Living in Mexico

Essential Skills for Expats 2: Flexibility & Patience

In this third part of our series, we explore how developing flexibility and patience are essential qualities to assimilate well to your lifestyle in Mexico

Essential Skills for Expats 3: Negotiation & Bargaining

In part three of this series, discover how how trade, negotiation, and bargaining are woven-in to the fabric of everyday Mexican culture

Essential Skills for Expats 4: Contacts & Networking

Learn about how cultivating helpful local contacts and real social networking in your local community are vital to your everyday life situations in Mexico

Snapshot of Mexico’s Key Data in Facts & Figures 2026

This article shares a snapshot of Mexico's geographic, demographic, and key economic data, updated annually using latest official data

Influencing Factors as You Choose a Place to Live in Mexico

Key factors and choices to contemplate as you shortlist potential places to live in Mexico and consider how they may suit your lifestyle needs

Learning to Live Well in Mexico Without Owning a Car

Some foreign residents live well in Mexico without owning a car. Whether you can depends on your lifestyle situations and your personal priorities

Prospects for Working Independently in Mexico

Working independently in Mexico offers opportunities, and presents certain challenges to those seeking to move here and set-up a working lifestyle abroad

The Practicalities of Living Part of the Year in Mexico

There has always been a contingent of foreign residents who live in Mexico part-time, usually between late fall and early spring of the following year

Family Unit & Applications for Residency from Within Mexico

Most foreigners seeking residency in Mexico need to apply from abroad. There are exceptions—commonly 'Family Unit' applications—and this article describes them