Russell Blake - Retirement Secrets of Mexico

Retirement Secrets of Mexico

Russell Blake

2020 All Rights Reserved

Accolades for Retirement Secrets of Mexico

As a person whos lived on two continents and four countries, and winged it along the way with often disastrous consequences, I only wish Id had had a gem of a book like this to guide me before buying a house and moving to a foreign land. You'll find everything here you need to know, plus a few top secrets, especially regarding locations. Written in a fun, intelligent, witty style, and above all, brimming with insider information you won't find anywhere else, if you're thinking, or even just dreaming, of living in Mexico, Blake's book is a must-read essential. Everything from budgets to safety to health care to banking to immigration forms to starting a business to veterinarians, and more, is covered, and within its pages you'll find a smorgasbord of information unlike anything Ive seen.

Don't leave home without devouring this book first! After reading Retirement Secrets of Mexico I'm ready to pack my bags and move there! Five glowing stars!

Worth every peso. Blake strips away the fiction from the facts about relocating to Mexico in detailed, actionable steps. He pulls back the blinds on some of the best hidden gem locations for expats in Mexico, as well as exposes truth about the beautiful culture and lifestyle Mexico has to offer.

If youve ever considered relocating to Mexico and thought it was too complicated or werent sure how to get started, this book is your roadmap. So, pour yourself a margarita and dive in.

From the visionary mind of New York Times Bestselling author Russell Blake comes a must-read guide on expatriation to paradisewithout the tequila hangover. Blake serves up shot after shot of no-nonsense tactics, tips, and considerations on how to make Viva Mexico your new reality.

Although its not a sales brochure for MexicoIll confess I might have already checked my passport status and combed over real estate listings. When the real world is stranger than fiction, Blake delivers an uppercut of much needed common sense to anyone looking to safeguard and increase his or her quality of life and measure of happiness.

About the Author

Featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Times, and The Chicago Tribune, Russell Blake is The NY Times and USA Today bestselling author of over fifty novels, including Fatal Exchange, Fatal Deception, The Geronimo Breach, Zero Sum, The Assassin series, The Delphi Chronicle trilogy, The Voynich Cypher, Silver Justice, the JET series, Upon a Pale Horse, the BLACK series, Deadly Calm, Ramseys Gold, Emerald Buddha, The Day After Never series, The Goddess Legacy, A Girl Apart, A Girl Betrayed, and Quantum Synapse.

Non-fiction includes the international bestseller An Angel With Fur (animal biography), How To Sell A Gazillion eBooks In No Time (even if drunk, high or incarcerated), a parody of all things writing-related, and Retirement Secrets of Mexico.

Blake is co-author of The Eye of Heaven and The Solomon Curse, with legendary author Clive Cussler. Blakes novel King of Swords has been translated into German, The Voynich Cypher into Bulgarian, and his JET novels into Spanish, German, and Czech.

Blake writes under the moniker R.E. Blake in the NA/YA/Contemporary Romance genres. Novels include Less Than Nothing, More Than Anything, and Best Of Everything.

Having resided in Mexico for a dozen years, Blake enjoys his dogs, fishing, boating, tequila and writing, while battling world domination by clowns. His thoughts, such as they are, can be found at his blog:

RussellBlake.com

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Contents

Before beginning the journey to what will hopefully be an enlightening exploration of the best kept retirement/expatriation secrets south of the border, it seems fitting to introduce myself. My names Russell Blake, and Im a NY Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of over sixty fiction novels, as well as a serial entrepreneur and custom home designer and builder, whos been living full time in Mexico for 16 years.

My story began when I sold my company in the U.S. and decided to move abroad to see how I liked living outside what I fondly refer to as the old country. I originally considered Australia and Europe, having spent a lot of time in both places, but opted to give Mexico a try, for what I figured might be six months. I chose it because I was familiar with it from long weekends in Ensenada and Cabo San Lucas and the usual vacation spots on the Pacific coast and in Quintana Roo, and I figured it would be a relatively painless way to dip my toe in the water, so to speak, and get used to being an expat. I also wanted to stay close to the U.S. in case I got homesick or wanted to visit or things didnt work out, and being a couple hours away by plane was an important consideration.

My first stop was Cabo San Lucas, in Baja, where I wound up spending over a decade. From there I branched out, and in my travels around the country serendipitously discovered a suburb of Guadalajara that was unlike anything I thought existed in Mexico. I became so enamored of the area that I decided to move and spend a lot of my time there, enjoying a European, cosmopolitan lifestyle in a neighborhood that would give Beverly Hills a run for its money. I wound up building a second home and split my time between the beach in Cabo and the city in Guadalajara. From there I further discovered a number of other relatively unknown spots that are perfect candidates for Americans or Canadians (hereafter Gringos in the book) to spend their lives in comfort, safety, and enjoying an unbelievably opulent lifestyle on a fraction of the cost of their home country in some of which I have invested or started businesses.

I grew up in California and New York, and as an adult traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe, so Im accustomed to first world environments and facilities. And while I celebrate diversity of different cultures, I still expect certain levels of comfort and reliability and availability of consumer goods, as well as modern health care and security. Ill confess a weakness for fine dining and good wine, as well as a taste for nice cars, beautiful architecture, and the better things in life. While I could write a tome about how to live on a paupers income in third world conditions, thats not what this book is about this book isnt how to make it on $800 a month in rudimentary conditions. Rather, its to share some remarkable locations that most Gringos have no idea exist, and offer my thoughts on them; places where your dollar goes further by a mile, where home prices and rents harken back to the 1980s, and where if you know what youre doing, you can live a platinum lifestyle on a cerveza budget. In other words, this isnt intended to be a guide to the very cheapest places you can live in Mexico, but rather, the very best value places where you can live extremely well, in safety, comfort, with good health care, great restaurants, and reasonable infrastructure.

Big promises, I know. But Ive done it for coming up on two decades, and in my journey have found places that are truly secret to most, including the lions share of Mexicans which came as a surprise at first. I mean, I figured that Mexicans must know all the best spots in their own country, but thats not true. Mexico is a big place, and like the U.S., most are only familiar with where they live, and maybe where they vacation. Most of the locales Im going to share with you are neither vacation hotspots, nor are they accessible to most Mexicans because the very best places dont have much in the way of industry, which is a must for the aspirational or the upwardly mobile looking to work their way up the income and societal ladder. But that very same characteristic makes them amazing places for those who have a retirement or social security income. And I have to tell you, after having started or been instrumental in over a half dozen businesses since moving abroad, even those locales have surprising opportunity for those of an entrepreneurial bent who can think outside the box.