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Small Wonders: The Power Of Independent Publishers And Invertebrate Creatures
Over the course of the past decade, authors and readers alike have been heard to utter a collective groan of dismay as the once elite publishing industry continues to resemble the multiplex tripe factory of Hollywood, churning out one cookie cutter produc
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Breathe Life Into Your Writing
Have you ever read a passage and felt the breath of life, then was too speechless to describe it? That's writing at its best. The method for creating such a moment comes from the use of emotions. Emotions are one of the single most important, touching, im
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Fulltime RV Living: Choosing The Best Mobile Accommodation
Be it suburbia or the outdoors, lifestyle is very much influenced by our personality, our needs, and -- perhaps most of all -- our budget. Fortunately, in affluent countries like Australia, the diverse range of mobile accommodation options allows us to tr
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What You Must Do When Moving To Spain
It's really no surprise that many people would have an interest in living in Spain. After all, Spain has an amazing climate and year long temperature, which actually is a driving force for people in Northern Europe to move to this region and cozy up to t
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Mexico As A Concept And Not A Reality Part 4
Americans are told through slick and appealing magazine ads and maybe a seminar or two that they can move to Mexico and miss nothing—all the comforts of home right here in Mexico. They can have everything in that nasty old Third-World country that they ha
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Mexico As A Concept And Not A Reality Part 3
Based on my going-on five years of expat experience in the city of Guanajuato, Mexico's Heartland, I do not think the current expat guides such as Howell, Merwin, and Luboff, apply here. It is so stark in fact, that the difference between Guanajuato and S
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Mexico As A Concept And Not A Reality Part 2
It has been the Prime Living Locations such as the Lake Chapala area, Puerto Vallarta, San Miguel de Allende, Cuernavaca, Mazatlán, and others to which Gringos have been attracted. Because they came in droves and droves, the Mexicans in these citie
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Mexico As A Concept And Not As A Reality Part 1
Most, if not all, Americans who decide to move to Mexico to "get away from it all" seem to do so based on the merits of at least two books, a handful of websites, some seminars (in the Guadalajara area), and a host of chat rooms and forums whose
Tags: Mexico, Living Mexico, Guanajuato, Living Guanajuato, Learn Spanish, Spanish, Vacations
Mentor For Hire Services Eases Your Move To Mexico
Sometimes I marvel at how my wife and I arrived in Guanajuato, Mexico, with so little Spanish and with so few cultural skills. Somehow we managed to survive some pretty severe bumps in the expatriation road. It was in our ninth month of living here when w
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Living In Mexico: Where Did That Bus Driver Go?
Gringolandians, those living in Gringo enclaves, live such isolated and bizarrely separate lives from the Mexicans in the same town that they have on more than one occasion called me an absolute liar for the things I've reported happening in the Mexican c
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Living In Mexico: The Guanajuato Shove
Finally, some of our American expat friends are beginning to wake up to the ranting and raving I've been doing about living in Guanajuato. Now, if you've been reading my columns on a regular basis you know from time to time I lose my mind, rather totally,
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Living In Mexico: Sugar And Spice But Not Always Nice Part 5
There is a great restaurant in town where I love to eat steak. It is cheap, though they don't offer the best cuts of meat. However, the steak is tender, comes with a load of sides, and is cooked perfectly for my tastes. It is a popular place and listed in
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Living In Mexico: Sugar And Spice But Not Always Nice Part 4
You and your business partner have been working your tails off trying to get a bunch of modern, Mexican-style duplexes off the ground. You've poured too much money to think about into hiring Mexican workers to build this duplex complex. You all have not o
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Living In Mexico: Sugar And Spice But Not Always Nice Part 3
To be honest with you, I don't see why more Gringos in Guanajuato aren't getting ripped off when trying to rent, or God forbid, buy a house on their own. It never occurred to us to move here without as much Spanish under our belts as possible. We had a hi
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Living In Mexico: Sugar And Spice But Not Always Nice Part 1
I wish someone had written a more reality-based expatriation guide we could have read during our research phase before moving to Mexico. The fine books that do exist, that everyone seems to have read, give you a rosy picture of what life is like in Mexico
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