Trust a nerd in a sweater with a methodological approach for this🤓. Tell us where you're thinking about moving to in Mexico, why, and what places should've made it onto this list!

I have only been living in Mexico for 11 months and I love it for many reasons. I live in Chapala and the weather is just as good as they say but it's the people that make it so special for me. They are the most hospitable people I have ever met. If you are the kind of gringo who is going to come here and treat the locals as though they are inferior, STAY AWAY. This is a great video. I have been to some of those places. I hope to see many more.

I’m Canadian. A few years ago I did a lengthy solo motorcycle trip in most, almost all, parts of Mexico. The few things that bothered me (noise, unfamiliar bureaucracy) were minor compared to the friendly, honest people and stunning natural beauty. While I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone, one of my favorite towns is Batopilas; the ride through Copper Canyon alone may change the way you look at life. My takeaway: Avoid the tourist areas, take time to savor the culture.

My wife and I relocated to Morelia, Michoacan two years ago. She's a Mexican citizen and I'm from Reno, Nevada. The cost of living, people, culture, architecture and of course the food are good reasons to come to Mexico! We're able to afford a beautiful home in a nice neighborhood, on my Social Security income, with plenty left over monthly to save for travel, and eat out at will. We've never been approached or victimized by ANY crime. It does exist, but if you don't search it out, you're safe. I've never been made to feel unwelcome in my new country. Assimilation is key. Its proven to be the best move I've ever made. We're nowhere near any tourist destination, but are able to go, with a short drive. Mexico is a very large country, explore and enjoy. VIVA MEXICO 🇲🇽

Great video thanks for sharing The greatest thing in Mexico Is the people very friendly Then the food Then the culture No rasistas No descriminacion No arrogants I ❤️🇲🇽

No plans to move to Mexico but it's one of our favourite places to travel and have been to about 80 percent of the places on your list. Great choices. I don't know how I would ever choose. They all offer so much and yet are so different. I always tell people that CDMX is the most vibrant and alive place I've ever visited. "Trust a nerd in a sweater" Love it!

I follow this channel because you’re smart, well spoken and your love for Mexico shows. You’re mother must be very proud of you. Congrats.

This was my favorite video of yours, and the best I’ve seen on a top ten in MX. Thank you for providing your insights in such a cogent and expedient way. Looking forward to your soft launch on Moving to Mexico next...

Glad to find you guys. Good format and information!

This was great!! I appreciate the information and history of Mexico more and more.

Outstanding vlog. Thanks so much. Great information wonderfully presented.

Hey guys ! Been watching your videos alot lately. Really want to move over there and live the way you guys live. Working from home. Traveling. I'm working on that as we speak. Hoping to make it a reality someday soon in the future ! You guys motivate me so much. Thanks for your wonderful videos. I love yall. Yall videos are AWESOME !

Y'all's Sunday uploads have become a highlight of my weekend routine of late. Thanks for such a thoughtful, informative, video! You've inspired me to do more research and book a trip as soon as can. La Paz, Mérida, and Querétaro are calling my name :D

Thanks for such informative video. You mentioned several cities in Mexico that are perfect to live. This is depending on personal choices, needs or preferences. Oaxaca City, Santiago de Querétaro and Zihuatanejo are my favorites cities in Mexico.

Hello from Houston. Great video and I love that you added pics along each of the towns and not just talked about them. Thank you for the insight. ☺️

Outstanding video. My wife and I have been visiting Mexico for years, staying clear of the tourist destinations (for the most part.) We've decided to retire there and in our most recent trip, decided that we finally found the perfect spot. No. 2 on your list - La Paz. It's just an amazing place. We visited Loreto earlier in 2021, but found it to be just a little too small and remote for us. La Paz, unlike so many other port cities, felt completely genuine. It certainly still has a tourism component, but, as the capital of BCS, has the amenities one would expect of a state capital. I suppose the drawback is one you pointed out - flights to the U.S. from La Paz all seem to go through Mexico City with long layovers. But, to the extent it keeps the spring break crowd away, the two hour drive to San Jose del Cabo is a small price to pay.

