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Originally Posted by Rochard
This isn't new. It's been going on for decades. Retired folks who cannot afford to live in Southern California move across the border and live in Mexico where everything is dirt cheap, and American dollars go far. For the YP conventions we used to go just sixty miles south of the border to little town called La Salina Del Mar, and there was dozens of them there living out their lives. Once a month they would return to the US, get their mail, cash their checks, and go back home to Mexico.
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A former co-worker from way back in the mid-90's retired to Mexico. He was talking about how he rented a house with a pool in a nice little town and had a weekly maid and it was around $500 a month. He said for about $1500 a month he lived the life that would take $7000+ a month to live here.