My situation is vastly different as I'm a single 39 year old but I was super happy to hear some of these numbers because it gives me a good idea of what to expect. Well done, friends! Thank you!
Thanks for your support and comment. Yes, everyone's situation is gonna be different, so we hope to give a guide of what to expect. Then of course add or subtract your lifestyle. Hope you like our future videos!
Wow! I've heard that the Virgin Islands are more expensive. I would assume that has to do with shipping items there. I've always understood island living is more expensive the further you are from any mainland. Thanks for your insight into your living expenses.
Just found your channel. I am from Houston and have been been exploring Mexico since 1978. My daughter and I will be in San Miguel in two weeks for a month stay. Eventually I will decide where to live most likely central Mexico area. Looking forward to your upcoming videos.
Thank you for your comment and support. we hope to deliver great content about life in Mexico. We really enjoy it here in QRO with its fantastic weather and laid back lifestyle.
Thank you for posting! We are moving to QRO soon, so this was a treasure trove of information (we have two little). We currently spend $3600 per month living in Wyoming - yikes! And we are frugal!
Thank you JN. We think you'll love it here, as we do. We too cut our expenses drastically once we moved here and we're not big spenders either. Thanks for your support!
Hola Louie, I just found your videos, they're entertaining and quite informative, I'll be heading down to Q-town in January 2023 for a month visit and also love the occasional cold brew, what are the January temps like? Maybe we can grab a cold one together and you can tell me more about your adventures, tu compa desde San Anto, Texas
Thank you Ralph Lozano. Jan temperature is morning and evening to night is cold, can be 3-5 degree cold. 10AM TO 4 or 5 pm is warmed up up tp 15-20 degree. You need heater at night and early morning.
We are retiring from the US to San Cristobal de las Casas. After years of research, we believe we will spend less than $1500/mo. We speak Spanish, do not want to own a car, love to walk in cool weather. We do not eat out much. We like to cook at home and eat with our 3 senior dogs. We are Vegan so live on fresh fruits n veggies. Guesses- rent $500 groceries $500 internet cell gas electric water $150 vet $100 I play Brazilian Jiu Jitsu $50 medical dental $100 ….something like this, according to our research and friends that live there.
Yes, that is true. We did include medical care, but for catastrophic events we do have reserves for that, but it’s an excellent point that you bring up? Do you carry insurance for medical care in Mexico, if you live here? What type?
well it seems extremely cheap for us living in USA or Europe bcz we are comparing those numbers to our salaries here in the USA/Europe BUT I'm pretty sure the salaries in Queretaro and Mexico in general are not even close to the money we make here in USA/Europe, so without a realistic salary information is impossible to know if those numbers are cheap or not for someone doing the same type of job we do in USA/Europe over there in Queretaro
Yes, absolutely. If you can earn In USD CAD,or Euro then it's definitely more affordable, but similar jobs here in Mexico would earn substantially less.
I just found you!! Great information. I want to retire in Mexico and we are looking at queretaro. Medical insurance has been in my mind. Could you share from where you get your accident/travel insurance? Thank you for sharing your adventure with us!!
Deberian tratar de comprar Las frutas y verduras en Los mercado local de la ciudad es mas barato que wall Mart o otras cadenas y asi ayudan ala gente que compite con Las grandes cadenas como wall Mart sorina chedrauy mente otras asi podran ver ka diferencia y el ahorro la inflation esta en todo el mundo pero en todo Mexico es diferente Las grandes ciudades es mas caro y Las coudades chicas es menos eso creo gracias ciidese bendiciones para Los 3 siempre positivo ...
gracias por tu comentario. sí, solíamos comprar en el mercado local cuando vivíamos en el centro, pero ahora es un poco más difícil ya que vivimos fuera de la ciudad principal, pero deberíamos tratar de encontrar uno. No pensé, pero estoy de acuerdo, que beneficiará mucho más a los vendedores locales. especialmente en estos tiempos.
Where do you purchase your travel insurance from amd what sort of things does it cover? Do either of you speak spanish? We are thinking of making a move to MX. We pay at least 5k/mth and that is just my husband, myself and our dog. We barely eat out and take 1 vacation a year. Your videos are great and your son is precious.
Hi Tracey. we looked online to get travel insurance and it cover most accidental issues, like if you're in a car accident or have to go to the emergency room, but not preventative care, but it is affordable enough to see our regular Dr.s I speak pretty fluent Spanish, by no means perfect but at least at a high intermediate level.