I won’t be surprised that Mexico will be flooded with Americans & Canadians in the next 10 years. You did an excellent job explaining the cities and what they have to offer. Being from LA area, Ensenada has really upgraded their city and makes a great weekend trip. Near by is wine area like Napa called Villa de Guadalupe that is nestled in the mountains.

Very well done video with a lot of important info regarding each place!

I love 🇲🇽 Mexico

Amazing video Thanks so much!

can't believe Puebla didn't make the list - Puebla is the 4th largest city in Mexico and let me tell you it got everything of course depending on your style of living. My mother owns a house around the city and I can't tell you how much am grateful for that & its even a hour drive from Mexico City which makes it very convenient. There are many wealthy business people that own companies in Mexico City and live here in Puebla because of the approximate & privacy and more calm pace of living they look for. Puebla has been growing so much and its one of the most modern cities I've been to in Mexico & I live in NYC I know modern lol. Poblanos love to live good & work hard and they know how to party !! The university's here are top in the country I live next to a town were many foreign students live and the night life is awesome. You guys should come visit Puebla & stop by Cholula.

Excellent content! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Very shareable 👍🏼 ...mas, mas, mas.

Such an interesting and informative video. And there are just so MANY of these videos about living in Mexico. But as you say at the beginning, this is an extremely difficult task to curate this list. I lived in Guadalajara for 5 years working remotely, came back to the US for work, now going back to Guadalajara working remotely again. For your selections, it's probably too close to other options (although I would argue that Monterrey over GDL would not ever be my choice for exactly the reasons you selected MTY. It's the northern Mexico (e.g. much closer to the border) version of Mexico. And that's OK for those people that want that.) What makes these discussions so difficult is always the part that you have to add to everything that you just shared (location, population, climate, general culture, healthcare, etc.): What is the expat experience desired in that location AND how well do you speak Spanish? Let's face it, it's like there's a "range" of what you want your Mexico experience to be. Unfortunately, it's almost like there should be three lists: (and I'm not judging, I'm just saying that there IS an option for everyone depending on what is best for them): 1. The cities for people that want to live in an expat "bubble" (e.g. nearly all your friends are expats), learn the least amount of Spanish, will most likely socialize with other expats, and have the amenities that are most similar to their expat lives before moving to Mexico. 2. The cities for people that are open to living in a colonia that is not primarily expats, adjusting to learning a solid, fundamental amount of Spanish, are looking to have a "mix" of friends and be somewhat OK with English/Spanish being around all the time, are a bit more open to dealing with the cultural things that frustrate typical expats, and they're a bit more OK if they can't replicate as much of their previous lives that they lived before moving to Mexico. 3. The cities for people that are willing to live in a colonia that is just in the location they want (location, location, location) and they don't care if it's all Mexicans, they have a command of Spanish that is an upper intermediate or higher level, their friends may not speak English at all and that's fine, they will get invitations to comidas, cenas, fiestas, quinceañeras, bodas, etc., where there may be no English speakers at all and they will love it, and will embrace the culture and even learn to accept the "crazy" way that things function that are so culturally different from where they are from. And again, not judging...but people have to ask themselves that question: What sort of life do they want to live when they move to Mexico? Then start to curate those cities that can offer you the things you are looking for. There is a place for everyone! :- ) So, make your list, set your expectations, what do you want your Mexico living experience to be, how much work are you willing to do to reach that experience, etc. THEN start making your choices. ¡Saludos a todos! **Lived in GDL for 5 years, became a fluent Spanish speaker (yup, went to school, hired a tutor, studied hard, lived it day in and day out, whatever it took), loved living in the 2nd largest metropolitan area in the country after CDMX (GDL is quite large but still retains so many elements of classic Mexican culture but also you can get anything you want because it's a large metropolitan area), is sometime considered the "silicon valley" of Mexico or even the San Francisco of Mexico, direct flights to major cities in the USA daily, excellent private and public health care, and so much more I could say. **I went to Chapala/Ajijic twice in 5 years and I could never, ever imagine living there. Nope, that's somebody else's desired experience for living in Mexico and they are very happy there, I'm sure. Also spent time in San Miguel de Allende and it's definitely not for me either, although it is absolutely beautiful!

