Can we talk about Guanajuato?

[DonJuane]

My intent was not to discourage you but just to be what I like to define as a devil's advocate (and others like to define as being a smart-ass).

Some people like you (according to your background) want to come here for the experience of adapting and integrating into the culture. A frightening amount of others always seem to want to change the local customs and bring in more from the northern part of the continent to help make that happen. They figure the more the merrier. But with that goes the bargain prices and the very fabric of the reason for living here. If you spend any time driving over Mexico as I have for the past 10 years and as I am certain you have, you will have seen elements of culture vanishing at a disturbing rate. And to me personally, that is sad if not down right disturbing. In fact, back in the US I often say what I hate most about the US is that you could blind fold me and place me in another city and I would not be able to tell I had moved. By the way, which Oxxo is everyone's favorite ;-)

I subscribe to several ex-pat forums and there's an event I always seem to recall where some bickering was going on in their online forum about how to best find a maid. So they (Guatemala group) got together and established a website and a vetting process. Here-in the difference in me and they, lies. With my comment I was scolded firmly for interfering with automation and progress, while my idea was that maybe the reason people might move to Guatemala is that there is no online maid vetting service.

But back to the present tense, this week I am in San Miguel de Allende. Listening outside my window, I haven't heard a single word of Spanish spoken the entire week. Que lastima!