Pacific Coast

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Here’s where you’ll find the some of the best surfing beaches in the world.  And, the well-known, glamour beaches, like Acapulco, Puerto Escondido, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan and, of course, the surfer haven of Sayulita. The Pacific coast of Mexico is rugged terrain falling into beautiful, and sometimes dangerous, beaches.  If the ocean is your bag, [...]

Los Cabos

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Lifestyle Rating: B (range C – A) Los Cabos is a municipality at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula that encompasses Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo (the municipal seat), as well as the twenty miles of beach area that lies between the two.  Cabo San Lucas’ party atmosphere and San [...]

Puebla

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Average Lifestyle rating: C (range D to A) The city of Puebla is the capital of the state of Puebla, and the fourth largest city in Mexico.  It is located between Mexico City and Veracruz in a large valley known as the Valley of Puebla surrounded on four sides by the snow-capped mountains and volcanoes of the [...]

Cuernavaca

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Average Lifestyle rating: B (range C to A) Situated in the central part of Mexico, Cuernavaca is the capital city of the state of Morelos. Fifty-three miles south of Mexico City, and almost directly west of Veracruz, Cuernavaca sits in the center of the Mexican portion of the Central American isthmus.  It is a charming colonial [...]

Campeche

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Average Lifestyle rating: C+ (range D+ to B+) Built in 1517 AD, and located on the southeastern side of the Yucatán Peninsula, Campeche is the capital city of the state of Campeche and an excellent retirement destination for several reasons. The most important are the low cost of living, affordable real estate, high degree of safety and a [...]

La Paz

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Average Lifestyle rating: B (range D+ to A-) La Paz is the largest city in, and the capital of the state of Baja California Sur, and it is the fourth largest geographic MSA (metropolitan statistical area – a city and its burbs) in Mexico. With a population of 215,178 (2010 census), it also has one of the highest [...]

Merida – The White City

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Average Lifestyle rating: B- (range D- to A+) Merida is, not only the capital of the state of Yucatan, it is the financial and cultural center.  It got its nickname, “The White City,” in its early history because most of its buildings were white and the customary clothing worn by the inhabitants was also white.  It is the [...]

The Progreso Corridor

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Average Lifestyle rating: C (range from D- to A-) At the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula on the “Flamingo Coast” is a string of small fishing communities.  Beginning at Chuburna and running east on Carreterra 27 for about 50 kilometers to Telchac Puerto, these villages vary in size and modernity.  Progreso, largest of them, has a [...]

Todos Santos

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Average Lifestyle rating: B- (range C- to A-) Some old-hands believe that Todos Santos is not what it used to be (what is?). As its popularity has burgeoned and its gringo/mexicano ratio has tilted less sharply, it’s no longer “untouched” by modernity. But though it is the second largest town in the La Paz (Baja capital) municipality, the overall feel [...]

Tulum

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Average Lifestyle rating: B (range  C+ to A+)Tulum is a world apart from Cancun and Playa del Carmen, but it is marching on the “path of progress” and change is in the air.  In 2004, the road to Tulum from Akumal (20 miles north) was dirt and rough.  In 2010, they finished the last leg of what [...]