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  2. Oh Herman ... don't you have anything else to complain about?
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  4. https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-drought-largest-lakes-disappearing/
  5. Well one can purchase a TIP at the Banjericto (Mexican Bank) office AT the ferry terminal in La Paz if heading for the mainland but I don't know if one can cancel/turn in a TIP if coming into La Paz from the mainland. "Normally" one can only do this at a Banjercito when leaving Mexico into either US or Belize. IF you can actually do this cancellation in La Paz, you have one more 'problem'. Although one does NOT have to have a TIP anywhere in the Baja, Mexico does require one maintain a current vehicle registration while there. If you plan on living full time in La Paz you will need to find a state that will give you a title/plate and then let you renew it annually via mail. South Dakota will do this.
  6. Tipping has become absolutly crazy. In some countries it is considered an insult. Tip screen on ccard terminals where no service is given. USA is the worst. Tipping is not based on what one can afford. It is based on the service received. In the case of Taxis in Mexico a tip is not normal no matter where you come from or how rich you are. If the cab driver goes out of his way than a small tip is ok, but not for doing his normal service.
  7. What has that got to do with YOU, MC? You're not a Mexican and you can well afford to give a hard-working guy a little appreciation for "safe home".
  8. IMSS will exclude you from joining for some chronic diseases. They have a 6 month, 1 year , 2 year and 3 year waiting period on other chronic diseases and treatments and operations needed, It depends on what condition you are in when applying. From the IMSS website: Exclusions to join, Google Translation: "• not subject to insurance people who have: malignant tumors, chronic degenerative diseases (late complications of diabetes mellitus), diseases: Hoarding (Gaucher disease), chronic liver disease, kidney failure: • Some pre-existing, such as illness chronic valvular heart disease, heart failure, sequelae of ischemic heart disease (arrhythmia, angina or myocardial infarction), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with respiratory failure, among others • chronic systemic connective tissue diseases, addictions like alcoholism and other substance abuse, mental disorders such as psychosis and dementia; congenital and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or Human Immunodeficiency Virus positive of diseases (HIV)"
  9. We tip if luggage they handle. Carry on only no tip as we handle them ourselves.
  10. My sister quit her job as a hospice nurse because there was a certain doctor who would rush terminal patients to the hospital as soon as they showed signs of worsening. Everyone knew what his real reasons were.
  11. 4 golf cart batteries GoWISE Inverter Transfer switch Battery charger A friend who was visiting from the U.S. attempted to assemble a back-up electrical system for our house, but did not know how to make it work in conjunction with CFE. We now want to sell the components he had assembled to build his system. We spent about $23,000 on these components, and will sell them for $12,000. We live in San Juan Cosala and we cannot deliver the golf cart batteries. Inverter full description: GoWISE Power PS1104 Pure Sine Wave Inverter, 3000W continuous, 6000W peak surge power, with starter cables and 4 output sockets, upgraded model Transfer switch description: Go Power TS-30 30 Amp Automatic Transfer Switch (current Amazon listed price is $3,096) Phone: 332-823-3516
  12. The following was published in the local OJO magazine in 2014: By Morgan Bedford January 2014 https://www.chapala.com/elojo/139-articles-2014/january-2014/2350-masonic-influence-on-mexico Would you believe that Free Mason Benito Juárez was the one who decapitated the Catholic Church’s control with his Reform Laws of 1859? Would you believe that Masonic Lodge Member and Free Mason Benito Juarez would become President of Mexico in 1861? Or that Mexico did not have another great president until almost a hundred years later, with the election of Free Mason Lazaro Cardenas? But before going further into the fascinating history of the Mason in Mexico, let’s find out who these mysterious Masons are and what they stand for. A Mason is obliged to obey all moral law and believe in one supreme power. Atheists and agnostics need not apply. Free Masonary is open to men of different religions. Jews were in fact admitted not long after 1723, in the earliest days of Free Masonry. It is not necessary here to discuss initiations and