Positive changes since moving to Guanajuato?

[DonJuane]

- Learned to always watch where I step
- Learned that always removing shoes on home entry guarantees a much cleaner house
- Learned never take for granted a particular cheese, a cut of beef, or a product of any style
- Learned to live life more freely, first of all to laugh at others who are so demanding and see how Mexico is a vat of quicksand for them to fall into
- Learned to improve my own patience after years of laughing at others for their up-tight nature, only to realize that I could improve myself
- Learning how regulated traffic and stopping at stop signs when no one is anywhere is sight is a waste of time
- Learning in some cities like San Cristobal de las Casas that implemented a project to install traffic lights at every corner brought the city's traffic flow to a dead grid lock and how the "first nose in, continues into the intersection" seems to work at a city full of 4 way stops
- Realizing ways "manana" can work for me instead of against me
- Taking a few "manana's" myself
- Learning a Mexican park bench is often better than a seat at a high dollar theater performance in the US
- Learning the value of an ice cream cone made of real ice cream
- Learning that globalists exist in Mexico too and to avoid Michoacana Ice Cream, and other US invading restaurants and retailers, that nothing good comes from it
- Learning that as long as I'm home by dark, that 10 minute ride it used to take to get to the market which now takes all day may be worth the trouble in education value after all
- Learning performing arts costing equitable fees actually makes them open to more people and more frequent
- Learning to skip the Gringo hang-outs because I'm only going to grow and learn about the local way of life if I visit with Mexicans
- Learning that if someone is unhappy in the US, they generally get around to being unhappy anywhere they go
- Learning that an area that only delivers Spring is a great place despite that a majority in the US say "I can't live without seasons"
- Learning that noises can actually be ignored if you concentrate hard enough
- Learning that some things will never change, no mater how many focus groups are action committees are formed
- Learning that owning an fancy automobile is still pretty much a US thing, even though many of today's Mexicans are crossing over to the ranks of "chained to a new car payment"
- Learning that a Sunday in a park is sometimes more fun than you'd ever imagine
- Learning I was right about how the US culture destroys as it spreads, watching things like indigenous kids with iPhones tucked under blankets for sale, Walmarts popping up everywhere, lots of US businesses putting Mexican ones out of business every day, vanilla-fying the cities of Mexico at a monumental speed, just as they have bleached the uniqueness of the cities of the US
- Learning I was right that most people seek out their own types as a level of tribalism
- Learning that sticking my neck out to join in with the locals is much more rewarding than where many who aren't this lucky land, and that's nightly in a bar of like minded mostly sad individuals.