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I am a full-timer and love it when the part-timers leave. The part-timers seem to be all about partying and drinking and when they leave life comes back to normal which I really love.

I can sympathize completely, but from the other side. We are year-rounders in Loreto, moving here last July. We had the experience of seeing the population explode as people started returning in October and November. We have had an incredible experience and have developed a more extensive network of friends in 9 months than we had in 16 years in Utah. We made so many friends, enjoying hikes, swimming, sailing, golf, and - oh man - the meals in our incredible local restaurants. But now, suddenly, they are all disappearing. It is incredibly sad. Bryan and Jo left last week, flying back to Calgary. Janice and Randy drove back to Canada two days ago. We are about to have Dave, Mary, Michael and Barbara over for dinner for their farewell. George and Patrice left about five days ago. It's absolutely depressing. As we walk our dogs around the neighborhood, it's' quiet - we don't run into others walking their dogs, the homes are dark, and people are slowly loading their cars, discarding their perishables, working with property managers, annd slowly leaving us behind. I will say that the year rounders do have a relatively tight community. Many of the local restaurants close for the summer, so we end up seeing the same people when we choose to go out for a meal. Abby, Britta, John, Lupita, we're looking at you (actually, John and Lupita seem to do this whole thing backwards - they will return in a couple of days and are here through the summer. Go figure...) So, if you're inclined to stop in Loreto on the way north, please stop in - we'll treat you to lunch. It's the least we could do for all the entertainment you provide. We love your videos. Drive safely, you two. (And AMEN on the advice to leave the politics back up north.)

In Mexico, when someone leaves, when someone is said goodbye, we sing the song LAS GOLONDRINAS Look for the song, it's beautiful, sad, but beautiful! Makes me cry.... 😭😭

We are full-timers and I love it when the part-timers go home, the stores are less busy, and the traffic is lighter. We live at Lake Chapala. But being here full-time, we also miss Washington State and the cooler weather, especially in May. We usually make a trip back once a year and see family and get our fill of the green fir trees and believe it or not the rain.

Hola Amigos. I love your channel. So funny to hear others talk about how great it is when the "snow birds" leave. We do crave the quiet times when no one is coming and the market shelves are full! I've lived in San Miguel de Allende for 14 years full-time and I love it. Everything you all love about Mexico, I second. Usually we spend most of January on the Pacific coast somewhere, so that how we split our time. We have so many visitors/tourists here, of course, but there are distinct seasons. Easter/Semana Santa -- the whole world visits San Miguel for the processions and parades. Once Easter is over that is the trigger for the Canadians to go back to Canada -- spring in Montreal; grandkids, etc. Once the Canadians clear out it gets quiet (bliss! heaven!) for May/June. July/August brings the smaller invasion of the Texans. It gets very hot in Texas in the summer and for an easy drive or a cheap flight then can be here in San Miguel for the worst of it; fancy imported beer becomes scarce when Texas is in the house! September is the day of independence -- so it's time for the Mexican tourists and many others to flock to San Miguel. September is eats/drinks/fireworks. On to Day of the Dead. Anyone who didn't get a hotel in Patzcuaro comes to San Miguel. A busy week but it doesn't last long. Back to December and here come the Canadians again and a new cycle has begun!

We got the Kat and Brighton Are Going North Blues 🩵💙🩵

I too, had more friends in Mexico than I did in California and here on Maui.

I’m a part timer in Jalisco and I’m returning to the US next week for medical reasons ( nothing serious but I don’t have insurance in Mexico). I have tears and anxiety just thinking about it. I am single so I have a condo in MX and a the maintenance of a small house in the US. I can relate when you say that reconnecting with friends needs effort. There is definitely a disconnection. Oh well, my cat loves me…

I didn't get to stay in Mexico quite as long this past Winter... So I have already been in Oregon for a while now... This is a yucky raining day today... I am SAD for you!! I am already dreaming up how I can head back to Mexico earlier and Stay LONGER!! :) Love your channel... Much love to you both!

