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Absolutely right, MC! Such a thing would never happen in a typical American city; at random say... Flint, Michigan, where the well-being of its citizens is paramount. "I like to be in America OK by me in America Everything free in America For a small fee in America... Life can be bright in America If you can fight in America Life is all right in America If you're all white in America"

The lake is fed by the Lerma, but drained by the Santiago, if it ever gets high enough to drain. The article posted by Vette is misleading regarding the Santiago.

Here is a list of other medical facilities in Guadalajara ( keep reading to the bottom of this post ) : As far as GUADALAJARA HOSPITALS.... here are 2 less expensive and fair alternatives to the luxury hospitals: Both run by nuns : 1) SAGRADO CORAZON Antonio Rosales 204 colonia Analco cp 44450 Tel 36172524 info@hospitaldelsagradocorazon.com ( several friends went there for surgery.... not more than a few 10 000 pesos, and very satisfied ) 2) LA SANTISIMA TRINIDAD street = Miguel Blanco 1225 ( centro ) HOSPITAL DEL PILAR on Hidalgo, near Plaza Mexico, is also a very nice, less expensive hospital as well. An alternative to Hospital Civil is : ZOQUIPAN HOSPITAL Av. Zoquipan 1050 Zoquipan Zapopan 45170 Tel 30306300 - 30306339 For eye problems, also google : Santa Lucía Clínica Oftalmológica For low income people with eye problems, there is a special ophtamology foundation : Fundación Oftalmológica para Personas de Escasos Recursos Av. de las Américas 254, Ladrón de Guevara, Ladron De Guevara, 44600 Guadalajara Also check out SALUD DIGNA, where they do all kinds of medical tests ( such as Electrocardiagrams,.... ) at a much lower price ( they also have a subsidiary on Av Alcalde.... for glasses ). One of the leading institutes to have all kinds of medical tests done is : LABORATORIO TOLSA. They do following tests : Análisis clínicos: ✔ Hematología y coagulación ✔ Química clínica y hormonas ✔ Inmunología ✔ Bacteriología ✔ Citohistopalogía ✔ Parasitología ✔ Urianálisis ✔ Estudios especiales ✔ Digitalización y almacenamiento icono Imagenología Imagenología: ✔ Ultrasonido ✔ Ultrasonido 3D Y 4D ✔ Doppler 3D,4D ✔ Resonancia magnética ✔ Tomografía axial ✔ Densitometría cadera, columna y cuerpo completo ✔ Radiología contrastada ✔ Rayos X digital ✔ Mastografía (dosis mínima de radiación que existe) ✔ Digitalización y almacenamiento icono Cardiología Cardiología: ✔ Electrocardiografía ✔ Ecocardiograma con dobutamina ✔ Electrocardiograma con prueba de esfuerzo en banda sin fin ✔ Mapa (monitoreo ambulatorio de presión arterial) ✔ Prueba de embarazo ✔ Valoración cardiológica ✔ Monitoreo Holter 24 hrs. icono Neurología Neurología: ✔Electroencefalograma ✔ Mapeo cerebral ✔ Potenciales evocados ✔ Electromiografía y electrodiagnóstico icono area dental Área dental: ✔ Tomografía 3D ✔ Radiología digital 2D ✔ Fotografía clínica ✔Modelos de estudio icono Sedación Sedación: ✔ Niños y adultos icono Gastroenterología Gastroenterología: ✔ Endoscopía ✔ Colonoscopía medicina industrial Medicina industrial: ✔ Audiometría ✔ Espirometría icono medicina nuclear Medicina nuclear: ✔ Gammagrama ✔Terapia con radioisotopos FOR SKIN PROBLEMS : INSTITUTO DERMATOLOGICO DE JALISCO Av. Federalismo Norte #3102, 45190 Zapopan 33 3660 0001 http://www.dermatologico.org/ Instituto de alta especialidad en dermatología, dependiente de la secretaría de Salud Jalisco For CANCER TREATMENT: INSTITUTO DE CANCEROLOGIA DE JALISCO Coronel Calderon 715, El Retiro, 44280 Guadalajara, Jal. ---> I personally know of 3 people, who are very happy with the treatment there ( affordable ! ) http://www.ijc.gob.mx/ Another medical facility to check out is : SERVICIOS DE SALUD ZAPOPAN: a large hospital that gives discounts to patients with limited financial resources ---> https://ssmz.gob.mx After almost 15 years of seeing vets and ANIMAL HOSPITALS in Guadalajara and Lakeside, I finally found the " top ". VETERINARIA ARBOLEDAS ( animal hospital ) Av Cruz del Sur 2909, Bosques de La Victoria, 44540 Guadalajara 33 3623 0261 Dr Baron comes very highly recommended by MANY. They have all the equipment ( like ultrasound equipment ) and are open 24 hours. Their prices are very reasonable, and it really sometimes pays off ( for the animal and your wallet ) to simply take a car or taxi to get there. Very recently, I went there with my dog and they did X Rays + ultrasound + the consultation for only 1050 pesos in total. And Dr Baron knows his stuff ! Unlike most vets, he knows about the benefits of CBD oil for pets, something still quite new for animals...and for vets. In an emergency ( or something more serious ) day or night, I know where to go. A 2nd well known and highly recommended vet is Dr Israel of ANIMAL KINGDOM HOSPITAL ( contact info on Facebook ) If later on, I will get more details on all the above, I will post it my Facebook page. Happy New Year !! Rony

