Hi, I´m Bill the Geek. This is the Bill Dallas Lewis Channel. We make videos about the joys of living in Mexico. I have lived in Mexico for 17 years. Ten years in Puerto Vallarta, three years in Guadalajara, three years in Chapala Ajijic and now I live in Mazatlan. I travel Mexico trying to bring to you the joys of living here.
There's always been Americans here! Between 2009 and 2014 Obama had mass deportations 80 percent were from Michoacán the biggest influx of Americans and Bi-National children of these deportees was during 2014 there are over 5,000 Exiled spouses and children in Michoacán alone!
Meanwhile, food pricing/ services/ rent and so forth are seriously rising in the US , shrinking the Middle Class. Walmart is NOT an affordable place anymore. I can imagine other supermarkets . I am also moving abroad. Good luck
Hola. Another Wayne here. (From chicago). I’ll be in Morelia 3rd week of October to finish my TR application maybe we can meet and I’ll buy ya a lunch or dinner. Nice video.
Thank you for this video. I really enjoyed it. I have a God sister who just left Mexico a little while ago. She loves to explore different countries. She really enjoyed visiting Mexico. I want her to get all of the information she can possible just in case she decides to move there. This was very informative for that purpose. She is young and would like to have people surrounding her. OK, that’s all for now adios amigo. ❤️🙏🏾✌🏾
Did you leave Mazatlán Bill? I've been watching you for years, and I've been planning to move to Mexico since before that... Those days are getting closer and closer.
Hey!(: Thanks for sharing us your video! I've been living in Morelia for 20 years and is a beautiful and peace city. You can go to visit 'La Troje' restaurant and also to Patzcuaro city and enjoy the peace of the small city.
I was thinking of moving to mexico...but all the nice places..or at least the places I look into...they are full of old white people who have driven up the prices of everything. My home is paid off in Texas...may as well stay here as far as finances are concerned
Bill, was wondering your thoughts on a comment from a video about how safe Morelia is. According to them it's not the tourists who are in harms way but the locals. "Well, a was born and I have lived in Morelia all my life, except periods of times I come to the States and let me tell you, Morelia is not as safe as it use to be. Michoacan as a whole is dangerous because of the narcos, kidnapping, robbery, and express kidnapping. For the past 2 or 3 years that the socialist/comunist government of MORENA took over the state, we know the drug cartels put them in power, not the people, Morelia is very unsafe. Of course, it is very different for tourist to go and spend their days on Morelia's downtown than going into the peripherals of Morelia. Popular areas of Morelia are where the bulk of crime and extortion is. I'm pretty sure these guys and all these people speaking wonders of Morelia are honest and their wonderful experiences are truly correct but does not reflect the reality of the 90% of the people from the suburbs of the city. I'm pretty sure you guys of this video and the ones speaking nicely of my city didn't even notice the nightmare these business owners go through to be able to keep their doors opened and do business. Most of these business owners have to pay a monthly fee to the organized crime to let them operate their business and keep them safe from other crime groups. You guys won't notice this unless you keep your eyes and ears open and know what you're looking for. Of course, you can't be asking around business owners because you'll become a target, and the business owner won't wake up the next day. But that doesn't mean it's not happening. Actually, people like you and all of you who had wonderful vacations in Morelia are the ones who keep these criminals and corrupt governments in power without their knowledge. People living the nightmare want the world to know their situation, but then people like you who can reach thousands or millions of people around the world say otherwise validate these unjust criminal government forever. Say, for example, Cuba or Venezuela. We know they are criminal dictatorships oppressing and killing their people who speak up. However, we have tourists and youtubers who make money by visiting those countries and presenting the reality the dictators have for them tourists and, of course, without them knowing they're helping the dictatorship by financing them and telling the world what locals say is not true. 75 years and 25 years of dictatorships in Cuba and Venezuela, thanks to tourism who only care for their own good time and good life only them can buy. For example, EL GASPACHO, this lady bought, is meant for tourists and middle class or