As snowbirds from Olympia WA for 6 or so years we didn’t want to leave Lake Chapala, bought a house and are soo happy here! Yes - more social! We miss friends & family but they visit us and we enjoy short trips back to US. Enjoy your time NOB 😊

I am looking forward to becoming a full timer. However, the summers in the PNW are glorious! I know I will miss them. I can always visit. Enjoy the best of both worlds. No AC in the summer could be uncomfortable.

Your gratitude is lovely

When we moved to Tennessee, I REALLY missed the amazing hiking in WA and OR and the smell of the Puget Sound and our families. But it started to get depressing when I had to spend the best parts of the summer indoors due to smoke from Wildfires. My last few summers in WA were miserable due to smoke. In the PNW you spend nine months waiting to see the sun so its a big bummer when you get smoked out. I can relate to the S.A.D. of perpetually overcast skies. I don't miss that at all...Hopefully the sun will show up soon! Safe Travels.

Great videos, thanks you! Could you make a video about how do you do manage to keep your house safe and get proper maintenance while you spend the summer in Oregon?

Sooooo sorry to see you guys leave for the next six months but I am kinda enjoying the slow return to a quieter life here as the snowbirds head back north. We are full timers and we love our year round life here and being a part of our small colonia. Will look forward to your return in October. Safe travels friends! ❤

My wife and I are full-timers from Las Vegas. We love it when the part-timers go. Puerto Vallarta may dip in traffic, but we love the vibe apart from the humidity because the families and crowds in the beaches are more respectful, humble, and less entitled. Like your area, we just switch from most Canadians and Americans to national tourists.

Hi Kat and Brighton - Brad and I now have our temp residency. I got mine in Chapala in March - Brad just got his today in Mazatlan- we are looking at assisted living in Mazatlan. It seems like you just left Oregon!!!

We leave Bucerias on Friday to fly to Vancouver. This is our third winter in Mexico and it gets harder to leave every year. We keep hearing people saying "we should just stay" but even though we are residents we do like the variety and miss our Canadian comforts. Bring on Red Rose tea in the rain.... :)

I related to both of your of perspectives in a way, but I seem more aligned w/Kat's assertion that you have the perfect life in that you live 1/2 time in La Paz during the best weather & then 1/2 the time in Oregon which is fantastic in the late Spring, Summer, & early Fall. You two are my template for living in 2 of the most amazing places in the world. ~ It is Definately more chill in LP & not stressing so hard about money is a blessing too...and, I Am a bit more social in LP too. That garden club sounds interesting, Kat!

I like to WAIT until I get to Mexico to get my haircut... Both my husband and myself go to the same gal in Puebla and we love her... she is so attentive and does exactly what you ask and goes the extra mile to make sure you are completely pleased... Love both of your haircuts... VERY nice!

😂 👍 That’s the way to do it! Loading up on medication before going back to the US. We do the same, meds are extremely pricey in the US and we have a senior doggie that takes tons.

Yes!! Papaya!! I live full time in Guadalajara and I would miss the papayas and avocados the most. Enjoy your journey home!!

You are both so funny (and cute together!). Thanks for your insights.

I don't live in MX (yet) but I feel for you Brighton! The list of things you will miss makes me sad for you, especially since Kat's list is much smaller, meaning she still isn't ready to leave Oregon. I hope Wally finds a good home! Safe travels back to crazy town (the U.S.). Take care of yourselves.

We will miss you both. Moved here to stay full time 10 years ago - doubt I will make any more trips to Canada - my brother and his wife come to visit and both my sons moved here. I am truly blessed.

We always arrive in mid to late Nov and our rule has always been to leave the first week of May when it's getting hot, we don't have any AC on our homestead. April is great, the crowds are gone and the winds are still good and most of our friends are still here. The good news is if you do want to stay there are plenty of nice gringo houses with AC here to rent off season at low prices and a lot of folks are looking for house sitters which is typically rent free. This year we have a guy building a home for us so we are remaining here to oversee that while house sitting in a nearby beautiful home with plenty of AC. But in general my feeling has always been that staying here in Baja for the six cool months is ideal, why diminish the experience by suffering through the hot, humid summer? We traveled most of last summer in Europe and Bali but missed our home here so we came back a bit early in Sept but it was stifling outdoors, temps around 100 with high humidity. We no longer have properties in the US, our plan going forward is to spend our summers traveling to mainland Mexico's higher altitudes and cooler destinations, it could be six months or shorter periods but there's no need to go half way around the world, it's better in Mexico!