recognition signals among the Masonic order, but to simply say that Nazis surpressed Free Masonry and to this day membership in the order remains illegal in many former communist countries. It is clear that the Masons, or builders, who term God “The Master Architect,” were Masters of their craft and no building has ever been constructed without a Master Mason. No one knows for sure, however, when the Mason´s order developed its religious overtones but there were rituals for initiation and legends connected with Hiram, Soloman¹s master mason. In John Huston’s great film of the Kipling classic, The Man Who Would Be King, the Masonic Emblem that Sean Connery is wearing (purportedly left behind by a tribe once allied with Alexander The Great) saves his life. There are Masonic manuscripts preserved in the British Museum dated 1390 but the first formal merging of many types of Lodges occurred in England in 1717. Shortly thereafter, the first lodge was founded in Mexico City. The Spanish Inquisition started in Mexico in 1738 and by 1796, they had destroyed the Masons in Mexico. Free Masonery is still condemned in many Catholic-controlled countries, although an inquisition seems a rather strenuous way to express one´s views. In 1825, American Ambassador Joel Poinsett (whose name the Poinsettia flower carries) founded five lodges in Mexico with the authorization of the Grand Lodge of New York. There was little agreement between the older Scottish Rites so in 1826 the National Mexican Rite was formed. Over the next 120 years, the Masons kept a relatively firm political grip on Mexico. The Masonic Presidents included Guerrero, Pedroza, General Bustamente, Santa Anna, Farias, Gil and Sales who reinstated the Constitution of 1824. Between February of 1857 and 1859, the new Constitution was put into effect by Juárez and the Catholic Church was out. The church then petitioned the European powers for help. Maximillian was the result. By 1868, Maximillian was with his maker though his wife Carlotta lived until 1927, finally dying in a mental asylum in Belgium. Thus the enlightened hand of the Mason fell on Mexico. Absolute freedom of the press was instituted, along with the abolishment of all privileges of the clergy. Other measures struck hard at laws attributed to the clergy in respect to civil business; betterment of the moral state of the country came about with the elimination of the monopoly of the clergy in public education; finally, capital punishment for all so-called political transgressions was done away with. Nowhere, through revolution and inquisition, war and invasion, has Free Masonery had a greater positive impact than on Mexico and its people.
  13. Yep, reminds me of a former Lakeside resident who moved back to Arizona with brain cancer. In hospice, the Dr ordered another chemo treatment cause there was "money left on the table."
  14. imho, if there is cargo involved then you should tip. That includes luggage or groceries. IF I have to put the groceries in and take out the trunk (same for luggage) then I do NOT tip. I appreciate being helped.
  15. My understanding is Mexicans don't normally tip cab drivers. Has this changed?
  16. Blanket, you are making the HUGE assumption that IMSS will even take you!!!!! HIGHLY unlikely. Then you're assuming there won't be a MAJOR wait time for costlier things...... and any pre- existing conditions ( such as you've stated you have), would be excluded forever anyway.
  17. Unless you're going to try and get an Uber at GDL airport, you have NO OPTION but to use their provided cabs so using any other website is a waste of time don't forget to tip the driver since he has to kick back a %age of each trip to them
  18. I use that website all the time. When I think the fare may be too low or too high, I reverse directions and, like Ibarra said, average the 2 for a more accurate price. Try finding a website that is completely accurate with ALL of its information. Can't! 802 pesos from Ajijic to Guadalajara airport 259 pesos from Guadalajara airport to Ajijic 1061 divided by 2 is 530.50.
  19. It's pretty simple, for most of us. Click on the word FORUMS on the second toolbar to see all of the choices on chapala.com.
  20. I just did it from Ajijic to GDL Airport and am using an average between the 2 as a reference point for the actual fees. That amount comes to 530.5 pesos. Ajijic to Guadalajara International Airport taxi fare The estimated price is 802 MXN, confirm price with provider directly
  21. 16 March 2024 Visa rate 16.655816 Mastercard rate 16. 686802 (Present day's rate was available at 3:05 PM EST)
  22. I get them at Farmacias opposite LCS corner entrance 500mcg 150 pills 450 pesos
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