@@dreamlifeinMexico thanks for the reply. I figured you must speak Spanish living in Queretaro. I think it would be pretty difficult not speaking the language there? I speak some, but my husband speaks zero. Thinking Chapala area would be an easier integration for him. Thoughts? Since you've been to both. Thanks
very helpful, but I have question here. when you travel, do you take your dogs to doggy care? because I have a dog. I want to know if there is doggy care and how much is that cost for like dog hotel something like that. thank you
Yes we do have someone watching our dogs. There are dog hotel here charges abt 10-15 usd per day. We found some local individual dog sitter for abt 5 usd a day per dog.
Hey Juan, thanks for the question. As with any real estate market prices will vary based on a variety of issues, but in our area you can get brand new, apartments from about $65,000 and houses go up to about $160,000 USD.
@@jguzman713 interest can be high from what we’ve heard. Somewhere over 8%, but we’ve also heard financing can be difficult and with high interest rate you see many people just buy homes paying cash
@@dreamlifeinMexico At 79, I am happy renting fully furnished, maid and all utilities included. Beautiful view of Queretaro, and gated secure community. Groceries and laundry delivered to my door.
What 😯 omg is very cheaper there. I live in Queens New York, old studio , 6 floor and pay 1,300 plus electricity like 100, sometimes more, gas like 30 to 40, plus 70 cell phone, 60 internet, 12 Netflix. I have to dogs every time I take one to the vet I pay from 400 to 600, 30 dog pampers 4 100 pampers apart from the food. Also life is very stressful and depresse here. Saludos 😃 😀 God bless you guy's 🙏❤️👍😀😃
@@dreamlifeinMexico of course I want to move, just need to finish some things. I want to live far from city. I'm very stressed here. Please keep posting more videos of your life there 🙏❤️
And we only had a talk and text plan, no data, as we had our Mexican phone for going out, and we could use our US phone at home or anywhere that had Wi-Fi
$1700 per month for everything in the deadly USA, and $750 monthly for everything. I love to give generously to non beggars. Queretaro. I was told to thank God for another day, and i woke up in my right mind, and my bed was not my cooling board. I was told to make my bed, and be clean on spirit, body, and home. Treat others, like you want to be treated. We reap what we have sown. Karma never loses an address. Queretaro is not hot as Merida, but safe and cool.
If I remember correctly, you need to have an unlocked phone and you can simply use Wi-Fi to make call back home with your provider. We even lowered our plan to just text and talk to save a little every month, and have our Mexican phone that we can use to look thing up if we’re away from home.
So can you flush toilet paper in most of the houses around there? That doesn't seem to be a very big deal for most folks. It is for me. I don't want a pail full of crappy toilet paper occupying the bathroom with me.
So far we haven't had that issue here in Querétaro. I have heard that for certain ateas or cities. I guess like most things here it varies from place to place.
@@dreamlifeinMexico I was told on an expat FB page that it was the case all over Mexico, but later on others said it depended on . . . well, it was never clear exactly where the problem was, but I gleaned enough to learn that it's not a universal problem. Maybe just in the old parts of a city. I dunno.
We will have $1800 per month in Social Security and 401K's for the first 3 years and $2,500 per month after that along with substantial savings accounts. That is why we are retiring into Mexico! We have no babies and will only be shopping at supermercados for absolute minimums. Mercados de pulgas and mercado de fruta will be where we do most of our business. So many Americans want to live in a foreign land and maintain a US mentality. That is one thing, as I understand it that pisses off the natives!
I think partly in areas that are tourist heavy it could be the case, but in general I think it's just everything is getting more expensive due to inflation. Mexico is not immune.
Let’s not forget, foreigners also ADD to the economic prosperity of Mexico. The price we pay for goods and services will always increase over time regardless.
the numbers don't work for that to be true. Mexico City has the greatest percentage of non-Mexicans of any city in Mexico and that number represents just barely over 1% of the population of Mexico City. 1% cannot change the economy. What is happening is exactly the same thing that happened in China. China used to be super inexpensive however as manufacturing companies started doing business in China, they needed workers so people started moving to places where lots of jobs were being offered and the rate of pay for employees increased....and population density in those places increased. This causes property values to increase...and the cost of everything to increase. But it is balanced by rate of pay increasing due to companies having to compete against each other for the limited supply of local workers. This is standard economics. THAT is what is causing the cost of rent or food or electricity etc to increase. If you go to a small town where there has been no manufacturing growth etc, you'll find that the prices have not increased. But its easier to blame foreigners than to actually understand economics. To keep costs the same as they were a decade in the past, you would have to remove all the manufacturing and other jobs that have been created in Mexico in the last decade.
