Taking time to consider these key factors will help you to step back and define your intentions, discover what lifestyles Mexico offers, identify opportunities of interest to you, weight up the compromises, consider your options, and plot a course based on the things that are important to you.
Creating a realistic and workable lifestyle plan
Mexperience offers comprehensive local knowledge to guide you through every stage of your relocation to Mexico, and continues to help after you make the move and settle-in to Mexico. We also connect you to helpful contacts who can facilitate your plans.
This article outlines key factors to consider as you think about a move to Mexico—whether you’re moving alone, with your partner, or with your family.
The factors summarized in this article are an integral part of our continually-updated and free guide to Living & Lifestyles in Mexico.
Our guides, articles, and monthly newsletter are written by people who know Mexico intimately, are continually revised and updated—and are free to access.
Foundation work for your Mexico lifestyle planning
Some people move to Mexico on a whim (with varying results); however, when you look under the hood of the stories about people who have made a beneficial move to Mexico, they tend to be underpinned by the presence of a lifestyle plan.
When you’re considering a move to Mexico it makes sense to take a step back and:
- consider your approach to a lifestyle in Mexico;
- define your intentions and know what’s motivating you to move here;
- be mindful about where in Mexico to live, taking care to match your true needs with the locations you consider;
- consider the requirements for legal residency;
- plan to deal with essential matters related to settling-in and adapting to a new culture and lifestyle in Mexico: by yourself, or with your partner or family.
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Retirement planning in Mexico
If you plan to move to Mexico to retire (or to eventually retire here), you ought to consider matters related specifically to retirement planning and retirement lifestyles in Mexico.
Although retired people don’t carry the challenges and stresses of a working life —holding down a job, raising children, and keeping wolves from the door— retirement does bring other challenges.
Becoming informed by using practical guidance to help you make constructive plans, identifying and mitigating the risks associated with retirement abroad, and learning about key elements which often underpin a fruitful and abundant retirement lifestyle in Mexico can help you to make better choices.
Free Guide: Our Guide to Living & Lifestyles in Mexico contains sections specifically about planning and realizing a retirement in Mexico.
Discovering places to live in Mexico
The place where you decide to live is a personal choice; it’s also subjective, and important.
Where you choose to live in Mexico can make or break your lifestyle plans and aspirations, so taking time to pause and consider your needs in relation to a place is sensible and preferable to making an impulsive decision based on assumptions which are often conceived in haste and based on limited knowledge and experience of a location and its attributes.
Matching your needs with your location is one of the cornerstone choices you will make as you plan a move to Mexico, and Mexperience offers insights and local knowledge to help you make considered choices.
Free Guide: Our Guide to Living & Lifestyles in Mexico contains insights to help you consider your choices about location and accommodations when you relocate to Mexico.
Practical essentials for everyday living in Mexico
When you have committed to the move and find yourself in Mexico, you will face an entire raft of practical matters which are relevant to everyday living here, regardless of your life stage and other circumstances.
These include things like finding a property to rent or buy, adapting to local climates, keeping healthy and well, engaging with the language, keeping in touch, getting around using transport options, caring for your pets, as well as wide assortment of everyday practical matters like tipping and bargaining, and the water supply—to name a few.
Free Guide: Our extensive Guide to Real Estate in Mexico includes insights about buying, renting, selling, and managing your residential home in Mexico.
Taking this pathway to adaptation is necessary and, although at times it may be challenging and confusing to you, it will form an essential part of your overall experience and provide a foundation from which you will learn to cultivate a fruitful lifestyle here.
Free Guide: Our Guide to Living & Lifestyles in Mexico includes sections about settling-in to Mexico, adapting to your new environment and lifestyle, and finding balance and purpose.
When you’re settled, there are always day-to-day matters to contend with, that will form part of your new lifestyles and life experiences. Mexperience offers ample insights to help you navigate these stages of change and transformation in your lifestyle.
Home Life: Regularly updated articles in our Mexico Home Life section offer tips and insights about day-to-day living here.
Home Stewardship: Articles and guides in our Home Stewardship section help you manage your house, home, and dwelling spaces in Mexico.
Connect to additional resources to help you plan and realize your relocation to Mexico
Knowledge, resources, and helpful contacts will play a defining role in your lifestyle planning and move to Mexico. Mexperience helps you on your journey to discovering opportunities, making informed choices, and turning your lifestyle plans into reality.
- Our Mexico Lifestyle Planning section contains articles and guides to help you plan a new lifestyle, or consider how to reform an existing lifestyle here
- Discover Places to Live in Mexico helps you find and compare key locations across Mexico—from the most popular, to new emerging areas as well as places off the beaten track
- The Mexico Home Life section provides practical insights that help you to cultivate your lifestyle in Mexico every day
- Register for our free monthly newsletter about Mexico
Free Guide: Our Guide to Living & Lifestyles in Mexico is comprehensive and continually-updated. It contains detailed knowledge and insights to help you consider your choices and form a plan based on your intentions and individual circumstances.
Obtaining assistance
Our associates provide helpful assistance services which provide key support for your Mexico lifestyle plans. These include:
- Immigration assistance when you need help with your with your residency permits.
- Insurance services – mitigate the effects of unforeseen events with coverages for your vehicle, home, health and travel.
- Professional services – when you need counsel or advice about property, commercial or legal matters in Mexico.
- Spanish language study – obtain help when you want to learn or improve your Spanish.
- Leisure time – with Mexico on your doorstep, our travel associates can help you see more of it with carefully crafted custom tours that help you to make the most of your leisure time.
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