high class in Morelia. Low class people or poor people these socialist use as a flag to gain and keep the power is unreachable to them. A small GASPACHO costs $80 to $100 pesos and a poor guy with just 2 kids makes about $200 pesos daily. They take their family to Morelia's downtown on Sunday and buy a GASPACHO each, wife, husband, and the kids, that's $400 pesos or two full days of work. Why I'm telling you this, few years ago before the Socialist/comunist took over the government, the cost of living in Morelia was half of what it's today. A Gaspacho was selling for $40 to $50 pesos and you would make the same from work. Now everything doubled except salaries. Why everything double? Organized crime imposing fees to businesses and businesses have to increase prices to keep in business. That's how Socialist/comunist governments make people poorer and poorer until middle class dissappear and becomes poor too. Well, I'm sorry, I tried to explain you a little bit how your experience doesn't reflect the reality we really face in Michoacan and how we help these criminal systems be in place forever while people suffer and ask support from the world. If you stay en Morelia's downtown or travel to other places in Michoacan with a rental car os only speak English and visit other cities downtown or tourists places most likely you would have wonderful experiences because they know they have to protect you, you bring dollars which they need go finance themselves and you tubers would help them promote that place as safe around the world so no body listen or believe them. Morelia is not safe SEÑORES. If you are coming to visit us, get out of the tourist zone and visit the Popular áreas, get to INTERACT with the real people where the abuses happen. Otherwise, you guys, especially Americans, are going to keep financing another organized crime dictatorship in Michoacan and in all México. Tourists and youtubers who go to Cuba, Venezuela, China, North Korea, Nicaragua, or even Bolivia and try to document and live the reality of the 80%of the people dissappear, are imprisoned or are removed from that country and been told not to come back. Of course, I will never ask you to expose yourself to those dangers, but what I can ask you is to try to live like an ordinary Morelia's citizen person and your experience and opinion would be 360° different. You have an advantage. You are Mexican descent and have the looks. Hopefully, you are bilingual, so speak ONLY SPANISH and behave like Mexican. Spend only pesos and do not use credit cards or debit cards and use taxis and public transportation. Visit Popular stores or coffee shops where the majority of locals go and shop, and your experience would be completely different, and you would see more things if you observe with attention but then, I'll ask you to be very, very careful. The last thing I want is you risking your life. I have 3 kids born in USA and took them to Morelia every year on December, and I always kept them out of those dangerous places, and in Morelia, they heard gun shots every other night and heard next morning about the deceased people, etc. Now they are grown kids and come to Michoacan on their own. Now, I can't protect them anymore the way I would like and I keep telling them not to speak English and not to carry dollars with them and not to show more than enough money when they pay for something, specially when they go to visit family members in other cities of Michoacan. Specifically, when they travel to "TIERRA CALIENTE" like some of you mentioned. So, I'm glad you guys had a wonderful and nice vacation in Morelia but please don't give a wrong message to people out there unless you really experienced what real people lives in Popular áreas where crime is an everyday reality. God bless you all.
thanks for the update. i moved to Mazatlan right around when you did and within a year my rent, which was being paid in pesos, had soared. i have noticed a big fall in prices the past year and thanks for telling me why. i moved back to Ajijic and think prices, except for fresh fish, are way cheaper here even with the peso drop compared to Mazatlan. keep up the great work
I think the main reason is the Judicial Reform being pushed through is causing the value of the pesos to decline. Some prices has come down in Mexico, but not gasoline, it's gone up.
You missed one of the main reasons for the recent decline in value. It is because AMLO is pushing for a constitutional change whereby judges are elected rather than appointed. This threatens investors confidence in Mexico's democracy.
Also it is too expensive and we need the right price for nearshoring future. One of the problems of Mexico si the judiciary system. It is a structural problem. It needs fixing. I thing interest rates have more say in the long run.
