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Hoodat:
She’s 63 and living by the beach in Mexico on $1,000 a month: ‘I can’t imagine living in the U.S. again’


Published: Aug 15, 2019 10:12 a.m. ET

After losing her job as a journalist, Janet Blaser left Santa Cruz for Mazatlán, where she started her own magazine. Here are the pros and cons of her life abroad.

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She spent the first year in Mazatlán living on the earnings from a part-time editing job she did online and some savings (Janet lives on about $1,000 a month), as she planned how to start that local arts-and-entertainment magazine. M! Magazine launched in 2007 — filled with restaurant reviews, profiles, advice on what to do and see — and Janet owned it for nine years.

Fast-forward more than a decade — during which time Janet also started a local organic farmers market — and though Janet misses her kids and now three grandkids, who all live in the U.S., she notes that “I can’t imagine living in the U.S. again” — in part because, she says, “I couldn’t afford to live in the States again” and that “the more easygoing Mexican lifestyle agrees” with her.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/shes-63-and-living-by-the-beach-in-mexico-on-1000-a-month-i-cant-imagine-living-in-the-us-again-2019-08-15


The thing that makes Mazatlán affordable for her is that it is not being run by her Santa Cruz peers.  Once the California leftists gain control of Mazatlán and implement the same government policies, her $1,000/mo living expense will rise to $7,000/mo.  This is one of the most galling things about liberalism.  There are never any lessons learned.  No one ever stops to figure out what went wrong with Santa Cruz, Portland, San Francisco, Washington's Maryland suburbs, New York, etc.  They just spot greener grass elsewhere, and then kill it off just as they did back home.  This woman is writing a book alerting all her liberal friends that there is still grass growing in Mazatlán  and to make sure they pack their Roundup in their suitcases when they decide to relocate.

TomSea:
Mazatlan is in Sinaloa.

So, plenty of Americans live in Mexico, they are probably well protected but that doesn't change that you are living in the heart of the Cartel-lands and could the violence affect where you are living? Possibly, eventually, it's ruined Acapulco they say.

At the least, real skullduggery is probably not far from where you live.

dfwgator:
Don't come back.

truth_seeker:
It is an article by a jounalist. Consider that.

OTOH Mexico is big and varied. There are numerous expatriate colonies.

If said people were not relatively safe, there would be plenty of news, about their demise.

Not my thing at this time.

IsailedawayfromFR:
Next article on her just might be displaying her head on a pole.  Mexico is indeed cheap, but not a safe place

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