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Retirement in Mexico
Expatriate Retirement
Active Adult
Lifestyle
Real Estate for Sale
Mexico Real Estate
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Cost of Living: Well Below the U.S.
National Average
| ~ Article by Peter Shuster, a U.S.
expatriate retiree and resident of Tequisquiapan, Queretaro, Mexico
Does Shangri-La really exist? Well, people
living in the Mexican state of Queretaro think it just
may. There is a special town, and it is named
Bernal (population 5,000). It is Mexico's Shangri-La
and was founded in the 1600s. Bernal has the
second largest monolith mountain in the world, and it is
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The residents of Bernal have a life expectancy that
averages 94 plus years. There are men over the
age of 100 who are still working. Is it the good
energy that that comes off that rock? Or the
pure air they breath? Or the water they
drink? The boulder is a magnet for many people.
They move close to it and believe they receive spiritual,
mental and physical energy. Who knows for sure,
but my wife and I go there twice a month for a visit, hoping
it helps us live longer, too.
Bernal is quite a lovely small colonial town with
cobblestone streets. It's located only thirty minutes
from our home in Tequisquiapan and less than an hour from
the large city of Queretaro. Every weekend
many Mexican tourists visit Bernal and keep coming
back. Its 7,000 foot elevation, dry climate,
clean streets, blue skies and cool temperatures almost all year keep
bringing people back again and again.
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Bernal is also famous for its wool and colorful rugs and
jackets. They're make five days a week, and when the
weekend arrives, the tourists stroll the streets shopping for good
deals on woolen products. There are many lovely restaurants,
stores and homes with courtyards; some are open to the public to
look into on weekends. Many lovely hotels are around,
and they generally have vacancies unless it a Mexican holy day,
and we do have plenty of holy days in Mexico.
This
is an interactive map. Click on the arrows in the upper left
hand corner to navigate the map and click on the +/- signs to zoom
in and out.
There are a few Americans living around the mountain base in
lovely Mexican homes. Bernal is known to many Mexicans but not to
the outside world. Our town of Tequisquiapan is also a well
kept secret, and this has helped keep housing prices
low. Many of our American friends living in
Tequisquiapan get upset with me telling people about our hidden
Paradise, and my reply is always, "There are many good people
looking for such a place as we have found, and they should be
informed that Paradise does exist." Wealthier
Americans may prefer places like the Lake Chapala area or San
Miguel, and between the two of them, there are 11,000
Americans living there. Here we boast of having only
30! The plus to that is that in addition to housing,
the cost of labor, goods, etc. still remains low compared to more
well-known expatriate retirement towns. Our thought
has always been, if I want to live where Americans fill the town,
why leave America and relocate to Mexico?
Any questions that we can answer about our area, please feel
free to contact us by email at mxschuster@hotmail.com
Click
Here to Learn More About the Author and Why He Made the
Move to Mexico
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