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[*] posted on 7-12-2014 at 01:12 PM
Baja suburbia


Writing is a great hobby for me because when I write things down I often find out just how I feel about them. In my last thread about Baja, Why Wait, I learned that there are two kinds of Bajas.

This forum gets understandably tangled up in threads about this place vs that and hundreds chime in to say they love Playa One but hate Big City Two.

What makes the tangle is that the ideas are about vacation lifestyles vs settler’s lifestyles and about now vs then.

On a week’s vacation here or anywhere in the tropics near a beach, we want clear water, white sand, no people, tranquility. After a couple of days camped on this wonderful strand we want food and showers and hospitals and auto repair places and dentists and air-conditioning and big box stores and TV and lobster bisque. Then, after six months we need more and better hospitals, cadres of doctors, quick, cheap access to our farflung friends and family, special food stores, opera theaters and bowling alley, skating rinks and raves.

We want what we want when we want it. The point is we wouldn’t have been happy very long as settlers on that fist deserted beach. We know it won’t stay that way forever but we can’t stand it there for very long anyway; it will turn into a quaint and quiet development for a while to give the campers creature comforts for a price. We should view those special places as our private free waterparks which we hope will stay pristine and free.

It turns out that your “Wants Lists” might be a lot closer to most other Nomads and your worries get scrunched down a bit when you see that you can’t really live where you play. It’s the reason I’ve said that if I had it to do all over again after the last 20 years I would have bought a nice little Mexican house in a small village I liked and followed the motto “Live in our world, play in yours.”. It’s the very old cry of suburbia all over this lovely planet and is truer here than most places I’ve been. It works. You can live in Orlando but it is always packed with people who get in your way. You can live in La Purisima but you will miss your kids and be miserable when you run out of your special meds.

So, in the real world the saying should not be “I just adore Rome but I wouldn’t want to live there.” More like “I love living near Rome and don’t mind the trips there where we go to get everything else we need.”

In Baja you can have your cake and eat it too but you have to have a car, money for gas, good planning and laid back attitude. The timeshare sales people will not agree. They have other plans for you and your yankee $$$$$s.

[Edited on 7-12-2014 by Osprey]

[Edited on 7-12-2014 by Osprey]
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[*] posted on 7-12-2014 at 03:07 PM


Very interesting post and I have found that at first we craved so many things which over the years we have grown to live just fine without.

Ideally, yes, you live remotely bit have access to big city options (((:





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[*] posted on 7-12-2014 at 05:01 PM


I was born in Brooklyn and raised in an NYC suburb. Now I live in a suburb of Boston that is literally a stone's throw from a Starbuck's. Talk about a cliché!

It turns out my wife is from a very remote part of the Midwest and moved to the Boston area in part to escape the isolation of her home town, but now that we're getting older the simplicity of that sort of life is very appealing. We're focusing on Southern Baja with the idea of stripping our lives of pretense, cooking our own meals and enjoying the sunsets. Yes, we need to be close enough to an urban center to make perhaps weekly visits for necessities. But one request - no Starbuck's within an hour's drive.




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