Live & Invest Overseas just picked Ajijic as the #1 Top
Expat Community. We’ve known that for over eight years. Come and see for
yourselves!
Top Expat Community Pick #1: Ajijic, Mexico.
Ajijic and the area around Lake
Chapala, Mexico,
hosts the most organized, developed expat community in the world. The Lake
Chapala Society reports about 4,000 American and Canadian residents in Chapala proper. The Mexican government, meantime,
estimates that nearly 20,000 expats reside full-time in the state of Jalisco,
the region where Lake
Chapala sits.
In other words, the path has been cut. Moving here, you could slide into a
way of life not dramatically different from the life you left behind in the
States. You wouldn’t have to worry about learning the local language if you
didn’t want to. You wouldn’t have to work to make a place for yourself among
the local community, because this isn’t a “local” community. This is an entire
community of nonlocals. You could wander into the restaurant down the street
anytime and find English-speaking companionship, someone to complain to about
the bureaucracy at the Department of Immigration or the challenges of studying
to take a driving test in Spanish. Retiring to Ajijic, you could make a very
comfortable life for yourself in a place that’s exotic, beautiful, safe, and
very affordable.
Friends who have taken this path live comfortably on less than $50 per day
(U.S. dollars), including housing, food, transportation, entertainment, and
in-country travel. They eat well, play tennis, socialize, and travel
comfortably. As they put it themselves, they want for nothing.
Don’t misunderstand. Ajijic isn’t a retirement village. This isn’t Sun City
South, at least not formally. This is a legitimate Mexican town that, over the
past three decades, has attracted such a volume of foreign retirees that it’s
become less Mexican and more foreign resident–friendly.
Source:
http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/On-Retirement/2011/09/19/places-to-live-the-american-dream-abroad