Tag: Expats
How Expats Everywhere Finally Find Their Tribes
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” —Tim Cahill
As an expat, it’s all about finding your tribe. It might feel like...
A farewell conversation with Between the Lines’ Juanita Stein
While we wrap our heads around the loss of one of Mérida's most influential foreign residents, we learn more about where she has been and where she's going.
The expat happiness factor: How our baggage weighs us down
It doesn’t matter if the baggage you carry is Louis Vuitton, it still shows up in a U-Haul, says Mérida resident Brian D. Mahan, a California native who helps people work through emotional setbacks.
Mérida’s office for bewildered expats is at your service
A collaboration between the city and the U.S. consulate has resulted in an office to help expats settle in.
The Oficina Municipal de Atención al...
When someone needs aid, in rides the matchmaker, Kimmy Suki
I first met Kimberly Davin-DeGraff several years ago after she had established a Facebook group called “Yucatán Giving.”
Also known as Kimmy Suki, the central-California...
Patsy’s Daughters Moved Abroad, and so can you (and your kids)
Tonya and Ebony moved with their families to Mérida, Mexico, to uncover their family’s history and heal after the passing of their mother, Patsy....
An iron will pays off for Tatiana Echeverría Delgado
Tatiana Echeverría Delgado studied economics in her native Cuba but says she was always an artist at heart. She and her husband, Urbi Álvarez...
Joanna van der Gracht de Rosado: A mother-daughter talk about writing...
My mother and I are talking about how much life has changed in the 47 years since she moved to Yucatán. “I’ve come a...
New survey: Mérida is the 2nd-best place to live in Mexico
Mérida was second only to Mexico's capital for expats and digital nomads, a new best-cities survey concludes.
That means the "White City" scored higher...
Mexico City among top 6 new cities for young expats
Bloomberg has named Mexico City one of the world’s six best places to be a young expat whose location is independent. Some would call...
Proud ‘Expat Rebels’ recount their pandemic adventure on the beach and...
There are a lot of foreigners making Yucatán their home. When the pandemic stopped worldwide travel one couple picked a home, bought it, and...
Mexico’s new wave of expats need to ‘face the truth’
The expat backlash is here. It hit a crescendo in late July, and for wanderlust types who have found their home-from-home abroad, it’s time...
Plant-based travelers David and Travis gain a YouTube fan base
David and Travis were inspired by all those online videos coming from expats in Mérida. So naturally, they came to Mérida and started a...
For that next chapter in your life, is Mexico on your...
Learn from the people who have come before you at our Relocation Workshops.
Remembering DG Heath, who embraced living and writing in Mérida
David Heath, for whom I had the pleasure of shepherding his numerous late-in-life books, died this week.
He was 79 years old and ailing, yet...
Expats asked to weigh in on a Calle 47 culinary corridor
Several members of Mérida’s international community participated in a focus group to discuss the potential for a project described as a “culinary corridor” along Calle 47 east of the Remate.
Foreign property ownership up 3.5% annually in Yucatán — study
The number of United States and Canadian citizens who have decided to live temporarily or permanently in Yucatán increases 3.5% every year.
That’s the conclusion...
Progreso’s international community comes together to fund new animal hospital
International residents in Progreso are coming to the aid of the port city's stray animals.
After 9/11, a New York diaspora in Mexico
Maybe now that 20 years have passed, I could bring myself to visit the memorial where the Twin Towers used to be.
The visit, however,...
70% of expats in Mexico want to continue living here
Has the coronavirus pandemic dampened the future of expat living? Maybe not.
Three-quarters of people who moved to another country for business or cultural...
Missing the Canadian community and doing good things in Yucatán
To the editor:
My husband and I have been going to Chicxulub for three months every year for the past 15 years. We don’t say...
Rose McGowan becomes a permanent resident of Mexico
Actress Rose McGowan is possibly the Yucatán Peninsula's most famous new foreign resident.
McGowan is living in Tulum, and loving it, according to the...
Check out the amazing voice belonging to this Merida girl, and...
Lea Garza can really belt out a tune. She sings well enough, in fact, to have recently won a national contest after covering Demi...
The anxiety U.S. expats face trying to vote Nov. 3
Whether by private courier or diplomatic pouch and a beleaguered mail system, U.S. voters abroad are going to new lengths to ensure their ballots...
