Where else have you lived

For those gringos living FT at the lake, I would love to read about where else you have have lived in the world and why you chose Lake Chapala to retire.

Bob

In the 80's Costa Rica, 90's Cayman Islands, 2000's Mexico (Cancun & Chapala)

CR - School
Cayman - Diving and banking and the beach
Mexico - Learning, fun, opportunities, something new

Grew up in LA in the San Fernando Valley, moved to Santa Barbara for college and have always kept a residence there.

I've lived in 53 cities/towns in 11 states and Nova Scotia. I'm sure you don't want the whole list. I don't live in the Lakeside area.

I moved to México for a new adventure in my old age. I sure have found it!

St. Louis, Los Angeles, Sint Maarten, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands (Caribbean area for 28 years total), now Lakeside.

Indiana, Colorado, California and Oregon (for 35 years). Moved to Mexico for Climate, Culture, and Cost of living.

San Diego, L.A, Seattle, Houston, Virginia Beach

Uijongbu, Korea

Managua, Nicaragua

Playa del Coco and Golfito, Costa Rica

Mulege, Acapulco and Chapala, Mexico

Retired to lakeside for the climate.

Taiwan, Alaska, before it was a state, Stuttgart and Chiemsee, Germany, Lower Peloponesian Islands (Greece), LLoret de Mar(Spain) Neuchatel (Switzerland), Texas, Colorado, Tahoe in CA. and various other states and towns in the US. Haven't moved to Chapala full time yet. Still got travelin' to do. I wanna catch a trout in the Patagonias and New Zealand first.

Rico, I used to know someone who used to go boar hunting in Patagonia.

Whitehorse Yukon, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Montreal, Ottawa, moved to San Carlos Son. Mexico to retire, but found it a way too hot in the summer, so 7 years ago moved to Jocotepec, will prob never leave, except maybe in a box.

like rolly, i've lived in tons of cities and towns, although all in the US. some of the highlights are:

new orleans
san francisco and sonoma county (in my hippie days)
hawaii (waikiki and kaneohe) (also in my hippie days)
bloomington, indiana (started college at age 35 an indiana university)
death valley, california
the everglades, florida
zion and bryce national parks, utah
and i moved here from petrified forest national park, arizona

i moved for the same reasons as most.....climate and cost of living (there's no way i could ever afford to retire any place where they speak english as a native language)

Lucky, after moving here from the petrified forest have you seen any particular similarities?

oncesubtle.....just when i make that infrequent trip to superlake!

....or maybe LCS during coffeeklatch hours.

Which takes us back to the humor section and the joke about the lady and her dentist and who's an old fart anyway? Not any of us, to be sure.

Wow, am I boring. Not that this is a surprise to anyone. Detroit, Michigan and environs for 61 years, until I moved to Ajijic five years ago this month. Why here? I had been reading about Ajijic off and on for almsot 30 years. Maids, gardeners, drivers, lake for 600 USD per month. In January of 2004, my best friends since 1963, invited me to spend a month with them in Florida, as I had set them up with a doublewide retnal from another friend of mine for three months, while they were searching for a winter home in Florida. I hated to leave after 30 days to return to snowbound Detroit and my car, whcih I had left in the Detroit Metro Parking lot was frozen stiff. I mean encased in ice. Took me over an hour to chip enough away to make it driveable and then I slipped and slid along the freeways until I got home. Went to pick up my mail from the post office the next day and lo and behold, the infamous April, 2004 AARP article on retirement in Mexico (which brough a great influx of folks to this area) and there was Ajijic. again. I picked up the phone and called my friends in Florida to see when they would be back in Michigan and told them I would give them a week break and then we were going to Ajijic for ten days. Took me a year to get here fulltime,but moved here May 19, 2005, and have never looked back. OK, so I have looked back, but have never regretted my decision. Zoey

After you Bob. eh?

John on Vancouver Island

I lived in Edmonton, Regina, Victoria & Vancouver. All cold, rainy Canadian cities......hence the reason we're moving down to the lake. Our target date is the fall of 2012.

Bob

Mine's freakishly like Bob's!

Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria.

Even worse, we actually contemplated Bucerias at one point...but this fat boy would melt in the summer heat so no way!

Our target date is 2015.

Probably a few unknowns in my list:

Wallaceburg, Windsor, Prince Rupert, Mica, Nelson and Campbell River until 2012 then ----------------------?

Florida, Ala, Miss, Tex, Arizona and Mexico.Live in Mexico part time. Move to MX for a couple of years and missed work???????????? Lord help me I must be crazy. I am self employed so I mostly can come and go as I please.

I am returning to Fla for a couple or 3 mo this fall.I will be staying near Coco Beach. I want to come more often to MX but the hubby has put his plans on hold for a while traveling to MX. He even went so far and had the electricity turned off. He is also traveling but to different parts of the US, CA. AZ and to visit a relitave in Equador then we are next year going to New Zealand the good lord willing.