Hoping to move to Mexico in June 2022 from Australia, thanks for the tips!

Great video. I hope to enjoy Mexico one day.

Love it. Thanks you two!

Awesome detailed video 🙏🏾

Love this video. Great discussion on some of the most popular cities. Merida is not hot all year round. We actually use blankets in December

Thanks for the video! I'm planning to move to Queretaro. Visited there this past June. It's an amazing city.

Thank you for your video!

Very comprehensive review and straight to the point!

Aguascalientes Is another great city for living, also Saltillo just one hour away from Monterrey and has nice weather

Just found your channel and we're really enjoying it. We sold our house in Boise, Idaho several months ago and have been traveling ever since. The plan is to see a lot of the world but we've been sticking fairly close to home so far. We plan to be in Mexico for at least a couple of months and I've been researching places to visit which brought me to this video. I already knew Queretero was a place we wanted to check out but now I have several others to add to the list. We're traveling with our 13 and 11 year old kids and we're not big city people. It seems several places on your list will fit our needs and desires well.

Thanks for the info👍👍👍

Wonderful idea!!!!!

Awesome video thank you

I was your 1k liked video wooow, cool video.

You mentioned my city of choice at the tag end after you discussed Oaxaca.....I chose Morelia. thanks for another well-thought-out and concise vlog.

Great video!!!

great info, thanks for video

Awesome muchacho; Gracias por compartir Your Wisdom... Priceless info Sir.

Great video! Lots of useful info. I’ll be checking out some of these areas later this year. Would really like to visit San Cristobal de las Casas. It does check a lot of my boxes. Really appreciate your channel.

Thank you for sharing. I would be extremely interested in a similar video touching on the best small towns in Mexico 🙂

Most amazing review video I've ever seen! Very thorough and chock full of information. I'm a New York native living in Austin Texas at the moment. Since I want the beach and nightlife activity and I'm LGBTQ I've been strongly considering Puerto Vallarta. Monterrey sounds like a good second choice for me as well. Thank you so much for this amazing review. Wishing you all the best! (Liked and subscribed) ❤️💯🔥😁

Good video, you're a adorable boy Serg, I'm from Tequisquiapan Querétaro and is a magic town very calm and beautiful😍 Saludos 👋👋👋👋👋💕

Lovely video

Amazing!!!

You did this better than every other video on this topic honestly

Really enjoyed this. Very articulate, well-researched speaker with impeccable Spanish (detected from how he pronounced place names). I have visited most of these also, and now wish to see the ones I haven't. My wife's favorite so far is Mexico City. Mine is probably Ajijic. I love beaches, but she does not tolerate the humidity of either coast well. We may just take a few months here, a few months there to get to know this incredible country.

Excellent content

I'm to huatulco in August and I can't wait

Great video

Great video. Oaxaca, PE, Mazunte, Zipolite, Huatulco are where I'll be visiting. Thanks for your suggestions!

Like your eyeglasses, those frames fit and compliment your faces well and you are so well spoken, a pleasure to hear your voice. Hopefully will be spending my first winter in Mexico in Puerto Vallarta beginning in November.

Mexico, a country full of culture and traditions, I hope to return soon.

Gosh, you did so good with the video that I want to move to them all. That makes it all the harder to descide.

