I have two kids and I have been in Mexico for 20 years. For 10 years, I lived in Mexico City, which is where I got married. Then we moved to the coast here in Cancun, in the state of Quintana Roo. My twins who were born here in Cancun at hospital here called Hospiten, which is a European administered hospital. In the last 5 years Hospiten opened another hospital in Playa del Carmen (located in the Riviera Maya) and they are also looking down in the other areas of the Riviera Maya like in Tulum, maybe in the next 5 or 6 years.
My experience with the hospitals in the Yucatan Peninsula has been fantastic. Not too long ago, one of our clients, from Ohio, had difficulties with her heart so she started visiting the hospital over in Cancun. I remember her telling me, “You know, in the States, whenever I have to go to the hospital, I felt like a number, but when I started coming to the hospital here in Mexico, on my second visit, the doctor received me with kisses on the cheek, he remembered my daughter and her name, and he asks about me. I felt like I was being attended to by a friend or a neighbor.” I always remember that story because that kind of hospitality is very typical here. It is part of Mexico’s culture to give extra care.
In the state of Yucatan, Merida is the hub of the Yucatan. It’s the largest and oldest city in the southern part of Mexico. It also the place in the area that has the most money and where many rich families and organizations have their headquarters. Cancun basically didn’t exist until recently. It used to be that Isla Mujeres has more of the population right there on the island than Cancun and Cancun was literally just a dock and a ferry for people to get to Isla Mujeres.
Cancun really didn’t have the infrastructure or the history, or the centers or hubs. The 1970s was when the national government started to invest in the infrastructure in Cancun. As a result, the financial centers and hospital centers are more over Merida. In Merida, you will easily find four to five top-notch hospitals.
I met a gentleman from Florida, who is a realtor, who lives in Progreso, one of the beach towns around Merida. He just told me that he moved from the States because he had some type of cancer and the treatments that they were giving up in the States were against the law, but here in Merida, it was allowed. So he made the move down to Mexico to be close to Merida. He loved the water and the beach, so he decided to move to Progreso, where he is only about 25 minutes away from this very important hospital where he could get treatments for his cancer. If I remember it correctly, it was about 8 years ago when he moved to Mexico for this treatment.
There are three or four other hospitals in Cancun, but Hospiten is my personal preference and where I am confident with the quality of the doctors and the facilities that they have. Hospiten is like a hospital in the United States. I came from a smaller town in Indiana and my opinion is that the hospitals here in Cancun may be equal or even a step better than the hospitals in Indiana. Overall, the Hospiten is equivalent or probably a bit better.
Back in Mexico City, I’ve been in the hospital several times. My family on my wife’s side were very involved in the hospital. They were doctors. One of the top hospitals in Mexico is Hospital Angeles, which is on par with the hospitals in Texas. Most of the doctors here in Mexico do their training up in Texas.
In Bocas Del Toro, you wear whatever clothes you want. Since I am in real estate, I wear shorts and t-shirts and most people do the same. Shorts is the name of the game here. Everybody here wears shorts, and flip flops is your standard foot issue. People who own the really nicer hotels tend to dress up a little bit more to reflect the clientele that they have. 
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I’ve had a number of clients, owners, and tenants in the Oaks Tamarindo who have moved dogs to Costa Rica. You can get a pet passport, which can be easily found on the Internet. In fact, I’ve found it for a number of clients. .jpg)
