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...servants, who have servants of their own. At the other end of the scale, and potentially more important to both Mexico and the U.S., are Americans with as little as $150 a month, who have worked out a comfortable design for living in such modest places as Chapala and Ajijic...
Paseos & Tortillas. In these two pretty towns on 48-mile-long Lake Chapala, 30 miles south of Guadalajara, some 900 retired men and women from the U.S. are living with-not away from-the Mexicans. The wife of a retired mining engineer may not invite the wife of a Mexican fisherman for tea, but she lives two doors away, she haggles in the same market for the same kind of food, and when they meet on the street, Doña Margarita greets Doña Margaret as a neighbor...
...Americans of Chapala and Ajijic have adopted many Mexican ways as their own. They look forward to the Thursday and Saturday paseo of boys and girls circling the town plaza in opposite directions to look each other over and flirt their way into marriage. They are careful to cover their mouths against the night air "to avoid catching cold," and not to gush over a Mexican baby, out of respect for the Indians' belief that this will give the child the evil eye. They say "This is your home" when guests enter their houses, and they serve frijoles instead...
...their part, the Mexicans of Lake Chapala have gained far more than the $200,000 their American neighbors spend there each month and the employment they give to maids and house-boys, gardeners and mechanics. The Americans have helped build a road and two schools. Their wants have nudged local markets into a wider range of merchandise...
...Chapala, Mexico...