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bajabass
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Registered: 10-4-2006
Location: La Paz,BCS
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Mood: Want to fish!!!
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Southern Migration!!!
Seems like this gringo can migrate this fall. One way. As some on this forum may know, I have been trying to sell my biz in the O.C., and escape the
madness that is Southern California. On the same day, today, I shook hands on a deal to sell the last 20 years of my life, and my wife signed her
contract to start work at the new IMSS hospital in La Paz!!!    By Halloween I shall be sipping Pacificos and watching sunsets from my new
home, LA PAZ! Now to get rid of 5 tons of B.S. I shall no longer need or want
Adios O.C., Hello BCS!!!
[Edited on 9-18-2010 by bajabass]
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jbcoug
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Registered: 9-24-2006
Location: Vancouver, WA
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Mood: Needing Baja!
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Baja,
What a lucky man! Congratulations
John
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Udo
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Posts: 6364
Registered: 4-26-2008
Location: Black Hills, SD/Ensenada/San Felipe
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Mood: TEQUILA!
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I'm jeallous, bajabass...I've got two more years to go.
Udo
Youth is wasted on the young!
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chippy
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¡Felicidades!
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Bajahowodd
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Registered: 12-15-2008
Location: Disneyland Adjacent and anywhere in Baja
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Geez. A Mexican wife who is a doctor...... So good. Just please don't rub it in.
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sanquintinsince73
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Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Ooorahhhh!!
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monoloco
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Registered: 7-13-2009
Location: Pescadero BCS
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Salud!
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DavidE
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Registered: 12-1-2003
Location: Baja California México
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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Feliciadades a todos!
I'm stuck up in gringolandia and may be here another month waiting for the medical issues to sort themselves out. To all that are living well south of
la linea and haven't been back in awhile:
Prices on goods up here have risen to a stupid level. I b-tched and moaned when I priced Thomas' English Muffins at 60 pesos a package but then up
here reality slapped me in the face, four dollars eighty three cents at the cheapest el cheapo super discount market. A buck thirty five for a
steenking can of Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup and a buck a pop for apples. Very few things are significantly cheaper than what I was used to paying
in Mexico.
Regular gas at Costco today, $2.87 gallon. The near the freeway Chevron station dispenser pump cheated me so bad (short pumped as bad as anything I
have ever had happen in Mexico) that it was hilarious except I got beat out of 40% of the gas that I paid for and what showed as being pumped on the
dispenser.
In short IT SUCKS UP HERE so dash any thoughts of "homesickness" or other irrational emotions that you may have been nursing.
No chance of slipping a cop a hundred pesos to forget that he caught you way over the speed limit. They have green angels up here, when the towtruck
finally arrives you are going to fork over all the green in your wallet.
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Cypress
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Registered: 3-12-2006
Location: on the bayou
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Mood: undecided
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Bajabass, Congrats and good luck!
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longlegsinlapaz
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Not that I'm superstitious....but ya mighta held off on the announcement until the ink is dry! The buyer might not have as firm a handshake as you.
There goes 'errrrrrrr, I mean....welcome to the neighborhood!
Congrats!
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grace59
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Registered: 9-14-2004
Location: San Felipe, Baja, Mexico
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All the best to you in your new life. I am jealous! The rain has returned to Western WA and already I am tired of it and missing Baja so much that I
could cry. I can't wait until I can spend more time then in my Casa...whatever Manana it is finally finished! Ahhh, Mexico Time, I miss it!
Whenever I hear that rainy, chill wind blow. I think it may be time to head for Mexico. Tengo que obedecer mi corazon!
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mcfez
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Congrats
“Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”
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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grace59
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
“Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.” |
Ahh, McFez...So well quoted! Someday when we are all in San Felipe at the same time we must meet for a drink.
Whenever I hear that rainy, chill wind blow. I think it may be time to head for Mexico. Tengo que obedecer mi corazon!
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cftlet
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Location: Grants Pass,OR.
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Mood: Modelo Negro on my mind
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Congrats on your new life. My wife and I just leased our house in ore. and are headed to our casita in Los Barriles in October. It is raining like
hell here in Grants Pass and Iam wishing I was allready gone. Have fun getting rid of all that crap you dont need, it took me a full month and many
trips to the dump (Im still recovering). Maybe we can have a couple of pacificos (seeing as we are retired and have nothing better to do except maybe
fish).
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BornFisher
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Hey John-- Please announce to the fish in La Salina, you are leaving and it`s safe to bite things with strings attached!
Congrats, it sounds like a dream come true!!
Wishing you the best, Bill
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bajadock
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Bajabass,
Congrats. Hope you enjoy lightening your 5 ton load.
Craigslisting, Goodwilling and giving stuff away is still one of my favorite times during my migration here.
Salud
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desertcpl
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajabass
Seems like this gringo can migrate this fall. One way. As some on this forum may know, I have been trying to sell my biz in the O.C., and escape the
madness that is Southern California. On the same day, today, I shook hands on a deal to sell the last 20 years of my life, and my wife signed her
contract to start work at the new IMSS hospital in La Paz!!! By Halloween I shall be sipping Pacificos and watching sunsets from my new
home, LA PAZ! Now to get rid of 5 tons of B.S. I shall no longer need or want
Adios O.C., Hello BCS!!! |
Hola
good for you,, me after many years and not spending alot of time in Baja,, we will be leaving going south in a few weeks, really dont know when we
will return just for the winter months for now, but hope this will get to be a more permanent thing for us. for the last 10 year for the most part I
have stayed on the porch
watchng the big dogs play,
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bajabass
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Posts: 2016
Registered: 10-4-2006
Location: La Paz,BCS
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Mood: Want to fish!!!
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I was so excited typing my post, I missed the flagrant typo, in the first word!
Just now saw it. Oh well, seems I don't care! LOL
I've read others post about how quick it seems to happen, when it finally does. This was like a Mike Tyson punch, or bite, Whoa! My wife left to La
Paz 3 months ago, and we have not seen each other since. Don't ask about the cell phone bill, I try to forget!
jbcoug and Udo, gracias!chippy, thanks and wecome aboard. This is a great
forum!
Cypress, salud! Mi nuevo vida es en BCS! My Spanglish, sorry!
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wessongroup
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I like happy endings.. yours it movie material... some old bozo meets a beautiful woman Doctor that for some strange reason likes your sorry butt and
you get to go drink beer and fish ..... you lucky dog .... my hero  bad spelling.. do worry about it!! think I got the "picture"...
Best wishes
[Edited on 9-18-2010 by wessongroup]
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bajabass
Super Nomad
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Location: La Paz,BCS
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Bajahowodd, I spent 50 weekends a year, for two years to catch her! Now
I've spent 3 years trying to keep up with her!
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