There are lots of good, sensible reasons for moving to Mexico, but it takes consideration, research, and a plan to make your move a success.
If you’re seeking a change of lifestyle in earnest, and you’re prepared to invest in the decision, you’ll find a wealth of knowledge here on Mexperience to help you consider your choices.
Practical aspects of living in Mexico
Our guide to the Practical Considerations for Living in Mexico will help you to examine important aspects of living here, and our article about matching your lifestyle needs with your location will help you to consider places to live as you explore your options.
The Mexico Essentials section on Mexperience provides you with an extensive background guide to the practical aspects about being in and adapting to Mexico.
Our series about Essential Skills for Expats helps you to understand key aspects of Mexican lifestyles to help you learn about the culture and integrate into daily life when you make the move to Mexico.
Finding a place to live in Mexico
When you move here, you’ll need somewhere to live.
Choosing a location
Our section about Places to Live in Mexico provides helpful insights and guides to interesting charming locations to consider when you’re short-listing areas and towns to live in Mexico.
Finding a home
Our guides to property and real estate in Mexico will help you to understand the Mexican real estate market, whether you plan to rent or buy, offered through an extensive series of free Mexico eBooks related to real estate.
Download our free guide to Real Estate and working with realty agents in Mexico property and real estate includes practical advice like finding a house to rent, understanding the home buying and selling process, and how to find and work with a real estate agent in Mexico.
To help you find and buy a home in Mexico, you can use our Mexico Home Finders assistance service that connects you with local realty agents in locations in Mexico.
Living costs and finances
Financial considerations are an important aspect of any move. We don’t recommend you plan a lifestyle here solely based on living costs, but they are a key factor to consider and our guide to the cost of living in Mexico will help you to map-out a detailed budget based on your individual life situation.
Our guides and articles about money and finances in Mexico share helpful and practical insights into managing your money when you’re here and our guide to Money and Banking Services in Mexico will help your planning.
Mexico visas and residency permits
Mexico’s immigration laws are reasonable and allow non-Mexicans with the financial means or family roots, and/or skills, to live here legally.
We publish extensive knowledge to help you, including a helpful article about routes to obtaining legal residency in Mexico that provides guidance and advice for seeking a residency permit here. Our Mexico Immigration Guide, a free eBook updated annually, has helped tens of thousands of readers to plot a course through to legal residency in Mexico.
If you seek some personal, one-to-one advice to help you assess your immigration choices, consider using our Mexico Immigration Assistance service.
Mexico for retirement
Mexico continues to be one of the most popular countries in the world for American and Canadian retirees and our guide to the Considerations for Retirement in Mexico helps you to review important lifestyle choices as you make your retirement plans.
Our latest articles about retirement in Mexico share valuable insights and helpful advice for anyone planning a possible retirement here.
Working in Mexico
Working-age professionals, especially those plying a trade in the knowledge economy, are also considering Mexico as a base to live and work, our extensive guides and articles to Working in Mexico help you to assess the opportunities and challenges of working life in the country.
Mexico is an ideal place to spend your leisure time
When you’re living here, you’ll enjoy direct access to the enormous choice of leisure opportunities Mexico offers. Our guides and articles about travel experiences in Mexico provide inspiration and advice for spending your leisure time, and our travel partners can help you arrange custom travel tours, with itineraries created by people who know Mexico intimately.
Knowledge, insights and contacts to help you
Whether you intend to move to Mexico full-time or part-time, whether you’re resolved to moving here long term, for a trial period, or a fixed term, Mexperience has knowledge and connections which can help you to realize your plans.
Stories of foreign residents who have moved to Mexico successfully are most often characterized by people who made an effort to research and make considered choices. For those willing to make a plan and see-through the ‘sales pitch’ promises of pipe-dream lifestyles abroad, the benefits of meaningful residency in Mexico are real and tangible. Mexperience living and lifestyle guides and articles and library of Mexico eBooks show you how.
Mexico Assistance Services bridge the gap
To help you take the next steps and bridge the gap between your planning and making those plans happen, we also offer a selection of Mexico Assistance Services that connect you to service providers and local professionals that can facilitate your endeavors and help you to realize your plans.
Resources for Living & Lifestyle in Mexico
Mexperience offers you a comprehensive online resource of information and local knowledge to help you discover Mexico, explore choices, find opportunities and plan a new life in Mexico. Our resources include:
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