Articles for tag: Expats, Mexicans, San Miguel, San Miguel De Allende

Americans Living in San Miguel De Allende, Mexico

Americans living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico either do not understand, do not want to understand, or are in simple denial regarding the effect they’ve had on this Central Mexican Colonial Town. I find their constant shock and surprise at the observations made by the rest of the world about the effect they have ...

Karla News

An American Expatriate’s Guide Guanajuato, Mexico

In 2005 I received an email from an American university professor wanting to know some information about living in Guanajuato. He got my name and email from one of the articles I wrote for Transitions Abroad print magazine. He told me that he and his wife decided upon Guanajuato as the place to retire. I ...

Karla News

Tonala, Mexico: The City of Ceramics

From the Olmecs, the Teotihuacans, the Aztecs, the Mixtecs, the Casas Grandes culture, and Mimbres culture to modern day Mexicans, pottery has been a predominate influence in the lives of all Mexicans of all times. Each culture or region had its own stylistic methods with which they produced the pottery that so richly represented their ...

Retiring to Mexico? Think About High Altitude Sickness

Have you ever wondered what some of these slick and mendacious online magazines are leaving out when they tell you all your troubles will be over if you take their “how-to-move-to-Mexico” course (for a small fortune) and maybe even buy some of their listed properties? I recently read a pitch from this magazine that named ...