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MEXICOWANDERER
Aug 08, 2019Explorer
It's the REAR bushing that gets brinneled. Oil helps for a day I drilled a .030" hole and sprayed it with lube oil Boeing T10.
Gotta tell ya Ace, a sixer of Tecate or Coors light costs five bucks down here. No more refillable bottles. The toll roads took care of that. Even soda in the can or bottle costs seventy cents at the store. I buy my sugar and tarpit free soft drinks in the USA at Grocery Outlet. 2 quart bottle of Penafiel mineral water costs a buck buck seventy down here, Canada Dry for a dollar up there.
COSTCO offers variety down here but zero savings. Get this I did the number crunching a few weeks ago
Tomatoes Worse quality 190% expensive
Postatoes Exc quality 300% as expensive
Lettuce No contest COSTCO has gourmet lettuce but it's 120% as much as the USA
Batteries NO ZERO NONE USA batteries. Mexican batteries 130% the price.
But if you come down to save money stay the hell away from beer and beverages. The low-cost line leader beer down here is frequently GALLO from Guatemala.
Monterrey made Torrey chest freezers are heavy. Between Jesus and myself we own five freezers. They are on 24/7/365. My smallest chest freezer was #1 Purchased March 2001. Flawless operation. The Viking has been in storage.
Don't suck up rumors of the forties about prices. Auto Toll between Ensenada and Tijuana is now 150 pesos for three toll booths, around eight dollars each way. Gasoline is near four dollars a gallon.
Where I live in Michoacan, the cost of living is about 65% as expensive, but instead of terrazzo tile con artist palms and pools, a person settles for dust and possibly no windows. Why people must belch BS by bucketfuls is beyond me.
My medical hideout had absolutely zero inside when I moved in. I had to furnish it from the tile floor up. And guess what? Friends thought of the price as being fair at 165 dollars a month. I look overhead. Rafters, plywood and rolls of asphalt. The town trailer park charged FIFTY FIVE DOLLARS A NIGHT. Welcome to reality
Gotta tell ya Ace, a sixer of Tecate or Coors light costs five bucks down here. No more refillable bottles. The toll roads took care of that. Even soda in the can or bottle costs seventy cents at the store. I buy my sugar and tarpit free soft drinks in the USA at Grocery Outlet. 2 quart bottle of Penafiel mineral water costs a buck buck seventy down here, Canada Dry for a dollar up there.
COSTCO offers variety down here but zero savings. Get this I did the number crunching a few weeks ago
Tomatoes Worse quality 190% expensive
Postatoes Exc quality 300% as expensive
Lettuce No contest COSTCO has gourmet lettuce but it's 120% as much as the USA
Batteries NO ZERO NONE USA batteries. Mexican batteries 130% the price.
But if you come down to save money stay the hell away from beer and beverages. The low-cost line leader beer down here is frequently GALLO from Guatemala.
Monterrey made Torrey chest freezers are heavy. Between Jesus and myself we own five freezers. They are on 24/7/365. My smallest chest freezer was #1 Purchased March 2001. Flawless operation. The Viking has been in storage.
Don't suck up rumors of the forties about prices. Auto Toll between Ensenada and Tijuana is now 150 pesos for three toll booths, around eight dollars each way. Gasoline is near four dollars a gallon.
Where I live in Michoacan, the cost of living is about 65% as expensive, but instead of terrazzo tile con artist palms and pools, a person settles for dust and possibly no windows. Why people must belch BS by bucketfuls is beyond me.
My medical hideout had absolutely zero inside when I moved in. I had to furnish it from the tile floor up. And guess what? Friends thought of the price as being fair at 165 dollars a month. I look overhead. Rafters, plywood and rolls of asphalt. The town trailer park charged FIFTY FIVE DOLLARS A NIGHT. Welcome to reality
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