One of these days I hope to catch you in La Paz. Maybe next season. BTW, you do know that summertime is my favorite time to visit places in the interior. Cooler temps. And the occasional rain keeps the air and streets clean. I have been told that it's OK to enjoy Mexico the year round!

Hi Kat and Brighton, Well it's been sunny and beautiful since we returned from La Paz but the rain starts tomorrow. Hopefully it will be sunny and nice when you make it back to Portland. Hope you have smooth sailing on the drive back. Take care!

Safe travels 🙏. Stay blessed. ❤

Happy Anniversary 🎉😊 Relatives of mine lived in Newport Oregon - a stunning place. Beautiful state 😊 I'm full-time in 🇨🇦 but can understand how it's an adjustment for you to go back and forth.

I was just in Ore for a week. Rainy off & on. You have to admit it IS beautiful up there.

I love meeting kat like this

Safe travels!!

Happy Anniversary and safe journey to Oregon.

I can’t believe it’s been another six months already! 🇲🇽

Happy anniversary Brighton & Kat!!

I live in Bucerías year-round and the mass exodus of Canadian snowbirds is winding down. This means fewer events (markets, music) until the mid-to-late fall.

A follow up. I sold a very very considerable amount of land in Georgia usa. After the pain of living in the us, low vacation, corporate America, etc, is why we want to move.

I met so many great expats on my recent trip to La Paz, including you guys!

Your videos are so helpful. My hubs and I are working on our retirement plan. Some of your recent videos have led us to consider other countries. TY

Can't wait experience idea of a dual adventurous life. I am sure Oregon is lovely as well. I am a hairstylist, great to here you like your hairstylist in Mexico.

Also glad for you that you like living in La Paz. We come in once a month for a major grocery shopping trip. There is a saying in La Ventana" best part of La Paz is climbing the hill out of La Paz". Too much hustle and bustle, and roads and traffic going every which way. After being there for eight seasons I have no problems driving around, but prefer our traffic jams being cows crossing the road. La Ventana is a tourist spot because of the wind sports and mountain biking, but still seems to be a laid back beach town. The expat community that isn't into those things is growing though. And yes they do have a pickle-ball club that has new courts this last season. Also one can get along fine with English and a few Spanish greetings. Just thought that your readers might like to hear about another great place to live on the Baja. Cheers

Oregonian here. Love your videos.

I've been watching your channel for the last 4 months and love your narration on life in La Paz. Like you we arrive in La Ventana mid October and come back to the Vancouver area in BC at the beginning of April. But like your wife when the time arrives to go North or South we are ready for the change of lifestyle and weather change. One year we stayed well into April and because this expat community is also here for the wind sports as well as the weather this place empties out at the beginning of April, going later one feels like they missed the boat. This April it has been very cold and rainy up here so that makes me a little blue. We like you feel very blessed to have a place in La Ventana and in Canada. We set out to drive down the Baja 10 days after I retired in 2014. Fully enjoying outdoor sports, I love not feeling house bound by the weather. COVID winter was the only winter we haven't spent down here since 2014 and it was very hard on mind and body. Wasn't allowed to pass through the USA that season. Coming down the next fall we got the third degree at the USA boarder, but coming into Mexico it was "Welcome home". It did confirmed that we have chosen the right lifestyle. It does take some getting used to having homes in two places. Just today someone said welcome home to me, I said thank you, but we feel as much at home now as La Ventana as here in Canada. Drive safely on your trip back North. We have driven both ways five times, so don't envy you having to drive. Much easier spend 4 hours on a jet and two hours on a shuttle. Cheers Bruce

Great meeting you last week at your happy hour although it was a chance meeting . Good look till next time, Regards, Bert and Virginia Leyva

LOVE this…all of this! We purposely planned to be in Mexico over Election Day. We’ll be casting our ballot then off to Zihua! Safe travels to Portland. We’ve had a lot of “fake spring” here but we all know how great the summers are in the PNW!

