Emphatically, yes it is safe in Yucatan. Our own US Department of State statistics reports that the Yucatan is safer than any other part of Mexico. Mexico in general is safe. The Yucatan Peninsula is very safe. We are safer than 26 major American cities in terms of crime in general, crime against people and the big one, murder. We are safer here than we are in Chicago, statistically.
You can receive your Social Security check outside of the US directly to a foreign bank account. However, there is some paperwork that is required to do this. It's easier to have your Social Security check deposited into a US bank account and just access that money through a debit card. 
The most recent holiday in Nicaragua was Christmas. Christmas is celebrated by closing the government offices (except safety) from about the 23rd of December to the first Monday in January. 
A. Employment or self-employment (for activities within the official list of high added value activities) HOW I CAME TO MARRY A YOUNG GUATEMALTECO - Part 3
Here in Guatemala they call themselves Guatemaltecos (Guatemalteca for women) and not Guatemalans. But both are understood. When I came to live here it was a plan for two years, to put this young indigenous woman through her career program and then return to California. I had decided I was DONE with relationships and would never marry again. I tell my guests now I never say never. I also had never even thought about building my own home in a foreign country. But how young is he, this...
It was two years ago, December 9, 2012 when we landed in Panama City. As excited as I was, the fact that I had bronchitis dampened that feeling a lot. Day two found us looking for yet another round of antibiotics. I bought them over the counter. They worked great, too. I had such severe allergies in the USA, especially in Texas, that I usually had some kind of upper respiratory infection at least twice a year. Odd, but it seemed the doctors had no idea how to treat it. I was given the...
who lays on the sidewalk near the president’s security guard (who seems to be the only dog in a city of cats); the smell of beef broth from an open door whose meaty heat is added to the saturated heat of close dwellings and narrow passage ways, causing a linear view of the sea, its pungency carried by erratic winds; and remembering to walk just past the ruins of a convent that...