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The Ugly American? Where Is He Now? Every single person contemplating working, studying, or retiring to Mexico should have to read a little book published in 1958 by W.W. Norton and penned by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick. The book is called, The Ugly American.

San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, and Straw Men When I shared with an academic friend that I was going to push this gig of writing about expatriation and the Gringolandias in Mexico, her response was that I had a tough job ahead of me. If I knew then of the profundity of her comment I wonder if I would have stayed on the fiction-writing track instead. That is, as they say, water under the bridge, and here I am, yet again, writing about Expat Issues.

Want to Retire or Work in Mexico? You'd Better Read This! Let me shoot straight from the hip. No fancy introductions to this article, no witty sayings, no clever expressions, no wildly used adjectives. Just plain talk about what you will find if you are planning your retirement in Mexico or if you are coming here to work.

Living in Mexico With Lenny and Bubba I have the very worst luck with getting wrong-number phone calls, no matter what country I live in. Believe me, when we moved to Mexico, the problem didn't get any better.

Guanajuato - Too Many False Expectations A friend of mine told me about a conversation she had with a person she knows in one of the Mexican Prime Living Locations on the west coast of Mexico.

Living in Mexico - Is Gringolandia An Offensive Term? From my rantings and ravings about the unnecessary formations of Gringolandias in the Mexican Prime Living Locations to which future Gringolandians are attracted, I got a comment from a reader who asked me not to use the word, "Gringolandians."

The Gringolandizing of Mexico The literature that exists in book form and especially in online newsletters and magazines presents to the "Move-To-Mexico Wannebee" Mexico as an Image and not Mexico as it Really Is.

Living in Mexico - Gringolandia Denial I cannot begin to imagine what life must be like in isolated little enclaves where the inhabitants have only one another for socializing.

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