You will always be welcome in Mexico Amigo!

Best time of year living here when part timers leave. Drama free

My challenge, I get involved with Mexican culture , communities, neighbors who are almost always locals; I’m there six months then gone. Everyone is sad. It doesn’t seem fair.

Welllll Leaving makes you sad BUT it makes the trip south that much more enjoyable upon your return. Here we get to enjoy the mud and muck of spring. Then we get to repair 4.75 acres of Grass , bushes, trees, flower gardens etc. But then we do get our daily visits from our deer. Or Pam will text a fisherman who drops off fresh caught Atlantic Lobster. But then the routine of cutting app 4 acres of grass (yay) is becoming a bit stale. 4 hrs every 3-4 days. I still enjoy my time cutting but I do wish it was a choice. Oh well. Finally the black flies will soon visit followed by the mosquitoes (yay and yay). Please enjoy a safe drive north and keep those boots and raincoats handy. P n D

Have the best of both worlds--move back to Atlanta.

Thanks for the video! I live in Portland OR. If you decide to have any meet ups in Portland, I'd like to join. Buen dia! (Good day!)

I have been a river for years which is sort of like part timer. I wonder how you keep track of what supplies are at each house.. do you outfit each house completely? I loose track of my wardrobe. I am closing on my new condo on puerto Vallarta, I get my keys next week. So I am super excited and not sure how much time I will spend in each location. My Oregon home is in Newport, cold and rainy. I’ll see how my internal thermometer figures it out. I like cool but hope to have more friends in Mexico. I don’t have many friends in oregon

I’m in Portland today,it’s partly cloudy with occasional showers

It was very sad for me to leave! I have great neighbors and missed them the moment I drove out of the driveway. However, something to look forward to come this fall!

It is a great view and I enjoyed from my bed!

I think I will have good feelings about coming back to British Columbia as we have such an amazing summer here! Like its 34 degrees celsius today! So a pretty warm summer normally. It is a heat wave right now, so we will deal with it! But I think my hubby will have similar feeling to you! Haha! But we haven't got to that quite yet! We have a 16 year old to deal with still! Graduation is this next year, then downsizing and us leaving for a few months at a time! :) Have a great summer!

Yeah, I love it when all the snowbirds go back. It's much quieter. And the town is much more accessible.

I would love to meet you all. Drop by Long Beach, CA I’m on your way.

Hey Brighton, Did you get the video with Steve in Todos Santos posted? I didn’t see it out there. If I’m correct that it ’s not there - will it be going up soon? Was going to check it out this evening, but didn’t find it. Looks like you might be on your way back to Oregon. We are going up also, but not til ~July 3 or so. Safe travels, maybe you’re back to OR already! Take care. Thanks/jo (Steve’s wife)

Living in Mexico full-time is a much different mindset. If for some reason you're in Mexicali this weekend, let's connect. Otherwise if you want to come check out Bahia Asunción, hit me up. NORRA starts on Saturday (?) so be prepared. My daughter and I are going to watch on Tuesday...but don't tell her teachers 😅

I guess the happiness factor is different if you have to go back home and work at a job you don't like! Otherwise then it's the perfect life to have the freedom

