In Mazatlán, you can get by just by speaking in English. Mexicans don’t speak perfect English, but all the major services- restaurants, stores, etc. always have somebody somewhere who speaks English. If you speak a bit of Spanish, of course it would help, but you can go almost anywhere in Mexico and find that most of the Mexicans speak English. If you just speak English, it would not be easy every day, but it would make some tasks a lot easier if you spoke some Spanish. .png)
Majority of the doctors in the Cayo district are English speaking. There are some Cuban doctors and they speak some English but not fluently. They would explain themselves in a way that a patient could understand what they were saying. My mom works at the hospital, so I'm pretty familiar with the ins and outs. If you see a doctor here in Cayo, you would understand what they are saying and if you can't, there's somebody at the hospital that would translate for you.
We have a friend who rents in Coronado, Panama who pays US $950 for a house on a private lot. It has two bedrooms and one bathroom. It is an odd house because there are two buildings. There is kitchen and living room in one building and a casita with a master bedroom and washroom in the other building. So this house is at the low end of the price range and it’s hard to find prices that low. You’d be looking closer to $1,500...
The mosquitoes and other insects are not that bad here in Algarve. We are not Florida and we are not Central America. Anyone who is accustomed to living in those places would find Algarve to be a welcomed relief. We clearly do get some flies and mosquitoes in the summer but they are not at the epidemic level. Some houses here have pools so sometimes mosquitoes breed in the water and we have to swat them away but it’s not a big deal. People here often get wax candles that have a...Comparing Life in the US with Life in Mexico After Living in Mexico for Two Years
They were big, open questions— the “elephant in the room,” the large, unavoidable thing I was a bit afraid to confront honestly and directly. The background is that I was born and raised in the US, where I spent almost all of my 59 years before, two years ago, moving to Mexico. The elephant was these series of questions: After these two years, how would I respond upon returning to the US to visit and retrieve our household goods to...
Even though we thoroughly enjoyed our six-plus weeks in Baja (my wife, Jet Metier, wanted to buy some land there immediately), it was time for us to move on to experience new things. The desert and relative isolation we enjoyed as newbies in Baja would have to be gently placed into the past as we ventured forward to new experiences, also in places we had never been-- the jungles and more populated areas of mainland Mexico.