Moving to Gto with a cat, and temporary residency—this year!

[DonJuane]

You are talking to the right people. I would follow them 100%. I know Sonya, she has helped very dear and close friends. Stick with them.

Yes after a while here when the new wears off and if you are not working at something, being artistic or telecommuting or working on a blog, after you have tasted more of Mexico you can start to get an itch to hit the road for an adventure or two or three or four, or well maybe you'll never stop. In fact you hit upon my MO. I have been working on this "lack of direction" for about 12 years and crossed Mexico via a lot of ways, bus, auto, camper and still enjoy trying to find new experiences. So you might call me a simple drifter if you wish LOL (or something worse, just look around here if you need a hint or two, ha, ha). Anyway I play devil's advocate a lot in the various forums because I believe it is important for everyone to consider what they are getting into. I've seen the aftermath of too many disappointed people. Unfortunately as a reaction to my being interpreted as a bit harsh from time to time, some participants of these groups want to beat me up, either face to face or artistically scalp me with their scholarly word salads, yet at the same time they don't realize they're only carrying out their anger in a manner of a grade school food fight and creating the exact type of examples that I was trying to illustrate. In fact, they did all the work for me.

And speaking of grade school I guess it must be universal that we all slip into that mind set as we age. I know I am immune (ha, ha, ho, ho). Still and I don't want to beat a dead horse from previous posts but I do really feel sorry for some of the people who move to these Gringo communities and are really needy and end up with folks they just can't get along with at all - another favorite topic of mine. Without Spanish as a backup and without getting your mind down and dirty while into a full inversion process while totally absorbed into what the country and culture has to offer, well you may just be stuck with them as your only social outlet and thus be on the next plane out right behind the dog poop fellow (see Goodbye Guanajuato Goodbye), actually one of the funniest posts I've ever seen in a forum.

But it's really no ones fault; the romance is unbearable and can even continue indefinitely but then again there are those whose lifestyle it begins to clash with and in no particular finite amount of time the romance can peter out. Maybe one day you just step in one more pile of dog poop than you can handle and you can't help it - you blow. I'm having the same issue with a neighbor who doesn't work and stays home all day while he blasts his stereo all day long In fact he shut it down at 10:30 last night and started it again at 7:30AM. And I'm not an early riser. But this is simply another example of everything being a trade off here. Where I delight in there being no safety regulations as a result of some lawyer that has created me a padded and protected environment like in the US, the first time I stump another toe on one of these corners with the 4 bolts sticking up where someone removed the light pole, well then I start raising hell. So I guess some people can never be satisfied :-)