Wow! Thank you so much. You absolutely made my day. I'm looking forward to digging into your channel as well. Katie's community is amazing.

@@RobinsonKris Thanks! Yeah the community is awesome, and I always get nuggets from her videos.

I REALLY hope you get to live there. It has a lot of challenges, but so much beauty, especially in the people. I absolutely fell in love with the culture. I know we were in a relatively touristy place, but it was a lot more "local" than the bigger cities (Puerto Vallarta, Cancun) and it changed me in profound ways. Good luck on your journey and thanks for stopping by!

Thank you! And thanks for stopping by. I've been very much enjoying your channel!

Thanks for stopping by! I love everything you said about Mexico. I'm hopeful that life's plot twists will bring us back to living there again at some point. Mexico City, Oaxaca and so many other parts of this amazing country call my name. I am a better person for having lived there.

Hello, fellow cancer warrior! Twice, ugh. I hope you are on a healing journey. I walk beside you in that. I think it is really helpful if you can envision or even start to create what life looks like after you retire. Being able to see what the future could look like helps you find the courage to let go of the present. It was helpful for me to start with what a perfect day or week looked like, post career. I didn't realize how much of my identity was tied up in my work. It took a lot of introspection for me to identify the pieces of it that I could address. The want and need to feel valuable, capable, and needed surfaced for me and as soon as I realized that I could find new ways to accomplish those things. Starting this KZfaq channel is a part of it. Also, maybe see if you can ease into it. Go part-time, or consulting? I consulted for a couple of years for about 10 hours a week on and off and it really helped. Thanks for stopping by and I look forward to getting to know you here!

@@RobinsonKris Thank you for your reply. Imagining how I want my retirement to look like is where I struggle. I live on my own and the idea of spending more time alone (solitude time I cherish) is what worries me. And, there is the financial side. I need to sit snd jpurnal about all of it. I am sure I will figure it out. I always do...🤗👍

@@soniaperez2417 Hola Sonia! Believe me, you will find other things to help give you meaning and remember that only boring people get bored. Years ago while sailing and surfing through the Caribbean I ran across an elderly woman living by herself in a tiny but colorfully painted cabin on a desolate beach on a small island. She saw us surfing and invited us up for tea on her front porch mere yards from the oceans edge. Just one of the many memories that I took with me from that day was a small hand painted sign on her deck that said "How nice to do nothing all day and afterwards to rest" You can easily live like a Reina (Queen) in Mexico on much less than $1400us per month. I find it hard to spend more than $1200 living like a Rey (King) near the beach and within walking distance to all sorts of markets, food stands and quaint mom and pop restaurants. Every now and then I'll cruise over to to the nearby harbor malecon for some entertainment, the free weekend concerts and colorful water show where fountains dance to the music. Whole families with kids and Grandparents in tow stay late into the evenings socializing, eating fresh food from vendors and dancing. Like Kris mentioned, there is very little that a really good taco can't fix. Don't wait or keep putting it off or the time will never seem to be "just right". Mucha suerte desde la hermosa Ensenada!

Thanks for stopping by. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Always nice to run into a fellow Sayulita fan. It's a special place. Thanks for stopping by.

Thank you! And thanks for stopping by.

My pleasure!

Thank you, and thanks for stopping by.

Oh WOW! Congrats! How exciting. I miss it terribly and hope to return again soon for long periods of time. Best of luck to you. Thanks for stopping by.

Awww thanks, honey! I'm so glad we did this together.

Thank you, Jen! That means a lot to me.

Thank you! I'm so lucky.

Thanks, Tracie! I've been lucky in so many ways AND I've worked hard, too.

Many of the areas in Mexico that were once very affordable are now much more expensive. Sayulita is certainly one of those. I do hear that same of Ajijic. Oaxaca seems to be still somewhat affordable. I hope you get to do it!

Thanks for stopping by!

I'm so sorry to hear about your mom. Ovarian cancer is so tricky, as you know. No screenings and virtually no sign of there being something wrong until later stages. I got SO lucky to have caught it stage one. I appreciate you stopping by, and I'll hold your mom in peace.

Aw! Thank you.

Great question. 2 little answers...grandbabies. We had 2 in the space of less than a year and each of the little families needed some extra help. And once they got here, everything changed. We are very happy where we are AND hope to go back at some point, in some way.

I wish I would have taken more photos or video of some other feats of innovation I witnessed. People don't believe it until they can see it with their own eyes.

@@RobinsonKris 😂 I know, right?!?… pretty amazing what you can do if money isn’t the answer to all your challenges.

Thanks!

Thank you!!

Thanks for stopping by. I found the same thing in parts of Europe, too. It totally depends on what you're used to. Where I spent most of my life, it was not at all like this and so it required a real adjustment. And I'm glad for it.

First, I'm sorry to hear about your diagnosis, especially so early into your stay in Bucerius. I think the advice you got was spot on. I would have done the same thing. I hope you are finding a path forward and I'm sending you all the healing vibes I have to give. I'm not there anymore, not for health reasons, but for family reasons. I was lucky that I had stage 1 cancer, so after my surgery and chemo, the only thing I have needed for follow up care is blood work and an exam every 6 months. We kept our US health coverage while in Mexico, so I timed my check ups with travel back to the states for holidays. If I had a recurrence of cancer, I would have gotten back to the US as soon as possible. We never had a rent commitment of more than a few months at a time in Mexico, so we were tied there. For other emergencies, our plan was to pay out of pocket at local hospitals. We did have "travel insurance" as well, but had we decided to stay longer (which we really wanted to do), we would have pursued temporary residency and then gotten more local insurance. The cancer diagnosis made me not want to let go of my US insurance, though. It was a safety net I didn't want to let go of at that point.

It's a totally different town, I'm sure. I know people who have lived there since 2000 and even they say it's a bit unrecognizable. 1991, wow. I would LOVE to go back in time and see what it was like then. This video doesn't even begin to capture the love I feel for it and why.

I'm sorry that's your experience. Have you lived there? Everything is relative, so coming from my background and life experience, it very much IS a village. I've spent time in PV and don't see the similarity at all. Lots of tourists? Yep. And also SO many local Mexican families. Once we immersed ourselves into the community and lived there year-round (not just during 'high season'), our experience was very much a village one. I know it used to be much smaller and much less touristy and people who loved it back then don't like it now. And that's also true in just about every small, wonderful little slice of paradise in the world.

That's a GREAT question and yes. Of course, just by being there we were in danger of contributing to that. We tried to actively combat it by not eating or shopping at places that were clearly headed that direction and instead, favoring the very local mom and pop places. We contributed with time and money to local needs (schools, recycling programs, hurricane relief for families etc). I also try to dissuade people who think they want to go there, but I know are more into the all-inclusive, chain store experience. There are only a couple of chain stores in town right now, but I fear it will happen more and more.

Thank you!

Ya se llama Gringolita 😅 y vídeos como éste les pavimentan el camino!!! Good job!!! ​@@RobinsonKris

@@restauracioncorporal5775 Gracias por tus comentarios y por mirar. Sé que los americanos no gustan mucho y entiendo por qué. Sigo pensando que es un pueblo hermoso y he aprendido mucho de los mexicanos de allí.

We live in an open home. Literally didn't have walls in much of the living space. We also had a child staying with us at the time. Doing anything else wasn't an option. We do the best we can.

Thank you. I don't know what the technical cut off is for a village vs a town, but I think everything is relative so coming from an area with millions of people, a place with only about 5,000 feels very much like a village.