Currently, you do not need a Mexican driver’s license to drive in Mexico. If you’re coming to Mexico on a tourist visa, you have 180 days. On a tourist visa you can drive your foreign-plated car. You have to have insurance, which is not that difficult, so it’s pretty stupid if you didn’t. 
you are not bound by having to maintain colonial architecture. In that case, you can build using the materials we do now: concrete, brick, columns, reinforced walls, metal roof, tile, etc. and you can build a swimming pool where you want. In Granada, you can do pretty much anything you want on vacant land. It’s much less restrictive to build on vacant land than to remodel a colonial house. (See my answer...
For $480 / square meter, if you have a good architect with good workers, you can do a lot very well; you can have a very nice home. At $480 / square meter, the same 2,000 square foot home would cost you $89,000 to build. 
Under Portuguese law, each car needs to have a third party’s liability insurance to cover the damages that you may cause to other people in case of an accident. All risks insurance is also possible and common although not mandatory. Please note that these insurances relate to each car and not to the driver. 
Sad to say, but for us the biggest surprise was how friendly, open and caring people are in both the countries that we've been expats in. Panama has some of the friendliest and most helpful people in the world, and Colombians are, if anything, even more so. If you're considering becoming an expat, give up the existential fear of other people, other cultures, and you'll feel a lot better, and fit in much faster. There are a lot of unfounded, stereotypical horror stories about hostile...What I learned from our Celador: Succeeding as an expat in five easy lessons.
1-You’re safer than you think
2-They’re on bikes for a reason
3-Different is neither worse nor better
4-Violence can be counter productive
5-Value is where you find it
The video was taken on our street in Medellin Colombia, and it will charm you with its subject matter, and inherent message. Here are five lessons on what we’ve learned as short time expats, thanks to...
Now that it’s over, I can tell you about it. 