Just as medical procedures themselves, medical insurance costs to live in Mexico are not that high either. First lets establish that Mexico is an independent country, and as such most insurance plans from the United States, or Canada are not valid here, and when you have an emergency, flying off to your native country is often not a viable option.

This article originally appeared in Discover Los Cabos newspaper

Exes and Ohs

Carol Billups

An adventurous start to the Discovery Weekend!

Boomers Abroad has had very good exposure lately in other portals. Changes in Latitude was one of the portals where Boomers Abroad was showcased.  Here is the article "Boomers Retiring outside the USA", by Mango Steve.

5. NATURAL RESOURCES

Colonial Mexico is a fabulous trip to Europe without the dent in your pocket book and without taking out your credit cards. So much of the feeling of European architecture is here in the old colonial centros of the towns like Queretaro, Guanajuato, Puebla, Cuernavaca and of course Mexico City.

Just got back from the Discovery Weekend from Mexico in Puerto Vallarta.  It was great to see that some of the projects I originally saw on a previous trip (Nov. 2007)  that were in the 'trailer & artist rendering' stage are underway and making good progress.

At the Summit of the Americas Presidents discussed energy, security and other issues. Obama offered a new beginning for U.S.-Cuba relations and exchanged greetings with Hugo Chavez.

 By MAGGIE MARWAH

MY FEET will be weighed down by steel-toed work boots, and my mind by a sneaking suspicion I have become trendy or, worse, a walking cliché.

I hereby invite all expats in the Riviera Maya and Cancun area to our upcoming workshop. It is especially designed for all of those who sometimes find themselves struggling with issues due to cultural differences. Especially in the multi-cultural community of Playa del Carmen those differences might lead to misunderstandings and annoyance. We are here to help you find new ways to look beyond culture and will give you helpful tools to smoothe things out, in order to make YOUR life abroad simply paradise!

The President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Moreno, said today that investment opportunities exist in Latin America and the Caribbean and that they should be taken advantage of, even in today's economic climate.

I have heard the Mexico City colonia of Polanco described as a military zone today.

President Obama is in Mexico today for a meeting with President Felipe Calderón, and later in the week he will travel to Trinidad and Tobago for the Summit of the Americas with Latin American leaders. Before his trip The President wrote the following and was published in the newspapers throughout Latin America. Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Belize, Panama, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Argentina, etc..