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Gypsy Jan
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How to Relocate
Are you open to new language and customs or do you want familiarity in a different place?
You can find both in Baja, in many locations, but this is a thousand-mile long piece of real estate.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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BajaGringo
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Until you come down and spend some serious time here (not as a tourist) you will never know exactly which spot of this long peninsula (if any) is
right for you. What is perfect weather for one guy is too hot for some and too cold for others. ¨Getting away from it all¨ means different things to
different people and the culture shock of living in a foreign country takes time to settle in, especially if you are not fluent in the local language.
I suggest you take the time to travel to many different points along Baja California - north and south - and then once you find what you ¨think¨ is
the perfect place, rent for at least 6 months before even thinking about buying anything.
That added time will also give you the opportunity to do some research into the property around you and look for any potential problems. You probably
won´t hear about some of those ¨problems¨ from a real estate agent.
Just my two cents and good luck!
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mcfez
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaGringo
Until you come down and spend some serious time here (not as a tourist) you will never know exactly which spot of this long peninsula (if any) is
right for you. What is perfect weather for one guy is too hot for some and too cold for others. ¨Getting away from it all¨ means different things to
different people and the culture shock of living in a foreign country takes time to settle in, especially if you are not fluent in the local language.
I suggest you take the time to travel to many different points along Baja California - north and south - and then once you find what you ¨think¨ is
the perfect place, rent for at least 6 months before even thinking about buying anything.
That added time will also give you the opportunity to do some research into the property around you and look for any potential problems. You probably
won´t hear about some of those ¨problems¨ from a real estate agent.
Just my two cents and good luck! |
Words of a wise man!
BTW: whatever site/town/city you decide on.........ASK EVERY RESIDENT LIVING THERE questions about the joint!!!!!! And dont be shy of the
questions...be point blank.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Marc
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| Quote: | Originally posted by gnukid
To achieve your goals and aid decision making you may use a visualization technique:
1) picture yourself inside a chain linked barbwire fenced in campground, where you pay to be inside. Each morning you wake up inside your dusty camper
and you walk to the communal coffee area and there you meet the regular group of obese narrow minded gringo friends, well lets just call them jerks,
and there you argue about things, for example you yell at the coffee host for scalding the coffee, then you argue about whether the pressure gradients
at the four corners 1500 miles away affects the weather in Baja, finish off the morning by blaming the conservatives for all the worldwide woes and
worse the liberals for being, well, liberal.
2) picture yourself inside a gated community called Caleta Palmilla where you pass 5 gates and an empty golf course to enter your personal gate,
inside the gated mansion you manage a staff of 10 employees to "not scald the coffee beans and over time you learn to speak spanish well enough to ask
them if they think the pressure gradients at the four corners 1500 miles away affects the weather in Baja?"
3) picture yourself on a remote cliff inside a lean to shelter, the wind whipping through the cracks in the paper thin walls, tired because you can
not sleep for fear of coyotes, hungry without supplies and thirsty without water-paradise!@#$%
Now, go pack your bags and move to Baja and pursue your dreams!
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Picture the REAL owner of "your" property knocking at you door and and telling you to get out. 
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Marc
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In Mulege. All yours for $29,500 USD.
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mulegemichael
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i believe that's in the orchard and the price is for the house AND the lot....a GREAT price...anywhere!!!!
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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toneart
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It is in The Orchard and it sold.
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805gregg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Marc
In Mulege. All yours for $29,500 USD.
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And underwater in every local hurricane.
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805gregg
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Just rent at first, you my find you are uncomfortable with the lack of honest police, the lack of capture and conviction of criminals and the fact you
are guility untill proven innocent in Mex
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BajaRat
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Wow! 13 years. So much has changed and yet my favorite things have not. Great people, beautiful places and nature still reigns supreme. Have fun,
travel safely and I'm confident this group will give you more than an ear full.
Hasta, Lionel 
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BajaB00mer
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RENT! after living in a big city, we rented in Baja Norte for a winter to see if we could: a) share a car, b) handle a non-winterized/heated home,
& c) handle the isolation from movie theaters, ethnic restaurants, Trader Joes, etc. At the end of the winter, we bought a gorgeous oceanfront
home. It feels like an endless vacation--but with maintenance responsibilities-- in a community that's like a ghost town in winter &
over-populated with renters in the summer. The never-ending maintenance, ties us down more than we'd anticipated. So again, I'd say rent--for a LONG
time, befoe you commit to a property that could tie you down.
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bajaguy
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hey, Boomer
Where are ya????
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