Oaxaca City was my most favorite. So many beautiful places in Mx and the people are chill and respectful to each other. Something I don’t experience in the US

great video ,my first choice would be Porto Vallarta I love the sea i just need to get there and learn Spanish

A life with a bit of land to practice permaculture, or building a 'food forest'. Definitely not farm or ranch size. Not even homesteading. Maybe an acre to begin I'm not confident in my skills to grow in this climate yet, so I wouldn't want to be too far from an urban setting. Safety a concern. It would be my young family with me. We'd like to really settle in somewhere and know the people. Learn from them, and not just gardening 'tips'. We started thinking Merida area, but after seeing a few videos my wife and I have learned so much more about Mexico that we're considering other ideas. Looking to spend our time growing, I was concerned that some areas that get little rain each year would not work so well. Do you have an opinion here? Under these restrictions, my boys have lost enough of their childhood. We just want to be left alone and raise our kids in peace. I'm so happy to have come across your video here. If you see this and something comes to your mind, I would be so grateful to hear the idea. Again, great stuff. Thank you for putting this up for everyone. Cheers

Good job!

Great list ! Just from researching online we think San Cristobal may be for us. We prefer cool weather so if it is hot we’d end up sitting inside in the a/c …..and we speak Spanish. The other 5 on our short list are Oaxaca, Guanajuato, Morelia, Puebla, or Queretaro. We dont think we want to be around a huge expat population so we crossed San Miguel and Lake Chapala off our list.

Hola and Aloha! My wife and I are currently in Guadalajara, 1st time in Mexico. We're looking for a little longer duration of stay and thinking about Queretaro. Really enjoyed your video and had a few friends also recommend it. Do you have any suggestions on finding weekly or maybe even a month accommodation as we're working out a budget. Muchas gracias and Mahalo!

Thank you Serg. As a single guy looking to save money, but live well and in a more inspiring environment, I've narrowed down to PV and queretaro.

México City is incredibel 👍👍

Queretaro, Mexico on 11-2-2021.

Very informative video, really enjoyed it ✌️ I know you mentioned Tijuana and it has a lot of pros like proximity to the US but also has a lot of cons with safety and immigration issues 🤷🏻‍♂️ I like how you referred to as foreign retirees instead of the controversial term of expats 👍 Many years ago I visited Cuernavaca and I really liked it, specially spring like weather and its proximity to Mexico City, but it’s had its share of safety concerns lately. Saludos 🙂🇲🇽

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Éste video es bien chido! Where considering a move to Mexico and are grateful for all this great information. We have stayed in Tulúm almost every year of this century and have considered relocating to the Riviera Maya, although the steamy, buggy summers are a concern. One of our dear friends whom we met on those trips is a Chilango, a Mexico City boy we hope to visit in the not too distant future. Our concern is the air pollution. Today it is “acceptable“ but very often when I check online it’s pretty poor. Your thoughts?

Valle de Bravo is a super chill place and would add it to this list

I am close to retirement and thinking of retiring to Mexico, but like you said so many choices. I am watching a lot of KZfaq videos but still not sure of best place to go. Great video, I subscribed and will keep watching, hoping to make a wise decision. 😃

Wow me encantó tu video tu inglés excelente

Been to Puerto Vallarta twice and loved it. Want to move there.

Moving to San Cristóbal de las Casas claiming this energy. 😎

Definitely Huatulco we've traveled all over Mexico and Oaxaca Huatulco is out favorite. So much so we just purchased a new condo in Huatulco. 🌞🌞🌞🍻🇲🇽🐡🦎🌴🐢🐠🌮🦐🥑🍹👍👍👍❤viva Mexico 🇲🇽

Thank you

Culiacan y Mazatlán son increíbles también 😎

awesome video Mazatlan living for a beach community ?

Thanks for the video,love to live in a small town lam not city lover.

You need to visit Morelia, Michoacán. Literally “la Cuna de independencia” and la nueva España. Should be top 3 and Guadalajara?

No les entiendo ni ,nada, pero sus videos me gustan.