I is way more complicaed than that.. The people I know where raised in the US and only knew of Mexico what their family told them.. They could no adapt when they got to the real Mexico.. It is a common problem all around the world amongst people who move to a country for sentimental reason , n search of their root but have been raised in a different culture... I am French and lived i Europe until age 24 , 50 years later I would hae a terrible time moving back and I was raised there.. Imagine the people who where not raised in Meico, know little about it and decide at retirement age that it would be the place to move too.. They are not differnt from other gringos who come here and cannot adapt , even if they know the language..

Did anyone think happy was driving around Mexico taking those photos himself? Just the fact that he dug them up is pretty extraordinary…….to me.

You know, ezpz, sometimes we were in the just the right place at just the right time and have wonderful memories, but going back isn't always a great idea. Even if there's nothing to be fearful of, many times things have changed to the point that it's just depressing and no longer has the same allure it did once upon a time. Luckily, there are plenty of new places to explore in the world.

I have read about a dozen very recent Mexican newspaper articles on this subject, and here is what I understand ( everything with a grain of salt, because uncertainty still rules ) : - Seguro Popular members: their policy ended on Dec. 31st, 2019 - You dont have to enroll in INSABI: every time you need healthcare/medication ( at certain not yet specified institutes...most likely former Seguro Popular ), you simply show ID and CURP number or birth certificate. Healthcare/medication are supposed to be without costs to the patient - You cant combine INSABI with other insurances and it is also open to foreigners REGARDLESS their immigration status ( for anybody on Mexican territory ). - nothing yet on IMSS merging with INSABI - the next months: transition period with uncertainty on rules of this new institution Rony

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Mexico has many ramps for runaway trucks. We have them all over the place n Chiapas along with signs saying , give rightaway to vehicules without brakes, and a red line the truck should follow..There is no room on the libramiento on the right to do this type of ramp.. Also trucks are not supposed to use their motor to slow down because of the noise..to the fracc near the libramiento. It s a catch 22 and now people are complainng about the opes.. What should there be there so people slow down??

Another useless fluff piece, with very few data points to support his conclusions. Only financial comparisons he gives are 1) cost of an x-ray and 2) cost of a Brazilian churrasco meal. Waste of bandwidth.

Are you seriously implying that the Santiago dumps into Lake Chapala? You need to look at a map, sir.

Not legally

El peor enemigo de un mexicano es otro mexicano que se cree gringo -

All three are 2016 file photos that TinEye says are on 189 sites for the first and 139 on the others.

So you're saying that from north of Soriana in Chapala to Walmart in SAT. 18 wheelers and other large trucks would be just fine then and cause no extra traffic problems? Are you going to show us how well you can navigate an 18 wheeler from Madero onto Hidalgo once that corner is finished?

