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vandy
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Please stop, Mexitron!
I, too, remember 19 cents per bottle Corona/Pacifico...for years in the 80s.
Gas was about 66 cents per gallon...
If you could exchange dollars, the horrible peso inflation made for other savings.
I'd say Mexico was a true cheapskate's paradise until about 1996 when the dirt pimps started coming down in force and the idiots with more dollars
than cents flocked down, feeling more secure from info on the internet, reservations and such.
I chose 1996 because that's the year I saw my first middle-aged tourist, complete with black knee-socks and sandals, on Isla Mujeres.
He happened to be form my college town, and told me when I asked, "Oh, I found it on the Internet".
I knew Mexico was doomed, and watched as my hotel went from $6 per night to $12, then $24 in three years.
I came back to Baja, where it's still possible to camp near the beach.
Back to the original post:
It now costs more to live in Baja than Phoenix, AZ, if you rent.
PHX has way cheaper groceries, gas, utilities and beer.
But you don't see me hanging around in Phoenix!
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Jonno_aus
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I haven't been to La Paz in a few years. What's the going rate for a taco de pescado at Taco Fish La Paz?
And is the guy still selling his famous birria(sp) on - I think - Republica? Think it was accross from that little coffee/cafe shop?
Jonno.
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dtbushpilot
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| Quote: | Originally posted by motoged
Maybe my computer has a better sense of what urls I should be visiting 
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If that were the case it would have let you open the link
[Edited on 12-5-2013 by dtbushpilot]
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MitchMan
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Generally speaking, if you know how to live modestly, do your own cooking, don't have entertainment requirements that include concerts and tickets to
expensive sporting events and have only modest medical needs and/or you are on Medicare, there are probably many places in the USA that have really
low costing real estate where the then cost of living would be quite comparable to living in the Baja.
My question is, where else in the western world is there inexpensive access to quality healthcare and comparable low cost of living?
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Jonno_aus
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Australia for the first part, Mitch.
Indonesia or Malaysia for the 2nd.
Although if Tacos Del Sur still have great tacos de pastor for 12 pesos, I might rethink the 2nd one. 
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Jonno_aus
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Jonno_aus
I haven't been to La Paz in a few years. What's the going rate for a taco de pescado at Taco Fish La Paz?
And is the guy still selling his famous birria(sp) on - I think - Republica? Think it was accross from that little coffee/cafe shop?
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Birria guy was on calle Madero near the bottle shop. Best Birria this side of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. 
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DavidE
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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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1988, 525 pesos liter for Extra gasoline. Dollars Pesos was at 2,240
I believe things are going to get a lot tighter. Hacienda with a database is deadlier than Al Fatah, Black September and Allah's Disciple's of Al
Qaeda all mixed together.
The PRI was voted out in 2000. In order to play catch up they are going to have to immerse their claws in a veritable niagara falls of cash inflowing
the treasury. IOW you ain't seen nothin' yet.
A Lot To See And A Lot To Do
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