American Living Large in Mexico

By Bill the Geek

"I read Bill the Geek´s book and it got me all pumped up. My girlfriend read it too. We did our internet research and actually called some Americans that were already living in Puerto Vallarta. They had friends with a place for rent right on the ocean. We were doing web design in San Francisco and we were paying $2,200 amount for a 1 bedroom apartment downtown.

With Bill the Geek´s help, we found a 4 bedroom on the beach for less than five hundred a month and we don´t need a car. With the excellent high speed internet, now we are living our dream and actually saving lots of money every month." 

Dennis and Sandy, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

"Thank you Bill the Geek. Living in Guadalajara is the bomb. I was living in Chicago and it get really cold there. The cost of living was getting to be ridiculous and the winters were just depressing. I am an on line consultant so Bill the Geek was right. After reading his book and listening to the audio book too, I did my internet research and actually visited Guadalajara before I made my move. I could not believe how cheap it was to rent a very nice place and all my cost for everything went down about 70%. No more Snow. Good bye Chicago!" 

Eric Mason, Guadalajara, Mexico

My wife´s family thought we were crazy. They said if we moved to Mexico we would get killed because they had been listening to Donald Trump. They were so wrong. Bill the Geek was totally right. Mexican people are so warm, friendly and hard working. They work so much harder and longer than Americans. We created an on line business. The internet is great and the cost of living is like tripling our income, plus, the weather is just out of this world. We love Mexico." 

Mike, Lake Chapala, Mexico

"I´m a tax accountant and I worked for a big accounting firm for years in Cleveland, trying to climb the corporate ladder. Cleveland is cold in the winter. I am a black guy and never really considered leaving the country, but after reading Bill the Geek´s book, it gave me some ideas. I found some phone numbers of Americans living in Mexico and actually made some friends. They all had US phone numbers and they were very willing to give me a lot of tips and help about how to move down to Puerto Vallarta.

I made the move with just my computers and some clothes. I rented a fully furnished, 3 bedroom apartment 5 blocks from the beach for just a few a month. I immediately got internet hook up and I was on my way. I grabbed my highest paying clients from the firm I was working for and now I just consult them via Skype. They pay me into my Paypal account and that money goes to my bank.

• Language: English
• Publisher: sbBooks
• Release date: Nov 14, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386838524

Book preview

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Welcome to American Living Large in Mexico!

Written by Bill Dallas Lewis, also known as Bill the geek.  Enjoy.

Introduction

Hi. I'm Bill the Geek, Bill Dallas Lewis, Living Large in Mexico. And welcome to American Living Large in Mexico.

I just want to share with you the wonderful time that I've had living in Mexico for the last twelve years. I don't work down here, I work in the United States, Australia, Great Britain, and other English speaking countries around the world and I do all of it out of my home in lovely Guadalajara, Mexico. And you may say Bill, Bill the Geek, why would you want to do that? Well, the big thing is the weather and the money. Can you imagine instead of spending a dollar, spending 25 cents for everything you buy? When you go to the grocery store, milk instead of 3 dollars it's like 75 cents. Everything you buy is cheaper in Mexico, the weather is great, it's the best life I've had ever.

So what we're going to do is I want to share with you how I got down here, what it is like living down here, I want to talk about healthcare down here for Americans, the myth about crime, what the cost of living is all about. We're going to talk about how cheap it is to travel and how safe it is to travel. Of course, we need to talk about food and dining. The climate. If you're a geek, and you need your technology to keep your groove going, I'm going to cover that. And we're going to talk about women living alone. I'm talking about American young and old white women, black women, down here all by themselves, purchasing homes, running businesses. And we're going to talk about the legal aspects as well. All of this and more with Bill the Geek, American Living Large in Mexico.

Part 1 – Getting There

Before we get started with all of the details about what is like to live here, the cost of living, all the things that I mentioned in the Introduction, I want to give you a little background about myself. When I was a kid I thought that only wealthy people could travel or experienced people could travel or you had to know a foreign language to travel and never ever did I ever imagine that I would live full-time, all year round in a country other than the United States of America. So for you people that are thinking about it, can you do it, is it possible, do you have to be special, do you have to be wealthy I just want to share my background so you can see that there are a lot of people down here that think the same way that I do and had no clue they would ever end up down here permanently. So anyway, long story short.

I was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. My parents, we traveled a little bit, we would get in the car and drive to Washington D.C. and spend the week, go to the Smithsonian Institute, we might drive to New York City and go to all the sightseeing things there. I remember going to Niagara Falls when I was a kid. We never went west of Cincinnati, Ohio on any trips and I never made it to California until I was 35 years old. That was the first time I ever saw the ocean. My parents were very nice people, my dad worked for the Federal Government and my mother was a secretary for the vice president of the Ohio State University. My dad had