I used to get irritated when Mexican tradespeople and workers wouldn't answer my texts. Yet they would always answer the phone when I called. I realized that many of them may be illiterate. And many who do answer spell everything much worse than I do in my imperfect Spanish. Yes, the cash register shows them how much change to give you, but when they can't count, that doesn't help. I've had the person behind the counter have to use a calculator to add 10 and 5.

Been there for a while.....

Low tonight expected to be 6ºC in Morelia, Michoacán. That's 42º Fahrenheit, with no heating in the house. Not too bad if I could crank up a thermostat, but--Happy New Year, everyone!

They will help. Personally I have no complaints about topes after being here several years. If I was a complainer by nature I would direct my complaints at complainers of topes. It seems do be a constant on this board.🤣😴

Better to have a 50 topes then big trucks killing people , since they some apply there breaks to late and want to to land in Walmart parking lot. Not only apply they break late, poor maintenance on these trucks, They have to be slowed down. since i been here at lakeside there have been several people killed or badly injured at the intersection in front of Walmart. possible New drivers to with big trucks experiencing coming down that hill and turning for the first time. A lot of people are in a hurry to kill themselves and take risks that are unnecessary. I used to be a paramedic in my 20'S lived in small town outside of st Louis called high ridge with highway 30 going by it. i thought it was a quiet town with not much happening. but as a paramedic there where accidents almost everyday on the 40 mile stretch of the highway, that where glass and metal cleaned up withing a few hours. i was shocked how many accidents and deaths happen and very few people know about it.. I know of at least 9 people here that have been side swiped by motorcycles who did not slow down. There are several i know who while not drive anymore as they are at the age where there attention span is slowed down. what is a life worth. I am sure those topes saved lives. Those topes may have saved your life and you did not even know it.

"I like to be in America OK by me in America Everything free in America For a small fee in America... Life can be bright in America If you can fight in America Life is all right in America If you're all white in America" Substitute Black or Brown in the last line here and I am sure you and others might have a different reaction. Would you call it ironic? Most of all these past injustices in America are over except for those dredging up the dirt to satisfy their own guilty conscience. Get over it! America (the US that is) is a great country that has eliminated most, if not all of this. Why not focus on real racism (yes, even here in Mexico), anti-Christianity in the middle East (and elsewhere) and genocide in China, Syria and elsewhere? I would say, why not get YOUR head out of the sand?

The lyrics are not racist, they decry racism as it existed in the '50s, and as it exists right now. The lyrics are meant to be ironic as they are sung by the very Puerto Ricans who are the victims of the casual racism they experience(d). Not knowing this makes you look, I don't know, reactionary, or worse. Putting your head in the sand is never a flattering look.

Do you think the problem is localized to Mexico? I can recall the Cuyahoga River* going up in flames, and the Mississippi and Hudson Rivers never looked terribly inviting. ...and by paying for it, you mean the industries and agricultural entities that are causing the effluent that is compromising these water ways should pay, right? Certainly not the average Mexican who would otherwise have to pay for it through taxes they can ill afford, right. * The fire on the Cuyahoga helped usher in laws for the protection of water ways in the US. The very same environmental laws that Trump is repealing as we speak. Let's raise a glass of cool, clear water in the name of progress, shall we? "Don't you listen to him Dan, He's a devil not a man".

Seriously, we have been over and over this subject. Medicare A and B don’t cover anything outside of the U.S. Medicare, in certain cases, will cover emergency medical services if something occurs during the first sixty days of travel. It’s actually very easy to confirm this, rather than listen to what someone said.... go to the Medicare site, or call Medicare as many of us have done. Or talk to the company you have your supplemental policy with. In my case it is United Health Care AARP plan F. The various Medicare Advantage plans may cover some things outside the U.S.....but that you would have to discuss with the insurance agent or carrier.

Thanks rony. Im another satisfied cancer suffer getting treatment at the instituto.