A couple of questions first. Why do you have only one AC in your home? I assume it is a mini-split system? Why do you choose to be part-timers in Baja? I am a full-timer in Mexico and I work remotely full-time for a US company so Mexico is a home for my wife and I and not so much a vacation spot. We do live on the border so that probably is the reason we do not feel like we are on vacation. The nice thing about living on the border is that you can got to the US any day to run errands and take care of obligations as a US citizen like pick up mail, go to jury duty (if your legal domicile is on the US side of the border), visit family, and other things that do not come to mind right now. When voting you do have to register as voting from abroad and you must deliver your ballot to the nearest US consulate from where you live in Mexico. I called the voting registration office in Austin to confirm that information. We do not have any "expats" here as far as I know, we do have a few US citizen neighbors that I suppose are children of Mexican parents. Some choose to live on this side because the cost of living is cheaper. Regarding people leaving during the summer; there is none of that here. The migratory pattern here is people leaving the city to go visit family in the interior of Mexico. There are literally tens of thousands of Veracruzanos that migrated here to work in the maquiladoras. That trend has been going on for at least 30+ years. During the 2 week Christmas vacation many of them go back to their home towns and the reduction of traffic is very noticeable. The city gets a little cleaner also in terms of less liter on the streets. For my wife and I, living in Mexico is a way to save money, for me to pay off student loans, and save to buy a house. Having said that, we both prefer to live in Mexico. We do tend to spend at least $100.00 every time we buy groceries in McAllen. I can only imagine what our grocery bill would be like if we lived in McAllen. Are you two going to retire in Baja?

Year round has its perks but boy it gets hot here actually it's already started. 90s are good but over 100 not so great. Stuck in the house, big electricity bills

Good lake in your trip Bach to the USA but am Planing to visit la Paz and enjoy it

Wow your life in Mexico seems like a dream. If it were me I would live year round in Mexico. I could go to the states to visit family or they could visit me. Maintaining two homes would be a hassle for me. Enjoy your stay while you are there.

Do you not have your residency in Mexico?

Summer breakup was funny :)

You two need to move to LaPaz full time!!! Is there a plan for that???❤

We’re only a few weeks a year but we love it down there and we love your channel!! Keep us posted on your journey back😃

Go the the interior of Mexico instead of Ore? One of these years

Hey guys! We are full timers in Lake Chapala right now but we are thinking of settling down full time in La Paz. We love to play pickleball and want to know where you play? We are looking to find our tribe and get back to the beach! 😎

Wat you guys do in Oregon ? When you hear!!?

Solution- move to Mexico full time, let Kat go back when she misses Oregon more frequently for a couple of weeks or so.

do you have a pickleball racket ( brand or type) you recommend ?

Have you thought about a house sitter to take care of your property? I work remote and would love an opportunity like that.

Papaya in California $1.60 a pound

How many people in La Paz are from other countries? Any estimate? Oregon is also very beautiful those months in its own way.

Hi, my wife and I are interested in moving into La Paz after enjoying watching your videos and visiting this beautiful city. Could you please share us your realtor info as we have some questions in regards to buying a property?

What a drag. How much to rent your place?🕺

I would love to drive back and forth from Seattle to La Paz but am concerned about make the trip as a single woman (with my dog)

I left New England years ago because I hated the weather...Got tired of living a 6 month a year life...Just sayin...

Do they allow Americans stay for 6 months per year without getting temporary residency @AlmostRetiredInMexico

Do u own or rent in Oregon

This is La Paz, Baja California?

I want to go to La Paz but what holds me back is my dogs. Do you drive your car to Oregon and back to La Paz with your dogs? We also have 3 dogs one is 15 yrs old.

Do you drive your car with US plates in Mexico? Is this allowed? Thank you..

I love your channel. My wife and I are interested in moving to Mexico. We have been there many times. We are going to Isla majures in July. Please get in touch with us we are going to start a you tube channel. We reside in Sylvania GA

I imagine not a lot of PT own homes, right? Those who do (and please give me your opinion), would they like to have housesitters who like the quiet Mexican season?

I really enjoyed your video. I have contacted you and if you will please contact us. We are from Sylvania GA USA, and are looking for a change. We will be in Isla majures in July. May 17th in La Roma Dominican republic. Between the two we are looking for another home and slowed down lifestyle. The hustle and bussle of the US is taking a toll on us.

Uurgh, I am so tired of politics. I have never seen the United States so divided.

The commercial is jarring.

Cost me 25 dollars to get a hair cut in Canada anywhere

Brighton: sorry you have the blues, but your teeth look so white! Who is your dentist?

Was wearing blue for both of you and intentional choice for the video? 😂

I believe forward thinking people have been leaving the USA in droves. And especially since FATCA (thanks, Obama).

Gee the same old hat.