world when I was younger, and now I am moving to Cabo San Lucas, hope to do a lot of diving,  I am trying to meet new friends and new people. I have my own business and two dogs, love to ride around in bike.

Hola,

My wife and I are in our 50's. We plan on semi-retiring in Mexico as soon as 2021, then permanently as soon as feasible. We have been to the Mayan, PVR and are travelling to SMA in April for two weeks vacay. We have watched many you tube videos on retiring in Mexico and have a good idea where to start. We hope to discover many colonial cities in next couple of years in order to decide where we wish to live at first. We will most likely rent for the first couple of years until we find where are roots will be planted. Looking forward to interacting with this forum and getting as much as possible along with contributing something useful

Giulio

My husband Barry and I have lived in the Yucatan for 9 years!  We live in a village called Chuburna Puerto on the beach!  We love living down here so much!  We help the community in every way we can!  Barry is a director of a program called Apoyo Escolar which we get sponsors to help kids continuing there education.  In these villages, many kids don't get to go past the 4th grade.   We've taken the program from only 15 kids to 74.  We also work spay n neuter clinics twice a year and feed 20+ dogs at our local marina every day!  We also sell real estate and property management!

Life is so good down here, we will never live back in the USA.

If anyone has any questions about the area, feel free to ask!

Andrea & Barry

Hi everybody. My wife and I are from the mountains in New Mexico where we get real winter. (We are 7 miles from a ski area.) We're spending our third winter in Puerto Vallarta, but thinking maybe next winter we'll look into Rosarito.

We're retired and in or 70s, but still active - we exercise 6 or 7 days a week. In Puerto Vallarta, for us, that's walking. And we're still engaged; Patricia is a pastel artist and I play fingerstyle jazz guitar.

Life is good!

E. H. (Hack) Hackney

Hi,

I invite you to follow this topic on this new thread: https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=830181

Thanks!