Merida Mexico: The Expat Haven For A Better Life On $2000/month? 

Except on the Saturday and Sunday of Elections, the sale of alcohol is prohibited.

@@user-nb9jm3xo8u Why is this?

@@user-nb9jm3xo8u I found that out!

No one said cheap- We give a very detailed range cost of living from personal experience and from rental examples we know are currently available. Cheap is very subjective. What might be cheap to you might be expensive to someone else. And what might be expensive to you might be inexpensive to someone else. That's why we always publish cold numbers. Thanks for your feedback. Also, just FYI it is not The Yucatan it is only Yucatan 😉

"Cheap" sounds rude. Affordable would be better.

Just move westbound. The city of Campeche is great.

@@MexicoRelocationGuide when referring to the peninsula, you say The Yucatan, I'd say his use was correct 😉

Make sure to visit from October to April, the rest are unlivable hot

Glad it was helpful. We have a lot more helpful information on our site mexicorelocationguide.com/blog/

Yes its to hot, dont come, we dont want you here

Thanks for watching. For a more in depth overview of the neighborhoods, I highly recommend taking a private relocation tour. mexicorelocationguide.com/tours/private-relocation-tours/

Hi please go visit too Merida is sooooo nice and beautiful friendly people real good food ❤alot of love I used to go there every year growing up as a young child in Belice love thar place in fact I love the entire Mexico 🇲🇽 I Been to almost every different part of Mexico so May God 🙌 bless abs keep everyone safe and May your dreams comes true Have a Happy XMAS everyone I love ❤️ all of you and God loves ❤️ you too.

We covered a few other neighborhoods outside of centro in this video. Like Montes de Ame, Montebello, Montecarlo :) did you get a chance to watch the full video?

@@MexicoRelocationGuide Yes. I'm talking about a wider range, as well as some of the southern areas. I realize there's a lot of Merida to cover for one video. I hope I get to see other areas some day soon as Merida is where we plan to go.

Awesome! Thank you!

Exactly. It was actually on my list to visit but not with that heat and humidity.

Beautiful but extremely hot and I know hot since I live in Florida.

It’s just not possible because it changes every day and from one week to another. So to still make it valuable in a few years, we figured to leave the equivalent out so that it doesn’t mislead anyone when the conversions change- Thanks for watching

Que bueno que te gusto! Glad you enjoyed it

For estate planning in Mexico we highly recommend having a testamento- which is a will in Spanish. You can designate who gets a property in case you pass. If you don't have a will, the next of kin is automatically given the property- these are children or spouses and common law partners. However, if one of these family members wants to fight this in court they can.. To have a testamento done, you would need to work with either a lawyer or a notario in MX. If you need our recommendations, we give you access to our directory of contacts when you purchase our complete Mexico Relocation Guide - mexicorelocationguide.com/guide/

La Ermita and San Sebastian are Centro...

​@meatgravylard you are correct. I meant to say barrios.

Las Vigas is my go to place for drinks and affordable food.

@@robertk617 You can't go wrong with Las Vigas. The only Las Vigas where you come out a winner!

Yes- I highly recommend using Xe.com they send you a daily report if you sign up for it

Great! Check out our relocation tours Mexicorelocationguide.com

Thanks for the support. We’ve done a video in Campeche. It’s on our channel ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kLqV7UAmG5I.htmlsi=MMoiGStRwOZqsK7g

I need my dog so anything you want to share is much appreciated by this "pawrent". 🐾

It’s def hot when it’s hot in Merida

It depends on your age and whether you have pre existing conditions or not 😉

Not sure which section you're referring to but I showed rentals in all prices. Going from $10,000 pesos and up. However, yes there are huge houses that rent for a lot of money. Especially in the trendy neighborhoods

@@MexicoRelocationGuidethe part where you said an apartment or house in centro? That’s so high, im having a hard time even believing it.

It's very common in centro.

@@ej1692 believe it, it's not cheap here anymore.

Whichever one is available

Taxis always...faster and cheaper, full stop.

We've done Guanajuato city - check it out here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WCZ39oBneMc.html

Yeap. Very hot- although some people still love it

I don't, but do you think that they may be of interest to me?

I BELIEVE ECUADOR WILL BE A MUCH MUCH BETTER OPTION FOR YOU

@@moreno-lh7ys why?

Diversity. Cheaper better climate. And they have american dollars as a currency. Also food wise culture and nicer people. Little crime almost zero. And more more ​@juliaallen771

Just left Ecuador and met several people from the US who are VERY happy living there. Some live in Cuenca and others lived outside of Loja. I would consider it as it is SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper but the 15 hour plane ride back to the US is a deterrent for me

No, this was done end of September :) It was all done in the middle of the week and during working hours. So not as many people on the streets as on weekends.

we talked about centro a lot in the beginning of our intro to neighborhoods?

Sorry you were disappointed in Merida.

You didn't see Merida. Your comment suggests you'd hate New York City based on Times Square. I've lived here many years, can't remember the last time I or any one I know spent time where you describe.

what are the places on your list?

Try Guadalajara. It has close countryside where You can ride bicycle. Lot studio to practice yoga and that city is not far from the sea too. Other city could be Querétaro.

