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 to […]

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 Beetles […]

A while ago, we published a blog article about accessing the Internet using WiFi in Mexico.  Since then Mexico’s dominant telco, Telmex, which runs the majority of WiFi hotspots in Mexico, has shut down access to Port 25 — the port most commonly used for sending email when you are using an email client like […]

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 exception […]

Although it’s still August, it’s worth remembering that the autumn brings no less than four key dates, during which you need to book well ahead for travels in Mexico: Independence Day, Day of the Dead, Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
As students return to classes and the final days of summer draw to a close, people begin to […]

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 on […]

Travelers flying in Mexico this summer are being advised to exercise caution when purchasing tickets from low-cost carriers Avolar and Aviacsa.
Avolar owes the SCT (Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes), Mexico’s transport ministry, a backlog of airspace fees; the ministry says the sum exceeds $130 million pesos (US$13 million).  The SCT suspended the airline’s operations last week, although […]

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 you […]

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 of […]