We are thinking of retiring to quiet Akumal for the turquoise water and beach side restaurants but, still live not be far from shopping in Playa del Carmen and intl Airport in Cancun (and new Maya train and a another intl airport in Tulum both being built now). Please give me your honest opinion of this area?? Thanks 😊

Looking at Lake Chapala and Guanajuato in November for potential retirement cities. SMA is beautiful but too pricey for this gringo. I’ve heard mixed reviews about Queretaro but maybe we’ll dip in there for a day while we’re staying in Guanajuato. Thanks for your great video. I would be interested in your moving consulting services before I move.

Patzcuaro! Very inexpensive, best climate in the highlands where I live. Friendly people. Good food if you like menudo and fatty meats! Fortunately, lots of local fruit and vegetables for cheap! Lived here for 10 years, don't plan to move or go back north!

Viva Mexico 🇲🇽

My fiance is Filipina and just mentioned this tonight. I never thought of it before (except as a place to visit for a nice vacation), but with the pandemic making most countries shut down (so I can't even visit her as an American), when she suggested it I was like, "Why didn't I think of that???" Are there any beach towns you'd consider that are driving distance from America like Puerto Penasco? It would be nice to move there (at least temporarily until the world calmed down) and be able to drive back to America to continue working for a while. Safety is my BIGGEST concern if I"m going to move there then leave her and her daughter for a 2 - 4 weeks to come back and work.

Great review. How’s the air quality there? You guys seem pretty health-conscious so I’m sure that’s of interest for you both.

I'm looking at possible places to move to. That can be scary when you're in your 70s and you'll be going alone. I've watched a lot of videos, and this is the best I've seen so far. Very well thought out, and very well articulated. I hadn't really thought about La Paz until I saw this video. I live in the Mojave Desert, where the temperatures are well above 100 for 4 months in a row, and often above 110, so I think I can deal with the desert heat in La Paz. I'm going to look into it some more. Meanwhile, I'm pounding away at my Spanish lessons.

My parents are from Jalisco, I was born in Dallas and plan to retire in Mexico. Currently just getting information about different cities like SMA Guanajuato Aguascalientes and Merida

How did it happen to mention Tecate BC in your video? It is a beautiful quiet magical town with history and a cold and semi warm climate and it has its tourist attractions.

I am looking to move asap ,what about Cabo San Lucas?

I'm surprised you didn't mention Saltillo, as beautiful as it is we pass Monterey to get there to visit family. But I do love your choices. I love north of Austin tx so I do like smaller communities

I have been to most of these cities and feel Queretaro is my first choice with a very close second being San Luis Potosí. SLP is a perfect size city with superb weather year round. It’s unfortunate that the beach towns are so hot in the summer as I would pick PV as a residence if weather was not so important to me. Ensenada has great year round weather and is an honorable mention

Guadalupe Inn! i never see a shoutout to my colonia...but yes, we're a tight little community, you get to meet your neighbors in and around the colonia, the business owners who comes and goes, we root for them....alas its the kind of community unity i couldnt find in L.A.

Very good choices. Merida is too hot most of the year.

I think that Monterrey is largely overlooked because people see more US influence than mexican. Like you said Monterrey is just 2 hours away of the US by car, to Mexico City for example it takes more than 11 hours; basically half a day. So saying this is obvious that it share more things with Texas in particular and yes summers are hot but summers in Dallas or Houston are even hotter and even more humid specially in Houston. Thanks for giving Monterrey the spotlight it deserves !

I really want to move to la paz. Thats my dream. And I've never been there. Lol. But I have done a lot of research

Bacalar, Quintana Roo

Guadalupe Inn, San Ángel, Jardines del Pedregal are places to live for very rich 🤑 people... Not for people in a budget

I love San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas.

I originally looked at Chapala and area and thought the lake looked great until I found out you can't swim in it. I also looked at Hultuco. I am in process of deciding on Puerto Morelos, Los de Marcos or Mazatlan. I know my spelling is off. I will also look at areas you mentioned. My primary goal is safe area and on ocean.