18 wheelers and semis have no business being on any road lakeside. They make small trucks for going through small towns with narrow streets where anything larger simply doesn't fit. Why is this any different? The sheer weight of a loaded Coca cola truck or Corona beer truck could be responsible for chewing up the highway. Both of those distribution plants are prime real estate now whereas they used to be located in the "boonies". imho, they should both be re-located but I have no clue as to the number of people who are employed there who would be affected by such a change.

This is (and has been) true of most Medicare Supplement plans; they pay for outside the US emergencies in the first 60 days of trip, with certain limitations. Nothing special about using it at Lakeside Medical Group. From Medicare.gov: What if I have a Medigap (Medicare Supplement Insurance) policy? Your Medigap policy may offer additional coverage for health care services or supplies that you get outside the U.S. Standard Medigap plans C, D, F, G, M, and N provide foreign travel emergency health care coverage when you travel outside the U.S. Plans E, H, I, and J are no longer for sale, but if you bought one before June 1, 2010, you may keep it. All of these plans also provide foreign travel emergency health care coverage when you travel outside the U.S. Medigap plans C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, M, and N pay 80% of the billed charges for certain medically necessary emergency care outside the U.S. after you meet a $250 deductible for the year. These Medigap policies cover foreign travel emergency care if it begins during the first 60 days of your trip, and if Medicare doesn’t otherwise cover the care. Foreign travel emergency coverage with Medigap policies has a lifetime limit of $50,000.

La Pacena and they have lobster tail today. Oh, and Mario's in SAT is also open.

Yes I got the two screwed up but this is a pretty sobering article. What I find really maddening is how these big international companies who most assuredly have the technology and resources to properly treat their wastes get away with using Mexico as a dump because the government here is so inept and corrupt. I can assure you from personal experience and having been involved in industrial waste research and treatment there are almost no wastes that cannot be either treated or prevented to begin with, with technology that is used in the first world where this dumping is simply not allowed. The Lerma is pretty bad too, unfortunately. One of the downers of living in Mexico is the poor job the government does in protecting the environment.

The Santiago River flows from Lake Chapala to the Pacific Ocean. "The Grande de Santiago River (Spanish: Río Grande de Santiago)[3] is one of the longest rivers in Mexico, measuring up 433 km (269 mi) long. The river begins at Lake Chapala and continues roughly north-west through the Sierra Madre Occidental, receiving the Verde, Juchipila, Bolaños, and other tributaries. At La Yesca, the La Yesca Dam was completed in 2012 and the El Cajón Dam was completed downstream in 2007. Below El Cajón, the Aguamilpa Dam was completed in 1993, creating a reservoir covering a large part of the territory of the municipality of El Nayar in Nayarit. From Aguamilpa, the river descends to the coastal lowlands, passing by Santiago Ixcuintla and empties into the Pacific Ocean, 16 km (10 mi) northwest of San Blas, in Nayarit. The river is viewed by some sources as a continuation of the Lerma River, which flows into Lake Chapala." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_de_Santiago_River

Not really. The gravel causes friction to slow the truck and some ramps have a gravel barrier at the top. Secondly. a really steep grade is needed to be effective and that's an impossibility here. Hope this foto helps everybody get this idea out of your thoughts.

First of all, the topes they installed on the libramiento are the warning kind: not large enough to do serious damage, but they do jolt you (in a car) and make a loud noise. You can drive over them at speed (40 kmh) in a well maintained car (I have repeatedly) without damage to the vehicle. In a large truck, they would be barely noticeable. Second, if your large truck does not have functioning brakes, hitting a series of noisy topes is just going to move WHERE you have the accident, not prevent it. If cars in front of the truck slow down and crawl over the topes, the truck (without brakes) is going to rear end them, or veer off right into the small buildings, or veer off left into oncoming traffic. If the truck is alone on the libramiento, the same conditions apply: they will zoom over the topes and plow into the intersection. So topes add nothing to the equation if the problem is runaway trucks. If the problem is people speeding on the libramiento as they come into the commercial area near Walmart (which is a problem), warning topes will slow them down, at the cost of some damaged chassis (due to poor maintenance and surprise), some rear end collisions (you stop, I don't), and some bad driving (passing on the left/right to avoid the topes and slower drivers). Such is the nature of all warning topes, yet that is the way Mexico chooses to control traffic speed.