My situation is vastly different as I'm a single 39 year old but I was super happy to hear some of these numbers because it gives me a good idea of what to expect. Well done, friends! Thank you!
Thanks for your support and comment. Yes, everyone's situation is gonna be different, so we hope to give a guide of what to expect. Then of course add or subtract your lifestyle. Hope you like our future videos!
This is great information, thank you for sharing guys!!!
Hey Ricardo! Good to hear from you and thanks for the support. Your event looks great and full of value, keep it up!
I live in the Virgin Islands and my rent for a small 2 bedroom condo is $2500. Plus food and gas and everything else is about 30% more than in the US.
Wow! I've heard that the Virgin Islands are more expensive. I would assume that has to do with shipping items there. I've always understood island living is more expensive the further you are from any mainland. Thanks for your insight into your living expenses.
Just found your channel. I am from Houston and have been been exploring Mexico since 1978. My daughter and I will be in San Miguel in two weeks for a month stay. Eventually I will decide where to live most likely central Mexico area. Looking forward to your upcoming videos.
Thank you for your comment and support. we hope to deliver great content about life in Mexico. We really enjoy it here in QRO with its fantastic weather and laid back lifestyle.
I am next door in Queretaro.
Thank you for posting! We are moving to QRO soon, so this was a treasure trove of information (we have two little). We currently spend $3600 per month living in Wyoming - yikes! And we are frugal!
Thank you JN. We think you'll love it here, as we do. We too cut our expenses drastically once we moved here and we're not big spenders either. Thanks for your support!
Great information! Thank you!!
Great advice guys! You're SO organized... Loved this video... keep then coming!
Thanks Romy! We're working hard to bring more great content.
Hola Louie, I just found your videos, they're entertaining and quite informative, I'll be heading down to Q-town in January 2023 for a month visit and also love the occasional cold brew, what are the January temps like? Maybe we can grab a cold one together and you can tell me more about your adventures, tu compa desde San Anto, Texas
Thank you Ralph Lozano. Jan temperature is morning and evening to night is cold, can be 3-5 degree cold. 10AM TO 4 or 5 pm is warmed up up tp 15-20 degree. You need heater at night and early morning.
It would be a heck of a lot more in the US that's for sure. Saludos!
Absolutely it would, especially daycare and bills!
Such gr8 info TY so glad I found your channel!!
Thank you. We’re glad you enjoy!☺️
Great information 👍.
Thank you! We're glad you like it and hopefully our future videos can be as helpful. That's our goal!
We are retiring from the US to San Cristobal de las Casas. After years of research, we believe we will spend less than $1500/mo.
We speak Spanish, do not want to own a car, love to walk in cool weather.
We do not eat out much. We like to cook at home and eat with our 3 senior dogs. We are Vegan so live on fresh fruits n veggies.
Guesses- rent $500 groceries $500 internet cell gas electric water $150 vet $100
I play Brazilian Jiu Jitsu $50 medical dental $100
….something like this, according to our research and friends that live there.
Awesome! Best of luck on your move.
Be careful no one budgets in medical cost. If a bad accident happens or options for insurance is.
Yes, that is true. We did include medical care, but for catastrophic events we do have reserves for that, but it’s an excellent point that you bring up? Do you carry insurance for medical care in Mexico, if you live here? What type?
You have the doc in the box, next to the pharmacy
well it seems extremely cheap for us living in USA or Europe bcz we are comparing those numbers to our salaries here in the USA/Europe BUT I'm pretty sure the salaries in Queretaro and Mexico in general are not even close to the money we make here in USA/Europe, so without a realistic salary information is impossible to know if those numbers are cheap or not for someone doing the same type of job we do in USA/Europe over there in Queretaro
Yes, absolutely. If you can earn In USD CAD,or Euro then it's definitely more affordable, but similar jobs here in Mexico would earn substantially less.
I am on the same pension from the USA to Queretaro.$2181 per month and small savings.
