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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 2879853" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>No</p><p></p><p>No, the best part of Mexico for an American with limited Spanish is to live decently for a reasonable amount. Familiar things make the culture shock easier. The metro area of Guadalajara is over 4 million and the traffic looks like a kicked over ant hill. My cab drove through vast stretches of hard core industrial zones and poor colonias. I could spend my pension with my own very nice apartment in a secure neighborhood, eating at nice restaurants, talking to locals who speak good English. I could choose to get a very basic apartment in a working class neighborhood where no one speaks English and everything is rough around the edges. And just coping with basics would be difficult daily. I'm choosing something in between. I ride the bus, which anyone with wealth here just doesn't do. And before you say big deal the busses are packed like sardines, aisles full of standing people. Saw a mom and her small son standing on stairs by front door yesterday. And driver had door open! Rule of thumb: things here for something comparable to the States cost about half as much. Live on $1000 a month in the States? At most $500 here and you'd be doing better than a lot of people. Live on $8000 a month in the States? $4000 a month will buy a very nice lifestyle here. There are plenty of people here with money. Just a lot more without.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 2879853, member: 24302"] No No, the best part of Mexico for an American with limited Spanish is to live decently for a reasonable amount. Familiar things make the culture shock easier. The metro area of Guadalajara is over 4 million and the traffic looks like a kicked over ant hill. My cab drove through vast stretches of hard core industrial zones and poor colonias. I could spend my pension with my own very nice apartment in a secure neighborhood, eating at nice restaurants, talking to locals who speak good English. I could choose to get a very basic apartment in a working class neighborhood where no one speaks English and everything is rough around the edges. And just coping with basics would be difficult daily. I'm choosing something in between. I ride the bus, which anyone with wealth here just doesn't do. And before you say big deal the busses are packed like sardines, aisles full of standing people. Saw a mom and her small son standing on stairs by front door yesterday. And driver had door open! Rule of thumb: things here for something comparable to the States cost about half as much. Live on $1000 a month in the States? At most $500 here and you'd be doing better than a lot of people. Live on $8000 a month in the States? $4000 a month will buy a very nice lifestyle here. There are plenty of people here with money. Just a lot more without. [/QUOTE]
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