How to Move to Mexico: Guide to Visas, Work, Residency & More Megan Frye - Thrillist | |
go to original November 29, 2021 |
Mexico is a gorgeous land of opportunity beckoning you to call it home... (Mexperience)
Mexico has a long history of welcoming gringos and other newcomers. By keeping a level head and an open mind, living in the guest mentality, you too might be tempted to surrender to Mexico's pull. Surfers looking for a cheap place to park their van, retirees seeking to extend their pension dollars, fugitives, beatniks, artists: They've all been called to Mexico for one reason or another. And most of them end up staying for a while.
I heard the call five years ago, and have lived here ever since. I moved to Mexico to study Spanish and teach English after falling in love with the country two years earlier. While I eventually started writing and translating, my story started pretty typically: I came to Mexico with a few suitcases and a one-way ticket, and decided to stay.
What makes Mexico such a great place to live depends a lot on your socioeconomic background, your worldly experience, and how much you can roll with the unknown. It's a country where you can do a lot without a ton of cash: In much of Mexico, there's accessible healthcare, great food, and lively entertainment. And it's not so far removed culturally from the US, thanks to a comparably large middle class and a steady back-and-forth between the countries due to land, people, culture and trade.
In this vast and diverse country, you can travel by bus or plane pretty inexpensively and enjoy everything from cloud forests to jungles, snow-covered volcanoes to pyramids, cosmopolitan cities to undeveloped beaches.
Of course, this is not some egalitarian utopia by any means. More than 50 percent of the population lives in poverty and the very fact that you’re coming here from the US implies that you will automatically be placed in the upper levels of society. As a newcomer, you'll need to pick the best place for you, and to integrate into society with respect.
By keeping a level head and an open mind, living in the guest mentality, you too might be tempted to surrender to Mexico’s pull.
Here’s what to do when you hear that call...
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