Your Mexico Expat Retirement and Escape Guide to Start Over In Mexico: Free Book: Retire in Antigua Guatemala

By Claude Acero

This new and extended Mexico guide will answer you all the questions before relocating to Mexico. This Mexico guide will help you: Get all the essential up-to-date trends, personal stories from expatriates, an insight of the mentality of the Mexicans, details about Mexican culture, profound immigration information, business ideas for Mexico, taxes, real estate knowledge, information on imports to healthcare, basically all the essential information you need to start over in Mexico. Also, you get a deeper understanding of the culture and local business manners, a grasp for the lay of the land, an overview of the best places to live and real stories of expats who tried their best to succeed in this unique country. Included is also the free book "Retire in Antigua Guatemala" This book is an expat guide that gives you a "slice of life" view of this plentiful and unique Central American country.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Oct 25, 2018
• ISBN: 9781721543991

Claude Acero

Claude Acero is a so-called 'expat'; his extensive experience in different hemispheres, especially in Latin America and Asia, extends far back to the end of the 90's; Claude is an author of many expat guide books; with actionable advice, he guides expatriates, entrepreneurs and perpetual travelers with ideas and strategies they can easily implement into their own lives to watch their own adventure unfold!

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Afterword

Chapter 1

Introduction and Foreword

My name is Claude Acero and I would like to extend a warm greeting to you all.

With a few decades in Mexico now under my belt, I am now sort of a modern drifter, travelling between Mexico, other Central American countries, and sometimes Spain, which I believe provides me with a unique perspective to offer about this most beautiful country in the Central Americas.

This book is not about the best places to visit; any travel guide can give you generic information. It is unique in the respect that it is focused particularly on relocation and aspects of international living in Mexico from a first-hand viewpoint. The idea of this information is to make a new untraditional lifestyle in one of the most diverse countries in the Western hemisphere more self-supporting. I also hope that this guide will motivate readers to pursue their dreams and happiness abroad. I’d like to thank the readers for their time and interests, and wish future expatriates the best of luck in all their endeavors

Chapter 2

Personal Stories & Experiences

I traveled to Mexico for the first time in 1997. I rode my bike from San Diego all the way down Baja, California. Twenty years is a big chunk of time in everyone’s life. People change and so does a country. For me personally, this country, south of the border, has always been a mixture of unusual adventures, enjoying the good life, and living a semi-retired lifestyle. I have been working in real estate both north and south of the border. While I consider Mexico my home away from home, I am not living there full-time anymore. I probably spend the better half of the year in and around La Paz. Let me tell you upfront, I have met more than my fair share of people from all over the world. Some of them have become my friends and are not only retirees, but foreign business owners and folks who really want start something new and unusual in a very different country. That’s why I imagine myself as someone who may modestly give an opinion or two about this much-better-than-average country.

Let me start with a few people I know rather well, who have a little story about living there.

Paul and Melissa

I meet international couples all over the world, and sometimes they make me curious. For example, when the man is a few generations younger than the woman, I usually can’t help but smirk a little bit. Another example is that I might bow slightly before the Asian women I eventually embrace them both with a smile of respect. Whenever I remember the American-Philippine couple, I almost feel nostalgic, just thinking about their little expat adventures. Paul and his Philippine born wife, Melissa, are no strangers to Mexico. They have been living north of San Diego which is just a jump over the fence to Baja California. In 2015, they decided to move to Central Valley, near Lake Chapala, and live off his pension. But of course, they knew that Baja California; with its wide beaches, coupled with a sparsely populated hinterland; was totally different from the villages around Lake Chapala. During their first year there, they took it rather easy, and lived more like extended tourists; they didn’t know too many other expats, except some old-timers (me) via online contacts. Melissa, I knew, always felt a little dependent on Paul, so she advertised herself as a nanny and occasional housekeeper in the local expat community. However, after a year or so, Paul messaged me kind of aggravated, telling me that his wife left him for some other guy. Paul didn’t like it at all.

This time however, he basically confiscated her stuff and moved to the Puerto Vallarta area, thinking about opening a restaurant while working on his Spanish. The fate of his ex-wife is rather unknown, and doesn’t necessarily have much to do with my report of typical expat experiences.

Birgit the German

There are people on this planet, who move contrary to the main stream of snowbirds from south to north. Since I have known that woman personally, I actually have