RV Tourism in Mexico

Kidoo wrote:
How do you get a list on condos and prices in Mexico? This could be interesting, I hear about it but where can we have a safe list?

You're not going to get a coherent answer. Any top resort area has condos ranging from about 60,000 US dollars to 300,000. Quality of ambiance is impossible to define.

A kg of rice can cost 8 pesos to twenty pesos. How can you differentiate quality and where to purchase it?

I just paid TWENTY SEVEN PESOS for a loaf of Bimbo bread that can be had for half price in major metropolitan areas, and 150% in gated gringo communities.

People that sell merchandise and services down here skew their reporting in favor of their bias. How do you compensate? You don't.

You need to come, spend time and do the calisthenics of living and shopping "your style" in order to arrive at a sane correct valuation.

First of all, if price is your objective, you can pretty much cross-out coveted gated communities. Areas like Chapala, San Miguel de Allende, and even tiny La Manzanilla, have exploded the pricing for housing and downtown shopping. The Caribbean coast is very costly if your lifestyle demands US/Canadian "quality" and ambiance.

Don't let folks hoodwink you. Choose an area that interests you, come and see for yourself what you get for your peso or Loonie. I commute through Baja California, Baja California Sur, Jalisco, Colima. Michoacan and Guerrero and I can tell you for a fact I could not "summarize" the cost of living on a 3 terabyte hard drive. When gringo friends arrive, they almost universally exclaim "How can you live like this?" I have a middle-of-the-road Mexican annual income of $10,800 dollars U.S.(eqvt). At night, dogs bark, burros bray, and scorpions prowl. My neighbor at the top of the hill plays narco corridos at 130 db for all to hear. I tolerate it and so do my neighbors.

I recently went to the US for medical. I could not wait to get home. Yes, while I had my business in the USA I paid hundreds of thousands in taxes, so I am entitled to Medi-Care as much as the next person.

But again, personal observations cannot be classified or sorted out. One of my favorite past times is to sit at a table and listen to the (arguments) of a bunch of people brand new to the country as each emphatically describe how their part of the elephant feels.