Is Mexico a good place for preppers to have their bugout location? Is Mexico a good place for survivalists?

Mexico is a good place for preppers and survivalists. There’s a very well-known Italian colony here in Yucatan that has least 60 to 80 family members who came from Italy expecting the world to end in 2012. They built a wide and impressive compound. I’ve heard of similar compounds in Jalisco, Chihuahua, and Durango. So is it a good place for preppers, I certainly think so; they’re already here.

 

You can certainly live off the grid not just...

Mexico is a good place for preppers and survivalists. There’s a very well-known Italian colony here in Yucatan that has least 60 to 80 family members who came from Italy expecting the world to end in 2012. They built a wide and impressive compound. I’ve heard of similar compounds in Jalisco, Chihuahua, and Durango. So is it a good place for preppers, I certainly think so; they’re already here.

 

You can certainly live off the grid not just in Yucatan, but anywhere in Mexico. Mexico is an up and coming emerging country, no longer Third World, but still has some Third World problems with poverty, so there are many, many communities that still don’t have electricity or running water.  Just recently, people have been putting wind generators and solar panels.  There are many communities across Mexico that don’t have any of these and they’re living off the grid and have been for generations. 

 

 

Most of the states in Yucatan have water literally a meter or less than a meter deep.  Yucatan is famous for its cenotes, which are something like sinkholes that are part of one of the largest underwater aquifers in the world.  You can purchase land almost anywhere in the Yucatan Peninsula and reach water almost immediately.  

 

(A sink hole or cenote in the Yucatan, Mexico, pictured.)

Mexico is absolutely a great place for a survivalist. You could live of the land here if you wanted to. You can grow your own food here.

 

There is a lady from Merida (a city of more than a million people in the state of Yucatan in the Yucatan Peninsula) who has a farm about 15 minutes out of Merida. She and her husband have every kind of vegetable, ducks, chicken, sheep, cattle, etc. They want to be 100% self-sustainable and they will be.

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Mexico is absolutely a great place for a survivalist. You could live of the land here if you wanted to. You can grow your own food here.

 

There is a lady from Merida (a city of more than a million people in the state of Yucatan in the Yucatan Peninsula) who has a farm about 15 minutes out of Merida. She and her husband have every kind of vegetable, ducks, chicken, sheep, cattle, etc. They want to be 100% self-sustainable and they will be.

 

Yucatan has one of the largest underground aquifers in the world.  Underneath the Yucatan Peninsula are huge pockets of fresh water. When we first decided where to go to retire, one of the things that I wanted was to know that I would have ample water for the rest of my life. In Celestún, where I live in a village of about 7,500 people in the state of Yucatan, there is a salt problem since we are located close to the ocean, but I do have wells here. The water is a bit salty, which is good enough to water the lawn but not good enough to drink. You can go 20 kilometers away and for $230 you can drill a well and have perfectly good water.

 

(Celestún, Yucatán, México, pictured.)

The problem with these groups sometimes is they come down to a foreign country with those same attitudes, which can be problematic. A lot of times you’ll find that they’re really not happy anywhere. A lot of times they have a hard time settling because they’re running away from one culture or the aspects of one political system, only to find another system they don’t like. 

 

Basically there are two types people: those who have...

The problem with these groups sometimes is they come down to a foreign country with those same attitudes, which can be problematic. A lot of times you’ll find that they’re really not happy anywhere. A lot of times they have a hard time settling because they’re running away from one culture or the aspects of one political system, only to find another system they don’t like. 

 

Basically there are two types people: those who have to move and those that move for some perceived improvement in their life.  Both groups integrate to differing degrees with the local society but the preppers and survivalists fall into a different category.  

 

("On Your Own," the CD cover of David Truly's band, The Tall Boys Band,  pictured. )

Mexico is a place where if everything falls apart, preppers can have access to water, food, and defend themselves. To begin with, we have the largest lake in Latin America that is fed from the three biggest rivers in Mexico.

 

Besides that, you have all our terrain. There is terrain in Mexico where you have from the rivers and mountains, to the lakes, to the oceans, to the deserts; we have so much. There’s water sources. We even have in the south what...

Mexico is a place where if everything falls apart, preppers can have access to water, food, and defend themselves. To begin with, we have the largest lake in Latin America that is fed from the three biggest rivers in Mexico.

 

Besides that, you have all our terrain. There is terrain in Mexico where you have from the rivers and mountains, to the lakes, to the oceans, to the deserts; we have so much. There’s water sources. We even have in the south what is called “cenotes,” which is sweet water and fresh water that are hidden under ground. People now use them as swimming pools. You could use that if something would collapse, for drinking water because it’s fresh water. It’s safe to drink.

 

There are areas in Mexico, for instance, the Lakeside area (Chapala and Ajijic), that there lower population density, and where you can crop your own food. I believe on the way to Jocotepec (a city on Lake Chapala near Ajijic) there is sustainable living area in which they do everything organic and they do everything on solar power and wind power.

 

In the south, you have the state of Quintana Roo that’s more a of jungle atmosphere. However, you can still have tropical fruits, berries, animals that you could poach to kill if you needed to eat.

 

As another example, consider Jalisco, which is where I live. Half of the state is farming and agriculture. The coldest time I’ve seen is when I had to pull out a coat jacket was 47 Fahrenheit and that was in December, so the growing season is all year round and there’s plenty of rain and plenty of water.

 

There is very low density in many places in Mexico, depending on where you want to go. The only issue would be that having firearms could be a legal problem so please check with an attorney before you even buy one.

 

(Cenote, Yucatan, Mexico, pictured.)