@@hectorsalmoran9235 WOW! Thank you VERY much🌻

@@dlwilliamson5644 I second Querétaro for its services. It is very welcoming and surrounded by inviting natural features. Also, you may wish to investigate San Luis Potosí; the surrounding state has amazingly diverse natural features, the Potisanos are very friendly, and your dog would be tolerated if not welcomed. Not so many Gringos either.

Queretaro & Aguascalientes

Yah, and in that few years I'll double or triple my investment.

​​@@shawngall7846, Not exactly. Real estate, like gold, is merely a hedge against inflation. While you may get more pesos when You sell, those pesos will have diminished in purchasing power. In fact, an investor may do better to rent and invest the difference. The world is too unstable for me to be saddled with liabilities that are nonrevenue producing. I want portability and convertibility.

Yes, I completely agree. Americans top bad about immigrants, but then when they move to other countries, they just called themselves ex-pats. I’ve noticed this for years.

Expatriate: someone who lives outside of their native country. Immigrant: someone who comes to live permanently in another country. I plan to spend six months in the northern hemisphere, and six months in the southern hemisphere. Therefore, I'm "Expat"....

​@@HealthyThinkingsubstack, Not "immigrants", per se. Rather, "Illegal immigrants" that reportedly cost United States taxpayers $190 BILLION, ANNUALLY! Anyone is welcome to legally enter the United States. Just as My grandparents did in the early twentieth century (1906).

​@@user-nb9jm3xo8uExpat is the same as immigrant. There are many "expats" that live for ever! In my neighborhood there is an English teacher living and working here, for me is an immigrant (legally or not) he is living and working outside his country

6 months is the maximum duration of a tourist visa in Mexico...so, that makes you a long term tourist. If you have a residency permit, then you might a part-time immigrant/resident depending on physical presence requirements. If you work in quality control for Volkswagen, GM, or another mutinational company with ops in Mexico (for example), and they arrange the paperwork for you to live and work there for years at a time, while your kids go to an international school in Mexico, and you stay there long enough to take advantage of the IRS's Foreign Earned Income Tax Exlusion, THEN you're an EXPAT. Btw, that's what I was in the Middle-East years ago for a large oil company. When I move to a humble abode in Oaxaca, to retire with my Mexican born wife of 30+ years, then I will be an immigrant...living with Mexicans, improving my spanish, and playing loteria with them on Saturday nights. I wish more of my fellow gringos would try to blend with the Mexicans. Maybe they'd feel some pride in calling themselves an immigrant.

Renting is what we recommend for the first year at least. But some people rent forever and never buy If you do buy, getting a mortgage in MX isn’t easy. So most foreigners purchase a home with cash

@@MexicoRelocationGuide Renting for a year in a rapidly escalating real estate market has risks too. Act fast or pay the price.

It’s not taboo at all. It’s a fair question All of which can be found on this site www.inegi.org.mx/contenidos/saladeprensa/boletines/2023/ensu/ensu2023_04.pdf

@@MexicoRelocationGuide Thanks. Love how you passed that 'hot potato' to a 21 page report...a 21 page report written in Spanish...with no commentary of your own. Outstanding.

@@elgar6743you’re interested in relocating to Mexico and you’re upset at a report in Spanish? Please be serious 😂

@@anthonypeter8652 - Terrible attempt at projecting your ignorance onto me, friend. There's a word in the english language...context. Look it up...if you know how... I relocated to a tax haven in the Tropics 2 decades ago...very content. My experience is that most Latin countries are crime infested, and ex pats are easy targets...thereby, essentially, forcing ex pats to live in ex pat dense communities. Horrific from my perspective...hence my comment how all these 'marketing' videos always, always neglect to mention the topic of crime to their prospects.

It's the kind of person that wants to do ZERO research and wants everything done for them

That's the word on the street. If crime rates are kept low, Mérida could well become the most expensive Mexican city to live in, outside of CDMX, in the next 5-10 years. Prices have inflated dramatically in the past 5 years.

that's the rumor, but it is much complicated than that and I'm not sure how true it is. The police force there is super on point, the folks and the culture don't tolerate it very much. It's also just not a geographically advantageous place for them. There are many cities in Mexico that are very similar in safety, so they are no go cartel zones as well? Unlikely.

People do not get when they say "safe" means "rigged" actually. Police cars every corner in every neighborhood? C'mom, who pays for that? Government? lol, people love to be fooled. Campeche is the real safe city.

Interesting, so you think it will become as dangerous as the US cities? Smh. Anyway, it's the gov't and police that ban the cartels.

Thats just a rumor. It has more todo where it is located and the type of tourism here. But the thing with the narcos is just a fairytale

Actually, from what I've seen, there are more domestic and foreign tourists than expats or immigrants.

Sounds like any city in usa

I sincerely hope that you did not come back, or if you stayed, you have already left

for $2000 you get air conditioner, a clean place, good service, and you can go to the beach every weekend

I've lived there for3 years...I agree with the service, it's horrible. They don't understand hospitality. and the weather is super hot.

At this point anywhere is better than a crumbling USA.

Campeche is much better than hyped Merida

thanks for the feedback- however San Pancho is tiny compared to the big city that Merida is. Not everyone wants to live in a small community