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...HOUSING: Homes average $100,000 in Lake Chapala, $110,000 in Guanajuato...
Mexico More and more Americans are retiring south of the border, where the cost of living is low and the weather is excellent year-round. An hour's drive south of Guadalajara is Lake Chapala, with a large colony of U.S. retirees. For a place with fewer gringos, consider Guanajuato, a charming hilltop university town...
Retirees searching for an instant circle of friends need look no farther than the northern shore of Mexico's Lake Chapala, where tens of thousands of American and Canadian retirees form what is probably the largest English-language expatriate community in the world. Mary Alice Sargent, who lives with her husband Erick in the popular lakeside village Ajijic, appreciates that the community will rally around anyone in need...
Expats moving there will not find themselves in a gringo ghetto. Whether in bustling, arty Chapala or tranquil villages like Ajijic and Jocotepec, foreigners are gently interspersed among the 100,000 people who live on the shores of Mexico's largest lake. The mountains that encircle Lake Chapala protect its villages, many of them 500 years old and still cobblestoned, from winds, helping to create a perfect climate...
Mary Alice's role as president of the Lake Chapala Society keeps her as busy as when she and her husband were teachers in New Hampshire. The society runs a lending library, plays host to many social events and reaches out to the Mexican community, offering English classes and supporting 18 scholarship students...