Mexico Insight

When foreign expatriates are asked why they moved to Mexico, among the most common reasons they cite is ‘a desire to simplify our lifestyle’. Recent decades have brought the advent of speed and urgency into many people’s daily lives and, with these, complexity and stress.  People moving to Mexico, whether to live and work or [...]

Street cabs in many capital cities around the world are painted in a standard color so as to make them easily recognizable and, at times, iconic; for example, the Yellow Cabs in New York, and the Black Cabs in London. Until the 1990’s, street cabs in Mexico City were one of the capital’s icons: VW [...]

Mexico is host to one of the most diverse natural habitats in the world.  Its flora and fauna are the fourth most varied and diverse on the planet, after those of Brazil, Colombia and Thailand.  To accompany this diversity, Mexico is also home to a huge variety of insects, arachnids, snakes and other wild creatures. Most, with the [...]

Every country has it ‘norms’ of social etiquette and Mexico is no exception.  Social etiquette is perhaps more important to learn about and to observe when you are living in a country; however, if you’re just visiting the country, it’s also useful to have a general understanding of etiquette for some of the most often encountered situations [...]

Mexico has extensive transport systems which make getting around the country efficient. They are also very affordable. In addition to a substantial network of modern airports, Mexico also has one of the best national bus service networks you’ll encounter, offering three levels of service (executive, first, and second) on popular routes and two classes of service [...]

Today, over half of all commercial transactions in ‘industrialized’ nations like the USA, Canada, Western Europe and Australasia take place using some form of electronic money employing the use of a credit or debit card, or a so-called ‘e-cash’ card; or electronic bank transfers of various kinds. In Mexico, physical cash is still king, whether [...]

Mexico offers you the opportunity to acquire a panoply of artesanias (handicrafts) produced locally with materials sourced from Mexico’s thriving and diverse natural habitats. The best place to buy handicrafts is in small rural towns and villages, where local people, known as artesanos, make their living by creating the art works.  Mexican handicrafts range from common trinkets to masterful works [...]