How Did Mexico Get Named the World's #1 Retirement Destination for 2017? Suzan Haskins and Dan Prescher - InternationalLiving.com | |
go to original January 21, 2017 |
Watch the video to learn the many reasons why International Living Editors Dan Prescher and Suzan Haskins have recently made the move to Mexico. (International Living)
For years, millions of U.S. and Canadian citizens have been enjoying life in Mexico. By some estimates, there are more expats living full- or part-time in Mexico than in any other destination abroad.
So why do we think it’s big news that Mexico has been named the #1 retirement destination on International Living’s 2017 Global Retirement Index? And why do we think the timing is noteworthy?
For one thing, if you’ve been paying attention to the U.S. news cycle, you know that the person elected as the next President of the United States has promised to wall off Mexico from the rest of North America. Literally wall it off.
You’ll also have noticed that this same incoming president has already taken credit for stopping new automobile factories being built in Mexico by U.S. auto companies.
Auto manufacturing is huge business in Mexico. Combined with an incredibly strong U.S. dollar that’s hammering the Mexican peso - and clear anti-NAFTA signals from the U.S. - this threat to one of Mexico’s biggest industries is having chilling effects on the Mexican economy.
Mexicans are noticing. How could they not? And we’re hearing a lot of comments from locals saying, in essence, that Americans living in Mexico who feel the same way our elected president seems to feel are welcome to go home and help him make America “great” again.
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