Comprehensive and detailed guide to living and cultivating a lifestyle in Mexico, continually revised and updated. Free—no payment or subscription needed.
Complete and detailed guide to Living & Lifestyles in Mexico that’s continually updated
Our extensive guides and articles offer insights to anyone exploring prospects for living, working, retirement and cultivating your lifestyle in Mexico.
They provide practical insights, incisive local knowledge, and meaningful guidance that helps you to discover opportunities, consider your choices, and make informed decisions.
Discover what lifestyles Mexico offers, identify opportunities of interest to you, weight up the compromises, consider your options, and plot a course based on the things that are important to you.
Guides to lifestyles in Mexico, for all life stages
Our continually-updated guides help you to begin weaving together the key components which create a workable and realistic lifestyle plan in Mexico, whatever planning stage and life stage you are in presently:
- To those considering a move to Mexico, whether you are single, with your partner, or a family with young children, Mexperience helps you to discover the country and evaluate living and lifestyle choices available here. Our guides also offer thoughtful guidance about setting out your intentions and reshaping your situations.
- To those planning their retirement or seeking a place to retire, Mexperience guides provide specific guidance about matters related to retirement planning and retirement lifestyles, as well as the practicalities of retiring in Mexico.
- When you’re already living in Mexico, our guides and articles provide practical insights that help you to settle-in, adapt, and cultivate your new lifestyle here day-to-day.
- Regardless of your life stage, the information we publish provides meaningful insights about the essential day-to-day practical matters of living in Mexico, adapting to the country, the climates and culture, and more—with extensive cross references and links to further information and helpful contacts who can help you to realize your Mexico plans.
Planning or redefining your lifestyle in Mexico
Obtain practical insights, get incisive local knowledge and meaningful guidance that helps you to consider opportunities, weigh up your choices, and make informed decisions about planning or redefining your lifestyle in Mexico.
Mexico lifestyle planning
Motivations for moving to and living in Mexico
Mexico as a place for your retirement
We publish comprehensive information to help you plan a retirement here, whether you’re planning ahead or already retired and considering Mexico as a potential retirement haven.
Retirement in Mexico
How to know if Mexico is right for your retirement
Key benefits Mexico offers retirees
Approaches for retirement lifestyles in Mexico
Exploring locations and finding a place to live in Mexico
Our extensive articles help you to consider key aspects as you explore your options and make choices about your lifestyle and potential location types in Mexico.
Locations for living in Mexico
Influencing factors as you search for a place to live in Mexico
Matching your location with your lifestyle needs
The charms & compromises of living in the Mexican countryside
Getting your residency permit for Mexico
Mexico’s immigration laws are reasonable and allow non-Mexicans with the financial means or family roots, and/or skills, to live here legally. We publish extensive knowledge to help you, including:
Residency permits for Mexico
A detailed summary about how to apply for residency in Mexico.
Learn about routes to obtaining legal residency in Mexico
Regularly updated articles and insights about obtaining and maintaining your residency status in Mexico.
Mexico Immigration Assistance
When you need assistance with your Mexico residency application, renewals, or regularization procedures, our Mexico Immigration Assistance Service provides consulting, advice, and practical help that helps you through the entire residency application or renewal process, including regularization procedures.
Moving and settling-in to life in Mexico
When you’ve decided to move to Mexico and made key decisions about where and how you’ll live, there’s the move a period of adapting and settling-in. We publish extensive guides and articles to help you settle.
Moving, adapting and settling-in
Moving your things to, from or within Mexico
Adapting and settling-in to your new lifestyle
Cultivating your social and community networks
Finding purpose, routines and balance
Learn how to keep in touch when you’re in Mexico
Our guides include detailed information about how to keep in touch when you’re in Mexico: by phone, by internet, as well as using postal and courier services here. Our local knowledge helps you to choose a mobile phone plan, explore choices for high speed internet in Mexico (even if you live in a remote area) and our cost of living guide includes a section about the cost of communications services.
Connections to keep in touch
Learn about Mexico cell phone plans
Learn about internet services in Mexico
Wireless high speed internet at home via mobile and satellite
Detailed insights into the practicalities of living in Mexico day-to-day
Our articles and guides also include comprehensive insights about day to day living in Mexico that help you to plan your lifestyle, settle-in, and make the most of your life and activities in Mexico.
Everyday living in Mexico
Browse updated articles in our Mexico Home Life section for tips and insights about day-to-day living here.
Learn about the day-to-day practicalities of taking care of your home
Continually updated insights planning a lifestyle in Mexico
Renting, buying, owning and selling a home in Mexico
Driving and bringing foreign plated cars to Mexico
Learning or improving your Spanish
Mexico’s living costs and managing your finances
Financial considerations are an important aspect of any move. Mexperience helps you to calculate your cost of living in Mexico and offers practical tips for managing your money and finances here.
Money and finances
We don’t recommend you plan a lifestyle here solely based on living costs, but they are a key factor to consider and our extensive guide to the cost of living in Mexico will help you to map-out a detailed budget based on your individual life situation.
Browse our regularly-updated articles about money, banking and finances in Mexico to get practical insights into managing your money when you’re here.
Learn about Mexico’s currency and its banknotes
Mexico as a place for working-age professionals
Working-age professionals, especially those plying a trade in the knowledge economy, are also considering Mexico as a base to live and work.
Working life in Mexico
- Read our extensive guide to Working & Self-employment in Mexico
- Browse regularly updated articles about working lifestyles in Mexico
And more… resources for Living & Lifestyle in Mexico
Mexperience offers you a comprehensive online resource of information and local knowledge to help you discover Mexico, explore choices, find opportunities and plan a new life in Mexico. Our resources include:
- A regular Mexico Newsletter you can subscribe to for free
- Regularly-updated articles about lifestyle planning in Mexico
- Insights about day to day living with Mexico Home Life
Mexico in your inbox
Our free newsletter about Mexico brings you a monthly round-up of recently published stories and opportunities, as well as gems from our archives.