Too short and would also interfere with the businesses along there.

Use a credit or debit card. Carry change to tip the baggers.

We arrived at GDL last nite and found the taxi booth has moved to just outside and to the right of the sliding doors from the red/green light area to the general population.

She is correct. Many people (NOT ALL!) here have very little education. I message my housekeeper with Whatsapp and her written Spanish is atrocious... as are her mathematical skills. She's in her mid thirties. My housekeeper in San Miguel only had grade four education. There are many hoops to jump through for an education here... money and proper ID being two of them.

Where did that come from? Is the bubbly going to your head this early?

It was because of my bad experiences at Wally Mart that I stopped getting my funds from an ATM machine were I would get one $100 peso note, two $200 peso notes and the rest, $500 peso notes My solution was to open up a Bank Account at Actinver Bank. Now, when I need money, I stop by the bank and get about $2000 pesos at a time, you know, I get 5 twenty-peso notes, 6 fifty-peso notes, 6 one-hundred peso notes and 5 two-hundred peso notes. Now when I pay I have almost always the correct amount of change and don't give the cashier an opportunity short change (cheat) me. And one other tip. I find that if I talk to them in street Spanish, they think I am street wise and I almost never get short changed

In the U.S., they have "escape lanes" for trucks that have lost brakes. These feature an uphill grade long enough to slow and stop such vehicles, along with the use of gears. The topes can't do a thing to help this situation.

If a truck has no brakes the topes are no help. When you need to drive over them 2 or 3 times a day you soon see they have little actual effect other than to damage vehicles. Unfortunatly the government officials think they help and they can say "see we did something" Am I a complainer? Maybe. Again more accidents since they were installed than in years before. Wow do they work!

We never considered our home here as an "investment" as it relates to resale. Our heirs can deal with that. Our investment is in quality of life period.

Thanks to all of you for your thoughtful comments. I read all this with a heavy heart and memories of the great times I had in Guanajuato and Zacatecas. I could just stay home and relish the many fotos and videos I have. I had a friend in SMA for a while but she moved away mostly for personal reasons to be closer to her (Mexican) family in the US so she didn't comment on recent violence. Fearless as I usually am, this all requires a serious consideration of all possibilities and on all levels without sinking into paranoia. I've recently been traveling to Yucatan for pyramid tours, going on a 3rd one soon. But I have been yearning to get back to these closer mountain spots with so much to offer.

The (my) point is that they just did NOT need 18 topes to accomplish the slow down. The (now) painted ones up top and a couple or three more down farther would have sufficed.

Chatted about her at dinner. One person asked me to send a picture which I did, along with your phone number. Fingers crossed. It would be an excellent home for Bibi.

Wonderful news ! A really kind and loving couple have adopted Zonka and she will live with them and their rescues in Tizapan. She will be spoiled rotten and very much loved. Thank you Maria and Don and chapala.com.

Anyone heard of Medicare Part A being used in Mexico? Someone told me this was being done.

Another option would be to ban southbound trucks on that section of libramiento; let them come into Chapala instead where the hill is not so steep. They could still exit northbound from Walmart.

I've seen them in the States which are not as steep or long as the one shown.

Actually truck emergency ramps are basically huge gravel pits. The truck basically sinks in to it, so you do not want to be to close when it happens.

We went to Walmart several weeks ago and parked where we always do. Coming out of Walmart we saw a huge truck coming down the hill and he was going really, I mean REALLY fast. Our truck was parked directly in front of Walmart and directly in his path! We ran to get in the truck and get it out of his way, although it was just in time or we would have been his road kill. He had obviously lost his brakes and was blowing his horn to get out of his way. He crashed right through the concrete barriers meant to slow him down and he missed hitting about 10 kids coming from school (all in uniforms) and also directly in his path. When he came to a stop he was only about 5 feet from Walmart's brick wall. I don't know if the topes will do anything to stop such happenings, but that area can be extremely dangerous.