Mexico Insight

Mexico City’s airport is one of the country’s busiest outlets for over-the-counter currency exchange, and it’s also a bellwether of currency exchange rates; news programs often quote the retail rates being offered at the airport as a type of ‘exchange rate barometer’, particularly for trade between the Mexican Peso and US Dollar. This week, a [...]

Two key attractions about owning property in Mexico are related not so much to initial cost of the land and buildings, but instead to the affordable ongoing costs associated with having your name on the property deed; these are: low property taxes, and low building and maintenance costs. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a [...]

Car rental in Mexico can sometimes be more expensive than renting a car in the USA. The principal increase in cost is the additional price of the optional insurances required to protect the vehicle. When you book a Mexico car rental online, the fee presented on-screen usually includes a third-party coverage insurance policy, but in most cases you’ll need to purchase optional top-up insurances [...]

If you take a road trip across Mexico, sooner or later you will almost certainly come across a military checkpoint. The checkpoints are set-up on the fly and may appear on any highway at any time of day or night.  Some check points stop every vehicle for inspection, although most create a traffic bottle-neck to [...]

Although Patzcuaro has distinct features and characteristics, it is also much like many other provincial Mexican towns, and the daily routines and challenges you may encounter living here are similar in nature to those you’ll encounter in other places across Mexico. There are expats living here who came to the town, fell in love with [...]