Thanks for a fantastic video. Greetings from Cancun. My single guy spending is $675 per month. ATB. 😁
Oh wow! That' awesome. We're glad you enjoyed!
I just found you!! Great information. I want to retire in Mexico and we are looking at queretaro. Medical insurance has been in my mind. Could you share from where you get your accident/travel insurance? Thank you for sharing your adventure with us!!
Hi Kimberly, we’ve always shopped around, but this time we got it from IMG insurance
Your right great cost based on you... my wife and I probably 1200 and we drink beer.
I enjoy a good beer too?😃
Deberian tratar de comprar Las frutas y verduras en Los mercado local de la ciudad es mas barato que wall Mart o otras cadenas y asi ayudan ala gente que compite con Las grandes cadenas como wall Mart sorina chedrauy mente otras asi podran ver ka diferencia y el ahorro la inflation esta en todo el mundo pero en todo Mexico es diferente Las grandes ciudades es mas caro y Las coudades chicas es menos eso creo gracias ciidese bendiciones para Los 3 siempre positivo ...
gracias por tu comentario. sí, solíamos comprar en el mercado local cuando vivíamos en el centro, pero ahora es un poco más difícil ya que vivimos fuera de la ciudad principal, pero deberíamos tratar de encontrar uno. No pensé, pero estoy de acuerdo, que beneficiará mucho más a los vendedores locales. especialmente en estos tiempos.
Just wanted to say thank you for your video.
We're glad you enjoyed and are trying to improve every video
great video
We have a monthly house payment of $1400.00 in the US and $4000.00 in in yearly property tax.
It is very similar to what we paid in the us before.
Where do you purchase your travel insurance from amd what sort of things does it cover? Do either of you speak spanish? We are thinking of making a move to MX. We pay at least 5k/mth and that is just my husband, myself and our dog. We barely eat out and take 1 vacation a year. Your videos are great and your son is precious.
Hi Tracey. we looked online to get travel insurance and it cover most accidental issues, like if you're in a car accident or have to go to the emergency room, but not preventative care, but it is affordable enough to see our regular Dr.s I speak pretty fluent Spanish, by no means perfect but at least at a high intermediate level.
@@dreamlifeinMexico thanks for the reply. I figured you must speak Spanish living in Queretaro. I think it would be pretty difficult not speaking the language there? I speak some, but my husband speaks zero. Thinking Chapala area would be an easier integration for him. Thoughts? Since you've been to both. Thanks
Hola Louie and Landy. I am new to Queretaro. Can you recommend a good massage therapist? Thank you in advance.
We know a lady lives in town. we used to go there. if u r in Zakia, we also know one here.
Hi from Chicago, Illinois. My monthly budget is 6,000 USD. I dream of the day when we can spend much less in Mexico.
very helpful, but I have question here. when you travel, do you take your dogs to doggy care? because I have a dog. I want to know if there is doggy care and how much is that cost for like dog hotel something like that. thank you
Yes we do have someone watching our dogs. There are dog hotel here charges abt 10-15 usd per day. We found some local individual dog sitter for abt 5 usd a day per dog.
What is the cost for Queretaro house ? monthly payment ? or pay cash ? Thank you
Hey Juan, thanks for the question. As with any real estate market prices will vary based on a variety of issues, but in our area you can get brand new, apartments from about $65,000 and houses go up to about $160,000 USD.
@@dreamlifeinMexico what is the monthly payment for Querétaro house ? Also the interest in Mexico ? Thanks 🙏
@@jguzman713 interest can be high from what we’ve heard. Somewhere over 8%, but we’ve also heard financing can be difficult and with high interest rate you see many people just buy homes paying cash
@@dreamlifeinMexico Thank you
@@dreamlifeinMexico At 79, I am happy renting fully furnished, maid and all utilities included. Beautiful view of Queretaro, and gated secure community. Groceries and laundry delivered to my door.
Omg In Canada it's like $2600 for a 2 bedroom apartment
Wow! 😭😭🤣which part of Canada are you in?
So, what you're really saying is, roughly $1755us per month but that's IF you already own your home.
yes. For us is without rent. As rent is a wide range thing. For example, our house rent is about 700usd/month without furniture.
