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To be honest, when you live or retire in Mexico, the first year is especially difficult — worth it, but difficult. I found my first year full of challenges and culture shock. Everything seemed so hard as I figured it out for myself. A practical guidebook full of how-to details would have been a huge help for me.
The third edition of Mexico: The Trick is Living Here includes information about the cost of living, driving in Mexico, health care, culture shock, and doing paperwork in Mexico, among other things. Also, over the years I have gotten questions about bringing pets to Mexico, so I added a new section into the third edition (it’s not that I mind answering emails, but it’s nice to have the information available to my readers.) Many of my readers are Canadian, so I include sections just for Canadian snow birds looking to live in Mexico. Most importantly, the visa information is fully updated according to Mexico’s new immigration laws, which came into effect in November 2012.
Here is the table of contents of Mexico: The Trick is Living Here Third Edition so that you can see the types of practical things I’ve included. (Notice the unique section on cultural information, available nowhere else in print or on the web.)
For a few dollars you can have this detailed handbook at your side during the months of planning as well as the first year of your stay in Mexico. It’s a lot cheaper than a failed move to Mexico! Lots of my readers contact me and tell me how they have read and re-read sections that were particularily useful to them.
The first person to read Mexico: The Trick is Living Here was a Canadian expatriate. Here are her comments:
"I was really excited to read the e-book. I had a few … ‘ah-ha moments’ as I read along. It felt good to know that I am not alone in this and that the way I feel about things is normal! It wasn’t just that but… I feel pretty helpless about doing things most of the time here… I have always been independent. Now I can’t do things without [my Mexican friend's] help. You helped me to see that I will be able to (no matter how different the process is here!)
"I think that you have a real talent for speaking the truth without offending….I wish I could do that. …I pulled my inflatable bed up to my laptop on fruit crates and bunked down and read the whole thing!
"The other thing was that I thought that you had a really nice flow to it all. I just kept reading with ease. I think it is fabulous and I am totally inspired."
I read things written by others who had supposedly "lived" here. I wanted affirmation that the culture shock I was experiencing was normal, strategies for handling new experiences, and to know how to get my household set up.
I got none of this. I found that what others wrote showed them living as Americans in Mexico–apart from the Mexicans that surrounded them. But I hadn’t moved to Mexico to remain separate from Mexicans and I didn’t have the money to live the same way I had lived in the U.S.
I finally decided to write the book I needed, so that I could share what I learned with others. The result is Mexico: The Trick is Living Here and I’m confident that it will give you the practical "how-to" information you need and truly enrich your experience in Mexico. And it’s funny, too!
Did you know that the culture will even effect the quality of your mail service? Click here to read an excerpt from the book.
I’m sure you’ve noticed that most of what you read about Mexico on the Internet and in books is all about how cheap it is or how perfect the weather is. But you’re not cheap. That’s no reason to move to another country. Is weather really that important? After all, you could just move to New Mexico or Hawaii and have good weather without the international experience.
You would embark on the international experience because Mexico itself has something to offer you, right?
But it’s hard to know what exactly it is that Mexico has to offer. You recognize the "cheap Mexico" and "Mexico is paradise" hype for what it is. Hype. You are left with a desire to get beneath the surface and find out more about what it is really like to live or retire in Mexico.
Let’s face it, we get two opposite messages about Mexico. Message number 1 is sponsored by the tourism industry. They want to sell us piña coladas under palapas. For… Read more…