Thinking of moving to GTO in December, expat family from Atlanta

[jesm]

Glad to be of help. Any such move will be a hugely significant change in your lives. Many positives, some perhaps not. I want to share two important aspects of living here in Mexico.
First, your ability to earn money in Mexico is dramatically reduced from US standards. Assuming you can legally earn income such money may only be 25% of the comparable US income, or less!
Second, the importance of family and the opportunity to fully participate in family life is far more elemental in Mexican cultures and society. We admire the intense loyalty and bonding among generations we see among our Mexican friends.
Priorities are shifted a bit here more toward the personal, less toward the material. That’s a reality every expat confronts and handles, or not. The dropout rate among expats is high, maybe 50%+ within five years return.