What 😯 omg is very cheaper there. I live in Queens New York, old studio , 6 floor and pay 1,300 plus electricity like 100, sometimes more, gas like 30 to 40, plus 70 cell phone, 60 internet, 12 Netflix. I have to dogs every time I take one to the vet I pay from 400 to 600, 30 dog pampers 4 100 pampers apart from the food. Also life is very stressful and depresse here. Saludos 😃 😀 God bless you guy's 🙏❤️👍😀😃
Wow, I’ve of course heard NYC is expensive for what you get, but thanks for sharing your experience with us. Have you ever thought of moving?
@@dreamlifeinMexico of course I want to move, just need to finish some things. I want to live far from city. I'm very stressed here. Please keep posting more videos of your life there 🙏❤️
@@Lareynadelcash we will. Also, good luck with moving out of the NYC area, and your continued support.😀
What do you do for work ?
We manage properties.
Did you have any family roots there?
No, we just found QRO online, liked what it sounded like and took the leap. Still enjoying it a year and 1/2 later
@@dreamlifeinMexico 👌
Wow! How do you only pay $50 for 2 US cell phones? What company are you with?
T mobile
And we only had a talk and text plan, no data, as we had our Mexican phone for going out, and we could use our US phone at home or anywhere that had Wi-Fi
You went to mex. Now go live in china n tell us what the cost is i enjoy watching you !!!
$1700 per month for everything in the deadly USA, and $750 monthly for everything. I love to give generously to non beggars. Queretaro.
I was told to thank God for another day, and i woke up in my right mind, and my bed was not my cooling board. I was told to make my bed, and be clean on spirit, body, and home. Treat others, like you want to be treated.
We reap what we have sown. Karma never loses an address.
Queretaro is not hot as Merida, but safe and cool.
I pay 550 dlls in montly in utilities i gringolandia usa.
😅bills are a killer in the US
How do you maintain your US number and service? Thanks
If I remember correctly, you need to have an unlocked phone and you can simply use Wi-Fi to make call back home with your provider. We even lowered our plan to just text and talk to save a little every month, and have our Mexican phone that we can use to look thing up if we’re away from home.
So can you flush toilet paper in most of the houses around there? That doesn't seem to be a very big deal for most folks. It is for me. I don't want a pail full of crappy toilet paper occupying the bathroom with me.
So far we haven't had that issue here in Querétaro. I have heard that for certain ateas or cities. I guess like most things here it varies from place to place.
@@dreamlifeinMexico I was told on an expat FB page that it was the case all over Mexico, but later on others said it depended on . . . well, it was never clear exactly where the problem was, but I gleaned enough to learn that it's not a universal problem. Maybe just in the old parts of a city. I dunno.
@@jimzooter4239 yes, I heard it can be a bigger problem in older parts as well.
It is only me, but I throw it out with garbage daily.
Just put it in the trash can butter side down or get a bidet.
Mexico is geting expensive..
Yeah, it is. The inflation is big here.
We will have $1800 per month in Social Security and 401K's for the first 3 years and $2,500 per month after that along with substantial savings accounts. That is why we are retiring into Mexico! We have no babies and will only be shopping at supermercados for absolute minimums. Mercados de pulgas and mercado de fruta will be where we do most of our business. So many Americans want to live in a foreign land and maintain a US mentality. That is one thing, as I understand it that pisses off the natives!
Mexico is getting expensive thanks to foreigners
I think partly in areas that are tourist heavy it could be the case, but in general I think it's just everything is getting more expensive due to inflation. Mexico is not immune.
Let’s not forget, foreigners also ADD to the economic prosperity of Mexico. The price we pay for goods and services will always increase over time regardless.
the numbers don't work for that to be true.
Mexico City has the greatest percentage of non-Mexicans of any city in Mexico and that number represents just barely over 1% of the population of Mexico City.
1% cannot change the economy.
What is happening is exactly the same thing that happened in China.
China used to be super inexpensive however as manufacturing companies started doing business in China, they needed workers so people started moving to places where lots of jobs were being offered and the rate of pay for employees increased....and population density in those places increased.
This causes property values to increase...and the cost of everything to increase. But it is balanced by rate of pay increasing due to companies having to compete against each other for the limited supply of local workers.
This is standard economics.
THAT is what is causing the cost of rent or food or electricity etc to increase.
If you go to a small town where there has been no manufacturing growth etc, you'll find that the prices have not increased.
But its easier to blame foreigners than to actually understand economics.
To keep costs the same as they were a decade in the past, you would have to remove all the manufacturing and other jobs that have been created in Mexico in the last decade.